Low. (Janoskian FanFiction)

Chapter 15

It was Monday, but Isa didn't bother going to school. She listened to music whilst crying with her head between her knees. The call had come on Sunday, carrying the news she already knew. Her mother was dead. A bullet to the forehead. Execution style. She had spent her weekend doing things unimaginable to do to a human being, but she did them to herself anyway. Her dad had called, offering her to stay at his house until the funeral. She declined the invitation, she couldn't let him see her this weak. She didn't answer her phone. She shut herself to the world.

The days passed by and she didn't even notice, she was too busy crying and screaming at herself internally. Who was cold enough to do something like that? Killing someone without hesitation in cold blood murder. She knew who it was, as it was just a slight memory. Someone was chasing her family, targeting sibling after sibling. She knew it. Maybe it was just a memory from when she was a baby but she could remember the voice of her father quarreling with someone.

That familiar silhouette that she always saw in her nightmares. 

Two different eyes. One red. One black.

She shook her head. It was her biggest secret of all, a cold-blooded assassin targeting her family, and she was the only one who remembered him. That's the reason she couldn't make friends, the reason she was destined to be alone all the time. 

The reason she couldn't fall in love.

She couldn't risk putting someone in the danger of losing his or her life just because something they were not involved in. She had forgot that. The thrill of making new friends, she had let everything slip and had befriended some of the best people she had known in a long time. Bigger reason to let go of them. She had to become distant and cold again, because if not, she could end up with their blood stained on her hands.

She couldn't fall in love.

Yet she had let that slip away.

Stupid. She hit herself in the head with her knee.

The tears came back to her face as she remembered her soft kind mother smiling at her when she was barely a baby, tickling her stomach and making her faces. When you're 16, you normally go through girl drama, guy crushes, wardrobe problems and makeup dilemmas. And yet there she was, dealing with psychopathic cold-blooded killers instead. Her face was swollen and red, her eyes could barely see through the curtain of tears.

She curled herself into a ball on her bed and fell asleep to the rhythm of her own crying in a pool of her own tears of mourning.

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Kate was asking herself the same question Luke had just asked.

"I have no idea where she is, haven't seen her in any of the classrooms." That didn't answer his question and she knew it.

She wondered where Isa was as well. It was like her to be kept to herself, but they normally bumped against each other on the way to another class. Daniel was next to her as always, his arm around her shoulders. He smelled faintly of raspberries, as was usual. Yet Kate never got tired of his scent. He pressed her against his side, with not much strength.

Luke looked disconcerted. "You sure?" He asked her, his eyes filled with worry. 

"Yeah..." Kate paused as she leaned against Daniel, whom gave a small shake. A blushed shake. "We can go look for her if you wanna, I've got a free period." She offered, as she realized how much he wanted to find her.

"Me too, yeah we should." He convinced himself, and motioned Kate to walk by his side. This made Daniel a bit uncomfortable.

"Uh, I'll come too, I've got this one free too." He placed himself between Luke and her, and Luke understood the message with a smile. 

Daniel had not felt jealous in his life, but something about Kate made him want to protect her always. He wanted to kiss her and hold her close. To hug her and twirl her around until he had no strength left. To fall asleep next to her under the moonlight. To run his fingers through her hair and smile at her. To take in her scent every day. To sing to her. To make her laugh. To tickle her. To love her forever.

What was going on with him?

Kate had no idea that was going through Daniel's head as she leaned against him and they walked across the high school campus. Luke had his hands on his jeans pockets, and was searching with his eyes around the landscape. His eyebrows were knitted together by a mixture of worry and confusion, all at the same time.

"So, how did the game go?" Luke had forgot to ask, in the midst of all the worry.

Daniel realized he was talking to him about his Saturday soccer game. "You do realize it was pushed a week later because of something going on with the other team, right?"

"I'm good, you?" Luke was extremely distracted with finding her, that he wasn't even paying attention to Daniel. 

Kate did. "I'm still invited, aren't I?" She looked up at him and smiled widely, as if asking permission to go.

"Yeah, of course." He smiled back at her, that turned slowly into a sneaky grin as a picture formed in his imagination. "Can you wear a cheerleader outfit?" 

Kate looked at his cheeky grin and laughed. Daniel adored her laugh, it made his spine shake with his heartbeat. 

"You wish." She dismissed Daniel as she turned her gaze back forwards at the campus road. She leaned a little closer at him and sighed softly as she breathed his scent in.

Daniel knew he had to win this game if he wanted an excuse to kiss her in triumph.

They hadn't realized Luke had disappeared and was questioning a teacher about Isa's abscence at school. The teacher shrugged and left him alone. He stood there a while looking at the ground, his eyes lost in thought, thinking of a solution. That's when it hit him. He almost facepalmed himself hard in the face as he took out his cellphone and started searching for her number. It poped up in his screen, he tapped it.

Beep. Beep. Beep. This number's been disconnected.

Luke knew Isa and he knew it wasn't true. She just didn't felt like answering. He tried again.

Nothing.

Again.

Nothing.

Luke wanted her to stop ignoring him.

Again.

Nothing.

He walked down the road and broke into a run, towards the exit of the high school campus. Daniel and Kate finally realized where he was and turned towards his running figure. He was halfway across campus when they spotted him. He was pretty damn fast.

"Where you going?" Daniel yelled at him, his arm still around Kate.

"If she's not gonna talk to me, I'm gonna go talk to her." Luke replied at the top of his lungs.

Then he resumed running the mile that was from school to her house.