Go Away (#TheWattys2015)

Chapter 7: Freak

Quickly I dialed 9-1-1 on my cell phone. After it rang twice a woman picked up. "9-1-1 what is your emergency?" I took a deep breath trying to stay as calm as possible.
"Hi I've found a dead body in the janitors closet at my school on the 2nd floor. Please hurry to Delmore high school." I sounded surprisingly calm, though my chest was heaving rapidly as I breathed in and out. "Help is on the way." I barely heard the woman's voice. My hands started shaking violently and I dropped my phone. Cupping my face in my hands I closed my eyes tight and tried to get the image out of my head, and fought back tears.

After a few minutes 3 police cars arrived followed by an ambulance. Officers raced into the building and found me standing there in shock with my chest rising and falling rapidly and my breath coming out shaky and uneven. One officer patted me on the back. "Everything's going to be alright now you may go back to your class." he said in a soothing tone. Students started to look outside of classrooms and stared at the scene. I probably looked worse than a frightened rabbit. I wanted to burst into tears right then and there but I couldn't. Zacks face peaked out of the classroom and somehow seeing his face slightly calmed me down. He stared at me with worry in his eyes. Quickly he jogged over to me. "Hey are you alright?," he asked. I was about to respond when I saw the substitute walk out of he classroom with his brief case in his hand. No one else was looking in his direction. He then reached toward the bottom of his ear and peeled his skin off. Well mask off. Behind it a cruel twisted smile revealed itself. The demon was in my school. No doubt it had killed the substitute. And I had a feeling it didn't just want to know what my math class was like. I froze in place. My throat felt dry and it was hard to speak. I couldn't speak. Zack looked at where I had been looking but nothing was there. "Hey, are you okay?" I couldn't talk and I most definitely was not okay. I shook my head and from there he put his hand on my back and gently pushed me forward and guided me down the hallway. Tasha came up from the other side of me and held my hand tight, trying to comfort me while also dragging me forward with Zack. Eyes of all the students followed us all the way back into our classroom, Casey began whispering something to her friends and they whispered it to everyone else. It sounded something like: "I bet the freak did it," but I didn't care. With Tasha and Zack next to me, no one else mattered. Besides after the make over I had done no one seemed to think of me as a freak and I was relieved when I saw how most of the kids didn't really seem to be listening. One girl rolled her eyes at the comment. I made a note to myself that she seemed like friend material. Zack sat me down on my chair. Tasha patted my shoulder kindly. "Thanks guys." I croaked. My throat burned and stung with pain but it felt like I had to say that. "Well I don't know when he joined the club," Tasha said cocking her head at Zack. "But he seems alright, so I guess we're here for you. Both of us. Ain't that right Zack?," she ended giving him a murderous look. "Yeah d-definitely!"he stuttered. I smiled. "Well, welcome to the club." Zack grinned at me and we all started laughing. I felt so safe and warm as the cold from the demon quickly faded away. "So do you think your ready to talk about it?," Zack asked. I shook my head. "My throat feels like sandpaper, I can barely talk." Tasha's eyes went wide. "What are you doing wasting your breath then? Stop talking to us. Save some of your voice for later." "But-" I began to protest.
"Nope!" Tasha interrupted.
"But-"
"Is that your voice I'm hearing?," Zack said putting his hand behind his ear. "Naah, can't be." Tasha answered grabbing a ruler off of a nearby desk. I put my hands up. I took my notebook and wrote: 'okay you guys win' in big letters. Tasha and Zack smiled at each other and high fived. I laughed and stopped when Tasha quickly stood up and held the ruler back. "What was that Daija?" I closed my mouth firmly and tried to hold in my laughter.