The Horrors of Sunshine

'LUNCH TIME SPECIAL'

HAPPYVILE, 2014

Happyvile High has been without a chef for an awfully long time but finally managed to hire someone. Abraham Cook, despite his family's reputation he was a competent cook and could actually make some decent meals for the students. It was around this time that students started to go missing. At first it was 1 student a month, then a couple before eventually the school looked into it. Of course, the teachers and police did nothing to investigate the matter, instead just saying "they ran away" or "ditched school". Sarah, however was not happy with how poorly this was being dealt with. Many students would simply shrug their shoulders, but not her. "The special for today is lasagna" Sarah scoffs. "How can they just go on and not give a damn that students are disappearing almost on a weekly basis?" Sarah asked, feeling angry.

"I'm sure the police are doing everything they can" Sarah's best friend, Jessica, replied, not paying much attention except for the food in front of her.

"You should eat, all this pointless wondering is going to make you hungry" Jessica moved her food towards Sarah

"Hell no. For all I know, they probably put their disgusting, unwashed hand in that food before they served it" Sarah replied, pushing the food back to Jessica.

"As long as it tastes good, I don't mind"

"Your standards are very low"

"Eh" Jessica said and continued digging into her food.

"Fuck it. If the teachers and police are not going to do anything, then I will" Sarah said with extreme confidence

"What are you going to do?" Jessica asked, not seriously

"I... I don't know" Sarah replied, slinking back into her seat.

"Again, just let it go. I'm sure they will all turn up eventually, probably" Jessica replied with a mouthful.

That night, Sarah couldn't stop thinking about the missing people. Sarah had read all papers and news reports about the disappearances, but they were all the same, 'this student was staying late and never returned home. Parents didn't find out till the next morning and no one saw a thing'. Personally, Sarah didn't much care for the students as all of them were the absolute worst but the latest victim Kate was a close classmate she really liked and was baffled at how little her own teachers cared about a Grade-A kid. Sarah began documenting all the missing kids, but she couldn't find a pattern due to how little the police cared. Some kids were not even reported missing until weeks later. Feeling defeated for the night, Sarah went to bed.

The next morning, during their lunch break, Sarah decided to buy a drink. It wasn't until now that Sarah got an up-close look at Abraham. Like most of the males, he was very tall and noticeably huge. Not fat, but very built. He had an untrimmed beard that had little strands sticking upright, his eyes had bags underneath bags underneath bags and his skin was covered in bruises and scars all around. Despite his bodily appearance, he was surprisingly clean. His apron, clothes and even body odor were insanely neat and smelt like he dumped a load of perfume onto himself. After Sarah bought her drink, she went and sat down next to Jessica.

"I've noticed something" Sarah immediately said as he sat down.

"Aaaaaaand her comes the conspiracy theories" Jessica said, not even phased.

"Abraham is insanely clean"

"Well yeah. I know Happyvile isn't the cleanest place, but we gotta have SOME standards"

"No, I mean like he is overly clean. Like not even a dirt or smudge anywhere, his clothes are pure white"

"Maybe he is a clean freak? Oddly, the dirtiest people are the cleanest"