It was Monday. The day after Halloween.
We all went back to school. Our groups combined at school. When I walked into advisory with Vincent like I always did, we saw the idots talking to Darryl's group.
Clay sat alone, writing something down on a notebook. His arm was covering what he was writing. I wondered why he wasn't hanging out with the others.
I walked over to him, even though I felt uncomfortable talking to Clay ever since the sleepover.
"Hey Clay, what are you doing all alone?"
He quickly cover up his writing. "Nothing. Go away."
I saw a few words that stood out to me. The words were 'George', 'Darryl', 'mansion', 'Zak', 'next week '.
"I'm just trying to make sure you're ok." I told him, placing my hand on his arm, hoping it would startle him and make move his arm. He didn't though. Instead he moved my hand off his arm.
"I'm fine."
I didn't know why he was being so moody. I sat with the others. I talked to George first. "Do you know why Clay is being so moody?"
George shrugged. "I tried talking to him. I wouldn't say he's moody. He said he just wants to be alone right now."
I don't know what Clay was doing, but George, Darryl, and I were involved. It seemed to be secret. He didn't want anyone to know what he was doing. I felt uneasy.
Why was Clay writing about Darryl? Why was he writing about me? I tried to forget about it.
The teacher walked in. He had another person with him, we didn't know who they were though. The teacher sat down at his seat at told the mysterious man some instructions.
The bell rang. The teacher cleared his throat. "Attention class, before we take attendance this is Principal Eret. He's the substitute principal for the time being." A pause before he continued. "Unfortunately, Mr. Schlatt has gone missing during the weekend."
The class was in shock. I blended in, pretending I cared. Deep down, I was laughing. He won't get between me and Darryl now.
Clay didn't look too shocked. He just looked up from his book and looked back down. I guess he just didn't care.
Since they were on the subject of Schaltt, I wondered if there was anyone else in the way of me and Darryl. Being honest, murdering for the first time was a lot more scary then I thought it would be. But I did it for the thrill, the feeing of satisfaction after realizing you weren't going to get caught.
Possible people were Sam, George, Clay, and maybe Darryl's parents.
I couldn't do Sam. She was my sister. If I killed Sam, I would regret it eventually. George wasn't a big threat. If I were to do George, Darryl wouldn't have a place to stay, resulting in him going to his parents, which only meant him getting hurt. Clay, he didn't get in the way of me and my Darryl too much. He was just getting on my nerves. If I killed Darryl's parents, he could come back to school, especially since Schaltt was gone. But then again, that would make him an orphan. He would either have to go to an orphanage or have another family member take care of him. If that happen, I could ask George or one of our friends to get their parents to become his legal guardian. I would want my parents to do it, but I would feel like we would be siblings in a way. Then, we would have to stop dating.
Darryl's parents had a lot of reasons that it was a good idea to kill them. But then again, I wasn't 100% sure that Darryl was going to get adopted by one of our friends. If I asked them, "If Darryl ever lost his parents, would your parents adopt him?", they would know it's me, especially when Darryl's parents disappear after I ask them that.
Then again, I could ask George to ask his parents to become Darryl's legal guardians without having to kill Darryl's parents. They can go to court, have a case and see who will win in the end.
That would be risky though. What if Darryl's parents won in the end. We don't have enough proof anyways. We can show what happened to Darryl, but there was no proof that Darryl's parents did it to him.
I thought about this during the course of the classes. If Darryl's parents won they would hurt him a lot. Plus, we would have to break up. If Darryl's parents lost then Darryl would be free forever. Plus, if it's George's parents he would get everything he wanted.
It would've been safer not doing anything.
Soon it was lunch time. I sat with the idots and Darryl's group.
Sam was there. "I think I forgave Darryl. Now that he's settled into George's house, he's no longer busy all the time. Do you think I should ask him out again?" She asked the group.
Clay wasn't there. He skipped lunch for some reason. George spoke up. "Sam, I've told you before. I think Darryl is already in a relationship."George glanced over at me.
Sam raised an eyebrow. "He told me yesterday that that day wasn't good timing because he was busy moving in. Not because he had a girlfriend."
"Well he never said he wasn't in a relationship." I told Sam.
Sam crossed her arms. "You two are always speaking for him. You don't even know if he is or not."
"You don't either." George debated.
"Wait bad has a girlfriend?" Karl asked as he chewed on burger.
"Who's 'bad'?" George and I said in unison.
Nick laughed. "It's an inside joke me and Karl made up. The three of us were talking and Karl called him cute and Darryl responded saying he was hardcore."
Karl continued the story for us. "Nick said 'like a bad boy."
Nick chuckled. "That was a kinky joke."
"Well bad said he was indeed a bad boy. Nick and I joked about how we actually was an angel. So the name Badboyangel was created. But that turned to Badboyhalo because we thought it sounded better. So we now call Darryl Badboyhalo now. Bbh or Bad for short."
Badboyhalo? I was going to ask him about that later.
I finished my lunch earlier and decided to look for Clay. I checked in advisory. I saw his notebook closed on a empty desk. The teacher was sitting at his table.
"Where's Clay?" I asked him.
"He just left to go to the bathroom. He's also going to buy a snack. I didn't want him to skip meals."
I nodded. I sat down on Clay's empty seat and opened his notebook.
I turned to the page Clay was working on this morning.
I tried to read it quickly because I didn't know when he was going to come. I scanned through the writing.
"Dear Journal," I read at the top of the page.
I didn't know if I should keep reading or not. This was like a diary or some sort so I didn't want to read anything personal.
I scanned the page and read the sentence, "Darryl is in the way of me and George. I don't know how Zak doesn't see it, but Darryl seems to like George."
I kept reading. I knew this was important. "Next week, I'm planning to do something really big. Murdering Darryl." I read.
I was in shock. My brain couldn't focus on one thing but I kept reading. "I was thinking maybe this Friday. I've never killed a human before. The biggest thing I've killed was a deer. But George has made me feel a way I've never felt and I didn't want anyone to get in the way of it. Then again, I didn't want to do anything I would regret."
I took pictures of the notebook and shut it closed. I exited the classroom in a hurry. I ran into Clay in the hallway but we both ignored each other.
I know Clay was doing what I was doing. Killing someone to protect the one we loved, but he would be killing an innocent. Darryl loved me. Not George.
I decided on Friday, I would stay over at George's and spend the whole day with Darryl. Making sure no one could touch him.
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