The Darkness comes hunted

Chapter Eleven: Fear of the Darkness

"Fear, It's the most basic, the most human, emotion... As kids, we're afraid of everything---The darkness--- the ghost, the bogeyman under the bed.

And we pray for the morning, for those monsters to go away, though they never do, not really, not at all--- if you want example, just ask Nathan Prescott." Said Cole, typing the creepy words of the truth to his laptop in the middle of the night.

Back to the morning at the Wheeler's house, A loud shouting voice of Mrs. Wheeler, Joyce, can be heard from the kitchen of the house "s**t---s**t,---Betty, can you down to the kitchen please, Honey."

"Yes, Mom, Coming" Betty replies, walking off her bed, coming down the stair, preparing to help whatever her mom need her to do.

"Yes, Mom, what do you need?" Betty asks.

"Go grab that pie in the oven, and throw it out please, honey, I over-baked it." Said Joyce.

"That is our breakfast, mom," Betty asks, starring straight at the overcooked pie,

"Don't worry, Betty, I will make you and your dad, a bacon with eggs, instead, it gonna be delicious,---it family recipes" Said Joyce.

"Oh about that mom, can you make four--- I invited Mike over for breakfast."

"Hmm--Okay"

without asking much, because she already knows what that means, Joyce pulls out another egg from the refrigerator and fried it for her daughter's guest, Mike Sinclair.

30 minutes have passed, Mike arrived at Betty house for the breakfast---everyone come to the dining room table and wait for breakfast to be served

Later at the same dining table, Joyce just scroll her spoon in a mug and glare straight to the opposite side of the table where Betty sit, sitting beside her is Mike, just casually eat his free breakfast like normal people do without noticing what is going around him,

Joyce turns her gaze toward young attractive Mike, "So, Mike Sinclair... I suppose we have you to thank for Betty's ongoing obsession with this new Pharmaceutical company and the death of this Nathan Prescott ghoulishness."

"Actually, Mom, I was the one who asked Mike to help me write it for the Golden Red," Betty replies.

Joyce chuckles and laughs because it was so obvious that out of the blue her shy daughters just magically go and ask her ex-boyfriend to help her with her school work, and nothing more than that.

"Relax, Betty, I'm just making casual conversation," trying to play dumb, don't want her daughters to think she know *know* kind of stuff.

Back at Betty, she stares a glance at the busy eating Mike, who doesn't a give s**t about anything other than food,

Betty winks at Mike, and Mike winks back,

"Hey, Mrs. Wheeler, do you have a bathroom that I could use?" Said Mike.

"Sure, I'll show you,"

"No o Betty, I'll show him--- Follow me---MIKEY."

as Mike trail Joyce into the hallway, Betty grabs her phone off the dinner table and walks to her mother's purse that is put on the TV table, she searches the purse, saw a checkbook, pull it out, and take a lot of photos what written inside that checkbook.

A footstep can be heard coming back, Betty hurries to put the book back into the purse, come back to the table and act normal as nothing has happened.

After finishing breakfast together, Betty and Mike prepare their backpack for school.

"Hey, you didn't have to walk me home," Betty asks, looking at Mike's dark slightly red eyes.

"Uh, there's a killer on the loose, remember? and besides, you just give me free breakfast," said Mike, smiling slightly back at Betty, leaning his hand down, and holding Betty's hand.

Betty slows to a stop, with wide eyes, she grabs his face and kisses his lips.

"Thank you, for accompanying me to school and always being there for me, Mike."

"it no Big deal, Betty---and so are we----." Mike give a sign.

"Yes we are, Mikey," said Betty, smile and they both continue their walks to school.

While back in the Wheeler's house, Joyce peaks through the window and looks at the street, saw Mike and Betty holding hand--- she blows out a big breath, signing that she didn't like it.

Back in the school's hallways, Betty and Mike share a hug and a kiss before class, that kiss catches the eyes of Mason that standing across the hallways,

His face seems really upset, a tear in his eyes can be seen...try to hold his tears, Mason walks right off to the bathroom.

The strange behavior of Mason, also caught the eyes of our blonde girl, Betty, she doesn’t have a clue to what happened to Mason, she didn't know or even want to notice that Mason has a crush on her.

Meanwhile, in the boy bathroom, the atmosphere in it is like the same one when Cole was in it the last time,

The atmosphere full of loneliness, depression, and sadness combine in one room, but this Mason has to go through by himself, because around him except Betty is too scared to ask him what happen.

But speak of the devil, a knock on the bathroom door, Mason didn't answer it, still too sad to even listen to anything else other than his broken heart.

A knock on the door again, "Go away," Mason replies, but the person who knocks on the door decides to open anyway.

Mason in rage and sad state, hurry up, ready to paunch whoever enters that door, but he stops midways when he sees the person's face appear behind that bathroom door, It's Betty Wheeler, the blonde beautiful girl next door.

"Hey, Mason, what going on?" Betty asks.

Mason to shy to admit the true reason he cries, especially when that person is the one who made him cry in the place."

"It non of your business, Betty, go away," Mason replies, but Betty didn't think so,

"Hey---is it family problem again, maybe we can help?" Betty asks, leaning down to sit next to the broken heart Mason Blossom.

"Listen, Betty, do you ever heard of personal space boundaries?" Mason asks, eyes straight directly at Betty, he seems pissed about it.

"Yeah, Why?"

"You just step over it, and I really that space right now and you just messed it up" Pull his head down, trying to control the rage that stuck inside him" Just goo-Betty, just-goo"

"Are you sure, I can stay with you till you feel fine again, that okay?" Betty tries to reassure and pull every card in her brain, trying to make her friend feel better again.

"I--SAID---JUST--G-GO, GODDAMMIT." Mason shout, it scared Betty off real bad.

"Mason---please calm yourself down, okay," Betty asks, standing up, trying to walk one inch at a time away from Mason, Betty is scared shitless right now.

"I'm sorry, Betty, I just don't feel myself today---Please just go, before it gets worst." Said Mason, while putting his head into the sink of water, refreshing his brain and his rage face.

"Okay, but--if--you need someone to talk to, you know where to find me?" holding her tears back, Betty take once last second glance at Mason before leaving the bathroom.

After Betty leave, a loud screaming sound can be heard through the entire school hallways, everyone pause for a sec, but everyone attention quickly turn at Betty instead, when she come out of that bathroom crying her eyes out,

Looking back at everyone staring at her "Hey, what are you guys looking at, never seen a person cry before?" Said Betty before wiping her tears off and walking back to her classroom.

Back at the Wipeout Arcade and Coffee, Cole favorite hang-out place,

Busying writing the article, doing his school work, drinking a milkshake and eating fires like his other usual afternoon but this time his phone ring, Cole lean-to grabs it, figure it must be his Father calling him, but no it not, the phone instead show "UNKNOWN CALLER"

Cole seems a little spooked for a moment, but the curious Cole decides to take the call anyway.

"Hello, who is this?" Cole asks the person on the other side of the line, but static, no answer

"Hello, why are you calling me, is this some kind of a prank?" Cole asks again.

"Go to the booth behind you, and you will find a file that contains the nightmare that will happen to this town if you don't stop it in time---this town fate in you and your friend's hand now" And the caller hangs up.

"Wait what, what truth---hello?" look back at the phone, see the line disconnected,

Out of curiosity, Cole decides to go to the booth that the mysterious caller told me to, and well enough there is a file sitting on the table waiting for Cole to pick it up.

"Hey, Pop, do you know who sits in this booth?" Cole asks the owner, Pop Pine.

"Yeah, there is a guy, in a full black suit, drinking only one cup of coffee and sitting there for hours, just leave the moment you came in half an hour ago." Pop replies

"Do you see his face, Pop?" Cole asks in a suspicious look.

"No, but when I served him his coffee, I accidentally take a glance at his face---he wearing some kind of technology mask with a lot red dots on it," Said Pop Pine.

"Well, Thanks Pop, appreciated."

Walking back to his booth, sitting down, opening the file, ---he was in shock, his handshake, his heart rate start beating like crazy when he saw what in the photo the mysterious person left for him.

"Oh my god" is the first sentence Cole said after he see the photos.

Quickly grabbing his phone, open the chat group and compose a text" Emergency!!! Wipeout Arcade now"

After the text was sent, the blue burble text appear, he put down his phone, shaking as the temperature had just dropped to zero, waiting patiently for his friend to arrive.