Chapter 4

Going to school was starting to sound wrong. How could I attend classes and act as if I wasn’t being haunted by something inhuman? My body still shivered from the memories of this figure , plastered across my pictures. I need to find out what happened to Selene Woods and who was the one who killed her. Otherwise, I wouldn’t find any sleep anytime soon.

When I enter the classroom, I sit down beside Ada, my best friend of many years, who loved to be the object of my photos at times.

“Hello there,” she says before turning her head, towards me. Her eyes widen at the sight of me as she looks me up and down. “What the hell happened to you? You look roughed up.”

“That’s because I am roughed up. I’ll tell you later, but I have an urgent question. Do you remember how Selene Woods died?” I notice how a few people gasp in front of us, sending me judging looks.

“Maybe I should have asked that at a time when we’re not surrounded by people,” I mumble while taking a sip out of my water bottle. The first one in many hours.

” Yeah, I think so too. But what exactly is urgent about it? Is her ghost haunting you?”, she jokes, leaning back.

The water in my throat gets stuck, and I start to choke, to which she replies with a few strong claps on my back. “Hey, Hey easy there. What’s up with you?”

“Nah, nah no ghost. Just…my own interest. It all just seems so unfinished. You get what I mean? I’m kinda curious.”

“Very unusual for you to take any interest in people that you’re not involved with.”

“Well, most of them are alive so…that’s a different case here.”

“I’ll give that point to you. I think she died from suffocation,” Ada replies, seeming deep in thought.

“Yeah, I remember something like that. They said it was an accident. What exactly happened?”

“Remember that water damage that happened a year ago in the janitor’s room near the big hall? Yeah, they had some helium tanks stored there, which they used for balloons, you know when we had some kind of school event going on. And because of that water damage they temporarily stored it in the changing rooms right beside it. Apparently, when Selene was getting ready for her big moment in the show, one of them fell over and the helium leaked out. I’m not sure why she didn’t leave the room, but yeah. She fainted and then died.”

I lean back, crossing my arms.

So how exactly am I going to prove that it wasn’t an accident, but that someone had murdered her?