141 Chapter 138:

"Well, I see that's your choice. See you. I don't have to deal with you anymore." I told her off, like a father disowning a child as I turned my back at her to walk away to the dorm room. She had decided and she didn't choose me.

I guess I should have expected that since she didn't really feel anything about me. She chose her friend before me. 

POV: Celestina Aurora.

Did I really make the right choice this time? The books told me to trust and believe in my friends but why does it feel so hard to do that. It's as if my guts are telling me that I should have listened to Lawrence.. ah. 

My eyes wandered around the surrounding until it landed on a strange figure standing in the distance. This person had a petite yet crooked body. The darkness of the night sky, hid away her face and her physical features, making it that only her shadow is seen by us. Her stance resemblances this person as some sort of scarecrow. 

"Uh.. who.. who is that over there? Why are they just standing there?" I pointed over behind Meghan. She slowly turned around as I see her face turning pale white. It's as if she just saw a ghost all of a sudden.

"Huh? Meghan? Are you alright?" I placed my hand on her shoulder and proceeded to violently shake her, but she stood there with a shocked expression on her face, not budging to anything I'm telling her.

I looked up to the person in the distance who's actually slowly walking towards us right this moment. As they got closer, their features became more apparent. They had bright sharp teeth with a wide grin. Big bulging eyes like they were going out of their sockets. Whoever this person was, they had some sort of large metal rod in their hand as they walked slowly towards us.

"Who.. who is that?" I mumbled under my breath as I started getting even worried. Directing my attention to Meghan, I can see her shivering in her boots. "Meghan? Do you know this person? "

Suddenly, she finally broke and let out the voice trapped in her mouth. "HELP! THE KILLER IS HERE!" Meghan proceeded to shout towards everyone to get help but as soon as that happens, the slow walking of the killer in the distance turned into a dash towards us.

With the metal pole, the killer strikes towards us vigilantly, with my reflexes in my fencing training, I grabbed Meghan's body and toss her off as I dodged the pole. Making her land farther away from the killer.

"This has nothing to do with you. Get out now before this gets ugly." The masked murderer declared in a muffled voice. "Stay a little longer and your pretty face is gonna end up in the obituary the next day."

"Wha.. why are you doing this? You can't just go attacking people like that." I told the person off, not backing down from the threat they just said about me though it made me feel a bit terrified, to say the least.

"You'll die trying to play hero at this rate if you don't get out now." The masked person gave me another chance. "This Meghan James person is nothing but trouble I assure you. She's brought so much suffering to everyone and she needs to pay for her crimes for doing so." The masked person explained.

"CELESTINA!" Lawrence shouted in the distance. All of us turned over in his direction.

"Ugh. More people huh? Just how many people do you plan on using as your guinea pig Meghan? Wasn't the other people enough for you?" The killer gritted their teeth in frustration, at the sight of Lawrence.

"FUCK YOU! I TOLD YOU TO LEAVE ME ALONE YOU SADISTIC BITCH! LEARN TO TAKE A HINT!" Meghan stood up from the ground and fumed in anger. "YOU REALIZE HOW MANY TIMES I HAD TO MOVE OUT OF LOCATIONS JUST SO I CAN AVOID YOUR STUPID ASS!"

"Well if you had just given up sooner and accepted your death then I wouldn't have needed to follow you for this long ever. Everything that has happened till now is your fault. All the people that you used as a human shield, only made your suffering longer." The masked killer responded to her.

Hu.. human shield? Guinea pig? What is this person talking about? It's as if these two people have a history or something...

"Um? What are you talking about? What's all this talk about human shields and guinea pigs?" I turned up being curious to learn about it.

"Seems like Meghan found another person to use in our diabolic game of life and death.." The masked person mumbled. 

"Wha.. what?"

"Let's just say to put it simply. Meghan James over here makes friends with people. Lures them in with her fake charming personality to make them follow her every word. She prefers to target those that are outcasted by society, people with no friends so they are easier to control. After she is done with them, she uses them as a sacrificial lamb for the debt she refuses to pay." The masked person explains.

"De.. debt?!" I exclaimed as I backed away from the killer. "What does this person mean? MEGHAN!" I shouted.

"I'll explain it to you later okay? Just help me okay! Call the police! Get this creep off of me!" Meghan responded, 

"Enough of this! I don't have time to get wishy-washy over this. You might have escaped the few times but this time, I'll end you for sure." The killer starts to approach her slowly, cornering her by blocking any type of exit she can run at.

I..I have to do something! Even if Meghan is acting mighty suspicious and she has some things that she isn't exactly telling me. I can't exactly just let her die like this.. that would make me such a bad friend if I did that.

Come on think! What can I do in this situation.. I grabbed my phone and tried to dial the emergency phone number just like what Meghan instructed me to do but as I was trying to dial it, the killer turned his attention on me.

"Press any number on that phone or you'll end up dead also like her. I'll bash your head and make sure that your corpse is never seen." The killer threatened me, making me shiver in even moving my finger to anything.

"Lawrence! Help! The killer is here! He's going to kill Meghan! Do something!" I shouted for Lawrence to help, making him suddenly charge over to the killer with a wooden log he found on the ground as a weapon.

"CELESTINA! GET THE HELL OUT OF THERE! LEAVE MEGHAN! SHE ISN'T WORTH IT! JUST LET HER DIE SO THAT THIS WHOLE DRAMA CAN END." Lawrence suggested over to me.

"FUCK YOU LAWRENCE!" Meghan cursed at Lawrence. "DON'T LISTEN TO LAWRENCE, HELP ME CELESTINA PLEASE! I'M YOUR FRIEND RIGHT! DON'T LEAVE ME AROUND LIKE THIS! I LOVE YOU OKAY!" 

"You should really listen to Lawrence or whatever's advice. Get out of here and spare the trouble or stay and end up dying.. your choice." The masked murderer spoke to me.

My mind is taken up so differently, it's as if my soul was playing tag o war, trying to tug from two decisions. Either help Meghan or just leave and forget everything that happened. My conscience is telling me to help her and save her from the killer but on the other hand, my safety and my desire to be safe is telling me to just walk away and not do anything.. UGH, THIS IS SO DIFFICULT.

"PLEASE CALL THE POLICE! HURRY! CELESTINA! PLEASE DO THIS FOR ME!" Meghan pleaded in the distance. 

"DON'T LISTEN TO HER! JUST GET OUT OF THERE HURRY! DIDN'T YOU HEAR THE KILLER SAYING THAT SHE USES PEOPLE AS HER LITTLE GUINEA PIGS! SHE TRIED TO DO IT TO ME AND SHE'S GOING TO TRY TO DO IT TO YOU! SO DON'T FALL FOR THAT TRAP CELESTINA! YOU KNOW BETTER THAN THIS!" Lawrence continued to shout on the other side to command me.

I.. I.. I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO ANYMORE! WHA.. WHAT SHOULD I DO.. UGHGHG. WHAT THE HECK..