Chapter 9: Everyone Else Was In A Coma

Billy Baker arrives at his house, he calls out for anybody, his mother, father, sister or brother, but nobody is home it seems, he looks around for anything they left behind as he finds a note at the kitchen table that his mother left.

Gemma: "Billy you're in some deep shit if you get back here than we do, your papers were all over the road, your calling the police, not cool."

Billy: "What the crap, ugh"he sighs and walks off to the front door where he sees his camera bag that Rachel have left for him before she disappeared, he approaches the bag and find his camera and the pale blue diary that Rachel has forgotten inside of the bag, he looks at it feeling relieved.

Billy: "Okay, I'm not crazy, everyone else is crazy, everyone else was in a coma." he sheds a tear and nods it off and goes out of the house and proceeds to ride his skateboard to anywhere wandering aimlessly distracting himself from the pain of this crazy predicament wondering where is Rachel.

Skye Hawkins arrives at the bridge, where Billy has said where Rachel was taken, getting out of the jeep in a rush, she looks around looking for the robe that Billy has mentioned or any sign of Rachel ever being there, she calls out to Rachel looking to see if she will respond, no answer, as she looks she finds a pair of golden platform heels sitting at the edge of the bridge, she runs to the heels and finds there is a distinct smell coming from them, as she gets close, she sees a layer of skin much like a snake pressed deep impacted to the souls of these heels, she resists the urge to barf and thinks if Rachel has ever mentioned or have she seen her wearing these heels before, yet her minds fails her and couldn't come up with a memory for this horrifying situation, regardless of the smell she picks up the heels and puts it at the back of her jeep.

Marcus Bennett has arrived at where Skye's jeep was previously crashed he believed it's a typical route of Billy's to give out newspapers, riding around the area he notices a man standing in the woods he's wearing a long black raincoat, with a black backpack on, Marcuss calls out to him but the individual doesn't answer, Marcuss approaches the man and the man leans back to the tree his standing against getting out of Marcus's view, as he runs over to the tree where the man stood he sees no trace of him, he then notices the school bus going past him towards the school, he gets confused and wonders the school is quite early today, schools shouldn't start for another hour as he looks down and checks his watch it reads 7:30, an hour has passed since he left his house, quite strange for him because he felt as though it was just a couple of minutes.

Mickey Jones arrives at the front of Kollok Cinema, although she has been working for a couple of months, she has been entrusted to keep the keys of the cinema, as she unlocks the front door the police officer seemed unamused by this game and he's becoming quite restless.

Policeman: "You know if you could just give up the gag."

Mickey: "There is no gag!"

Policeman: "Okay, okay sheesh."

Mickey: "How many people have talked about Rachel gone missing now?"

Policeman: "Two technically but no lets- it's not the first time you kids, pulled a prank on us so... let's just- where are we gonna find proof in here of this Rachel."

Mickey: "We clock in on the books at the back."

Policeman: "Okay, alright lets do that then."

Mickey: "Okay, she worked last night at the night shift."

Policeman: "Okay Mickey you- you got it."

The condescending tone of the police officer is not lost to Mickey Jones as she leads him to the back where the clocking is done and currently resting, she looks around the area at the back noticing it is quite different from before, she notices that there is no sign of Rachel ever being there, she remembers a time where Rachel would leave behind a bag behind the desk, her uniform where she would usually change is not there anymore and also her name is gone from the lockers, only Mickey Jones's name and her boss Brad Avary.

Policeman: "So uh... Proof?"

Mickey: "She would usually leave things around here but I'm sure she clocked in for the night shift last night, I was supposed to cover for her but she showed up anyways." she brings out the books and sees the cards where they would use to clock in and sees that only Mickey's and Brad's name are in the cards and no signs of Rachel's.

Policeman: "Okay... so this girl that "exists" definitely exists, worked here last night, no records of ever working here and let you go home from work, but your here, yout card here said that you clocked out."

Mickey: "Yeah I left so that she could lock up, but maybe she just forgot... look I know how it sounds."

Policeman: "Okay... alright I'm gonna ask politely miss Jones cause your father and I go way back, stop this, before you get in trouble okay? we'll say this ends with me."

Mickey: "Yeah right well you're not gonna help anyway."

Policeman: "I'm not gonna help cause this is bullshit miss, and i'm getting real tired of it."

Mickey: "Then go back to your police station and go shove some donuts in your mouth, you don't do anything around here anyway."

Policeman: "Excuse me miss?"

Mickey: "You heard me."

Policeman: "How about we take a ride back down to the station together."

Mickey: "I'm late for school though, so why don't I just walk."

Policeman: "That's a long walk miss."

Mickey: "I'm fine." trying to looking defiantly at the police officer letting him know that this could play out all day if he just doesn't end it here, he sighs and pulls up his hand to surrender.

Policeman: "We're just gonna end it here okay? I won't tell your dad about this and you stop bringing up whatever this nonsense is."

Mickey: "Yeah alright, I'll see you the next time we have a problem."

The police officer leaves and gets inside the cruiser and drives out, as Mickey gets to the front she sees a red jeep wrangler pull up in the front and Skye Hawkins getting out, not someone she would talk to before but she is someone that she would recognize from all the late night talks she had with Rachel in the cinema.

Skye: "Uh hey... Mickey."

Mickey: "Hey... Your Skye right?"

Skye: "Yeah... um did you see Rachel last night?"

Mickey: "She was supposed to work, she was supposed to lock up but I haven't seen her since, have you heard from her?"

Skye: "Mickey, I'm gonna be honest with you, I think something really bad happened to Rachel."

Mickey: "What makes you think something bad happened?"

Skye: "I'm gonna sound crazy, but i'm not the only one because Billy Baker said the same thing, I saw Rachel last night."

Mickey: "You saw her?"

Skye: "It was like, it wasn't her but it was her and she was- emitting this crazy light and i-i woke up with all this crazy stuff-"

Mickey: "That happened to me too! I saw her last night and I woke up and I was covered in this-"

Skye & Mickey: "-Goo"

Skye: "Something crazy is happening cause everyone i've talked to doesn't remember who Rachel is, I went over to her house and her dad didn't even know what I was talking about, my parents don't know but she was my best friend, they know her more than any of my other friends, they should know she exist, but my dad who is so close to me, h-he thought i was crazy."

Mickey: "I don't know who else we can talk to I've already talked to the cops and they think that i'm crazy, they don't like me anyway they're all biase."

Skye: "Yeah Billy did the same thing, they're not gonna help us, everyone just think we're nuts, Billy mentioned that he saw her more than we had, he said he saw her in the bridge, in a robe and I found these gold heels which i found on the bridge, but they're disgusting looking, I-I don't know what to do, like we have to keep going along about our day as if everything is fine even though that is not how I feel Rachel is gone and no one cares."

Mickey: "We have to find her, we have to fine proof that she existed."

Skye: "How are we gonna convince everyone she's real? It feels like i'm in a different universe, you me and Billy are the only ones who can remember a world with Rachel in it."

Mickey: "What about her boyfriend?"

Skye: "He's an idiot."

Mickey: "But maybe he knows something? Maybe he has something of hers?"

Skye: "'gasp' Your right, something that we could connect Rachel existing here, wow this is the only time he will ever gonna be useful, alright do you want to get in my jeep we can go get him."

Mickey: "Yeah i'll hop in."

Skye: "He's probably at school he's a big nerd, alright-"

Skye & Mickey: "Lets go and get him."