Chapter 22: The Final Clue

As Nathan and Chloe began doing their research with all of the information they have gathered, they have learned multiple things, such as that there was never an Agent named Nakamura and that the case of Monroe wasn't real, The four friends then began to question everything, 'Was the cabin real? If Nakamura wasn't an actual agent then who did me meet a few minutes ago', as they got closer to solving this mystery, more questions began to appear without an answer.

Max got frustrated, she wanted it to be over, she wanted to be a normal student like everyone else but when they learn more they get further away from being normal teens, Max then began to question when did everything go wrong? Was it when she first got kidnapped by those guys or was it when she and Chloe entered the old Hospital for the first time? She didn't know what to think anymore, she was lost in her own thoughts, after minutes had gone, Chloe tried to shake Max back into reality so that they could work on a plan on what to do next, when Max had regained her senses, she stood up, looked around the room, took a deep breath and finally said " I know what I must do."

While the others were happy that Max had finally a plan, Chloe looked at Max with a worried face, walked up to her, grabbed her shoulder and asked " what 'you' must do? Aren't we a team, Max? Aren't we supposed to do things together?"

Max then looked down, closed her eyes, took a deep breath, looked up, removed Chloe's hand from her shoulder and said quietly " this time, I must do this alone, I must be the one who should sacrifice myself just so we can all go back to a normal life as kids, isn't that what you want, Chloe?"

Chloe then goes in front of Max, then grabbed her by the shoulders with both of her hands and looks dead into her eyes and loudly says " It is what I want, to be normal, to experience our school life without trying to figure out some clues, hints, for a case we all are investigating, or to be put in a situation that could end up harming us or killing us, I want us to enjoy our lives as Teenagers and not some detectives, but I never, never want you or any of us to sacrifice ourselves just so this kind of life that we are living in can end." As she said her final word, everyone could hear that Chloe began to cry, Chloe then moved back and ran out of the room, while Max looked at Lucy and Nathan as if she was asking them what she should do, Nathan then looked at Max, and moved his head, telling her that she should chase after her, and thats what she did, Max stood back up, opened the door and began to chase after Chloe while Nathan and Lucy were left behind in his room, figuring out what to do next. 

They all felt lost, confused, hoping to have a new plan, but a few minutes later, the door opens, Lucy and Nathan then look to see who it was, but as they got a good luck at the person standing in front of them, They realised that he had a gun pointing at one of them.

As Max kept on chasing after Chloe, and was slowly getting closer to her, Max and Chloe hear a scream and five gunshots coming from the directions of Nathans room, the two then stopped, looked at each other and began to run back to the dormitory and back to Nathans room, as they arrived, Chloe and Max then saw a bloodied floor, the two of them then screamed, Max got her phone out, she called the Ambulance while Chloe screamed for help.