Chapter 39: The devil is coming

"Yeah, it was traumatizing" I replied to Ivy as we studied inside the library.

"You owe me, lily for telling your mom that you'll go to my house and went to the abandoned house instead," Ivy said as she poked me with her highlighter in hand. I gave her a slight smirk.

"Okay. I will" Ivy smiled and went back to reading her textbook. Who was the devil that the man mentioned yesterday. My thoughts are occupied and couldn't think of an idea of who was the devil. I pulled my phone out and Louie still didn't reply. Where was he?

After the party, I haven't seen him. I put my phone back in my pocket and read some fiction horror books to entertained myself as Ivy studied.

"Everyone, everyone!" a girl suddenly called out. The librarian's brows furrowed, "Miss Ludwig, you are disturb—"

The girl cut the librarian's sentence off and continued to talk, "Miss Summer, I'm sorry but there was a commotion out here, and.. this is important. Someone.. someone just.. killed themself."

The unison of gasp filled the library, the faces of everyone was terrified after they heard the news of the girl. Ivy looked at me with a terrified look on her face, my brows furrowed and nodded indicating her to check it out. Ivy quickly grabbed her belongings and put them inside her back and we went outside of the library.

The screams and a lot of students panicking as they run throughout the hallway are what Ivy and I greeted. Everyone was screaming and some students gossip, some were being comforted by a friend. I looked where the students run and it was upstairs.

"Ivy" I called out as I run and went upstairs, Ivy followed me. Everyone went back as we run to upstairs, I glanced at Ivy over my shoulder and half being terrified and the fact that she wants to know what happened was also evidently seen on her face. As we got upstairs, a bunch of students occupied and surrounded a room. Ivy and I run and I look at the room's number. Room 208. It was a science laboratory. I pulled the crowd apart to see what's going on inside the room and my eyes widened.

A girl hanging herself in the ceiling using barb wires. Her uniform was torn and bloodstains were all over it. I squinted my eyes and closely look at what was written in her stomach.

"The Devil is coming"

Some students were inside the room and taking pictures and a girl cried. I looked at the corner of the room and Felicia was there, looking at the girl hanging. I froze, she is looking at the girl, hanging. Aside from Felicia's complete black eyes, a tear fell from her eyes--- blood tears. I froze in fear when she suddenly looked at me. I blinked and she was gone, I shake my thought off and went to the girl, crying.

"Hey, hey..what's going on?" I asked gently to the girl. She looked at me, crying and pointing at the girl that hung herself.

"My best friend… it's my fault" she said, crying. I hugged her, "Calm own. Please tell me what happened or do you want to talk it out—"

"Get out of here, the principal is on his way here. All of you should go outside. Now" It was the student council president, parting the crowd and warned everyone not to go inside.

"You there! Get out, now" The president said, crossing her arms on me. My brows furrowed as I looked at the president. I looked at the girl, crying.

"Hey, can we talk about this outside?" I asked gently. She nodded and I aid her outside, I looked back at the girl that hung herself and maybe it was my imagination but I saw a tear that fell from her eyes just the same as Felicia and her eyes turning completely black.

The students went back to their respective classrooms and the president warned us to go back to the classroom. Ivy and I along with the girl walked away from the scene and as we walked downstairs, a man in his 40's , wearing a maroon knitted vest with a maroon striped tie and a brown blazer that matches his pants. It was the principal walk himself upstairs.

"So, you left her, and then you saw her hanging herself?" I repeatedly asked, sitting beside the girl. Sitting on a bench out of the busy hallways is what Ivy and I thought to be a place where we can talk about the incident that happened.

"Yeah, she told me that I should go and find the sheet of the laboratory procedure. We are almost done with it and when I came back, she hangs herself." A 15 years old girl, Mandy replied glancing down.

"Before you did the experiment, you have the permission of your laboratory professor right?" Ivy asked gently.

"Yes, we have permission. We did the experiment since the experiment we have done was a failure" Ivy nodded and sit beside the girl.

"Saddie is my childhood best friend. I don't know why she hangs herself, she kept a smile and I never knew she had a problem that she kept to herself and didn't tell me about it. I blamed myself, I want to kill my—" Ivy cut her sentence off.

"Don't say that. Don't blame yourself." Ivy said as she pulled Mandy closer to her and let Mandy's head lean on her shoulder.

'Before that happened, I just knew that she is insecure about her body but I told her she is pretty and she felt better after that. And this week, she just.." and Mandy cried.

Ivy caressed Mandy's back, "I'm also like Saddie, I have problems that I kept to myself and you know...the past few weeks, I almost killed myself by jumping from the rooftop but.."

Ivy looked at me with a smile, "Someone saved me and it was my best friend" I smiled back at Ivy.

"Your best friend must love you" Mandy replied.

"No, my childhood best friend and I usually have fights. She is a harsh, toxic kind of a best friend. A best friend that says hurtful things that are also true. I'm glad that I have a best friend like her"

Mandy looked at her with a confused look, "But why would she say harsh words to you? A best friend should not say things like that to each other"

"My childhood best friend and I are different but I know that my childhood best friend has a kind part of her" I averted my gaze of Ivy. I'm embarrassed by her words and I looked back at her, smiling. Ivy is my childhood best friend who likes to comfort those people that need help, she is the opposite of me. And that makes our dynamic duo different from other best friends.

"We should not blame yourself, Mandy. I know you also did make your best friend happy but I know you also hate your best friend for not telling her problems just like my best friend. I hate her for not telling me her problems and smile it out." I said. Mandy nodded at what I said.

"Yeah, I hate her for not telling me her problems," Mandy said as her tears start to flow again. I caressed Mandy's back. "I don't know.., I.."

"It's hard to accept it, Mandy and you need time to heal yourself after what you witness from your best friend. If your best friend was here, seeing you cry… I know she hates it. Best friend hates us when they see us cry, right?" I said. Mandy nodded and wiped her tears off.

"But I'm proud that you did everything to your best friend, making her happy" I continued.

" I just hope wherever Saddie is.. she is happy and free by her problems," Mandy said, looking up to the sky. "Anyway, I should... go and tell Saddie's parents what happened. Thank you and I hope your best friend won't be like Saddie and I" Ivy and I looked at Mandy as Mandy went her way back to the classroom.

Ivy and I looked at each other and shot each other a smile.

"Harsh, huh?" I said, watching Mandy as she goes.

"Yes, my best friend is harsh" Ivy and I looked at each other and laughed.

"Are you mocking me, Ivy? No sandwich for you then." Ivy and I laughed, we laughed till I heard someone whispering in my ear.

"Find the answer before there is another victim"

"What's wrong?" Ivy asked as she noticed that my mood went back to serious.

"Nothing, uh… let's go back to class," I said and Ivy gave me a confused look before she followed me as I went my way to the classroom.