Section 1

Her name was Camilla. That day she was sitting on a tree, sipping on orange juice since orange juice was all she could have due to her medical conditions. Everything would go alright till she doesn't smoke or drink. Yeah her life sucked. But she was not the one who would regret about it.

Not soon after her mom called her in for breakfast. She was the before dawn to read the book her grandfather gave her. She was literally too much into that book. The book told her about cosmos. She knew almost each and every constellation written in that book. The book also said that there is always a living human being behind all the constellations. When a human dies, he turns into a star and live in the sky forever and watch over his loved ones. She knew this was an urban legend but she was always curious about the pole star which shines the brightest. Always wanted to know what human was behind that star!

She had her breakfast and headed for school. Her school life was a not so good average student kind. Not that she ever complained! There were each and every kind of students in there.

1. The Queen bee. Everybody talked about her and stalked her instagram whenever they got time. Hermosa was her name. she was like a queen bee should be! Pretty and rich and had loads of attitude which didn't bear a single person speaking in front of her.

2. And then comes the fighter. His name was Mark. People always called him the gym raccoon. Raccoon because he had grave dark circles under his eyes which made him look like a panda. He was aggressive and was always looking for a fight. And the best thing is that most of the times he won.

3. The third one would be convenient to be called a book worm because he was always into books! Physics was his favourite. Not that I object but who likes physics? He wanted to become a aeronautical engineer. He had a lot on his mind. His name was Webster.

4. And then there was a social helper. Always thinks about others. She had her own dog shelter in her house. Mostly shelters are supposed to be for the people to adopt some of them but she just couldn't let any of them go. She loved them all. And her name described her personality. Clover!

These five people have always been friends. Since junior year! They always sat together in the canteen and always talked about the chaos they had in their lives or were about to create in their lives. Each and everyone had their own history of love and pain.

Hermosa was not always daddy's spoilt little girl. She was like an angel when she was a little girl. That's what her grandma used to think at least. She was mature enough to roam around the town alone. She spoke politely to everyone until she found a dead rotting body in the walls of the basement of her house. Bricked to the wall and being eaten by mice. Terrified, she didn't enter school for days and had locked herself up in her room. Then she started digging up the truth. The mystery of a basement murder. And the truth came out to be that the body was of her real mother who was beaten up to death because she disagreed to divorce her father and give up her daughter. Her whole life turned upside down in that incident. How could a kid like her trust anyone after knowing that her father brutally killed her mother? And then her father was not arrested for this crime because he was a rich man with power. He got away with a murder.

CHAPTER- 2

Then clover got a call from her dog shelter. Some dog fell sick. She said, 'Hey, I need to go! Toby got sick! He vomited dirt!'

As Camilla ever was, she volunteered to company. Clover's uncle was a vet so they would pick up Toby and go straight to her uncle's house. They were both walking through the corridor when a boy asked Camilla about her hobbies and he had some work with her.

"Hey, are you Camilla?"

"I am! What is it about?"

"Actually I heard that you read about cosmos a lot and I thought you could help me with my new project I am starting with the science club of the school."

"And why would I be willing to help you?"

"My name is Lukas and I am in senior year and also I am the head of the science club. So I can help you with anything related to school."

"Sounds like a good deal! Agreed! When and where?"

He told her to meet him in the school library at 5pm. Camilla had already thought about the thing she wanted to ask Lucas. She would ask him to research about the pole star with her. 'How was it made? When was it established? Which king ruled where when the pole star took its position in the sky?' She had a lot of questions in her mind. And she was curious also to know what project was Mr. science captain were working on! Was it a new lightning system in the college which lights up with star's light? She would know soon!

At Clover's uncle's they were not able to figure out what had gone wrong with Toby. He was all fine till they reached the vet. However he was a little scared. Maybe from the vomit! Clover's uncle said that he might have swallowed something which he was not supposed to which led to his stomach acting up. But that didn't explain vomiting out dirt!

They came out with Toby, relieved that nothing serious happened to him. But Toby was still scared about the vomit. Clover said that he had always been that sensitive and would recover soon. Then they read Toby's blood test reports. He had abnormal calcium levels and also abnormal amounts of titanium in his body, which was of course not a good sign of a healthy dog. Clover was confused at that point because why didn't her uncle tell them about this abnormality. Maybe that was normal to not tell and the blood minerals would restore in a short period of time but titanium in blood was not at all a good sign. Clover decided to contact another vet. She dropped Camilla at school and went to a doctor named Mr. Roland waters. Camilla hoped that things would get fine soon. She had a science project to complete! She headed to the school library which she liked the most. She loved the school library. It was the only place where her mind would stay calm and she would be able to study efficiently!

But this time the library would be filled with a lot of chaos. A lot of mind games which she would find interesting but yet confusing.

CHAPTER- 3

So Camilla entered the library. There she felt a weird aura around her. So weird that she had never felt before. She shoved away that thought because maybe she thought that was just a mood swing. Teenagers have a lot of mood swings, right?

Lukas was already sitting there, scribbling on his notebook about god knows what. He had a lot of books over the table.

"Hi", Camilla said.

"Hey, you made it!"

"Of course I had it. After all we were about to study cosmos."

"Please have a seat."

"Thankyou", Camilla said as she sat.

"So what is this project you are doing about?"

"Oh, this project was for the school. But turns out that I found a lot more interesting books. This one is about Satan creating the stars of the human beings who were sinners and were set to burn till whole of their afterlife before they get a reincarnation. Also he thought it would be a punishment to watch the whole world move on without them. He had forcefully put in the emotions of hatered in them so they would never find any peace in their afterlife."

Then Camilla started to have second thoughts. She thought maybe the pole star was not as bright from the inside as from the outside! Maybe the pole star was a grave sinner who murders tens and thousands of people. Or maybe pole star was actually Adolf Hitler who had killed thousands and millions of Nazis for no reason. She was drowned in thoughts when Lukas shoved her back to reality.

"Camilla, are you okay?"

"Yeah! I am totally fine. Never can be better." But deep down she was chocking on the idea of leaving helpless souls out there to burn. "So, what are we doing for the school project?"

"Oh sorry, I totally forgot about this." He picked up a piece of paper which had his scribbling all over and started speaking again. "so our school have least equipment for the students who are studying outer space and that is why we are lacking in the students who go to NASA for further studies and college. So principal Munroe called me and asked me to arrange a low budget study material for the students. And I thought a lot on this and finally decided why not make things on our own. So the constellation part has been given to you. You would be making craft for constellations and of course I will be there to help you; you don't have to do this all alone. And also if the constellations have a lot of knowledge and that too short and easy then you would be given a free membership to the science club and extra classes whenever you wish to have them."

Technically, extra classes are supposed to be boring but for a science student, extra classes is all they have to get into a competition of thousands. So, Camilla saw an opportunity here. Colleges give admissions to people with experience easily. She didn't even have to worry about college fee because this club could polish her skills and she could get a great scholarship. She agreed to do it. But then she thought that there might be someone else also who was assigned with the same task as nothing comes without competition. But she considered not to ask it because that could make situation awkward. And moreover if there were other people then why not tell them all together? Why just call Camilla and say it in person. But the thing she was more interested in was that book in where there was written about satan.

"Can I take this book home with me?" Camilla asked as she pointed out towards that book.

"Oh! Don't ask me about the book. I myself picked it up from that corner of the library. Maybe there are more book like this. Wanna have a look?"

"Yeah I will look after it when we are done with these constellations and the outer space stuff." She smiled.

They both spent their rest of the day talking about how to improve the cosmic study. Who knows what were Camilla's thoughts on that cosmic study night! Because most of us would think all this absolutely boring. It felt so like a whale in scarce waters.

But this Lukas thing was just a begging of a wider chapter in Camilla's life.

CHAPTER-4

On the other side of the world, Mark had his own story going on. He used to sneak out to meet his girlfriend almost everyday. He swore that if his parents knew that he used to sneak out at night, they'd beat him up to death. He was always so terrified of his parents. He and Ana would meet at 12am sharp at the basement of an abandoned mall. The door was always open. That mall was not much cared for.

But that day, the basement door was closed. So they decided to go to the main building instead. That too was abandoned but it had a weak lock which could be broken easily.

Both the love birds were in a world of fantasy. Both wished that the time had stopped then and there and they didn't have to say goodbye for the next morning. Yeah! That's what love feels like. Love is all about being in the arms of your favourite person forever and ever. That made them feel safe from all the chaos of life, away from all the toxic people, away from the world, in their own universe! Oh man, they were deeply in love!

Ana was sleeping soundly in Mark's arms. All he could think of was hoe could a human be so important to you that you would be ready to risk your freedom for her. All he did was just look at Ana and just admire how beautiful she was. But then he was interrupted by a sudden thud behind him. It came from a candy booth which had not made candy in years. People said that the place was haunted but Mark never cared about ghosts or witches. He turned to see where the thud came from. His turn woke up Ana. He looked into her eyes and said, "Am sorry, I didn't mean to wake you up."

She took a long stretch and said, "Nah its alright. This place is a little uncomfy too."

"Do you wanna go elsewhere?"

"Anywhere is heaven when I am with you."

But then the booth made a thud again and then rustling noises. They were probably mice in the abandoned candy shop. Ana got a little scared about the fact that there were mice. Mark got up to see what was actually making those noises because they were getting irritating.

He couldn't believe his eyes when he saw three dead bodies lined on one another. They were killed so brutally. Someone had even taken out their eyeballs.

Mark had a shiver down his spine on that sight and then he turned around and covered his eyes. He was about to throw up.

"Mark what is in there?" Ana asked.

"Trust me. You don't wanna see this."

They both ran away from there. They didn't want the police involved because then his parents would know where had he been all this time. That would give him a lot of trouble. He dropped Ana at home and headed straight to his home.

On his way back home he was stopped by a man. That man was well built. Almost 6.5 feet tall person wearing black and weird clothes had stopped him in the middle of his way. Mark could have sworn on his life that the man could break ground nuts with his bare muscles.

Mark started to speak, "listen man, I have got nothing to do with you"

That tall hulk didn't let Mark complete his sentence and he grabbed Mark by his ears and pulled him up. He messed up with his brain. He lost all the memory of what happened that night. All he remembered was that he went to pick up Ana and she was not there at her house. That's it! No more memory! No more dead bodies!

The main question was that who was that person and why did he want all those memories erased? He was probably a serial killer who killed people and attacked up the bodies in the candy booth where the bodies could be eaten by mice. Whoever he was, he was gross! And had a huge hand in all those murders. Maybe they were not even murders. He stacked up bodies from a morgue to see what happens when mice eat their eyes out.

Or probably its just me who is thinking too much!