Chapter 31

It was meant to be a surprise. I had everything planned out how I was gonna sneak up on him when he least expected it and enjoy the pure panic on his face when he sees me, but I guess this works too. When he got over his shocked state, his eyes widened and he called out the name Derrick. I stared at him in confusion, we have only not seen each other for a few days yet he forgot my name! even after the eventful weekend, we had together.

" Move!" I was pushed out of the way as he sprinted full speed towards the school's main entrance.

" This boy really didn't learn his lesson, he almost got hurt when he bumped into me running and now he is doing the same thing" I hastened to catch up with him since, whatever he was running after seemed more interesting than me being here.

"Fuck it Derrick!" he said as he scanned his eyes over the semi-full parking lot. From my observation, there wasn't anybody else in the hallway with us or in the parking lot so he had to be talking to me.

"Dude it's Yan, not Derrick, I know we haven't seen each other for several days but that's not long enough to forget my name, even if you are gonna forget it at least call me a name that is closer to mine Derrick if far fetched not even close to my first name. I could think of several names that would be acceptable if you confused my name for them but....."

" Am not talking about you, you idiot, I don't even know why you are here in the first place." he turned his full attention to me and tilted his head a little bit to the side " Why are you even here?" it was a genuine question and I was gonna give him the answer right after he tells me who Derrick was and why he was running after him like crazy. Was he may be his next victim or maybe his new accomplice, If that's the case then we are gonna have some problems because I refuse to be replaced that easily.

" So Derrick is..." I was hoping he would get the hint of what I was asking but all I got in return was a raised eyebrow.

" Is what?" I wanted an answer not another question in return.

" Come on! what is he to you? The next victim, a new accomplice, or maybe a love interest that you are obsessed with and are secretly stalking him." The last assumption got me a bit too excited since it made Alex's personality even more exciting, From a murderer to an obsessed stalker.

" One, am glad to see your train of thoughts haven't changed since we last met you are more delusional than ever"

" You can't blame me, have you met you? if you have, you wouldn't put anything passed you" That earned me a glare and an eye roll

"Two I would rather stick my dick in a hole full of fire ants before I even consider him as a love interest." This left the two other possible assumptions.

" So next victim or new accomplice?" Another eye roll.

"None. Well not until I find out what he is hiding. And since you want to know it very badly, Derrick was Emily's boyfriend.

" who's Emily?" He placed his hand over my mouth and placed a figure on his as if telling me to shut it.

" You can't just say that name out loud in the open." He scanned the hallway before dragging me into an empty classroom. within moments it clicked who Emily could be and with that, I could already tell Derrick's fate.

"She is the girl whose body we got rid of isn't she? and if Derrick was involved with her his fate is gonna be the same whether he knows something or not." silence that's all there was and that was the only confirmation I needed.

" You don't have to concern yourself with it I will take care of him on my own." I didn't doubt his capability of doing it himself, I even bet he could have gotten rid of Emily himself if we had not closed paths, but if he tries to get rid of Derrick when the heat of Emily's case is yet to start, he would have his hands full and the possibility of something going wrong was very high.

"Tell me what you think he might know and then I can help you decide how to go about it, if he goes missing a few days after his girlfriend is declared a missing person, this will put the authority and the town at a high alert which won't be easy covering it all up." He moved to the window and stared down at the field which had students in their P.E uniforms running laps. He was giving what I said some thought which was good since he was not being stubborn and hot headed like usual.

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Thanos, " Of all the people it had to be him. We lost track of Derrick because of him. What is he even doing here"

Yan was the last person any of us had expected to run into in the hallway, to be honest none of us had even thought about Yan since Monday when we got his ' surprise ' and now he was here flashing us his toothy smile. We all knew very well why he was here but still couldn't help but ask. He had promised we would meet each other again, but this is not the way I had pictured it, him in my school wearing what I presumed was the janitor's uniform. When he began to question about Derrick it was a unanimous decision among the three of us not to involve him but the lad kept pushing it. I could understand with Emily's case, the girl was already dead so the only thing he was involved with was helping get rid of the body unlike now where he is offering to partake in the crime itself.

Dragoshi, " But you can't argue with what he said. If Derrick proves to be a threat that we need to get rid of as soon as possible, we will need extra help since trying to cover up the disappearance of two teenagers within a short period of time will be too much to handle." We had no other choice. Something that was supposed to be a one-time partnership was about to grow into more and Thanos didn't like it one bit. After catching Yan up on the Derrick's situation, it was time to come up with a 'better' plan since whatever we have been doing was amateur work. If the police start their investigation, Derrick would be the number one suspect due to his relationship with the victim so we had to get to him before the police did.

"And another thing, we should avoid talking in public spaces or being seen together while you are here." It would be very suspicious if I was seen being all chatty with the new janitor especially that good-looking kind of janitor, I had too much on my mind to start being dragged into jealousy scandals. Yan will have a field day with these sex-crazed hormonal teenagers hope he doesn't get the icky's very easily.