*Aiden Jogs To Rylet, Stopping A Little Behind Him*

Aiden: Rylet… I'm sorry. I didn't mean to talk about such a touchy subject.

Rylet: *doesn't say anything, he just keeps walking*

Aiden: *sighs and walks by Rylet* Alright alright, I understand. *Monika catches up but walks behind them in silence* *once they reach the school, for some reason Aiden keeps walking forward passing the school, Rylet can't help but look*

Rylet: *Rylet looks over his shoulder* What are you doing?

Aiden: *keeps talking without turning around* I'm going to see if your dad is alive or not. With or without you.

Rylet: *gets mad, he turns to face Aiden's back* Huh!? You are doing what now!?

Aiden: I'm going to see if he's alive or not. *he has a serious face as he walks*

Rylet: Like hell you are! You can't miss another day! Mom is going to kill us!

Aiden: I'm not going to let this ruin your day. I know you care about your dad at the end of the day, so I'm going to check it out.

Rylet: Check what out!?

Aiden: The Revenants' base.

Rylet: *he lets out a growl, runs over to Aiden, grabs him by his jacket and shoved his back into a bus stop shade shelter, Aiden lowers his head*

Monika: Rylet! Aiden! Stop!

Rylet: Enough of this! I don't care what it is, I'm here to make sure you are alright! I could give less of a fuck about my father! He left us, so what does that have to do with me!? *He gets close to Aiden's face* The last thing I need is you dying on me too.

Aiden: *he looks up at Rylet with a smile* You know I'm not going to let that happen. *Aiden quickly loses his smile because Rylet is tearing up* Huh…?

Monika: Rylet…?

Aiden: Hey hey hey… *he slowly pulls Rylet into a hug* It's alright. I'm sorry. *He has his left arm around Rylet and pats his back with his right hand*

Rylet: *he just stands there in Aiden's arms, he lets out a growl while he clenches his fists* I hate how I still care about that piece of shit…

Aiden: *Aiden rubs Rylet's back with his right hand* That's your dad at the end of the day. Of course you will care about him.

Rylet: But he has done? Nothing but get my mom pregnant then leave, promising my mom he will come back. Where is he? Dead…?

Aiden: *Aiden parts from the hug fast but holds his shoulders and looks Rylet in the eyes* Don't think like that. I refuse to believe your dad was caught in that. That's why I say we should go look.

Rylet: I can't let you miss another day of school. Mom said so.

Aiden: *his eyes get serious* I'm done following my mother's wishes! I will make her proud of me one way or another! I don't have to go her way to make her proud, I just have to work harder!

Rylet: *stares at him in disbelief*

Aiden: Trust me. If she loves me, she will understand and believe in what I want to do.

Rylet: *after a few seconds of silence, Rylet speaks* Do you even know what you want to do with your life?

Aiden: *he stares at Rylet with an unsure face*

Rylet: Then how can I let you go without you even knowing yourself…?

Aiden: *He spaces off in his thoughts before lowering his arms while closing his eyes* Fine. I won't.

Rylet: It wasn't an option to begin with. Now let's go before we arrive late and mom beats you.

Monika: *She tilts her head to the left* "Mom beats you?"

Aiden: *Aiden lets out a shriek, he as razor sharp teeth and no pupils* Don't say that in front of her! Are you CRAZY!? Who gave you the right to say my personal life out loud!?

Rylet: *poker face* You did say it out loud and caused a whole scene in front of the bus stop. *A bus is next to them filled with people with their windows down, everyone is looking at them*

Guy On The Bus: *Around 40, wearing a black wool trench coat, black pants and a black undershirt* Haha! *He points at Aiden* Your mom beats you for being late!? Be a grown teenager and get there sooner! *He starts laughing with the other people on the bus*

Monika: *her eyes turn to flames* WHAT DID YOU SAY TO HIM OLD MAN!? *She slides over to the window the guy is at with a smug face* You talk too much, old man. I don't want you to be late on your way to the nursing home. *The man lets out a growls, Monika's smug gets bigger* It's alright that your kids didn't want to watch over you, maybe they can change your diaper because gramps made a poopy! *The Guy lets out a nervous gasp, The people on the bus gasp in disgust, the bus driver covers his nose*

Guy On The Bus: *he has an embarrassed blush as he looks around fast, he yells at Monika* Why you-!! *He quickly sits down, he fixes his trench coat, moving around a name tag with a logo. "My Name Is: Chadwick Evans" with a logo of a guy wearing a fedora and black wool trench coat, Chadwick grabs his fedora and puts it on* *he yells at the bus driver* Hurry up! I'm going to be late! *Growls* Asshole kids… *the bus speeds off*

Aiden: *Aiden laughs* Dick head. *Turns to Rylet* Ready?

Rylet: *smirks* Sure.

Aiden: *Aiden looks at Monika with a soft smile* Thanks for that Monika… it means a lot…

Monika: Anything for my… *catches herself* Friend. *Smiles*

Aiden: *as Aiden and Rylet start walking away* Nice save, even though I know you wanted to say boyfriend.

Monika: *She lowers her head with a defeated sigh* I tried, please don't hate me…

Aiden: *looks over his left shoulder, he smiles* You said you will work on it so I trust you. It's a simple mistake. *He faces forward, Monika stands there staring at him* Are you staying behind or are you coming?

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Monika: *she smiles bright* Right! *She jogs behind them*

Rylet: *he looks over his right shoulder to see Monika* Why are you here?

Aiden: She lives near us. So what's today? An "A" day or a "B" day? *He pulls out his schedule* I really hate how we have two sets of 4 classes with "A" day and "B" day. What makes them think I can handle 8 classes?

Rylet: Time management. Something you don't have.

Aiden: *sweats nervously with a "3" mouth* You don't have to say it out loud again…

Rylet: *turns to him* Yes I do! Get better at it and you won't have this problem!

Aiden: *he puts both of his hands up* Okay okay!

Monika: *she looks at the schedule on her phone* I checked the website, it's showing that it's an "A" day, since we had yesterday off we missed our "B" day.

Aiden: Aww, "B" day has that really cute girl in my art class… *he gets heart eyes thinking about her* Man she is eye candy!

Monika: *has an anger vein on her head with her right fist in the air* Wanna say that again pretty boy…?

Aiden: *gets in front of Rylet* Hey hey hey! How about you try to know me instead of beating the love into my head!?

Rylet: *Rylet stumbles from Aiden jumping in front of him, he gets an anger vein on his head, he grabs the left side of Aiden's face with his right hand and pushes him to the left* You trip me, I will put you in the ground! *Aiden falls down to the ground, Monika stands above him, still mad, Aiden laughs nervously*

Rylet: So how's that "get to know me" part coming along?

Monika: *she leans towards Aiden with a creepy face* I don't know, how is it coming along Aiden…?

Aiden: *gets sweat drops on his temple* I guess it's bad because I'm really hating my life…

Monika: *Monika's eyes are solid white with razor teeth* YOU HATE IT NOW THAT I'M HERE RIGHT!? WHO DEFENDED YOU WHEN THE BUS HEARD YOUR PROBLEMS!?

Rylet: *Exhales with a growl before turning and picking her up, putting her stomach on his left shoulder, as she yelling he talks to Aiden* Come on Aiden, get up. If we are late, I'm hurting both of you so for my sake, let's get going. *He walks up to the front door of the school and opens it*

Aiden: Right right. *He gets up but before he walks over he yells out to him* I gotta tie my shoe real quick. I will be there in a second.

Rylet: Hurry it up. *He walks in with Monika still yelling, once him and Monika get half way through the hallway, Monika yells at him*

Monika: CAN YOU PUT ME DOWN RYLET!? *She wiggles around* I CAN'T LET HIM GET AWAY WITH THIS!!

Rylet: He's coming, just shut it already. If you hit him in here, you will get all of us in trouble.

Monika: *she looks at the back of Rylet's head* What do you mean!? He ran off! *Rylet quickly drops Monika on the floor and turns around*

Rylet: He what!?

Monika: *she rubs her head* Can you at least tell me when you are going to drop me!?

Rylet: *Rylet runs outside and looks around, He sees Aiden running at least 40-50 mph down the sidewalk to the right of the school* *Rylet lets out a growl* You have got to be kidding me!! *He suddenly starts running after him, he runs out the school and in the same direction* He knows I can't catch up to change his mind! *Rylet has normal running speed* That asshole!

Monika: W-wait!! *She stands up and runs after Rylet* I'm coming too!!

*Aiden makes it to a run down building, he looks at his phone to see that the building matches, it looks like a bar, motorcycles are still parked outside the biker gang clubhouse, Aiden walks up to the building, the doors and motorcycles are covered with "Caution" tape. Aiden takes down the caution tape and walks in to see blood puddles everywhere with evidence markers on every puddle*

Aiden: *his pupils shrink and sweats nervously* Holy shit… *he glances around in disbelief* S-so this is Richard's crime scene… How could anyone do this…? *he walks around the blood and evidence markers* There has to be something here… *before he reaches the back room, he feels like something ran behind him, he turns to see nothing, he sweats* Calm down Aiden… *he continues to the back room, he walks in to see all the gangs line of work, he sees locations, one being his school* What do the Revenants want from my school…? *The wall has pictures of the same Science Lab that Kokuna was at. More pictures shows the downtown of Austin Texas* What does this all mean…? *before he can continue, he gets an unpleasant feeling* Wait… *he starts to sweat* If there are evidence markers and the Revenants' plans… Where's the detective…? *He hears something fall in the main room* Speak of the devil! That might be him! *he lightly jogs to the door and peaks out to see a guy wearing a black wool trench coat, his back is turned to Aiden* Shit… *he looks around the room to see no windows or exits* I have no choice but to come out of hiding… *he walks out of hiding* Hello? I'm sorry for being here! I know this is off limits but I really need to know if my friend's-*suddenly, the guy turns around, it's Chadwick from the bus, Aiden's face goes blank* Oh it's you…

Chadwick: Huh? Oh! I've been waiting for you to show up! *He is holding a notepad and pencil, he turns and starts writing stuff down*

Aiden: W-wait what…? *He walks over*

Chadwick: Well, aren't you? I can feel that strength of your's radiating from your body.

Aiden: *his pupils shrink* How do you know about that…?

Chadwick: Well, we have people like you working with us. *He looks at him with a serious face* You are him right…?

Aiden: *he sweats nervously before going with it* Yeah yeah! *He talks in his head* No one has sensed my power like that… Who the hell is he…? *He jogs over and talks out loud* So what have you got so far?

Chadwick: Look at this! *He points with his pencil at a blood puddle with the evidence number 16 next to it* This blood is moving to the west, meaning the gun he used to kill them was shot coming from the east. With the bullet evidence we have, it is looking like a 5.56 rifle.

Aiden: *Aiden stares at the blood, he then looks at the walls to see no holes* Flawless shots? No way. Even if, depending on where it hits someone, it might come out of their body. No way, I don't believe it. *He remembers the article* They say he was killed by a man with "Superman-like" powers. Was he the one shooting or the Revenants?

Chadwick: He was, the shots were fired by the killer.

Aiden: 5.56 is too strong to be flawless. *He looks at the blood* Not only that, the blood looks like it poured out of him and went down a hill-like slope. Blood makes a splatter when someone is shot, leaving blood droplets everywhere.

Chadwick: *smiles* You are a smart one huh?

Aiden: *he gets an uneasy feeling by him, he quickly talks again* Have you checked their lockers and desk? Those lockers are huge.

Chadwick: Yes. You don't have to. It's just board games and alcohol they were going to sell. *He writes down what Aiden said about the blood*

Aiden: *Aiden walks up to a locker but before he can open it he is stopped*

Chadwick: *looking over at him with a blank face* Hey. I said you don't have to check them.

Aiden: *again, gets an uneasy feeling, he backs off it* Alright. *Chadwick starts writing again, Aiden looks around before breaking the silence* Were you ever going to apologize for what you said earlier?

Chadwick: *stops writing* Earlier? *He looks confused before answering and going back to writing* Sure. I'm sorry for whatever it was.

Aiden: Just like that? I mean I could apologize for what my friend said.

Chadwick: *stops writing, gets lost in his thoughts like if he is thinking* Don't worry about all that. Drop it.

Aiden: *he remembers what happened on the bus, Chadwick was embarrassed and mad about it* *he talks to himself* How could he just brush it off so easily…? *He gets a serious face as he stares at Chadwick* Something about him is off. How can a detective not know simple stuff like the blood puddle and bullet power?

Chadwick: *he glances over* Have something to say, kid…?

Aiden: *he nods* Have you seen the back room…? You might need to. *Chadwick walks to the back room, as he does, Aiden opens the locker quickly to see a headless body with the same outfit as Chadwick, Aiden's heart sinks* What the fuck!? *He takes a few steps back, he looks at the shirt, the name tag reads, "My Name Is: Chadwick Evans"* Ch-chadwick…?

???: Oh. You really do not know how to listen, boy.

Aiden: *Aiden quickly turns to see "Chadwick" standing in the doorway of the backroom with solid black eyes* What the hell are you!?

???: *"Chadwick" slowly gets a big deformed smile straight out of a horror movie, his voice gets distorted with a mix of Chadwick's and a high pitch male kid* HELP ME. HELP ME. *the thing opens its mouth, the mouth is so long it looks like a Venus fly trap, it hisses at Aiden*

Aiden: *takes a few steps back with sweat drops coming down his temple* What the fuck is this thing!?

(To Be Continued…)