JACK AND ROSE PRESENT TIME 2: JUNIOR YEAR
Chapter Five
"I'm so glad you guys are spending the
night," Dominique said as she turned the page of her magazine. Of course,
her mother and father were out of town.
"Where are you parents this time?"
Tommy said.
"Some kind of lawyer thing,"
Dominique said, shrugging her shoulders. "They said that I could have a
sleepover." The sad thing was, Dominique knew that her parents didn't even
care that she had guys spending the night anymore.
Dominique's parents were probably the most
busiest people you could ever meet. They were both lawyers, and barely had any
time to spend with her. Since Dominique was an only child, she had her friends
spend the night with her...a lot.
"What do you guys wanna do?" Jack
asked, kind of bored.
"I just thought of something,"
Fabrizio said, his eyes wide with excitement. "Tonight is Friday the
thirteenth!"
"It is, isn't it?" Dominique
commented. "We should all do something scary...you know? We never have any
fun anymore."
"I think you and Fabrizio proved you
could have fun that night on the beach," Tommy said with a laugh.
"Damn," Dominique said back.
"When will I stop hearing about that night?"
"Hey," Tommy said. "I know
what we can do. Let's go down to that creek that's about two blocks away,"
he finished with an evil look in her eye. "I hear someone was once
murdered down there."
"That's just a myth..." Rose
replied, not in the mood to getting scared.
"No myth," Dominique said, wanting
to tell the story. "Once there was this 17 year old girl who was waiting
for her date to come pick her up for the prom. She had been dying to go out
with this boy for years, and when he didn't show, she was heartbroken. So, she
went down to that creek to just sit and cry..."
"You're lying!" Fabrizio butted in.
"I am not!" Dominique said, rolling
her eyes. "Anyways, after it became really late, her parents got worried.
After looking for her and calling everyone who might now where she was at, they
finally called the police. They found her body the next day. She was laying on
her stomach, with a knife stabbed through her back."
Dominique looked around at her friends, glad
they were carefully listening. "I bet her date felt pretty bad the next
day..."
"I thought her date was the one that
killed her," Tommy said.
"Okay," Rose said. "One thing
is for sure. I am not going down to that creek."
"Ah, come on!" Tommy said.
"Can you think of anything better to do?"
Rose thought for a few seconds, and finally
gave up. Sure, she loved to have fun, but this was going to far. If the story
she had just heard was true, her and her friends had no business going down
there. She looked at Jack's face, he looked really into it. She knew that Jack
loved excitement, so she might just go. Besides, she didn't want to stay there
alone in Dominique's house, that would be even worse.
"You gonna come, Rose?" Fabrizio
asked with a smile as he threw Rose her jacket.
"Yeah, I guess."
*****
The group walked down there laughing. They
didn't want to really get scared, maybe just a little frightened. Jack was
holding Rose's hand, and he squeezed it once in a while to show her that there
was no reason to be scared.
"It looks so dirty," Dominique said
as they finally reached the spot.
"Well," Tommy replied
sarcastically. "It is a creek."
"What exactly are we gonna do down
here?" Rose asked.
They just shrugged their shoulders.
"Where does the creek lead to?" Jack asked, looking down the long
line of deep water.
"I'm not sure..." Dominique
replied.
"There's only one way to find out,"
Tommy said as he pulled off his shirt and jumped into the cold, dirty water.
"Oh my gosh," Rose muttered.
"Tommy, you okay?" Fabrizio asked
as Tommy's face came from below.
"I'm fine..." Tommy said, his teeth
chattering. "Just a little cold." Tommy looked at them for a couple
of seconds. They all knew what he was thinking. "Aren't you guys gonna
come in here?"
They all looked at each other questioningly.
The next one to jump in was, surprisingly, Fabrizio. If Fabrizio jumped in,
they knew that they all had to jump in. What kind of a human being would they
be if they didn't?
It was totally freezing, Rose decided. She
thought it must be colder than the Atlantic ocean. She always hated cold water.
It always made her have nightmares. She didn't know why, but whenever she
touched cold water, her mind went blank and it felt as if she were remembering
things.
"You okay, Rosie?" Jack asked
worriedly, as he swam up from behind and wrapped his arms around her.
"I'm fine," Rose reassured him with
a sweet smile.
"Come on you guys," Tommy said,
leading the way.
They all waddled through the water, eager to
find where the stream lead to. They all kept commenting things to one another,
mostly about how cold the water was or how stupid of an idea this was.
"Whoa, look at that," Fabrizio
said, making the rest of them turn around. "What in the heck is that
thing?"
"It's some kind of an animal,"
Dominique guessed.
"It looks like a squirrel," Jack
said. "But...not really."
"What do you think it is Tommy?"
Rose asked. Then, she noticed something. Tommy was not standing in front of
them anymore. "Tommy?"
"Oh my gosh," Rose said.
"Where's Tommy?!" Jack began to swim underwater, feeling the ground
for his lost friend. Dominique and Rose looked franticly around as Fabrizio
helped out Jack.
Rose knew something like this would happen.
They never should have went! Tommy was just walking in the water right in front
of them a moment ago. What could have happened to him? Rose started to say a
little prayer to God, as she helped looking for one of her best friends. One of
her lost, best friends.