...Waited for whatever monstrous death they were going to have to face...

*

Heart pounding, thighs burning, lungs on fire. That's what the girls felt in their last few moments of their lives. The exhaustion and hopelessness was becoming unbearable.

"Excuse me, I think this belongs to you?" a sweet voice said, a voice that clearly didn't belong to Maddie and her squad.

The girls let out a breath they didn't  even know were holding and slowly opened their eyes.

In front of them stood a man who appeared to be in his early 20s or possibly late teens. He frowned at the girls, wondering why were they so terrified as he held out a 'My Little Pony' umbrella.

"Oh yeah that might be mine." Abir laughed awkwardly as she took the umbrella from the man, not making eye contact with him or with any of her friends.

Her friends all burst into laughter:

"For some reason I expected this from you!"

"...And you say I'm too childish for liking glitter! Well you've got a My Little Pony umbrella!"

"My little pony, My little pony. Ah ah ah ah... MY LITTLE PONY!"

They all ended up joining Alice in the singing: "I use to wonder what friendship could be..."
And
The moment they started dancing along is when that man got completely creeped out and ran away from them.

"Thanks for the umbrella!" Abir shouted out, pausing from her singing.

They all finished singing with the iconic line: "Did you know you're all my very best frieeeeeeeennnnnddddssss?!" followed by their hysterical laughter

"Nah you guys are not my best friends, I don't even like you." Oliwia exclaimed.

"Aww the feeling's mutual" Mahnoor glared.

"Yeah that explains why you bought us all friendship bracelets..." Abir added on skeptically.

(A/N Pic of our actual hands! We could be hand models)

"Maybe those friendship bracelets contains trackers so Oliwia will always know where we are so she can stalk us easily..." Alice started her new theory.

A theory that obviously Mahnoor was going to add on to: "OMG you are right! It all adds up now...!"

"Guys I always know where you are, thanks to snapchat! Those bracelets are just to make you think I like you!" Oliwia laughed, taking out her phone and opening snapchat's map.

"See?" She pointed at the place they've been standing at for a while. "Aww.. should I screenshot this? We are all in the same place!"

"Really Liv?" Abir asked playing with her umbrella "Even at this time you are thinking about Snapchat?"

"Well she is a Stalker and needs to know where everyone is!" Alice interrupted.

Mahnoor was trying to seem mature so she stood there, staring into the distance thinking deep thoughts. After a minute of her silence she broke.

"I guess it's time for a night selfie!" She squealed in her high-pitched voice and took her phone out ready to take a picture.

Oliwia quickly found her pose and smiled her creepy smile waiting for the other two girls that were never ready.

"Smile." Mahnoor said as the picture was taken and captured two girls looking beautifully stunning and then two other girls looking perplexed, having no idea about what's going on in their lives. These were what their normal group pictures looked like.

(A/N we would have posted our selfie but we said we could be HAND models not actual models!)

"Thats a nice picture! Well not really but I look good in it..." Mahnoor smiled as she zoomed in the picture checking what everyone looked like "Oh my God Alice!! Your face!!"

"Alice always ruins the pictures" Oliwia stated "or maybe she makes it better cuz thanks to her face we all look much better"

"Oh please, I've a got a beautiful face! Mr Birdy fell in love with me the moment his eyes fell on me " Alice explained.

"Whatever! It's a bad picture overall" Abir muttered without even looking at the picture.

Mahnoor ignored Abir's comment as she asked "Filter or no filter, that is the question"

"Obviously filter"

"I don't really care"

"Shouldn't we all embrace our inner beauty and believe that we are all beautiful in our own different ways. Mahnoor you gave a whole speech about beauty for your English test, you should know better than using filters!"

Mahnoor thought about it for a second. Alice had a point but she didn't like the fact Alice was using her own words against her so she exclaimed "Filter it is!"

"Yay! You may as well add a caption now full of hashtags" Abir said sarcastically.

"That is a great idea! So what should the caption be?" Mahnoor asked.

Alice was good at these sort of things so she said "Follow MalicePigeonHair.Abir #NotSpon"

"Alice that doesn't even exist!" Oliwia complained.

"Then the caption can be #FridayNight #TGIF #BestieGoals #PartyInTheUk #GangsterGang #IdidntChooseTheThugLifeTheThugLifeChoseMe" Alice stated.

"Can you repeat it again but this time slowly " Mahnoor said, actually considering the hashtags for a second.

"#MakeAmericaGreatAgain"

***

"Let's just go home" Abir yawned, clearly she hadn't been getting enough sleep these days.

"What about our Mission? The most important mission of our lives?" Alice started screaming.

"What mission?"

"I agree with Alice! We need that Mission Impossible and James Bond vibe! I even wore black and tried to straighten my hair, but I ended up burning my neck. Anyways we've got to be like those cool spies wearing black and walking through explosions and stuff. Maybe we should become spies..."

Abir interrupted Mahnoor "Alice do you really think that we would even make it to the police station today?I don-"

"Yes we would! I am a good person and I didn't murder anyone! I need to prove myself right and show them I didn't do anything!" Alice explained herself.

"Alice maybe we should go home. I still need to get at least 6 hours of my sleep because I already wasted four with you people." Mahnoor started to walk away but she stopped cuz she still hadn't makes her dramatic exit.

"Do you think I can just take the bus and go home?" Oliwia asked pointing at the bus stop near them

"Think real Oliwia. It's the middle of the night! No cars,taxis And BUSES!" Abir said sounding a bit annoyed.

"Technically all of those things work at night"

"I need to get my bike first" Alice uttered while trying to think where is her bike so she can easily go and get it.

"Alice you escaped your house in the middle of the night and you still think you had a bike with you.. really Alice?" Abir laughed

"Well I need to go, I've got many tv shows to catch up on! Until next time unless there is no next time..." Mahnoor smiled and walked her way while Oliwia ran up to her.

"Isn't this road close to my house?" Alice wondered, trying to find out where she was.

"I don't really care Alice. I am going home and I don't care how are you getting back." Abir admitted and she walked away leaving Alice behind.

"Just follow the stars and you will find the way" Mahnoor yelled from the other side of the road.

Alice ended up walking home by herself and singing her favourite songs by Shawn Mendes.

"I KNOW I CAN STALK YOU BETTER!"

The other three girls heard Alice's singing and they thought that they were screams for help so they quickly rushed over.

"I think it's a bad idea to leave high Alice all on her own..." Oliwia pointed out as the three girls quickly realised that Alice was not in any danger except from herself.

"One of you can walk her home" Mahnoor said "Or maybe I should just call her mum to come and pick her up, I do have her number after all!"

"But she will question us! Look at the time you idiot!" Oliwia pointed out as she thrust her phone in front of Mahnoor's shocked face, clearly displaying the time 23:45.

Mahnoor sighed as she looked at the time and then looked over to Alice despairingly. "How are we going to get her home? If she gets hurt then I'll feel responsible! She shouldn't be out late at night"

Abir looked around at her three friends, seeming like she was actually interested in what the others were doing for once, before she turned back to her phone and continued playing her game.

Without looking up from her game, Abir began to quietly speak, "Hey... you know how the police are really suspicious of us and if we just go home right now, the police guards that are watching our houses will probably think that we've just gone out to kill somebody?
Well... why don't we say that we were at each other's house... but then we got chased by a mysterious figure that we believe is the killer... and the killer told us not to tell the police about any of what happened?
But we go to the police anyway and ask them for help, which would lift some of the suspicion off of us and wild also make something for the police to investigate, giving us more freedom?" She finishes with a sigh before switching off and focusing on her game.

The others turned to face Abir, their faces all identical expressions of shock and skepticism.

"That-"

"Is-"

"THE BEST IDEA EVER!"

The exclaim in unison, their faces lighting up as they grin excitedly at Abir.

Abir, without looking up, smiled softly and secretly as she heard the praise her idea had gained.

Without wasting a single second, the four girls began to march determinedly in the direction on the police station.

Luckily, it seemed that, as they ran from the mysterious stranger, they had fled straight towards the area in which the police station was located.

This meant that it only took them a few minutes to reach their destination. However, because the three girls had been so eagerly supportive of Abir's idea, they hadn't stopped to think about the ways in which her plan could fail, or how they would even execute her plan!

The four girls stood, somewhat awkwardly, in front of the brightly-lit station foyer, unsure of what to do.

The friends soon looked at each other, signalling that perhaps they should just go home; maybe this wasn't the best of ideas. Abir however, believed that this was the best plan and she raised her hands, trying to get the other three to stay here for just a bit longer.

However, whilst the girls argued about what they should do next, a secretary inside the foyer had spotted them and eagerly called the inspector, without the girls noticing her.

"Maybe we are making too much of a big deal of this... let's just go home, I'm sure our parents will understand why we are so late once we explain that we were chased by someone." Alice mumbled anxiously as both Oliwia and Abir got out their phones and began doing whatever it was that they did on there.

"You're right for once Alice, let's not get the police involved, it will only make things worse!" Mahnoor agreed as she began to turn her back to the police station and start walking back home.

She opened her mouth as if she was about to say something else, but was suddenly interrupted by a firm and forceful hand gripping her shoulder, rooting her in place.

"Don't touch Mahnoor! You can't! She's underage!" Alice started screaming at someone.

They all turned around, gasping as their eyes locked onto the face of Inspector Ikbal.

"Ikbal!! What are you doing here?!" They screamed in alarm.

Ikbal looked at the girls scornfully, sighing in disbelief.

"In case you forgot: I work here!" He muttered as he gestured towards the gloomy police station.

"You work or you just sit here doing nothing?" Oliwia asked staring at Ikbal.

Ikbal chose to ignore Oliwia's annoying comment as he turned towards the other three girls and grabbed their shoulders

"Yes,sure.. just take them! I don't mind." Oliwia said as she turned around to walk away.

"You are coming with me as well, young lady!" Ikbal grabbed Oliwia and pushed her gently in the other direction.

"Now, you four will nicely walk inside or I will call your parents." Ikbal threatened as he lead the girls towards the police station.

The girls looked at each other and slowly walked to the entrance of the building.

"We didn't do anything wrong! We were just walking and star gazing. Walking is good! It keeps us healthy!" Mahnoor stopped suddenly, turning around to face Ikbal.

"Whatever." he murmured and opened the door to his office letting them through.

Abir suddenly stopped and looked around. "I feel like I've been here already.." she whispered to herself looking around.

"Ugh. Abir..Don't act like you have bad memory! Cuz only I can do that." Oliwia considered as she sat down on one of the chairs.

"This is where I met Mr Birdy!" Alice announced and she sat on the floor. The other two girls looked at Alice trying not to laugh.

"Just sit down on the chair." Ikbal stated as the girls sat down.

"Sooo.. What are we here for?" Alice asked impatiently.

Ikbal looked slowly at each of the four girls, staying silent. He sighed and, placing his head in his hands, he spoke, his voice clear despite him obviously being distressed.

"Fiona Filapowski body..."

He paused and looked up once more at the girls, his eyes filled with desperation.

The four friends somehow already knew the words that Ikbal was going to say, yet they still couldn't believe it.

"Fiona Filapowski's body has...disappeared."

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Author note:

What do you think -Filter or No Filter?

Ikbal has returned! But someone has stolen his girl! Which is why the song of this chapter is: 'Everybody gonna steal my girl' by One Direction.
That song is also the real-life Iqbal's favourite song to sing.

Next chapter will be posted on Halloween 👻🎃🕷A Halloween special!

We know that that is a long wait but unfortunately school is getting in the way as we have started our GCSE. So from now on chapters will be posted every 2 weeks for the time being. Of course this might change when we get the hang of school, homework, exams, annoying teachers and not fighting over who's turn it is to write.

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~Potato,Pigeon and Glitter 🥔