||Part Two||

-Tobias' POV-

Why did you run?
What's going through your head, Erica?
Where'd you go?!

Morale low and the happiness from earlier that day faded.
No one seemed to know where she went.
It's like she disappeared into thin air.
People just walking past like everything's fine...
Nothing's fine, now.

She won't answer calls.

No response to messages.

Like a ghost; you can't hear them, nor see them.

Garry, to Tobias' knowledge was a couple years older than everyone else, except Cecilia and Adele, who were both a year older than him. But, nonetheless, he took charge, while Cecilia was still quite upset by Erica's strange disappearance, and with Adele consoling her, hopefully she may have a turnaround.

Mary and Ib went ahead to ask if anyone had seen her, while Emmaline and Michael did the same in the opposite direction.

"Tobias?" Garry begins to speak but is cut off by someone.

Someone dressed a Kaurma Akabane.

"Excuse me...we all know each other...Oh, Michael? Is that you?" Kaurma said.

"O-Oh...um...n-no. Michael is somewhere on that side..." Tobias explained, nervously.

"W-Well...I'm Brendan Pallas. I uhh..."

Abruptly, Aloysius cut in. "You're dating Noah, right?"

"Michael told you?"

"Actually, Erica did. I have sworn to not tell anyone outside the family....and to do my best to keep that from Michael."

"Michael was always quick to act on things concerning family, yes?"

"Quite." Cecilia said, quickly but coldly.

"I've known him for a while, and you all know that. We had to move here before anyone else in our circle of friends and family did. It's like we're playing tag. Someone ran from London, and then we tag someone and run off to Anchorage to find the one we've lost. A cruel, never ending game. Though, I don't think we have any reason to hide where our hometown is anymore, do we? Tobias...please remember to trust Erica when she says it was for the greater good to never say where the Rodanbaughs used to call home. There are horrible things that happened upon leaving that house on occasions. Bad, bad things."

Cecilia gave a very sad sigh. "Aloysius is right, Tobias. We hope that you continue to trust us."

Suddenly, it then dawned on him.

He knew where she was...

Hell, she even SAID IT.

"The school rooftop."

"What?!" Adele exclaimed in surprise.

"Erica is at the school rooftop. We've been looking in the wrong spots the whole time."

Garry then made up his mind and spoke. "Okay...Tobias, Aloysius. You go get Emma and Michael. I'll go get Mary and Ib. We can meet up at the school gates, yeah?"

"Alright, then." Aloysius answered back.

Soon, they found both Emmaline and Michael and they headed in the direction of the school. About 5 minutes from the school they run into a girl dressed as Karen Kujo from Kiniro Mosaic. As well as a girl dressed as Saeyoung Choi, who was skipping the whole way.

"Excuse me." Cecilia begins, "Have you seen a girl about your height, she looks like Zelda...?" She asked the girl dressed as Saeyoung.

"If you want to see Zelda with black hair, then yeah, I've seen her. I think everyone's seen her, actually."

What the hell is that supposed to mean?!

"I'm sorry? Um, what is your name?"

"Amelia. Amelia Acree."

"Could you be...a bit more specific, perhaps?"

"She's up there." Amelia then points to the school, where just faintly, you could see a shadow of someone sitting on the rooftop. "She's been yelling her head off....I'm surprised you haven't heard her talking to herself...."

No.

No, there's more than one person up there.

I can faintly hear two voices, not just one.

"You're scum! SCUM! If you think that you can just treat Noah and YOUR OWN BROTHER like that, then I sure hope you rot in hell!" A voice faintly cries out, presumably Erica's.

Another feminine voice yells, "You're the one who should be rotting in hell, you mental bitch!"

"Mental? MENTAL?! I MAY BE ON QUETIAPINE, BUT THAT DOESN'T MEAN I'M FUCKING CRAZY! I risked my life for Noah, because of your bat shit crazy older brother! How dare you?! How fucking dare you?! RINA ALWAYS TOLD YOU TO BE NICE TO HIM, NOW LOOK WHAT YOU'VE DONE! HE WON'T EVEN TALK TO HIS OWN DAMN FAMILY!"

"IT'S ALWAYS ABOUT YOU! YOU, YOU, YOU! OH, LOOK AT ME! MY NAME IS ERICA FUCKING RODANBAUGH AND I'M A GOD DAMN SPECIAL SNOWFLAKE!!!"

"I 'OUTTA STRANGLE YOU FOR YOUR BULLSHIT!"

Then, everyone could see Erica coil back in pain. Her glasses had been cracked by whoever-- no, whatever had caused her immense hurt. What she did with her contacts, no one knew and no one cared. What every single person standing at the gates looking up at a girl who's face is now bloodied and her glasses broken was wondering is, "What is going on?!"

"Y-You fucking monster..." She said, crying.
"You're going to be a hell of a sister-in-law one day."

"Yeah, right!! Like that'll ever happen!"

"I think you...broke my nose. I guess they'll just call me a psychotic mistake again and hold me there for longer than necessary, right? That's what you want, right? "

"No, what I want is for you to pitch yourself off a bridge!"

"H-Ha...."

"Oh my god..." Cecilia whispers, upon looking to the left, to see Rina making her way through the large croud.

A moment later, everyone could see Rina on the rooftop talking to Erica, helping her up and scolding the other girl who stood just out of sight.

Cecilia, now being talked to worriedly by Adele, was on the verge of tears again.

"I-I'm going to kill her... I'm going to kill her!"

Adele stepped back in surprise. "What?!"

Cecilia reaches back to her back pocket and takes a sleek, silver gun out of a holster.

How no one noticed it was anyone's guess.

And, then, she went. She walked inside, towards the staircase.

Dead-set on murder.

All Erica did was look down at the masses of people.

There by a black mailbox with black lettering reading Viridi, there stood a girl. Steely grey eyes looked at the passerby, with long black hair with hints of red fluttering in the wind that had notably picked up in the last ten minutes.

For there would be murder this Halloween....

To be continued...

(2/26/18- Minor edits.)