It was an answer that Frankie already knew as she shook her head. "I don't know what happened" she moaned. "Only that students went missing in the woods. Oh, and that bimbo sophomore knows something but she's too much of an idiot to do anything about it" she spat, crossing her arms angrily.
"I don't know" Frankie sniffed, although she did. "The one with the hair" she added, holding her hands out from her head in description of Janis's curly hair. "The annoying one."
Frankie stuck her tongue out back and followed his gaze to the woods. They looked a lot more threatening now than they did a couple of months ago.
"Exactly! Why don't we know anything? Do you think I should ask Principle Pendragon? Especially now Janis" she paused and glanced at Gray, "that sophomore has told the whole school to call the cops! Though she's probably just broken a nail or something."
"Ugh, the cops? I guess you could talk to be Principle but..." Gray sighed sharply in irritation, flicking ash from his cigarette and waving smoke away from his face with his free hand.
"Get ready for this place to become Auschwitz, then. And you might as well give up smoking now." With that he blew smoke at her. "What did she even say to you?"
Frankie coughed pointedly, even if the smoke wasn't irritating and flicked her own ash in his direction. "It's hard enough to have one now anyway. Promise you wont go into the woods alone? And 'alone' still counts if you go in there with some poor girl." She smiled but it faded quickly. "She wouldn't cough up anything. Either she's lying or she's really scared, but I guess something happened to her."
"Was this online or something?" Gray smirked mischievously and pulled out his iPhone, leaving his cigarette to rest between his lips as he puffed on it as an old man smoking a pipe would.
He scrolled through the journals and raised his eyebrows, as he found that the first post on his friends page was about 'calling the cops'. Must have been her.
"Guys, I think someone needs to call the cops." He read aloud. "That her?" He clicked on the post before Frankie could answer.
"My phone is dead, I'm never going outside again, this is serious..." He glanced at Frankie shaking his head. "Woah! Here we go."
"See, see!" Frankie scooted over to Gray, leaning on his arm and jabbed at the screen wildly. "Look! Look how she doesn't tell me anything of any use!"
Gray nodded sagely, or what he assumed must have been sage-like. "Yeah, but look at what she says here--" He mimicked what he imagined Janis's voice must sound like, even though he already knew her and should therefore know what her voice sounded like.
"There are dead things outside!" He waved his hands and dropped his jaw in mock fear. Grinning at Frankie, he shrugged. "She probably just found some of that weird kid's snacks. I heard he eats roadkill and hangs the skins on his walls!"
He was mostly joking, none of this seemed very serious to him.
Frankie smirked at Gray's impression, feeling ever so slightly bad. "The weird- Ben does not eat roadkill" she said distractedly. She hadn't read the rest of her journal post, seemed Janis had opened up to other people a little more.
"Wait, scroll down" she instructed, spotting Rowan's username. "If Rowan is taking this serious it means it's serious, right?"
Frankie gasped and pointed to a particular comment. "Someone's going to see her! That means something has happened! Mon dieu, what if there are dead bodies in the forest? I bet it was a rapist."
Frankie looked at Gray, her face illuminated triumphantly in the light of his cellphone. "We're like the guys from Scooby Doo."
"Look here," His smile half-dropped, but he had more of a look of disbelief than the seriousness that Rowan and "She saw fingers? ...So you think there's some serial rapist hanging out in our woods? Leaving meaty bits of his victims? Really?"
"I think you're more of a Scrappy Doo" she said laughing.
"Maybe it's an escaped animal. You know, after Katrina and people's pets and the zoo and everything...All the animals were gone. Or maybe it's an alligator."
"I hope it's just a wild animal. Having a serial killer running around campus killing off students is going to jepordise our secrecy massively."
Frankie stubbed her cigarette out, chucking it somewhere where it wouldn't be detected. "Poor Janis" she said finally. "Even if she is insufferable, no one should see that."
"Yeah, and we're both screwed because neither of us are virgins." Gray nodded somberly. He watched her put out the cigarette and sighed, trying to rush smoking the last of his own.
"I'll walk you home," He offered. Even though it was only across the commons, he suddenly felt a little uneasy about leaving Frankie by herself this late in the evening.
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