Chapter II

Day One Of School

It's September 16, 2017, a peaceful morning in New York City.

Sunlight beamed through the bedroom window and onto Toto.

 His alarm clock struck 6:10 and started to beep continuously. Toto groaned while slamming his alarm clock off and rolling out of bed.  It was the first day of junior year for him.

 He had already survived his freshman and sophomore year with  great ease. Now he just has to do it all over again within another year. Toto scratched his head and stood up.

 He made his way to his bathroom almost tripping over his shoes. ¨What should I wear?¨ he thought.

After going through and throwing some clothes around, he decided to just wear what he always wears. He put on his dark blue hoodie that had " Thrasher " written over it in White bold letters. 

He then proceeded to put on some black jeans, socks, some tims, and finally, he put on his cross earrings.

As he headed out of his room, he grabbed his backpack by the door, closed it and walked down the stairs where he met his sister at the end.

“ Morning,” she said.

Lia was a very shy girl and loved her brother very much, as far as their mother could tell, there has never been a time where Lia would not be around him. Although Toto found it kinda annoying whenever she would hang on to him, he learned to deal with it.

Toto went straight to the kitchen and grabbed some toast that his mother had made.

“ Are you ready for school today”  Toto’s mother asked him with a warm smile.

Toto had just had his 16th birthday yesterday and was still recovering from not getting any sleep that night. ¨ Yeah, but im tired as hell¨. 

Toto scarfed the last piece of toast in his mouth as he looked at the time. ¨ It's time to go¨, Toto told Lia. They said their goodbyes to their mom and walked out the door.

As they were heading to the bus stop, Toto suddenly got a cold shiver down his spine. “That's weird”. He thought to himself.

It was cold, but not cold enough to give a cold shiver down peoples spine.

“Totomo, Totomo”.

Toto spun around searching for who was calling his name when he arrived at the bus stop.

No one.

He suddenly got another cold feeling down his spine as he kept looking for who called his name.

Then, with a sudden burst of laughter from behind him, someone jumped on Toto from behind.

It was  a girl with long black hair and beautiful green eyes.

It was toto’s friend Hannah. “ Howdy” she said with a gleaming smile, “ it's been a while, hasn't it.” “ It's only been 2 weeks since I last saw you”. Toto replied.

“Why were you whispering my name?” Toto had asked.

Hannah gave him a puzzled look and said she didn't whisper his name. Confused on who was doing it, Toto just ignored it and waited for the bus.

After a couple of minutes of waiting, more people started to appear at the bus stop. Their bus stop didn't have many people, it had at least 3 or 5 other people. The bus came into view and pulled over to their stop. 

Once they got on the bus and into their seats, they made their way to the school. It was only a 10 minute drive but to Toto, it felt like a 30 minute drive.

“ Do you think most of our friends will still be here?” Hannah asked as they got off the bus.

“ I dont know and I don't really care.” Toto said back.

The school they attended was a very big school. It was a school that most people got lost in, and was a very public school. Most people in their district attended Cobra Highschool.

As they started to approach the front gates, Toto noticed a tall man  amongst the rest of the people.

He rose above everyone, but the thing that Toto found most odd was that the man was wearing the clothes of a circus ringmaster.

“ Hey, who's that guy over there?” Toto asked Hannah.

He noticed his sister was hanging onto Hannah's arm as they walked.

¨ What guy?¨ Hannah replied. “ The really tall…” Toto’s voice trailed off as he looked back to where he saw the man.

The man was gone.

Toto then just convinced himself that he’s just seeing things and ignored it.

They started to make their way into the school little by little, trying to push their way through the big crowd that stood all around them.

After what felt like forever, Toto and Hannah finally made it to the classroom.

After a few moments of people talking, a very plain man walked into the class.

¨ Morning¨, the man said with a blank expression.

¨ I am your teacher, Mr. Hans, and I hope you all won't be brats this year.

Mr. Hans gave Toto a glance without saying a word. Toto wasn't aware of it but Hannah was. Hannah was confused on why he looked at Toto that way.

¨ Maybe they know each other¨. Hannah thought to herself.

¨ Alright let's get class started¨ Toto had always disliked school and never liked going, but his mother insisted so his sister won't continue on being a loner.

After an 1hr and a half of introductions and the syllabus, class finally ended.

Toto and Hannah continued to their next classes.

Everyclass was the same, introductions and learning about one another.

¨Hey, hey¨. Toto looked behind him to see who was whispering to him as he sat down in his 3rd class, he came face to face to some boy he never met before.

¨How's it going? Im Adrian.¨,

¨uhh ok, im Toto.¨

¨ So, what do you think¨.

Toto was confused about what Adrian was talking about. ¨ About what¨ Toto replied.

¨ About the girls you dummy, don't you think I can score some really cute girls?¨ Toto gave Adrian a confused expression. Toto told Adrian to not get his hopes high and turned back around.

As Toto turned back around, his arm accidentally knocked his notebook down to the floor.

Toto gave a quick cuss word in frustration and went to pick it up. He picked up the notebook and got a sudden chill, but this time was different ,the chill went throughout his entire body.

He quickly sat back up and was dazzled and confused by what he was seeing.

 It was freezing, everything was dark, and not another student was in sight.