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Macabre Mysteries: Marionette

Chapter 4

Chapter 4

Nov 12, 2022

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      "Hey Professor, I think he's waking up!" The voice echoed through Tyler's head. He opened his eyes slowly to a blurry view that started to come into shape before him. Well, as much as one could without their glasses. The bright painful lights on the ceiling were humming a pinching tune as he stared at them. He looked around and saw 5 blurry figures standing around him. "Where... where're my glasses?" He asked as he tried to feel around a bit. "Here you go." The familiar tone said. Tyler felt around till he could touch his glasses and found them in the palm of a hand. He placed them onto his face and let his eyes settle a moment. Around the room, he saw Warnaby, Skye, Wilkins, and two others that he hadn't met but had seen before in his classroom. "Oh my god you're actually alive, I thought Eve was going to have to call her doctor." The mousy boy said staring with big blue eyes and a big smile. "Yeah I could of but like my doctor doesn't really do visits anymore after I kept asking them but yeah. My doctor is really great I can give you their number-" "Ok ok that's enough Hot-Topic." Skye said shaking his head at her. "You alright there? The nurse said you had an epileptic reaction." "Yeah Tyler, you didn't let me know that before entering my class, you alright?" Tyler looked around at everyone's concerned reactions. "Wait, I'm not epileptic though, I probably passed out from lack of food or something." Warnaby raised his eyebrow at him and looked down at him. "Well, he did get up pretty fast Desmond." "That's Warnaby to you, Skye." Skye shrugged and smirked a bit. Wilkins then sighed and took a step forward and punched Tyler right in the arm. "Ow!" "Yeah 'Ow' is right asshole, don't give me a scare like that, I can only handle one death at a time ya hear?" He says with a hearty chuckle.

     "Yeah okay, I'll give you that but I promise I'm fine! Just had a slight faint after seeing-" That's right, he fainted from seeing something in the corner of the classroom. "Seeing what?" Warnaby asked with an inquisitive look. Tyler stopped and blanked for a second before getting up. "Well... It's probably just due to stress and stuff so it would be silly to even mention it..." "Go on, you can tell us." Wilkins said giving him a side arm hug. "Yeah us too." The goth girl and her small companion were staring at Tyler with the biggest curiousity-driven eyes. "Well, no offense but... I don't really know you guys." "Wait you don't know him?" Warnaby said darting his attention to them. "Wow, would you look at the time-" The smaller one books it outside the door and down the hallway but the tall girl stayed with the blankest expression still. It was statue-like. "Wow okay Tyler, I thought we had a connection when I was helping carry you here but I guess not. Anyway, I'll tell Wren you'll meet her at the cafe later. I gotta go see my brother now. Oh yeah, that one that ran away was my brother. You can call him Noah." She then took her exit too, going the exact same way with a faint smell of rosemary leaving her path. "Wow okay weird one W." Wilkins said to Warnaby. "Yeah well, she has great talent... anyway what was it Tyler that you said you saw again?" Tyler blanked trying to decide if he should say it or not. Not because it was crazy but because it could be insensitive in front of Wilkins. Talking about seeing the ghost of someone who was close to him in the corner of your photography teacher's classroom. He quickly thought of a response. "I thought I saw a spider. Yeah, I'm a bit of an arachnophobe." He said lying right out of his ass. "Wow, what did spiders ever do to you Polaroid?" Skye said chuckling. "Well if that's all then you should get going. Your classes have been alerted of what happened so don't worry about attending them today. It's purely just socializing anyway." Warnaby was being so kind and so gentle with his words, almost like he's had experience with comforting students. "Alright, I think I'll go now then, I should probably go meet up with my friend Wren." He nods at Tyler and leaves the room with Wilkins however, Skye remained. "You saw something. Cut the crap." Shit, was his lie that obvious? "What do you mean?" "I mean, you forget whose camera has the photo." He said pulling up his camera. "I thought it was weird so I did some looking at the photo and I see something weird." He then shows Tyler the screen again, which Tyler flinches a bit, scared to see if the same reaction would occur. "Well?" Tyler looked and saw that the phantom in the corner was now missing. "Wait... she was-" "She was what? Tyler?" Skye said with the biggest grin, his intuition correct. "I knew it! The light follows the room then BOOM it's gone there. So something was there and you're gonna tell me Ty." "Ty huh? We down to that part of the naming then?" Tyler said trying to avoid the question at all costs. "Look I'm going to follow you until you tell me exactly what it was."

    Tyler sighed and started towards the door. "Ok, you'll just have to join me and Wren then." Skye grabbed his satchel and got behind Tyler. "Alright then, let's go. I'll follow." They walked out of the nurse's office and headed towards the exit doors of the main building. This building was new for Tyler, he hadn't been here before so it took him a minute to get his surroundings. "Uh... where's," he pulled out his phone and looked at the place Wren texted him. "Starshoot Cafe?" "Oh! That's actually right around the corner from mine. We can either walk or take a cab." Sky said pulling out his phone and logging it into his GPS. "I think we can walk, shouldn't be too far right?" "Yeah only like 20 minutes or so." "Alright, then you lead the way." Skye started to walk on the left paved sidewalk towards their destination. It was a really nice day though, wasn't too hot or cold, the wind was subtle and the campus was now littered with small groups of people. "So why this college?" Skye asked Tyler. "Pardon? Why? Uh wow, I don't know. They have a great photography branch I guess." Skye nodded as he looked at his phone and then back up. "Alright, now what's your deal? Are we into guys, girls, nothing, anything?" Tyler chuckled a bit and exhaled. "Guys, I uh only recently came to that conclusion, yourself?" "Anything really, but never been with a guy yet. Maybe this year." He said as he looked at Tyler with a smile and then back to his phone. "Ah is that why you were like that last night?" Tyler asked semi-jokingly. "Uh actually no, I was just invited to come to the party and you looked like a fun target to pin my awkwardness on so I did." He said rather straightforwardly. "And was that considered hitting on me or?" "Well, you're the only one I gave my number to." He said with a wink and started to walk ahead. Tyler's face was a mix of embarrassment and happy surprise, it was a new feeling for him. 

  "Alright, here we are, Starshoot Cafe." Skye said opening the door for Tyler underneath the giant modern-styled sign that read "Starshoot Cafe". The inside was filled with a moderate amount of students and other people who lived in the city. It looked rather popular considering the area they are in. The walls were decorated with pictures of customers from polaroids and random pieces of scattered art. A stage sat in the front of the cafe with a microphone, a piano, and some other instruments gathering dust, almost as if they were stuck in time from the last time they were used. And in the corner, a lunatic in a leather jacket was waving both arms up in the air. It was their lunatic, it was Wren. "Hey Wren, sorry we're late," Tyler said pulling Skye over and sitting down around the wooden circle table. ", I was in the clinic actually." He said rather nervously. "Wow oh my god freshie, did you pick a fight with that one dude from the party?" Skye blinked a few times. "Yeah this dude, did he beat you?" "No no, if anything I beat myself haha!" Wren chuckles and sits down and holds out her hand to Skye. "Hey there, I'm Wren!" "Skye, I think we met before?" "Did we?" "Yeah, you broke down out here last month right?" "OH MY GOD THAT'S WHERE I KNOW YOU FROM! Well anywho, Tyler I gotta tell you somethin'!" "Okay, do tell." Wren then looks around and gestures Tyler and Skye to come closer. "Y'all, I saw a dead person." 

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Tyler finally wakes up hours from his random fainting spell

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