MONSTER

Unlucky Number 2

September 5

 

3:00 PM

As the last of Derns' students left the room, they each left happy and cheerful, emotions Derns valued highly among his students. Though, they may have been happy due to a heated but humorous argument between him and Geoffrey Bills about the method of doing Pre-Calculus problems during the review. Bills had been absolutely adamant that his old school way was right, and Derns swore that Bills almost snorted in derision.

"Is that really the most practical way?" Derns asked subtly but amused.

"It's more practical than yours," Bills replied.

Derns laughed. There was no way this old and cynical man was more practical than him.

Just as the last apparent students left, Derns closed and locked the door. He had just whirled around with his coffee and Instruction Binder when he heard knocking at his classroom door. Except it came from the inside of the room.

His heart stopped, but then started beating with a cold feeling, like it was filled with cold water. Tip-toeing over to his classroom, he set his binder and coffee down, and pressed his ear to the door. He nearly jumped back when someone knocked again.

"Who is it?" He asked.

"Me!"

Derns frowned.

"Me who?" He asked, uncertain of what he was even doing.

"Mathew!"

"Oh! Sorry, about that," Derns said, realizing his mistake. He opened the door, releasing a giant of a student who had pale white skin and dark brown hair.

"Thanks," Mathew said as he left.

Derns looked at the teenager as he ran across the hall. A few seconds ago he thought it was the killer. Instead, just a teenager.

Mathew's last name was Bones. How cliche would it be if Mathew was the killer?

Mathew was a moderately social kid. He did have a girlfriend and a band of friends, but that was it. He was strange, but quiet and nice.

Only, that led to an unfortunate thought by Derns.

What if The Slenderman was indeed someone at this school? A teacher, a friend, the new principal, maybe even one of his own students? What if The Slenderman was someone he knew?

September 6

On the alternative days was Physical Education for middle and high school students at CliveWood. And for all the 3,478 students that went to the colossal school, this was not a problem--there were four gyms, enough to keep all grades K-12 happy. And today, in GYM 3, half of eleventh grade was occupying the same gym, with various running exercises, for the purpose of increasing the students' personal cardiac ability.

Couch Douglas was organizing everyone in his class in a run around the gym, by this current point, it was equivalent to a mile-and-a-half. By this point, most of the male gender was pushing past six feet, an exception being Peter Mann, who was five-foot-eight. But by all accounts, Peter was among the fastest.