(It will be switching between Darryl and Zak Povs for a while!)

Zak's Pov:

I woke the next morning to the feeling of my back aching.

Ah- why is it so sore? I though as I sat up.

I noticed that I was on the ground, like I had slept there.

Then I heard quiet snores coming from the left of me.

I turned my head to see someone, no, Darryl sleeping peacefully on the same floor that I was on. Just a couple feet away.

Oh, that's right.

Darryl came over yesterday. And he ended up sleeping over. It happened so quickly I barely even remembered it.

Hmmm, what time is it? I thought as I grabbed my phone from the right of me.

It was 6:30am..

Wait.

It's 6:30am! It's Thursday!

"Darryl, wake up!" I half whispered as I crawled over and shook his shoulder.

"Hmmm?" Darryl rubbed his eyes like he was struggling to open them.

"It's six thirty! We have school, c'mon!" I yelled while standing up. I ran over to my closet to look for some clothes that could fit Darryl. We were roughly the same size, he was only like an inch and a half taller than me, so I could find something. After some digging I found a gray t-shirt and an oversized black hoodie with some dark denim jeans. "Here! Take this."

I threw the clothes onto Darryl who had barely sat up. It hit him in his face and he was so out of it that he fell from the impact.

*Snort* "get uuupp!" I found some clothes for myself and went to the washroom to change.

But by the time I had come back it seemed that Darryl was back asleep.

"Are you kidding me?- get up!" I ran over to him and pulled the clothes that I had thrown on him off of his face and pulled him up.

"5 more minutes please.." Darryl mumbled with his eyes still closed.

After a couple more minutes of urging Darryl to get up, he finally woke up enough to actually know what was happening.

So he ran to the washroom to get changed -- luckily the clothes fit -- and we went downstairs to grab our shoes and backpacks. I guess it's a good thing that he decided to bring his backpack after all.

By the time we were leaving the house it was about 7am and school started in 30 minutes. Meaning we had to hurry, since we already missed the bus.

We bolted to the school together and made it about 5 minutes before the bell rang.

"Why didn't you set an alarm?" Darryl asked me while gasping for air.

"I- *gasp* I guess I forgot!" I responded.

We caught our breathes and looked at each other.

Then we started laughing.

"Haha, man! We barely made it in time!" Darryl playfully hit me on the shoulder as we walked further into the school.

"I didn't think we were even gonna make it!" I laughed.

Something about Darryl makes me happy. And I've only ever felt this way once before. I might know what it is. I think... I think I like him?

*RING*

"See you at lunch!" Darryl yelled to me as the noise of kids rushing to get to their classes filled the halls.

"Yeah, see you then!" I yelled back before we both faded into the crowd of kids.

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My next class after advisory was sadly PE. So I was walking on my way to the class right now.

Agh, PE sucks.

I walked into the gymnasium only to find that there was nobody there.

"Am I the first person here? That's a first," I whispered to myself as I shut the gym room doors behind me.

It was awfully quiet, maybe a bit too quiet. And it didn't sit well with me.

There was nobody, and I mean absolutely nobody else in the gym. I couldn't even find the teacher.

I wondered if I didn't have PE after all, maybe I got the classes mixed up. And that's why no one was here.

"Hello?!" I yelled out, and the emptiness of the giant room made my voice echo.

Guess there's really nobody.

I turned around to leave, but that's when I felt something hot me on the head, and hard, like they did it on purpose.

I was gonna turn around to see who had did it, but they hit me again. And this time harder.

So before I could do anything I felt myself becoming unconscious.

Then everything went black.

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Darryl Pov:

After school I came home to my mother waiting in the kitchen for me.

I set down my backpack and took off my shoes before coming into the kitchen to greet her.

"Hey mom, need anything?"

"Honey, I'm not feeling too good. Could you maybe do the dishes for me?"

I looked over to the sink to see it almost full with dishes. Probably me forgetting to do them anyways. So I agreed, and I helped my mother go back to her room.

Time to get started. I thought when I came back downstairs to the kitchen sink.

I grabbed a sponge and I turned on the water, then I got started on the dishes.

Halfway through cleaning off the dishes the noise of my phone being called clashed with the sound of the running faucet.

So I turned off the faucet, and dried off my hands quickly before walking over to my ringing phone.

It was the same unknown caller.

I accepted the call and put it to my ear.

"Hello?" I asked with a shaky voice. I didn't mean for it to be though.

"Darryl," the person on the other line said my name again, just like yesterday.

"Look I don't know if you're pranking me or something, but it's really not funny. Go bother someone el-"

"Do you remember that first note that I sent you?"

The question that they asked sent a chill down my spine.

"..Who is this?" I questioned.

"Do you remember or not?!" The person raised their tone of voice.

"Yes I remember!" If this was the same person who sent those notes, I really didn't wanna make them mad.

"So you remember what it said?" They asked in a quite menacing tone.

"Yeah, the note said something along the lines of not trying to stop you or something," I said, trying to sound casual.

"And what did you do?"

This question made me think. Did they know that I had been trying to figure out who they were?

"Nothing. I didn't do anything," I said.

"LIAR!" The person yelled so loud that I flinched, and my ear hurt for a few seconds.

"I'm not lying!"

"Well let me ask you something," they whispered this time. "If I took something of yours that you cared about, would you try and get it back?"

This question made my heart pound faster than it already was. What were they trying to say?

"...What did you do?" I asked breathlessly.

"Here's a hint... when was the last time you saw Zak?"

"The last time I saw Zak was this morning, what are you trying to say?.. Wait... No! You didn't!"

And just like that they hung up.

They didn't take Zak, did they?

Hello! I'm sorry that I left you on that note, but this page is already well over 1k words. So I love you! Have a good day/night!

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