10 THE KILLER

Eyebrows furrowed, Nash looked at Ashleah. "Hey are you--"

"President.." His eyes widened and glanced at where Ashleah was looking, he gulped and held Ashleah's hands.

"Let's go, we're going to be late." The young mang tried pulling Ashleah away, but due to shock.. she couldn't even move and was still staring at the person right in front of her.

Gasp! The woman gasped and quickly walked to Ashleah. "Ashleah, are you okay?" Her eyes quickly changed as she tried helping Nash to push Ashleah.

Gulping slowly, his hands held Ashleah and pulled her away from the woman. "President, I can take care of her." He blurted out while directly looking at the woman's eyes.

"You can call me by my name Nash." The woman smiled sweetly, slowly gulping it sent shivers down Ashleah's spine. For some reason she can't look at their President the same way like she used too.

Nash sighed, holding Ashleah's hand tightly he spoke again. "President Valerie." He said without even breaking the eye contact with the woman who has the eyes that made Ashleah scared.

Giggling she waved her right hand and bid goodbye to both of them. Sighing heavily he quickly gave Ashleah a glance and faced her.

"Hey are you okay?" His red eyes held worriness as he held her shoulders. "Ashleah, answer me--" She shut her eyes tightly and sighed.

Hehe. A small giggle escaped her mouth as she was trying to smile and don't show Nash that she was worrying, that she was scared. "Hey, I'm okay."

He was hesitant but still nodded. He massaged his forehead, Ashleah gave him a confused look but Nash just gave her reassuring smile.

"How about you? Are you okay?" Tilting her head slowly, Nash smiled again. Ring! Ring! The school bell started to ring. Shocked, they both ran.

"Shoot, we're going to be late!" She said in a half whisper and shout tone. Nash just laughed and continued running to their room.

"It wasn't my fault tho!" Nash answered, Ashleah rolled her eyes and quickly stopped running inside the halls when they saw their principal.

In sync, they both lowered their head and greeted the man. "Good afternoon, sir." before walking away quickly, light giggles escaped their mouth.

Quickly sitting back to their sits, Ashleah was completely avoiding President Valerie's gaze. She was still scared and confused because how she saw her eyes earlier.

It was indeed like the eyes of a killer! Opening her book, distracting herself from the weird gaze from the woman they met earlier. She suddenly remembered the killings here inside their school.

'What if the killer was a student?' She thought, her mind flying away with different thoughts, Ashleah didn't even notice that their teacher was already there.

Worried, Nash was just looking at Ashleah who seemed to be deep inside her thoughts. He glanced at their President, Valerie and glared.

This shouldn't happen. He rubbed his neck and took a deep breath, 'This is exhausting' he thought but quickly smiled when his eyes landed on Ashleah.

Cute. How her facial expressions change like she was in an arguement with somebody, bit in reality she was just thinking of other things. It was cute for Nash.

The class ended without even Ashleah noticing it. Stretching her arms, she planned something while she was busy thinking about who the killer was.

The bell rang, telling them that they should go home. Fixing her stuff, she quickly got her backpack and stood up. "Nash." she said and looked back at Nash.

Raising an eyebrow, he gave Ashleah a confused look. "Yeah? You need anything?" Eyes widening when Ashleah moved a lot closer and whispered.

"Let's find out who the killer is." A smile appeared on her face, gulping slowly Nash shook his head. Disagreeing with her plan.

"What if the killer plans to target you?" He whispered back and gave Ashleah a sharp look, the girl pouted and faced Nash properly this time. Turning the chair around, screeching sounds were made by the chair.

"But I think.." she moved to his ears and whispered "I know who the killer was." Eyes widening, it was like as if fate was playing with him, Nash saw President Valerie looking back at them while smiling.

"Ashleah, I don't want you to be a target." He said lightly pushing Ashleah away, she scoffed and crossed her arms. Licking his lower lip slowly, he was trying to stop his thoughts, the President's smile was really scary.

"Nash, you know that I won't give up right?" she said and he nodded in response. Ashleah smiled and quickly held Nash's wrist and pulled him. "Come on! Let's go to the CCTV room, or something."

Sighing deeply, he gave up and let her pull him to where wants to go. 'I hope this goes okay..' he thought while walking up the stairs.

"Woah, there's no one inside!" She said surprised while slowly opening the door inside the CCTV room, quickly sitting on the chair in front of many screens Ashleah massaged her neck and smiled.

"Ashleah, are you really sure about this?" Glancing at him, she gave him a smile and nodded. Of course she was sure! There may be some scenes that they didn't saw!

Scrolling, and looking directly at the screen they were both busy. Click. Ashleah's eyes widened when she heard the door open and saw..

"Valerie!" She gasped, the woman smiled and locked the door, walking closer.. Ashleah gulped and held Nash's wrist.

"Oh my! What are you guys doing here?" She was giving them the confused look, but she was smiling. It gave them the chills, she stopped in the middle of her tracks when she saw the screen.

It was the day of the festival, where the first killing happened. Furrowing her eyebrows, she turned her head and smiled at them.

"The investigators already told you guys that they're doing their best to find out who the killer was, right?" she smiled, Ashleah gulped.

Drip. Ashleah's forehead was slowly getting sweaty , gripping on Nash's wrist who was giving Valerie a sharp look, she stood up from the chair creating another screeching sound.

"I think.. that I found out who the killer was." She blurted out, her hands were trembling, but she was looking directly at Valerie's eyes.

"Oh." The woman raised an eyebrow, sitting down on the table where the papers were placed she covered her lips and laughed. "You did?"

"Valerie, get out." Nash said with full of authority, but the woman continued to laugh. She gave them the last glance and stopped laughing.

"Oh gosh, that was the best laugh of my life!" She said wiping the imaginary tears from her cheeks and gave Ashleah a devilish looks.

"Shut up. I said get out." Nash was going to pull her away, but Ashleah quickly stopped him when she saw Valerie pulling something down inside her skirt.

"Why.. do you have that!?" Ashleah shouted at Valerie, she was holding a knife! Valerie chuckled and kissed the knife slowly, when her lips parted from the knife she gave them both the looks of a..

"I was the killer, I guess you found out." She said in a tone like she was a whining kid. "By the looks of it, you saw me getting a knife from the Canteen Kitchen. That was sad tho." She smirked while walking closing.

Nash moved in front of Ashleah, his red eyes were mad. There was something that was scaring the heck out of Ashleah and it was THE BOTH OF THEM!

"That b*tch." She was looking at the knife. 'Who was she talking about?' Ashleah thought, Valerie continued talking. "She stealed my man, of course I was planning to kill her. The stupid man gave up his life for her."

"You.. killed because you couldn't accept the fact that he didn't choose you?!" Ashleah exploded, her eyes were flaming. Nash held her hand tightly.

"Oh yeah! I mean, if I can't get him in the easy way, just kill the girl, comfort him and.. make him fall inlove with me, right?" She smirked, her fingers were slowly swiping from left to right with the knife.

"Are you crazy?!" Ashleah blurted out, Valerie laughed. "Oh my god! You don't kill people, accept the fact that you weren't the one!"

Valerie quickly stopped laughing and bit her lips slowly. "Easy for you to say." She said and she stopped when she was in front of Nash.

Thump. Thump. Ashleah's heart was beating loudly, she was trying to move Nash away, but he didn't even move!

"I killed Ms. Millar because she found out I was the killer, seeing the bloody knife inside my backpack she tried talking to me. Of course I killed her." She said and chuckled. "Well then, bid your goodbyes!" Holding the knife tightly she was ready to stab Nash.

"Too late." Nash said and smirked, he showed his phone that recording the whole conversation. "Ashleah, make a run for it." He quickly gave the phone to Ashleah and pushed Valerie, making her fall from the floor.

"What?!" Her eyes widened, tremblings legs couldn't move. "Nash, are you going to kill yourself?!" she shouted.

"Oh, no I won't die." he smiled, Ashleah nodded and quickly running to the door, her shaking hands tried to open the door.

Click, the door opened and she cried out when it was the police and the investigators. "Hey student what--"

"I'm going to kill you!" Valerie screamed, but the police quickly ran to her and stopped her from stabbing Nash.

Slowly sitting on the ground her hands handed out Nash's phone, and the audio started playing. She was crying..

"I was so scared." She cried, trying to stand up Ashleah quickly glanced at Nash and ran to him. "Don't ever do that again!"

'The killer was.. Valerie.' She thought. What a day.