Chapters Sweet took her normal seat by Lemon Zest.
Lemon Zest smiled. "Did you do your homework?"
She nodded. "Yeah, did you?"
"I did it this morning."
Sour Sweet rolled her eyes.
Principal Cinch walked in. Three girls were with her. "Class, this is Adagio Naggle, Sonata Duck, and Aria Maze."
Adagio glared at her. "I'm Adagio Dazzle, and my friends are Sonata Dusk and Aria Blaze. We're new here, and we can't wait to make new friends."
Sour Sweet pulled her hair over her shoulder. "They don't look good it school clothes."
Sonata looked at her. "Hi, Sour Sweet."
"Um, hi Sonata," she said.
"Meet my in the bathrooms at lunch."
Sour Sweet blinked. "Ok, sure."
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"Why did you want me to come here?" Sour Sweet asked.
Sonata smirked. "I just wanted to know if you would remember me. You did dream about me, remember?"
Sour Sweet did remember that terrifying dream.
"Hi, little girl," Sonata whispered. "We're going to be great friends one day. We're going to kill some people, and have fun. I'll meet you
some day, Sour Sweet, and you'll see how strong we can be together."
"But why should we kill people?" she had asked.
Sonata slashed a blade across her own arm.
A drop of blood fell on the ground.
She handed the blade to Sour Sweet. "Cut your arm, and the blood will lead me to you."
Her eyes glowed.
Sour Sweet took the knife, and sliced her arm open.
Blood dripped on Sonata's shirt.
"I'll find you, Sour Sweet. The blood you gave me will change your life forever.
"Yeah, I remember," she whispered.
Sonata nodded. "That's great."
She took a shirt out. "I have your blood on here."
"You came here so we could kill people?"
"First, I want to show you something. It's a really fun game. Called the choking game."
"Um, you want to choke me?"
Sonata smiled. "I won't kill you. It's just the first part of our party. Sit on the floor. I'm just going to pinch off the blood flow to your brain. It
can't hurt you." (people, never play this game. It's not even a game, it's suicide.)
She sat down. "It's won't hurt?"
"You gave me the key to find you. I won't hurt you, ever. Just trust me."
"Ok, you can do it."
Sonata put her hand on Sour Sweet's neck. She pinched the vein.
Sour Sweet could feel the blood flow cut off.
"It's ok," Sonata whispered.
She started singing softly.
"The blood, the blood, the blood of the lamb,
Is worth two lions,
But here I am."
Her necklace glowed.
It ripped blood out of Sour Sweet's body.
"I can move mountains,
I can work a miracle, work a miracle,
Oh, oh
Keep you like an oath
May nothin' but death do us part."
A thin stream flowed into her necklace.
Sour Sweet's eyes dulled, and she fell.
Sonata smirked.
It only took a minute for Sour Sweet to get up.
"That was awesome!" she rasped.
There was a red spot on her neck.
Sonata nodded. "I know. How do you feel?"
"I'm great. Can you do it again?"
"I don't like to do it more than one time every day. Let your blood start flowing again." she said.
Sour Sweet smiled. "Why did your necklace take some of my blood? That's so cool. I would love to do that."
Sonata pulled a necklace out of her pocket. "That's great, because I got you one."
"Thank you," she said as Sonata put it around her neck.
It glittered.
Sonata took her hand. She pulled her blade out.
"What are you doing?" she asked.
"Your necklace needs to taste your blood before you can take blood from others."
She cut Sour Sweet's hand open. Blood trickled out, and her necklace sucked it in.
The slice was still bleeding.
"I got this," Sonata said.
She wrapped a paper towel on it.
"If anyone sees this, just tell them you cut your hand on your desk."
"Thank you," Sour Sweet whispered.
"Look, I have to go. Let's meet tomorrow. You can choke me." Sonata told her.
Sour Sweet nodded. "Ok, bye."
After Sonata left, Indigo Zap walked in. "Hey, Sour."
"Hi, Zap," she said.
"Don't call me Zap."
"Then don't call me Sour."
Indigo smiled. "Where were you? We always eat with the others at lunch."
Sour Sweet put her hand on her head. "Yeah, I know. I'm sorry. Sonata wanted to talk to me."
"Who is she?" she asked.
"I friend from grade school," she lied.
Indigo nodded. "Ok, that's cool. Well, I have to go. Lemon and I are going to the movies later, if you want to come."
"Ok, thank you. Bye, Zappy."
"If you ever call me that again, I'll cut your arm."
Sour Sweet gasped. "What do you know about my arm?"
She touched the sharp part of her pendant, ready to cut Indigo's throat.
Indigo stared at her. "I just said I would cut your arm if you call me Zappy again."
"Oh, I thought you said something different. Yeah, sorry. For both things."
"It's ok. Bye, Sour Sweet."
Sour Sweet waved.
"Talk a little too much
For a school that never wins,
Maybe you should just stop
'Fore you even begin."
Her necklace pulled blood from Indigo's body.
She smirked.
Her necklace glowed. It was filling with blood.
It was filling on her own blood.
She was killing herself.
Sour Sweet grabbed a fork. She cut the necklace off, and put it in her closet.
Grace walked in. "Are you ok?"
"Yeah, I'm fine."
"Tell me why you were about to die."
Sour Sweet shook her head. "I can't. I don't remember." she lied.
Her mom sighed. "Try to remember."
"Try to leave me alone!" she screamed.
She walked out of the house.
Tyler smiled. "Do you want to stay home today?"
No. no, no! Leave me alone !
She didn't stop.
Her friends were at school.
"Hey, Sour Sweet." Lemon Zest said.
"How are you?" Indigo asked.
"I'm great. I don't need to be treated like an invalid."
Sugar Coat smiled. "We know."
Sunny Flare pulled her short hair. "Adagio, Aria, and Sonata left."
"That's good," she whispered.
Indigo stared at her. "I thought she was your friend."
Sour Sweet smiled. "Oh, she is! I love her!"
Lies were pouring out of her now. She didn't want anyone to know about the blood stealing.
But nothing can stay secret forever.
"Well, I'm going to get to class. Bye, girls!" Sunny Flare called.
Lemon Zest pointed. "I'm going with her. Come on, Sugar Coat."
*note, this is their freshman year*
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Three years went by, and Spur Sweet still held the guilt in her heart.
But she had no idea what was about to come for her...
Sour Sweet sat in her desk. She scratched her leg on her ugly school shoe. (I had to.)
Dean Cadence walked in the room. "I need to see Sour Sweet."
The teacher nodded.
Sour Sweet walked to the dean's office.
"Is everything ok?" she asked.
The dean put a knife and a necklace on her desk. "I don't know. Can you tell me what this is?"
Her eyes were filled with tears. "I've never seen it in my life." she lied.
Dean Cadence stared at her. "Sour Sweet, don't lie to me."
"I'm not!" she didn't want to keep lying, but she had to.
"Ok, fine. We can play it like that. Bring her in!"
A police officer walked in with Sonata.
Sour Sweet shook her head.
Dean Cadence put her hand on Sour Sweet's arm. "We know you were stealing blood from people."
"I don't know what you're talking about!" she lied again.
"Tell us what you did!" the dean screamed.
"Ok, fine!" she slammed her hands on her legs. "We used that necklace to steal blood from people, and then one day, he tried to kill me!"
The officer looked at Dean Cadence. She nodded.
He arrested them both.
Old Contacts Bring New Threats
Sour Sweet waved. "Bye mom!"
"Bye, Sweetie! Have fun at school!" her mom called.
She walked out the door, her maroon jacket hanging on her arm. She looked through her contacts.
There were so many from middle school. People she never talked to now.
But there was one name that caught her eye. She didn't remember this person.
What's the harm? You can always forget a name.
She looked at it again, but the contact was gone.
Her phone started beeping. It was a text.
Hey, old friend! Do you remember me? We met in your dreams... _SD
Umm, I don't know who you are. _SS
Oh, it's ok. I'll see you at school._SD
Sour Sweet shoved her phone in her pocket. A shiver ran down her spine.
Sour Sweet and Sonata spent the next two months stealing blood.
But they didn't know that with every song, they were losing more of their own blood.
With every song, they were closer to death.
But that day, Sonata chose to take everything too far...
Sour Sweet fumbled to get ready for school. She felt weak.
"Come on! School starts in ten minutes!" her mom called.
"Can I stay home? I feel like I'm dying or something!" she screamed.
Her mom walked in. "Are you ok?"
Sour Sweet looked at her scarred hand. "I don't know. I'm just really tired."
She put her cold hand on Sour Sweet's forehead. "You feel fine. I have to go to work, but I'll call Dean Cadence and tell her you won't be at
school today. You can call me if you need to."
"Ok, thanks."
She pulled at her necklace ribbon. The tie didn't move.
It glowed in her dark room.
Her phone rang.
"Hey, Sonata," she said.
"You're not coming to school."
Sour Sweet blinked. "Are you asking me?"
Sonata laughed. "No, I'm telling you."
"How did you know?"
There was a long pause. "The blood on the shirt. Shows me everything you do."
Her necklace glittered. "Come over to my house."
"Um, open your door."
Sour Sweet got out of her bed, and walked to the door. She opened it, and screamed.
Sonata was right there.
"How did you get here?" she asked.
"You really don't know how to hide a house key," Sonata told her.
"That was my mom."
Blood was rolling down Sonata's arm.
Sour Sweet pointed. "What did you do?"
*please note, about to get a little bit violent.*
"I didn't do that. I just cut my arm on a tree branch," she said.
"You don't have to be defensive. I just want to help. Come on. Just tell me."
Sonata glared at her. "Don't you understand what no means?"
"Please, tell me."
"I said no!"
She ripped a knife out, and pushed Sour Sweet into the wall. She stabbed her in the side.
"Get off!" Sour Sweet screamed.
"Shut up!"
Tears were pouring from her eyes.
Blood gushed from Sour Sweet's side.
Sonata pulled the knife back, and threw it at Sour Sweet's neck. She moved, and the blade pierced the wall.
Sour Sweet fell. She was choking on blood. Everything started to turn black, and she fainted.
Her pulse slowed.
Sonata started to sing some notes.
"Down, down deep in a blood bath,
Swallowed by my wrath
Now your blood will be mine
But you can still be fine."
Her necklace pulled in all the blood that had flowed out of Sour Sweet's side.
She ran out of the house.
Sour Sweet lay on the floor until her mom got home.
*note, her mom's name is Grace Nectar*
Grace gasped. She ran to her daughter's body. "Sweetie? Sweetie!" she screamed.
She ran out to her husband.
"Tyler!" she screamed.
He looked at her.
She was shaking. "It's Sweetie! I think she's dead!"
They ran back to her room.
"I just came in, and she was on the floor!" she cried.
They heard sirens.
He hugged her. "The ambulance is here."
The people loaded her on a stretcher, and put it up in the ambulance.
"She'll be ok, Grace."
She nodded. "I hope."