*19*

🔥CHAPTER 19🔥

*-*Third Person's POV*-*

Merliah stayed up all night, waiting for Billy to show up, but he never did, she really started worrying, because he never stood her up, not like this anyway.

The next day, she went to the swimming pool, around the time, Billy's shift usually starts, just to see if he was okay, to calm her nerves.

She saw Heather sitting looking over the pool, deciding to ask her if Billy has arrived yet.

"Hey Heather." She greets the girl, Heather looks down at her, smiling at her. "Merliah, you here to distract Billy again?" Heather teasingly asks.

"Actually no, just stopping to ask him something, and then I have things to do, that I've been putting off, for awhile now." She tells the girl.

"Oh..." Heather's attention got pulled towards a boy in the phone. "Hey! No dunking, Curtis. No... dunking." Heather says into a megaphone, her attention going back to Merliah, who was looking all over the pool area.

She spotted Billy, saying her goodbyes to Heather she quickly followed him, into chemical storage.

"Billy?" Merliah calls for him in question, she knew that she saw him coming in there, so she walked in further.

"Billy?" She calls him once more.

Merliah found him in the back, by the shelves that had all the chemicals on them used to keep the pool clean. Billy didn't turn around when he heard her getting closer to him.

"I'm not mad, that you didn't show yesterday, I'm just worried, I thought something happened to you." Merliah says softly, but he still didn't turn to look at her.

Inside his head, he was yelling for her to run away, and get away, but she couldn't hear him, since something else had control over his body.

"Billy. Billy..." Merliah steps closer to him, touching his sweaty arm. "Can you please look at me?" She asks.

The thing inside Billy imagined slamming her head against the shelves, making Billy scream and shout for it to leave her alone.

Billy turned to Merliah, he looked pale, sweat everywhere, his eyes, it looked like he hasn't gotten sleep in days, Merliah couldn't help, but worry more than she was when she got here.

"Stay away from me, Merliah." He says to her, brushing past her, she stared after him in confusion, wondering what could have happened since she saw him the day before.

She watched him walking towards the lifeguard chair, it looked like he was drunk, with the way he was walking, he didn't even greet the people back, who always throws a hello his way.

Merliah knew something was wrong, she just wasn't sure what it could be, but she will make sure she finds out.

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[I apologize for the short chapter🌺]