Weird Town || reader insert

Chapter 2

"Wow. Look at the pot calling the kettle," I rolled my eyes before looking over at Nancy, "so where are we starting?"

"Plants," she answered.

Ugh. Plants.

We studied for a while before we moved to chemistry. Well, the equations. Boring bit of chemistry.

"Hey, how do—" I looked to see Nancy had walked off and glanced over to see her sharpening her pencil and looked over at Steve, "do you know how to—"

"Not in a million years," he cut me off before I could even finish my question.

"Great. Brilliant," I sighed before glancing over to Nancy, "what's she looking at?"

"Huh?" Steve also looked over.

"Is she ok?" I asked.

"I'll uh—I'll go check," he announced before going over to her.

The two walked away after standing at the sharpener for a while. I just shrugged it off and pulled the business and economics magazine my Dad had been reading this morning from my bag.

"Oh, look at that," I rolled my eyes, "Uncle's on the front page again."

Doesn't he just look all pompous.

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Lunch_

"How are you fine with it?" Nancy suddenly spoke up.

I glanced over at her in confusion, "with what?"

Up until now, we'd just been quietly eating beside my bike. The emptiest spot during the lunch break we'd found this year. Neither of us really wanted to be in the building with the rest of the students, they were just a bit more insufferable than they were last year.

"Barb's parents," she said.

I sighed as I glanced over at her, "what can I do, Nance? Magic Barbara back from her lonely and unjustified death in a cold, wet, and dark place that I cannot get to? She's gone to us, but to her parents... there's still a chance. Sometimes a little bit of hope is good."

She scoffed, "at the expense of themselves?"

"They won't go that far," I replied.

"You know they will," she turned to me, "you know that they will. They won't stop. Barbs was the centre of their world. And now she's gone, and they won't stop until they find her."

"They'll stop," I said as I stood up, "it might take a while, but they'll stop. Eventually. And by that time, Barbara will have become a happy memory to them."

"There's no happiness in her situation," she said, "it hurts. I feel like I've abandoned her. How can't you feel the same, y/n?"

"Who said I don't?" I asked, "I mean—look at me. Since then I've been changing everything about me. I study, I barely party, I haven't had a new piercing in months. I'm actually looking at universities. I'm doing it because Barb can't. I'm heading in now, I need to talk to the councillor about my internship for the summer."

I gathered my stuff together and left before she could say anything else.

I love Nancy, I do. But sometimes... it just feels like she's trying to push something onto me that shouldn't be pushed onto me. I mean—come on, what does she expect me to do? Be the person who tells Barb's parents that she's gone and isn't coming back and then get myself either A. arrested for suspected murder, B. arrested and locked away by the actual culprits of this shit, or C. get my ass killed by the actual culprits of this shit. Like... I'm turning eighteen soon. What can a not even legal adult yet do in this situation?