During high school, I was never really popular in fact; I was pretty much a loner. I was the weird kid that never talked and sat by herself, you would probably think I had some dark secret or something but trust me I didn't. In fact I was a pretty boring person who just played games all day and browsed YouTube videos till 2 on the internet. That routine changed when Katie moved into the class. At first Katie didn't say a word to me, she just hung around with 3 girls (the kind of ones who spent all their time in bathroom applying tons of makeup) so I thought she was just one of them two faced people.

 

In Geography we were asked to work in groups, I thought I was just going to work on my own again however I got tapped on the shoulder and was surprised to see Katie, Katie said “Do you want to work with me? I so were on your own so I thought why not”. Turns out her friends had ditched class again, probably to smoke or apply makeup either of them. I paused for a moment, rolled my eyes and agreed, much to my discomfort. Yes I was a judgmental bitch like the others but I didn’t really see that when I was younger. The class was an hour so I was hoping for it to go by really quick. At first we just did are work not talking or making any eye contact.

 

Then Katie muttered something “Do you know, I don’t actually like them?”

 

I looked over confused and said “What?”

Katie repeated “I don’t like them; you know Chloe, Janet and the other one erm… Stacey”.

 

I still had confused look and then I said “But you go everywhere with them and look like BFF’s as you would say”

 

Katie looked pissed then said “I only hung out with them because the teacher forced me too, why would I like them? All they do is slag their other friends of, apply tons of make-up every waking moment and sit on the same bench, smoking and chatting about nonsense”

 

I was kind of baffled and couldn’t find the words to say before I could say anything

 

Katie said “I know that you think the same as me about them and you probably think I’m one of them but I am not”.

 

“Okay okay, I believe but why come and work with me?” I stuttered

 

Katie said “I wanted to give you a chance, those girls, they slagged you of saying you were a loner and weirdo and other stuff, I’m sure you get the idea so here I am, I want you to give me a chance as well, trust me I’m not one of them”

 

I mumbled “So you want to be friends then?”

 

Katie said “Acquaintances for now but yeah so what do you say?”

 

I said “Erm yeah sure… but I’m not very talkative at first so you might have to wait awhile before we can keep a conversation going”

 

Katie said “That’s fine I get that so I’ll just hang out with you from now on”

 

So that was a start of a friendship. So weeks went on and we became best friends pretty quickly. We would hang out at lunch, break, in class and outside class. It felt good to have someone to talk to about my obsessions and gaming. Years passed and we drifted apart, that’s what usually happens. She had moved elsewhere, I think to Liverpool, I can’t remember too much and I started Uni and moved into student accommodation. I was more confident in Uni and had made some new friends. I told them about Katie and everything. One Saturday I was sleeping in, when my roommate Rose burst in my room and woke me up.

 

“Natalie wake up wake up” Rose shouted

 

I mumbled “What?”

“I heard some news on T.V, about Katie’s old place” Rose shouted

 

“Katie what?” I said clueless

 

“You know you’re old friend Katie, you told me about, well her” Rose said

 

“Oh yeah Katie, well what happened then?” I said

 

“On the news, it said they found 12 people dead inside the house” Rose said

 

“Rose, you know I can tell when you’re joking right, this joke is a whole new low for you though” I said

 

“I’m not joking you prat” Rose said, before I could say anything, she me dragged into the room where the T.V was and pointed to it “See for yourself then” Rose shouted.

 

I watched the news and looked in shock as the news reporters explained what happened in the house. According to the news 12 people had been dead for over 2 years inside the house and no one noticed for 2 years apparently. It wasn’t until the bailiffs burst down the door because the tenants hadn’t paid bills in a year, they discovered the bodies. Apparently some suicidal ritual had taken place as part of a sacrifice to go to a better place. The people that died were a part of some cult called Swerkxon boped.

 

“See I told you” Rose said and then she walked of, outside kind of pissed.

 

I got on Facebook and messaged Katie about what happened, in the house to see if she knew. 2 weeks had passed and Katie hadn’t replied still. I assumed she made a new account and didn’t add me. So I decided to look into the Swerkxon boped cult on the internet and couldn’t really find much information on it, until on 7th page of the search results, I clicked on a link which led to an inactive forum about German history. I scrolled through some of the topics and found a thread called “Swerkxon boped discovered in Alpirsbach” dated 2005 June 5th. I clicked on the thread and they were a link to a news article on some German site, about 3 people who were discovered in a flat that did a suicidal ritual. I scrolled through the thread, not many replies: most people were discussing how shocked they were, and then I came across a user called “Neionleo” who said they found a link to their website. The link was www.2sldj40ds.swerks.com a bit of weird link I thought. I looked through Neionleo’s post history; he had 3 posts, 2 which were in the same thread about Alpirsbach getting a new bus service. So I decided to click the link to the website and looked through it, it seemed like an authentic website of the Swerkxon boped cult, they was details on what they believed and links to news articles about them. I stumbled across the member’s page and looked through it, most of the members were old and that didn’t surprise me. Some of the members were kids too; each member had biography and a picture. They was 8 pages of members, each page had 10 members so they were about 80 members in the cult. I got to page 3 and scrolled down and so someone that looked Katie, I clicked on the link and was shocked as I so the name “Katie Crafton”.

 

At first I thought I was just dreaming but I wasn’t. I scrolled down and so the biography it said “Hi my names Katie Crafton, I’m 14 years old and hope to pass onto a better place with my fellow Swerkxon boped members but before I do that, I must find a person of interest to sacrifice as stated in Millie’s diary. I think I have found a suitable person of interest; I’ll call the person “Subject Z”. I have first met subject Z at high school. The person is a loner and well just weird. I am sure no one will miss this person. I am doing well in becoming friends with subject Z soon we will hopefully achieve maximum friendship (to bring the best results) and I can finally bring Subject Z to my house (where we perform daily chants and animal sacrifices) to finally sacrifice the person. Wish me well fellow Swerkxon boped members.

 

• Update to Subject Z

Subject Z has now become unavailable to me. This saddens me greatly but I will have to move on. The reason for Subject Z being unavailable is that person moved away unexpectedly without my knowledge. This requires me to find a new person of interest to sacrifice this will be a daunting task but I know, I will successfully find a new person of interest.

 

As required by the commandments in Millie’s diary. I will now name the person of interest also known as “Subject Z” since subject Z is now no longer a person of interest, I can name them. Subject Z identity is Natalie Goodman”

 

They were no more updates on the biography after that. I was in shock and it felt like I couldn't breathe for a minute. After about a 2 minutes it sunk in, that she was going to use me as a sacrifice and that are friendship was never real and all this time I was just a “subject” for her delusional nonsense. I remember the day my family suddenly moved to Barnsley, that’s the day she was talking about. My parents didn’t tell me until the last minute about moving away so that’s why I didn't get a chance to tell her. I still kept in contact with her but I guess she didn’t bother with me since I moved. Thinking about it after I moved she didn't really keep in contact that much. I thought to myself if my parents didn’t suddenly move away, I wouldn't be alive today. I remember that it would always be my house we played at, never her house I just assumed her parents were strict not that rituals were taking place. In fact I never even meet her parents or so them, she always said they were at work. In fact they were a lot of odd things about her that I never noticed.

 

I have no idea where Katie is now, are what she’s doing. Maybe she successfully completed her sacrifice or maybe she’s out there still looking for next “Subject Z”. I am just thankfully I was never sacrificed and I don’t really want to know where she is. It goes to show, be careful about who you make friends with.