Tuesday 12:30 pm
Lily Card's body was found. It was found on a park bench with no blood on her clothes, no cuts on her body, and no signs of a struggle.
The police ruled her death as died of natural causes just so they could put away the annoying case that had no leads or witnesses but it wasn't from a lack of trying. The case was open for months with nothing until Lily's parents asked them to stop looking for anything.
Lily's final wish was carried out and after her wake, she was prepared and planted as a small sapling in the same park her body was found in.
Though all of their parents asked several times, Maddox and Sage kept that night a secret and claimed they hadn't seen her at all that day.
The pair had theorized what had happened to their friend on her last night alive but always came up empty-handed. No one would ever know what really happened to Lily Card.
Their lives were never the same after that. They mourned for their friend every day they lived but grew to mourn her less and less until they treated it like she died of a car accident or heart failure and not from being murdered by shadow men.
Of course, that was years ago. Now they live on different sides of the country, both in small, quiet towns where nothing could bother them.
The truth was, they had really tried to stay friends but without Lily, as a mediator, some of their 'playful' fights weren't very playful anymore. The friendship ended only one year after Lily's death when the blame game was played on whose fault it was that Lily was dead.
Sage picked up her things that night and with one last goodbye to Lily's tree she left her best friend's home in search of somewhere quiet where she could forget.
Now Oliver, James, and Eliot all sat in a circle on young Eliot's bedroom floor. His mom was downstairs baking them cookies while his dad was watching a football game he had recorded.
James was being as quiet as always until an evil grin popped onto his face as he threw his phone at Oliver with two simple words spewing out of his mouth.
"Call it." He said as he gestured to the number on a creepy website. Oliver only rolled his eyes before picking up the phone and scrolling through the feed before his eyes landed on something that made his heart beat a little faster.
A comment from someone named Lily Card.
Play the game, it said, and die in vain. Stay away and live to seeanother day. I made the wrong choice. Call this number and you'll be joining mesoon enough.