'Oh my God,' Jay breathed from the pool.

'Jay? Is it here?' Paul asked, shaping to attention. Jay lifted her hand to the doorway of the aquatics centre.

'It's here, it just walked in!' By now, Kelly and Yara had resumed their position by the typewriter and TV, respectively.

'Is it moving? Jay?!'

'No, no! It's just… It's just standing there.' Paul stood up, going to the far edge of the pool.

'Jay? What do you see?' He asked.

'I… I can't—' She stopped, and for a moment the teens thought the monster had found a way to kill their friend from a distance.

'… It spoke.' Jay said after a moment, which did nothing to relax her friends. The barrage of questions and orders to Jay suddenly stopped when a man appeared standing at the edge of the pool. He was looking at Jay almost endearingly, but also looked quite bored and disgusted.

'Dad?' Kelly whispered, making Jay look over to her in shock for a moment, but her gaze quickly returned to the thing that had taken the form of their father. Glancing to the sides, Jay could see Paul and Yara were looking exactly where the man was standing. Jay was about to whisper to her sister that that wasn't their dad, that it was the thing that had been following her, but Kelly caught her look and hissed that she knew.

The man's gaze still hadn't left Jay, and he hadn't moved since he appeared. What did this mean?

'No, one's ever tried to beat me at my own game before.' The voice echoed around the room, making everyone involuntarily shiver. The words were spoken slowly, and Jay thought she saw the thing's lips mouth the words a second before the sound came out.

All of the teens were struck silent.

'I'm impressed.'

Jay started backing up slowly to the edge of the pool. Hugh had said the thing wasn't stupid, so for all she knew this could be a trick.

The man looked at Jay, then Paul, then Kelly, then Yara, then back at Jay, feeling their fear.

'I'll let you off this time. Jay.'

Before any of the teens could comprehend what just happened, the man had turned around and was walking toward the doorway that he'd come through not a minute earlier.

'Wait!' Paul called out, and the girls looked at him as if he were demented. 'Who are you?'

The man didn't stop walking.

'Death waits for no one.' He said, and disappeared when he reached the threshold.

There was a minute of shocked silence, understandably.

'Oh my God,' Jay said, ironically the same phrase she'd used when Death walked in. Paul didn't hesitate to jump into the lukewarm water when he saw she was about to faint. Kelly looked over at Yara, and the two exchanged a short laugh before jumping into the water as well, though Yara stubbed her toe on the TV in haste. The girls joined Paul in a group hug centred around Jay, and for a moment the only sound was everyone's panicked breathing slowing down.

'… Uh, guys?' Yara said, and the others prepared themselves for a characteristically dopey comment. They weren't prepared for Yara to scream, 'Run!', especially since they were in a pool. Following Yara's line of vision, the teens saw the TV Yara had kicked teetering on the edge of the tiles. Their hesitation was long enough for it to fall in, and after a few seconds of chaos, the only movement left was ripples in the water. Soon they too faded.

**Haha, I'm sorry, I just watched this movie last night and thought how this would've been a cool, ominous ending. Ciao!**