Prescott Dormitory-Boys Wing, Blackwell Academy, Arcadia Bay Oregon, October 9th, 2013, 10:10 AM

James sat on the bed staring blankly at nothing, trying to repress those memories, he closed the drawer in his nightstand that contained the scrapbook he had foolishly looked through, he sat completely still not even noticing the door of his room open and close, it was only when his roommates hand waved in front of his eyes did he come back to reality,

"hey...you...okay?" Alex asked concerned, It still took a second for James to fully come back to his senses

"Y-Yeah, I'm...fine" James shook his head

"Lost in thought again?" Alex arched an eyebrow up

"Sure if thats what you want to think..." James waved it off,

"Where the hell did you go last night dude?" Hillsef interrogated but the look James shot at him made him answer himself "I guess it was for 'business' reasons huh?" to which James nodded.

"No school today?" He asked his roommate,

"Nah, what with that break in last night and that girl Kate trying to off herself yesterday, school has been canceled." Alex explained which apparently caused him to remember the small card he had in his coat pocket,

"Miss Grant wanted all of us to sign this card for Kate at the hospital" Alex said as he handed the card to James, He took a minute to look over the small piece of paper. It read "GET WELL SOON" in bold brightly colored letters on the front, opening the card showed a collective mass of names signed in all different styles of handwriting and writing utensils such as pens, pencils, and permanent markers. Some of the names he recognized but most seemed to blend in with the collective mass of writing nearly filling both sides of the card, James studied the card for a while longer while he pondered what to do

{CHOICE}

{SIGN/DON'T SIGN}

"Pen" James commanded Alex, the latter sighed as he walked over to James' desk

"you know, you could just get up and get it yourself" Alex complained while handing the small black pen over to James, He used the pen to sign his name at the top left corner of the inside of the card.

Once it was done James handed the card back to Alex who put it back in his pocket,

"So what's the deal with you and her anyway?" Alex asked

"Who? You mean Kate?" James arched an eyebrow "She asked for my help, that is all." it seemed however that was not the answer Alex was looking for "

Bullshit dude, if that was all, you wouldn't have been trying to run through David Madsen and up through the dorm to go get to her" Alex crossed his arms and smirked

"I didn't want a fellow student, and colleague of mine to make a terrible choice. What are you implying?" James said growing a little more agitated.

Alex kept the sly smirk across his face "You like her don't you James?" he said without missing a beat. James narrowed his eyes at his roommate having now learned his implication. "I can see it now!" Alex said running wild with the fantasy "The sad detective. The depressed church girl, Star-crossed lovers and hopeless romantics! never would have taken you as a hugs and kisses type Sherlock!"

James slowly turned up to look his roommate square in the eye "If you think Miss Marsh and I are an item Alex, then you have a fucking screw loose in your head.." James said in an annoyed tone

"Oh come on Makintosh! just humor me once!" Alex threw his arms in the air, he chuckled and smacked him on the back "Take a joke you asshole!" he said between laughs.

James sighed and lied down on his bed staring up at the plaster of the ceiling while Alex sat down at his computer desk playing some kind of computer game, Soon James dozed off to sleep.

Prescott Dormitory-Boys Wing, Blackwell Academy, Arcadia Bay Oregon, October 9th, 2013, 12:36 AM

James awoke to find his roommate had gone off from the dorm they had shared. he got up from the bed and walked out of the door, he stopped to look over the whiteboard "Warren Graham, James Makintosh: Private Investigator" The Writing was in His handwriting.

Warren had told him earlier in the school year that the last inscription on the board made their dorm feel like it was an Office rather than a living quarter but James had always ignored him. Walking out of the dormitories he scanned the campus lawn, as he expected from the fact that the day was canceled there was a spattering of students all across the lawn. It didn't take long for James to find Warren with his girlfriend Stella Hill. It was because of her that Warren usually didn't stay in their dorm which wasn't much of an issue to James.

He noted the presence of the Vortex Club members sitting under a tree, James narrowed his eyes when looking over the whole group which consisted of Nathan Prescott, Victoria Chase and her cronies, and Max Caulfield. shaking his head he walked over to the bike rack and grabbed his Maroon Red bicycle walking it over to the sidewalk before sitting on the seat and peddling away.

James stopped once he got up to the lighthouse, he never really knew why but coming to this spot always helped him clear his head which he wanted to do since he woke up. There was something about observing the coast from a vantage point that brought him a strange sense of peace, today something else had caught his attention, he had noticed it when biking up to the lighthouse along the coast. But now from his view, James could watch as two Grey Whales struggled to survive after having been beached, the sight was concerning to say the least as they should have been migrating south instead of being so far up north.

This was just the tip of the proverbial Iceberg of strange happenings that James had been observing all week. Now with a clear mind, James came to one of the only logical conclusions one could come to after all these events. These events could be a prelude to worse things to come.

Something is going to happen. And James Makintosh is about to be caught in the middle of it.

END OF EPISODE 3