Change of plans, apparently our captors are ahead of us and they have sent someone to join us to keep a close eye on us
If he dies, they would start to suspect and if he don’t we wouldn’t know how to get through with our plan. He is at liberty to keep an eye on us and he would definitely want in on whatever plan we might have. But I did find a good fight topic, I just hope the others catch on real quick“I am Thelma” Thelma smiles and stretches her hand for a shake, when Harper return the gesture she pulls him in for a hug instead“Thelma” I drag her name. She breaks free and scowls at me“What? He is cute” she winked at him and he lets out an awkward chuckle. We haven’t told them that Harper was one of the two people that carried the dead body we watched that day. If not she wouldn’t even want to touch him one bit“I am Rose –”“That is all” Tony interrupts her and she hits his shoulder “don’t bore him with the whole flower stuff” we all break into a cackle at Tony’s words“I did think that your parents were too lazy to pick a unique name for you that they just thought of the most common flower in history” I say with a laugh hanging in my throat which I let out along with the others and she drops her headSeeing that I reach out to her hand “come on Rose, I was just jealous that you looked better than I did” I say and she breaths a laugh“Well, your boots were really wonderful. I know you thought I was mocking you” her pleasant voice like music in my ears. I smile back at her – she was right. I was furious because I did felt she was mocking me“I am not so surprised” Olivia said and we all face her, she had been quiet all along “she had always wanted to look better than anyone else and if you happen to have a better fashion sense she would hate you for it”“I wasn’t that bad Olivia, I just am a fashion enthusiast and I don’t like it when people abuse their fashion sense”“quit the play girl, Rose was the first person that never made a mistake in her clothing choice for your perfectionistic mind and that made you mad especially when you didn’t have time to pack actual cloths after Jeff scrambled your black heart” ouch! I do hope this is the fight we had planned to have because what the hell was that“How would you know that? Rose now gossips with you about me. Are you that envious of me?” I move my weight from one leg to the other and Harper slowly step back since he was between me and Olivia“oh I wouldn’t bother, what do I do when you always seem to manage yourself to spring into my line of vision”“are you that obsessed with and engulfed in my life?”“you wish”“dude, what is your problem? Why don’t you spill your guts because I am getting freaking mad from your uncomfortable bout of passive aggression. Spill!”“wanna hear it? fine I will tell you what those your fake friends didn’t have the guts to tell you” she walks up to me and licks her lips hurriedly fuming at me “you are one entitled little brat who somehow thinks herself better than anyone else whereby you cannot seem to be valuable unless you bring down the value of others. You pry on making your hair, doing makeup, doing your nails and all that to convince yourself that you are worth to be looked at twice”She pauses for a breath and I swallow hard searching her face for a sign that she didn’t mean everything she just said but her eyes are dark with burning rage and that make me gape “you are so toxic that you rip the people that truly care for you of all their sanity because you wouldn’t just be appreciative for once in your life. That is why your mother would always call me in tears because of your dumb ass” wait, why is she bringing my mother into this? “you only derive a sense of value in what you wear and how you look because you are filthy inside and yet in all that you still manage to stink so much”“Olivia!” game or not, she is taking it too far and I am not the one supposed to run out, she was – finishing me up like this will make it awkward if she had to be the one to run out. I don’t like this but I have to level up the game, she did release the venom first. Let’s know which stings harder “is this because of Jeffery?”“you think? I don’t care a minute about Jeffery girl, you didn’t need to snatch him to get on my rotten apples”“stop it already, we all know how much you are jealous of me. First is copying my hairstyle and then is trying to lose weight because I joked about it. you have always worshiped me from the first day you met me. Do you know what I do to the cheap birthday presents you always get for me, I dip a hole in my backyard and bury it, because it will taint my trash can”Tony and Willow flinches while the other girls just gapes at me, the flame in Olivia’s eyes had dimed and I can only see hurtThe truth is I did burn her presents because they were too cheap for my collections but I wasn’t supposed to say it like this and not now that I have decided to value what really matter but I cannot stop now, we are in the middle of a fight and she didn’t go easy on me soI continue “you know I hated being around you so much that I registered for a math lesson after school knowing I would be done when your part time job starts and then you joined the class too so you make sure you are all up on my butt. My friends were so irritated by you that they wouldn’t want to hang when you are there because you stink of poverty. Yet mother made me go to school with you every day threatening to cut my allowance if I stopped being your friend, that is exactly the only reason I tolerated you”I stop with heavy panting looking at her through the tears that had laced over my eyes, I had hurt her again and the problem is that all these I said were true and I knew hers were tooApart from realizing how horrible a friend I was, I just spilled some of that horrible nature in front of her and what was supposed to be fake turned out more real than I could ever imagineI tricked myself into believing that I was good to Olivia as a friend and she didn’t value my contributions in her life but now I understand why she felt alone in the world and why she couldn’t talk to me about her deepest feelings and dark fantasiesOlivia steps back slowly, the tears that clogged her eyes overflows and multiple drops slide down her cheeks. she whimpers a little and holds her chest squeezing on her cloth like she could actually feel her heart achingShe loved me and she still does but I, being the ass I am quite popular for, I took it all for granted for the fake people I let surround me – I am so sorry Olivia. I almost say but she dashes out from the hotel right before my eyes.I am grateful I suggested that the weapons be with the person when he or she leaves instead of having to pick it because from what I saw in my best friend’s eyes, she wasn’t longer going according to planI am the worst possible friend in history. A huge breath leaves my lungs and it tightens in response, I drag in air but my lungs is too squeezed that the air don’t settle, instead it all rushes back out proving how filthy my inside isI gasps for air but nothing happens and Through my foggy vision, I see them hurry towards me but before they could get close enough my legs give out and darkness snaps at my faceEverything Olivia said about me was true and harsh but for some reason I was only hurt by what I said to her insteadI only started to fire back because of the plan we cooked up but the moment the first sentence leave my mouth, I lost control and just like that I spilled everything that had weighed me down for a long time now and more so I broke down the wall that protected me from my true self and now I am staring at the real Bella.Not some front, not the class president, not Miss 2017 of my high school, but me. The Bella only Olivia knew, the Bella I have hidden from myself all those years and yet in the midst of all the tension and panicking, I still felt relieved I was happy to finally see her, I wanted to make her better, to grow her and to love her. But I hurt my friend and I need to make up for it the best I could but then again is this plan that I cannot destroy“Bella, are you ok?” Tony’s deep voice pierce through my subconscious and I am completely aware of my surround
Anthony“so, you like Bella huh?” Harper asks slowly enough to confirm he wasn’t provoking a punch.“I do hate you” I respond almost as fast and he flinches at my response. The fact that he is extra jumpy is enough reason to suspect him if we hadn’t seen him that day“why would you hate someone you just met?”“lets see…” I breath in with my hand below my jaw like I was thinking “you are disgusting and you smell like death, how about that?” I face him briefly and continue walking forward“ouch!” he exclaims and jogs to cover the distance I had created between us while he was trying to process what I just said “look, I am going to try to win your hearts”“just focus on making us not hate you further. Tip number one” I point out a finger at his face “shut the fuck up or I will shut it myself” I fume at him briefly until he steps back and nods “good”That was enough to keep him quiet as we stroll through the house checking each, I did make him shout out for Olivia and Willow interm
“So the family in the mansion, did you ever see them?” Tony asks the old man and he interprets to the group of villagers that were sitting around us and they all nod sideways I do the very thing I have always loved to do just that now is for the right reasons – I am watching Harper closely as the conversation with the villagers grew If we cannot ask him anything then we can observe him and count anything that does not count as part of the normal human behavior as clueAll these is frustrating especially when I grew up where people just ask questions when they get curious and all the more tensed is the fact that we would sleep tonight with Harper in the same hall as us How would I sleep knowing that? I think he might have scratched his head nervously when a villager mentioned that they had wanted to go to the mansion themselves since it was the root of all these problems but the stories they heard discouraged them That woman must have spread the stories, right or wrong… I don'
As agreed, Rose is going to stay back with Olivia while I and the boys with Thelma will head to the mansion the next day. I didn't know what the outcome might be, I mean, something bad could happen to any of us even the hotel might not be totally safe and I really want to make up with Olivia before everything changes tomorrowI had stepped over the rod gate earlier after we dug out some of the artifacts from the ground and that proved that we were finally able to leave the village without dying first but we still need to figure out the aspect of the men and the shadows and then finding the boat and the ride that would take us to the boatThe real fact now is that things has changed and at this stage we could lose anyone and even as much as I don't want to think too much of it, I still know that it is a possibilities and I really want Olivia to know that I love her so much and I am very sorry and I hate myself so much for what happened between usI turn to look at her, she had backe
Olivia's hug was the only thing I needed that morning to spark up the courage I needed I hadn't forgotten the other day when we dared to go there. But now it wasn't just me and Tony but Thelma and Willow is here and we are with our specialized weapon of mass destructionHarper on the other side is so rigid with anxiety that his stiffed up shoulders raise high between his head and his eyes bulge out with his Iris wandering around his eye socket. He must know that the moment he tries to say anything he would dieBut there has to be a way around it. Olivia's helper had helped her so much but didn't convulse until she tried to make him tell her more So Harper here can help us without telling us anything and we need to figure out how that would happen since unlike Mr Helper, Harper is not a willing candidateI walk up to him and tap his tensed shoulder and smile at him “I promise you that I will not let anything happen to you” I say and he looks at me, his eyes wanting to tell me so
Leaping out of the tunnel was a brief relief, my clogged nose savor the moist air of the forest and I step forward towards Tony to allow the others behind me to leap out too.“the branches we pulled out” Tony saidI laugh “I was scared out of my mind”“you know, you have been attacked by this dark cloudy gust twice, how are you not the one with the panic attacks?” Tony asks“my parents didn’t scare me with ghosts and dark rooms T. I judged her for being so scared. How insensitive” I respond“that is why I had my doubts about the story they made us believe. Rose would never sign up for something that had ghosts in it” He says and I nod along“you guys did this?” Thelma asks and we nod“I thought Willow left the rope when we first met” I say“not me, it was here when I came too but I never used it” Willow saidWe walk along the path that led to the mansion, Harper had gone quiet and is withdrawn but we all ignore him cracking jokes along the path The mansion comes into view a
Looking around, we are in the middle of a huge empty hall, the only thing there is a table and the footwear I saw earlier I walk up to the footwear and move the table lightly and there laid some clothes, the others rush towards me as I lifted the cloth and it is a big top and some panty black leggings. The footwear is a canvas“This belongs to a young girl” I say looking up at the others. Willow squats beside me and examine the shoe“That belongs to Maya” Thelma says. I look at her confused and she rolled her eyes “she was Mira’s friend that was taken from the hotel”“Wait what?” Tony asks and she bent down to look at the clothes again“she had it on” she said and stands up again. Looking at the cloth again, it did look familiar. But then –“why is her clothes here and not her” I ask and drop the cloth“she might be here somewhere” Tony said “we should go find her” He lifts his torch and heads first, we all follow behind him, the first corridor we took is empty just like the
We had left the mansion when the gust started again, running through the forest and then through the tunnel and in minutes we burst out from the other side of the tunnel and into the village Panting when we got to the beaded hut, we all fell to the soil on the path leading to the beaded hut and then the reality strikes me againWe had lost Thelma, she is gone and seeing that girl’s cloth on the floor was scary enough for us, they might harm Thelma and yet we don’t know where she had disappeared to What we know is that there is an underground in the mansion and maybe that underground contains the captives if they are still alive. We need to go and rescue her, but the gust had literally chased us out from building and it wouldn’t let us in againNot that we hadn’t tried to re-enter the building and check the underground but the whispering gust was heavy on us and before we knew it we were outside the building and the door is slammed against us The dark clouds returned and we are