“Don’t move. I’m going to tell them where you are.” How was Adonis going to move? “It’s not like i can move anyways” he mumbled. The paramedics entered the manor, and Adonis could hear Leon talking to them. “Hello, Adonis?” A paramedic said bending down towards him, “How many fingers am I holding?” the paramedic asked. “I don’t 4?” Adonis answered, the paramedic shrugged “Eh close enough.”
Adonis sat down, he groaned “I’m definitely pressing charges”
@Caticorn - Leon
Tsumuji noticed Eddie’s smile and her comment and couldn’t help smiling even bigger, she really loved to cheer people on. “Thanks, and yeah. I’ve got a lot more, some that are edited and everything. And not just stuff like this.” He answered, “Really? Can I see them?” She asked excited, although she hoped none of them were of a creepy scene. “I don’t know… I can’t tell you if it’s your imagination or not…” Tsumuji giggled, “It’s probably just my imagination, i’m sure.” Besides if there was something bad going to happen, it would probably involve a montoya and so far away from her and her friends. “Do you want to be a photographer?” She asked curiously. “If you want to be one, i’m sure you will be the best one ever.” She gave him a friendly smile.
@Littlefeets - Eddie
Leon leaned against the wall, hands in his pockets, as he watched the paramedics helping Adonis. When they were done, they left and Leon pushed himself off the wall and sat down next to his friend. “I will 100% support you in that.” He told him, in response to him saying he was definitely going to press charges. He crossed his legs, resting his arms on top of his legs. “How are you feeling?” He asked. He definitely looked better than he did a few minutes ago, but he still wanted to ask and make sure that he was okay.
@Kristi - Adonis
Laurel knew being with her ex like this was a bad idea, but she did it anyway, but she never expected the words that he said after. Love. Raphael Montoya really said the L word, and to Laurel Parker of all people. If there was anyone you didn’t say “love” to, it would be Laurel. It’s one thing to hear a family member say that they love you or say it back to them, but someone else… Not just anyone, but someone you did have feelings for, your ex boyfriend. That was different. To Laurel, if love did exist, it just brought even more pain. She saw the way her parents were around each other. She saw the way her mother could never make any relationship work, still hung up on her first love, who guess what, broke her heart and didn’t even speak to her for years. That’s true love for you alright. Love can be good for a moment, but then the future is filled with pain. If Laurel was being honest, including being honest with herself, her biggest fear was love, and falling in love with someone. To her, if she didn’t let someone hold her heart in their hands, they wouldn’t be able to crush it like she knew would happen eventually. Love doesn’t win in the end, and trying to make love work was a losing battle.
That’s why Laurel pushed herself away from Raph in the first place. If a relationship gets serious, if she has feelings for someone, she has to put a stop to it. A minor pain now is better than the potential pain later. In her 19 years of life, there had been 2 relationships that, if she admitted it, hurt to end. One, because it was essentially her first love, but she got scared and pulled away. Then on the opposite side, her most recent relationship, with Raph. Perhaps it was simply because it was the two longest relationships she had ever been in, perhaps it was as simple as the timing of the relationships, or something deeper. There had only been 2 relationships she ever actually cared about, but love scared her. Her feelings in the moment didn’t matter, it didn’t matter if she ever questioned if she had made a mistake, she couldn’t change her past, but there was a part of her that was too scared to change her present. It was the part of her that always won, the part that made her want to push away to begin with. “Don’t say that s**t, Raph.” Did she miss Raph? There was definitely a part of her that says yes. Was there even a part of her that liked to hear the word love, and held feelings that were beyond just a physical attraction? Maybe so, but this is Laurel Parker, and she’s not the person to give in even if she had feelings for someone. “This was just some fun, nothing more.” Laurel said, moving away from Raphael to gather her clothing. To her, love is simply a pipe dream, and wanting more was just setting herself up for failure. Its all fun and games until it gets serious, and then its the last chance to run.
Eddie nodded when she asked if she could see more, and pulled his phone out of his pocket to be able to show her more clips. His best stuff that was actually edited and really done like a movie were on his computer at home, but on his phone he had some stuff that wasn’t just raw footage like on his camera. Some clips were scenery shots for B-roll, while others were shots of his sisters, or in a few cases friends, helping test things by simply being in the camera’s view while doing something ordinary or even acting out a quick scene. “Here’s some of it.” Though, she then asked if he wanted to be a photographer, to which he immediately shook his head. He would take photos occasionally, mainly to use as references, but he was not a photographer at all. “No, no, not at all. I… I don’t do photography. I want to be a director, make the next classic films.”
@Kristi - Tsumuji
”Woah woah, lau, wait a second” he said as she pushed him away catching him in a hell lot of surprise because to be honest he wasn’t exactly focused on anything at that moment, but he did know what this was about ”I- I didn’t mean to say that, it was just a spur of the moment thing I’m sorry” he told her and caught her arm as she walked away. Did he miss her? You damn bet, but if you asked him if he loved her, at this point the answer wouldn’t necessarily be yes. In the past, yeah sure, he loved her a damn lot, even if she didn’t really know it. but now is a whole different story. Now he was just drunk and caught in a mistake that came out of his mouth and he couldn’t take back even if he wanted to. How fun.
”Listen. I’m not looking for anything, I’m just nostalgic and kinda drunk, don’t take me too seriously okay?” he looked at the girl, coming closer to her again trying to go back to what it was before like 5 minutes ago ”pure fun, no strings” he smirked, glancing at her lips and back
@Littlefeets Laurel
“How are you feeling?” Leon asked, “Better I guess.” Adonis rubbed his head, “But I really need a glass of water.” Adonis stood up from the ground. Well he was right that something was definitely going to happen, though he wished it happened to another person and he heard it from someone- he grumbled quietly in his mind. What did he even do to her? He was an angel to her ever since the beginning, “You attract crazy people.” Adonis said to his friend.
@Caticorn - Leon
“Here’s some of it.”* Tsumuji gazed at the clips Eddie showed her…she smiled softly, seeing clips of girls who she assumed were his sisters; then again, they probably weren’t his sisters, “Who are this girls?” Tsumuji pointed at the girls in the clips. “They’re beautiful.” Tsumuji said with a smile as she gazed at them, doing a weird position. Remembering something, Tsumuji stared at Eddie excitedly, “Me and some of my friends are going to this place on Friday and the setting is really gorgeous, do you want to come?” She gave him her best puppy- dog eyes, Eddie seemed to be an ok photographer and she was sure in the future he would grow to be the best ‘photographer’ ever, practice made perfect after all and maybe the setting could help him?
“No, no, not at all. I… I don’t do photography. I want to be a director, make the next classic films.” Tsumuji flinched a little, so he wanted to be a director? She smiled “You would be an even better director-not that you wouldn’t be a good photographer if you chose to be one but a director just seems more fitting for you.” She gave him a heartfelt smile, “I can see you being a really famous director.” And hopefully one day Tsumuji could pursue her dream of being a writer.
@Littlefeets - Eddie
Leon nodded, remembering that he hadn’t actually been able to drink the drink he’d asked for.
“Yeah, I need a drink, too.” He agreed, standing up and dusting himself off again. “Now the real question is, where do we find the drinks?” He commented, thinking out loud as he examined his surroundings, running his hand through his hair. "You attract crazy people." He laughed and looked at Adonis, confused. “What’s that supposed to mean?” He asked, curious as to what lead him to that conclusion.
@Kristi - Adonis
Karen grimaced internally because of the reaction Luna gave her towards her questioning she and Benjamin’s relationship. She truly didn’t know she would have such a strong reaction. “Oh-I’m sorry for asking. It was just because of the -I heard people -nevermind.” She shook her head and looked down at her shoes.
As they walked down the dark corridor Luna seemed like she didn’t want to explain the reasons why she didn’t believe in ghosts which Karen understood. Some people’s minds couldn’t be changed but that didn’t stop Karen from explaining her point of view. “Well, I believe in ghosts because of my friends telling me their experiences and watching those dumb paranormal tv shows about it.” She knew most paranormal shows weren’t real but she couldn’t help but believe in them. “I remember my friend told me that she once thought she saw her mother in the living room doorway but when she looked again she was gone.” Karen shrugged her shoulders.
"It’s fine, I’ll just use mine." Karen said after Luna offered to use her phones flashlight. She used the flashlight to turn on one of the lights which made the hallway brighter. “There, that’s better.” After wandering down the hallway, she decided to look through a shelf that was positioned against one of the walls. She ended up picking up a book called The Paranormal Playbook and flipped through it.
“Look at this.” She said, showing the book to Luna. "Would you ever play one of these games?"
@Kristi - Luna
“Two years or more.”
“Wow, that’s longer then my relationships combined. ”
Destiny wanted to ask more questions to this girl because she loved meeting new people, but she wondered if the girl thought she was asking too many questions. “You just didn’t ask the right questions if you really want to know.”
“What? I basically had to dig any answers out of you girl! But It was really none of my business anyways so…” She said while laughing. The girl then expressed how she felt about the party. “You’re not wrong. I’m used to seeing red cups all over the living room floor, and people jumping into pools naked.” That wasn’t exactly what she wanted to see at this particular party but it would be interesting. “I haven’t seen one scary thing happen at this party…well maybe that guy wearing tiny swimming trunks pretending to be a lifeguard.”
“The one’s I’ve been to have been better.”
“Really? What do you think would make the party better?” She wondered if she was secretly one of those people who went wild while partying. “You don’t strike me as a party person. You seem more reserved.”
@Kristi - Neveah
Here since last year? Let Finley continue that, [color="#b75548”]”Yeah, right.”[/color] To be fair, he never paid much attention to students that weren’t his friends nor did he care enough to do that so her being there and him not knowing was a huge possibility. Did he decide to believe in that? No. Not like it mattered. The possibility of him noticing her if it weren’t for Halloween was also low. You can’t blame him. ”I think you meant to say you like it more now but it’s fine, mistakes happen,” correcting her, Finley forced a sarcastic smile, hearing that line before. It was to be expected but he was also expecting she would do something to make Finley make up for the mess he left her with… As long as it’s not mentioned, he’s not going to think about it.
[color=“#b75548”]”What do I want? Well, now I don’t want anything,”[/color] shrugging his shoulder and taking a step back, his gaze left her and wandered around the place, now looking for someone else. Was it a lie to say he didn’t want anything? Maybe. Maybe he was just interested to see what would happen when he finally stood in front of the girl he left behind. Maybe it would’ve been fun if he pretended to ignore her and prove his theory that she was stalking him. [color=”#b75548”]”Like I said, I wanted to welcome you but you’re only being mean to me,”[/color] forcing a frown and emotions he didn’t feel, he met her gaze again. [color="#b75548”]”I have things to do and the rest of our group to find, so if you’d excuse me…”[/color] now with his usual stoic expression, he took a couple steps back, his gaze still fixed on her before turning and walking away, adding, ”Don’t miss me too much.”
Walking down the dark hallways, Finley was doing exactly what he told Florence. Finding the rest of his group, or if I can say it like this - his two ex somethings. Hartley was one thing, a huge mess he thought he’d never had to think about again but there she was, in school. While Amanda… well, he had no idea she was even back. That’s when he saw a familiar figure standing alone. It was hard to tell who it was and not caring if he got it wrong, he walked up to the girl, his hands reaching her waist to turn her and quickly place a soft kiss on her lips. [color="#b75548”]”Hey-”[/color] But only now, standing face to face with the girl, could he see who it actually was. Amanda. ”Oh, it’s you,” Saying it nonchalantly, one would think Finley would step away and let his arms fall down to his sides but no. That was not what he did. Maybe under his “confusion” he knew very well what he got himself into.
@CerealKiller - Flo
@Littlefeets - Amanda
“Now the real question is, where do we find the drinks?” Adonis shrugged, “Let’s look around?” he said a finger under his chin. He watched Leon examine his surroundings and he turned around to do the same. Leon laughed at his comment, “What’s that supposed to mean?” Adonis grinned, “Well your sister is well an angel god bless her soul” He coughed, “Though she’s also a demon. That one friend of yours and now Denise, i’m one of the only none- crazy people around you.” He said with confidence.
@Caticorn - Leon
“Oh-I’m sorry for asking. It was just because of the -I heard people -nevermind.” Luna’s eyes widened, “People are talking about us?” Luna internally cringed but offered a small smile to her friend. She wondered what Benjamin felt about the situation, probably embarrassed or grossed though at the thought of dating her.
“Well, I believe in ghosts because of my friends telling me their experiences and watching those dumb paranormal tv shows about it.” For someone who got scared easily, Karen sure did enjoy paranormal tv shows. Luna believed in some paranormal creatures but ghosts definitely weren’t one of them. “I remember my friend told me that she once thought she saw her mother in the living room doorway but when she looked again she was gone." An unhappy look crossed Luna’s expression but she turned away before Karen could see “Really? I’m happy for your friend.” But I still don’t believe in ghost, Luna added in her mind.
Karen picked up a book and showed it to Luna, “Look at this.” 'The paranormal playbook’ it was titled, Luna was a little intrigued by it as Karen flipped the pages, “Only about 4 or 5 of them.” Luna answered Karen’s question of whether she would consider playing any of the games.
@Kbail - Karen
“What? I basically had to dig any answers out of you girl!" Nevaeh chuckled, “You still didn’t ask the right questions or didn’t word them right.” Nevaeh gave a small smile when Destiny said it was none of her business, it really wasn’t but from how Destiny held herself and looked she was trustworthy.
"You’re not wrong. I’m used to seeing red cups all over the living room floor, and people jumping into pools naked.” Nevaeh smiled a little, "And people making out basically everywhere, the games we play where we try to dig secrets out of each other or embarrassed the person and random fights. And during Halloween parties where slightly more scarier. The designs were less tacky. No offense but it looks like whoever decorated the manor tried way to hard to make it scary " Nevaeh smile even wider, does where the parties she lived for.
“I haven’t seen one scary thing happen at this party…well maybe that guy wearing tiny swimming trunks pretending to be a lifeguard.” Nevaeh had a gagging face, “Well i’m glad I didn’t see that.”
“Really? What do you think would make the party better?” Nevaeh paused as she thought about it, “Music, the party is in need of good music. A more mysterious setting instead of a try-hard setting, we should have gathered and played a game.” She shrugged, “There should have also been a surprise, something that makes our jaws drop and makes us horrified.” She added.
“You don’t strike me as a party person. You seem more reserved.” Nevaeh sighed, a lot of people told her that. They assumed she was the type of girl who spent the time in her room studying, thought parties were silly and was cold. “You don’t know how many people have said that to me.” She laughed.
@Kbail - destiny
There was something about Olivia’s smile that simply was… calming. The banter between the two almost felt easy - similar to how he felt around Veronica Charlotte… without the addition of a competition that is. Love you VC, but you’re going to lose sweetie. After all, Mason was simply a competitive guy. Why else would he be participating in such a competitive sport such as football? Losing wasn’t in his nature - and he was simply casually trailing behind VC to make her think she had the advantage, until he swooped in at the very end and she wouldn’t have enough time to do anything to fix it. At least, that was the plan. But competition wasn’t what he was thinking when he was talking to Olivia - rather, he was just enjoying the conversation - one that continued as they walked deeper down a hall with their group close by. There were still others around them, but Mason was far too invested in the conversation to pay attention to them as she joked along with him.
“Maybe that police officer was looking for me, you still have time to run,” he joked, though his smiled dropped with the conversation shifting over to why she was here. It was difficult… he imagined, losing her parents and that was seen clearly as she attempted to change the course of the conversation with a smile.
“LOOK OUT”
Someone yelled behind them, and immediately - as if it was in his nature - Mason grabbed Olivia and pushed her to the side, barely missing a football that two idiots were throwing in the hallway - two that clearly weren’t football players shown by the lack of their throwing skills. “Really guys?” Mason sighed, looking over at them. Though in the process of pressing Olivia against the wall so she wouldn’t get hurt, he noticed that the wall seemed slightly ajar. Ignoring their proximity, he moved away - inspecting the wall and pushing in further to reveal another dimly lit hallway. “I think, Olivia, It’s time to stray off the yellow brick road,” he whispered, referencing the Wizard of Oz as he slipped inside the small space leading to the hallway. He had left the group - he knew that much though he didn’t exactly want to talk to Logan anyways. However, as he entered the space, besides the cobwebs, he noticed paintings on the wall.
“Well this is creepy” he whispered, noticing someone following him - soon revealed to be Olivia. “Liv, did no one teach you not. to follow strangers into dark hallways found in abandoned haunted houses?” he joked for a second, taking his phone out and turning on the light. He noted that the moment they walked in - some type of lever pulled the entrance closed so they were completely alone… meaning there was, indeed, only one way out. To keep walking forward.
What was it about Annie that just… got on Paige’s nerves? Honestly, Paige didn’t know what the exact reason was - she just knew that she didn’t like her… energy? Was that the word? Perhaps - she just seemed toxic. And look, Paige knew she had toxic energy too and if she was being honest, two toxic energies didn’t bloody mix. Maybe on top of that, there was something else as well - but anyone reading this didn’t need to know all of Paige’s business. Honestly? Mind your own damn business and Paige will mind hers. Thanks. So was Paige being rude? Perhaps? Was there a reason to it - technically there was a reason to everything, but for the moment, it was her only source of entertainment. After all, she was stuck in a group with two boys obsessed with talking among one another and then her.
“Compliment? Baby girl - you clearly haven’t been listening if you thought I was complimenting you.” Paige muttered with a crude laugh walking deeper down the hallway as she listened in on the boy’s conversation - something about not calling or seeing the other? Who the hell knew - it sounded like a lovers issue. You know the one - the ‘oh my god, why are you ghosting me’ conversation.
“You know, love, you’re kind of bloody annoying with your blah conversation. I honestly don’t care if you’d love to see me leave, because I’m… simply not feeling like it right now. So I guess if neither of us are going, we’re… sadly… stuck with each other for the moment. What a… bore.” she added, though the conversation became more interesting when she found herself successfully getting on the girl’s nerves. With her one sentiment, Annie went off - telling her that she knew nothing about her. But, truth be told, she did. Annie was an easy read - destructive kid because her parents didn’t love each other. How sad. “You know, it must be hard knowing that your father is having a baby with my cousin Jez. I guess that means we’re technically family… though I’m running out of room for useless family members especially with that Phoebe girl on my family tree,” she noted casually - recalling Jez putting in the group chat that she was pregnant a few days ago. “And trust me, I’m not interested enough in your life to actually care. I just paid a little more attention after my Cousin’s baby news - though I can’t exactly say I cared too much about what I heard. Anyways, you’re right, good talk,” she finished, walking ahead of the girl towards the boys.
“Done with the lover’s spat yet? I’d love to make this group more interesting,” she mentioned, pulling out a flask and handing it over to that Diego dude. “Let’s drink,”
”cest la vie-” she said and was cut in the middle as someone yelled watch out and before she even figured it out she felt mason push her towards a wall and saw a ball pass by, that would have probably hit her hard if he didn’t push her ”ouch.” she whispered quietly as looking back towards mason, who was freakishly close to her at that moment but she tried not to let it affect her too much in any way.
But apparently the two just revealed a secret hallway pass in the wall, creepy, but she go in after him? You damn bet she did. ”We’re definitely not in Kansas anymore” she added to the wizard of oz reference as she looked around the dark hallway the two have found themselves in. Mason turned as he seemed to be a bit surprised she followed him, maybe he thought it would scare her and she’d stay outside, but you were damn wrong Mitchell, this is where the real fun is at.
”must have skipped that class” she replied as he joked on following strangers into dark hallways. The entrance shut behind them, making the girl turn to look at it. But it did mean they were kind of stuck there. How were they supposed to get out? Only god knows. Right now, their only option was to keep going. ”Well that was an unexpected plot twist” she said as taking a few steps forward ”scared already?” she glanced at mason with a light smirk
Although Mason had his phone out for extra light - the way the hallway was built included a dim lighting overhead - meaning that whoever created this… place, had every intention of using it. Meaning, there had to be an exit somewhere. So was Mason worried? Not at all - rather, he was curious. At Olivia’s continuence of the Wizard of Oz sentiment, he couldn’t help but smile. Ironically, when he said things like this to Sienna - he would usually end up having to explain what he meant without the easy transition as it was currently. It was a good change of pace… though don’t tell his girlfriend that.
As he walked deeper into the hall, Mason looked at the paintings hanging there. There were likely 10 large paintings of… mind his bias… old white men hanging from the wall. A plaque laid on the side stating The Secret Society of Gentlemen which truly just made him laugh. “So Olivia, I think we’ve just entered a cult’s hallway… either that or where these men had orgies… either way, I don’t think they’d consider you or me a gentlemen allowed here,” he added, slowly looking at the paintings. There were names under each painting that were faded - and Mason couldn’t help but wonder how long it had been since someone had been in here.
Looking back at the closed exit, Mason finally acknowledged her earlier sentiment about the plot twist they were in. “What’s a good time without a plot twist every now and again?” Mason asked, walking back towards the entrance and seeing that there was no way to pull or push out. “Either way, shall we?” he questioned, putting his hand out to grab hers and pull her further in. “Be careful, I don’t want either of us to step on a rusted nail and get some sort of dire infection,” he mentioned as he walked back towards the paintings with her hand in his. “And for your information, Olivia, I don’t get scared. Buuuuuut I"m here if you do,” he added with a small wink.
“Let’s look around?”
Leon nodded in agreement as he continued to look around. “I think I see something resembling bottles over there.” He said, pointing over to a table in the far corner of the room. As Adonis explained his comment, Leon laughed again, dropping his head as he accepted defeat. “Okay, you make a very valid argument.” He admitted as he looked up, knowing full well that Adonis was 100% correct. “Although, in my defence, I don’t have much of a choice in being around Jae.” He added with a small shrug, knowing that he couldn’t explain the other two in a way that wouldn’t further prove Adonis’ point.
@Kristi - Adonis
