“I like creeping in the dark.” I said, and gave Eisley a smirk.
She rolled her eyes.
“Yes, you do.”
The rusty tractor pulled up and people began climbing out and down. We took their place, sitting on the scratchy hay bales. The cold wind was picking up, and Eisley moved closer trying to warm up. I put my hand on her knees and she looked up at me with a forced smile and then rested her head on my shoulder.
“You guys are adorable,” Therese sighed from across from us. She and her boyfriend looked stiff, almost as if they weren’t dating at all. She was scrolling through her phone, and he was looking everywhere but at her. I was fascinated by the turn of this entire evening. Therese acted as if she had done nothing at all, and Eisley was letting her get away with it.
I wondered if this had something to do with Kansas’s and I’s spell. They hadn’t frozen her out like we’d wanted, but something was amiss.
The tractor jerked and roared to life. A moment later we were rolling forward and bouncing slightly with the ride.
“So, I told you things have been weird, right?” Therese set her phone on the stack beside her and sat up, focusing on Eisley. “My dad has been going off his rocker.”
“What do you mean?” Eisley furrowed her brow. I fought back the urge to roll my eyes. Eisley, my beautiful wife, always so caring toward everyone.Even the ones who deserved it the least.
“He can’t remember shit. Like, I know he’s old but damn. I was telling him about some of the documentary stuff and he had no idea what I was talking about. I spent an hour trying to break down everything that’s happened. Spencer, Soleil, Emi, and he couldn’t grasp it. It's so stressful.” She sighed deeply and relaxed her back against the railing and reached for her phone.Rem glanced at her and then opted to turn his attention to us. Everything about this night had been blown. My first attempt at genuine romance and it was fucked by these two stupid fucks.
I couldn’t wait to kill them next.I might even take the mask off and let them know, right before I plunged the knife into their chests, that they brought this on themselves for interrupting my first date.Or maybe I could offer Therese up to Eisley. Would she want revenge for her teapots?
“I don’t think he’s forgetting stuff,” Rem said quietly, causing us both to lean in to hear him. He licked his lips and looked around nervously. “I think he’s starting to sweat. I mean, look who the killer is targeting.”
“I thought they said it was Emi,” Eisley shook her head.Rem laughed dryly.
“I think it’s a cover-up. See, Therese and I have been over on the set, helping out, trying to organize a lot of their files and shit. They’ve got information on the entire town. Shit that’s been covered up for ten years. Shit people don’t want known. Spencer’s family, Soleil’s family…” he gulped and looked from me to Eisley miserably, and pointed between him and his girlfriend. “Our families.”
“Yeah, but that’s not fair,” Therese sat up. “Why were Spencer and Soleil punished for what their dads did?”It took every ounce of facial muscle not to reply with,‘because they would just do it to some other unsuspecting victims in time’. That’s how rich people operated. I’d never give a fuck about a billionaire hurting, because of all the people they’d hurt to get where they were.
“He’s got this theory that they are coming after us, but I don’t know,” Therese said. She paused, and her face changed from one of confidence to one of fear. Her lip trembled as she continued. “It’s not fair.”
“I guess I don’t understand why they are acting out revenge for a group that’s dead,”I said.
“Not everyone,” Rem stared pointedly at me. “You two made it out, did you not?”
Therese’s eyes grew big as she recalled that little factoid. So, the spell was slowly working.She hadn’t recalled that.
“Is that— the little marriage thing?” She looked from me to Eisley and back at me. “You are certifiably psycho.”Silence followed, moved forward by raucous laughter from Therese. “Just kidding. No, I think trauma bonding is legit and you guys are so cute together.” She nodded to Rem, who stared at her.“But seriously, I’m glad we caught you, because if Rem’s theory is right, then we’re all in danger.” She made a large circle with her finger. “All because our parents were royal assholes.”
Rule 65 - Eisley
Warn the others.
Iwatched her all night pretend like we were best friends. As if she hadn’t broken into my house and destroyed my most prized items. As if I didn’t fucking know.
Dozens of scenarios of how I’d confront her ran through my head all evening, until finally Constantine took me to pick my pumpkin and part ways. I left him on the porch with a chaste kiss and a promise to call him.
I awoke the next morning to the doorbell going wild. I reached for my phone and tried the app with all my security cameras, but they weren’t showing anybody at my door. Was it broken? Already irritated, I got out of bed and went downstairs to get the door. I threw it open and a glass vase was thrust into my hand.
Oh no.
“We’ve actually got a few bouquets for you, Miss,” the delivery man said. “Hold on.” He ran down my steps, and I leaned out the door. Two men in uniform hopped out of the van and began carrying up the same bouquet I’d been receiving for weeks.
Every time someone died.
I couldn’t comprehend what was going on, but I let the men through to set all nine bouquets in my living room.
Nine?
