The Coven

Equinox: Chapter 27

The three of them sat in the room silent for over an hour. In the halls people were running around, talking, crying, screaming. Parents were pulling up to the school and taking their children home. Sage had been texting all three of them demanding they all go to her room for a meeting.

Lilly hadn't washed the blood off her clothes or skin yet. She needed to turn herself in. She should have done that after she killed Kevin...

"It's not you. It can't be you." Hailey muttered as she continued to pace around the room, she had been doing it for the last hour though those were the first words she muttered. "You were chained, I didn't unchain you, you couldn't unchain you!"

Jake, who was on the other side of the room staring at Lilly as though she could go into a rampage at any moment, cleared this throat to get the girls attention. "We need to being the others in here."

Hailey held up her hand, "Not yet, we need answers. Plus I'm not going into that hallway with three covens out for revenge."

"Rightfully so..." Jake muttered. On any other occasion Lilly would be yelling at him in her defence but he was right, she was the one attacking the other covens.

Again Hailey held up her hand stopping Jake from talking, "No way. Not enough blood." She reached out and pulled Lilly up, "Have our CSI marathons taught you nothing, Jake? You said Pepper was...decpitated, right?" At Jake's nod she continued, "There's not enough blood on Lilly for her to have done it."

Lilly frowned and looked down at herself. There were smears on her shirt and pants, splatter in her hair and on her hands. That was enough blood in her opinion...

Jake seemed to be thinking the same thing because he leaped up and pointed to Lilly, "What are you talking about not enough blood? A single drop is enough for anyone to think she did it. Plus that this is the third time this has happened?" He turned to her, "Lilly, I love you I do but I can't do this!"

As Hailey tried to calm him down Lilly went into the bathroom and looked at herself in the mirror. She is a murderer, a terrible, horrible murderer. She was going to have to turn herself in this time. She slid to the floor on the bathroom and sat on the cool tile. What was going to happen to her? Where was she going to go? Prison or Juvenile Detention?

There was a knock on the door, a soft one. "Lilly?" It was Hailey, "You've been in there for over an hour?" Lilly didn't respond, had it really been an hour already? "Look I know you're not going to like this but we called the others...Jake is right we need to talk about this."

Jesus. Christ. Everyone was in the room? She didn't hear them come in. Her heart pounded harder when she realized that Mason was going to be out there with judgemental eyes, or even worse, looking at here with complete fear.

There was no hiding from any of them, still with the blood splatter on her she slowly opened the door and stepped into the room. Hailey wasn't lying, Sage; Darcy and Mason were there. Sage's mouth fell open when she saw her, Darcy inhaled deeply and took a step back while Mason's face remained unreadable with his arms folded over his chest.

"We don't know what happened." Jake said softly, putting Darcy between him and Lilly.

Sage bit her lip and stepped forward, "How long?"

Hailey answered, "This is the third time...each time-"

Mason cut her off, "Every time someone was murdered?" His eyes whipped to Lilly, "You've killed three people?

Lilly opened her mouth to respond but Hailey cut her off, "I don't think she did. And I have evidence." She walked over to her bed and pulled a box out from under it. Inside were notes and pages from books, information on lunar cycles and possession. "Lets start with Vince. Lilly what do you remember about that night?"