𝘯𝘶𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘰𝘶𝘴 ☼ 𝘳𝘢𝘧𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘰𝘯

𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘳𝘵𝘺 𝘵𝘸𝘰〔 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘤𝘭𝘶𝘮𝘴𝘺 𝘢𝘴𝘴 𝘣𝘪𝘵𝘤𝘩 〕

"Did you, uh...hit me?" John B asks, looking pissed.

"Skeeter" Kiara replies, showing him the crushed bug on her palm.

"Skeeter?" John B mumbles.

"Yeah, you see it?" She asks.

"Yeah" John B replies before slapping Kiara in the face.

"Oh!" JJ grimaces, his eyes widening.

"Wow" I murmur.

"Where's your proof?" Kiara snaps at the brunette and he holds up his hand to show the smushed bug on his palm.

"Skeeter" He replies smugly.

"Yeah? There was probably one right there" She sneers, slapping his arm.

"There's one right there" He retorts, slapping her arm back.

They continue slapping each other like children, giggling and laughing. I hear a slap a lot closer and I turn my head to see Pope holding his arm with a glare pointed at JJ.

"It was her" JJ lies, pointing at me.

Pope and I share a wicked grin before I lunge at my brother who squeals like a little girl, trying to fight me off. I manage to grab him in a head lock and I nod at Pope who rubs his knuckles roughly on the blonde's head.

"You're scrambling my brains!" JJ whines.

"What brains?" I retort.

JJ grabs my legs and sweeps me off my feet, causing me to scream. Pope catches my shoulders before my head smacks the floor and we both look at my brother in disbelief.

"You almost killed me, you clumsy ass bitch!" I shriek, kicking my feet until he lets go of my legs.

"You grabbed me first!" JJ objects as Pope helps me up.

"I didn't drop you on your head!" I argue.

"Neither did I" He shrugs "Just almost"

"I'm gonna just almost beat your ass" I threaten and he rolls up his sleeves with a cocky grin.

"Hit me with your best shot, hoe" He challenges me.

I quickly lift my fist, pretending to reel back for a punch and he jumps back behind Pope.

"That's what I thought, bitch ass" I scoff and he sticks his tongue out at me.

I stick my tongue out right back and notice that Pope is looking around with a thoughtful look on his face.

"Oh, my gosh! Okay, can we leave? Cause I'm already itchin to leave" JJ groans.

"Hah, punny" John B scoffs and Kiara slaps him again.

"Ow! All right!" The brunette shrieks.

"I just found Mrs Crain's voodoo doll, guys" I hear my brother declare and I turn to see the doll in his hands.

"Oh, shit" Kiara giggles and I snatch the doll from JJ.

"Heads up, Booker!" I holler, throwing the doll at him.

The Routledge boy catches it with a grin and throws it back at me, but I dodge it. A crashing sound is heard as the doll hits an old vase, smashing it and I turn to my friends, all of them giving me disappointed head shakes.

"I'm a horrible person for that, aren't I?" I declare and none of them answer, making me look at them in disbelief.

"No, you're not, Addy! We still love you, Addy!" I mock sarcastically and JJ snorts.

"You know you're wrong for breaking that vase, girl" Kiara replies.

"All right, can we leave this? Cause it's getting-" JJ stops when the sound of water echoes through the basement.

"Hey, guys!" Pope hisses and we all turn to him.

"Hey, Pope" JJ replies in a hushed tone.

"Shh!" Kiara tells them.

"Hey. Help me move this" Pope demands.

"Okay, just...quiet" John B agrees.

We all help to clear the crap off the large wooden panels and then start lifting them.

"Guys, guys, guys" Kiara snaps.

"Right, shh" Pope nods.

"She's probably right upstairs" Kiara scolds us "And Addy has made enough noise to wake the dead"

"Thanks a lot, Kie" I scoff sarcastically.

We pull multiple wooden panels away to reveal a well hidden beneath them.

"Well, well, well" Pope jokes.

"That was a good dad joke" John B mumbles in return.

"They built this part of the house right over it" Kiara observes.

"This is where she hid the bodies" JJ adds.

"Oh, dude, come on" Pope huffs.

"No, I'm dead serious. It was never an outhouse" JJ states.

"You're gonna be dead full stop if you don't shut up" I warn him.

"She probably doesn't even know it's here" Kiara snaps.

JJ shuts up and I look up to John B who is still looking into the well in amazement.

"So...we found water" Pope speaks up.

"We're gonna need a really big rope" Is all John B says.