✨assassins and parties✨

•Chapter 13•

"That's all" I said and lied my head on the window's frame. The hard and sturdy surface made of leather was hurting me, but I tried ignoring the pain.
"What about your story?" Emily asked me. I tightly closed my eyes, trying not to let my tears fall down from them. I looked like I was in agony, but I was actually sustaining myself from recalling that terrible day. I opened my eyes, staring at the van's flaky celling. I then brought my head down and looked at Emily.
"That's none of your business" I sternly said. Even the thought of remembering the events of this specific day made me feel pissed and sorrowful. Emily looked as if she was shocked.
"Nancy, what's wrong with you?" Luke asked me, caressing Emily's shoulder. I stared at him in a dull way.
"I don't want to talk about it" I simply said and again lied my now full of negative thoughts head on the window's rigid structure. I was having a bad day and that Jake guy was perturbing me. He was definitely hiding something. Something so dark and evil that, even a demon himself would lightly shiver. I was so lost in my thoughts that, hardly did I realize that, we arrived at the gas station.
"Let's fill this bad boy up" Mary said. Kwnna cringed.
"WHY WOULD YOU SAY THAT?" she yelled, wincing of embarrassment. I sighed.
"Let's go grab some snacks from the vending machine. I'm starving" Mike suddenly told me. I jumped. He literally came out of nowhere.
"You scared me" I said clutching my shirt, where my heart is. Mike's laughter filled my ears. He had a soothing laugh. I slightly grinned. He gently grabbed my hand, his long and not calloused fingers applying slight pressure on it and placed it in his soft palm, concealing it completely. My eyes widened and I was flushed.
"You look like a lobster" he said, laughing.
I blushed even more and my inner self was begging for him to stop for god's sake.
"Let's just go" I murmured. We bought some chips, a few pints of soda and then got several water bottles from the freezer.
When we came back to where our fellow members were, we both saw Henry trying to approach Kwnna.
"Hi" he told her. Kwnna turned her head around quickly, almost representing the scene from the Exorcist, when the possessed girl's head did a full 360. She pointed to herself.
"Me?" she asked. Henry nodded.
"Oh well hi" she said. Henry asked her the basic questions such as, how are you. He also asked her about her driving skills and she gave him some advice.
"So, If I ever see a rival's vehicle in front of mine, I'll just collide with it deliberately" he said. Kwnna nodded. She then turned towards us.
"Guys, it's time to go" Kwnna said.
"Wait, where's Alex and Matina" Jennie asked. Mary seemed to be feeling quite awkward. Is this the Jennie from her past?
"I saw them walking towards the woods" Maria said. I made my way to the forest. The tree canopy was so dense, that the moonlight could barely get through them. As I was searching for the two love birds, I saw a shadow. A male's figure had formed the shadow. Without making a single sound, I approached that figure discreetly. Fucking Jake. He saw me. It felt like he was anticipating for my presence. I felt furious. We had to get rid of him in some way. I then lost my temper.
"Look. I don't know what sort of fools you think that we are, but we really aren't. You're hiding something and I'm completely aware of that. Abandon us. We have a work to finish and we don't need you getting in our way and ruining our plans you fucking bast—" I started talking,but was interrupted when Jake's hand landed on my neck, firmly gripping it and pressing on my windpipe, causing me to choke and slowly lose oxygen. He chuckled.
"You have no idea what I've planned for you. And your little friend is going to be willing to come with me. She has a crush on me, doesn't she?" He said, ignoring my shortage of air in my lungs. I was feeling like I would lose consciousness in any minute.
"We're going to enjoy bedeviling all of you" he said and eventually set me free of his grip. I started coughing. There were drops of water falling from the brim of my agonizingly looking eyes. I made a halfhearted attempt to get up. I did it with difficulty. My fragility was clearly visible. My legs were shaking like jelly and I was still coughing. I came out of the forest and paced to the others. Kwnna was scolding Matina and Alex for making out behind a tree. Anna saw me and gasped.
"What happened to you?" she worryingly asked me. This caught everyone's attention. They all had this look of dread.
"Someone attacked me. I'm fine" I lied. I wasn't fine. I wanted to cry.
"No, you're not" Jane said. She then signaled the others to bring me the small pocket mirror, that we kept into one of our van's built-ins.
"Take a look at your neck" Maria said. I opened the pocket mirror and looked at my neck in it. It looked disturbingly bruised. Black and blue spots were covering it, as well as some red ones. A large handprint was evident on it.
"Who did this to you?" Matina asked. Mike came up to me and hugged me.
"Was it Jake?" he whispered in my ear. I looked at him, gaping like a fish. How did he even know? I nodded. He looked angry.
"That's fucking outrageous. What the fuck" he loudly said. Everyone was confused.
"Let's just leave. We'll talk about this later" I said. After some more convincing, we all got into our van and Kwnna drove us to Emily's house.

Her house was enormous. It was a contemporary villa. It was painted with snow white paint and it had a security system settled in. The garden consisted of palm trees, which would surely create a big shade for the sunny mornings. Roses, sunflowers and more types of flowers existed in her garden as well. The whole place looked like paradise itself and everyone fell in love with it. We grabbed our equipment and entered the enormous house. Emily lived by herself, her only company being the domestics and security guards, who visited quite often. Emily showed us around the house and then helped each and every one of us to find their room. My room had a big window, which opened to a balcony. I could see the moon from it. It was staring back at me, shining brightly. Mike came in to take care of my bruised neck. We suddenly heard Kwnna shouting.
"WHAT ARE YOU DOING IN THIS CHRISTIAN HOUSEHOLD?"

Previously...
Matina and Alex had entered their shared room. They had convinced Emily to give them one to share and she agreed to that. They were both giggling, while embracing each other. And then it happened. They kissed. It was a passionate kiss, not like the ones they had shared so far, behind everyone's backs. It was full of fire. Alex's tongue invading Matina's mouth, desperately trying to explore all of it at once. The feeling was new for the both of them so they just gave in to it. Alex's hands were about to make their way under Matina's shirt, when a loud and high-pitched voice was heard.
"WHAT ARE YOU DOING IN THIS CHRISTIAN HOUSEHOLD?"

Present time...
Kwnna grabbed both Alex and Matina by their hair and brought them to the living room, where we had all went.
"NO MORE MAKING OUT" she yelled. Henry looked at her fondly.
"You're quite feisty, aren't you?" he told her. Kwnna had a light blush covering her cheeks. She laughed.
"I guess I am" she said.
"We should talk to Team F already" Luke said.
"I have already texted them. They'll be here in any minute" Mary said. The doorbell rang. Jennie got up and opened the door. There was Team F.
"HEY FELLAS" a random guy said. He had blond hair and sea green eyes. Team F was composed of ten members. Bonnie, Carly, Blake, Dylan, Ariel, Caleb, Alexandra, Leo, Chase and April. The guy who yelled was Blake. He was the leader looking one. After the basic and essential introduction we all settled down. Blake was staring at Kwnna. Henry looked like he was aware of it and the jealousy radiating from him was strong. Love triangle.
"I believe that, we should have a discussion about our plan" I said. Everyone agreed with me and we all started sharing our ideas, forming the plan that would bring us to victory. The camera was still there though. It was still on Alex's shirt. Jake had heard our stories and he would hear our plan. Everything was starting to go downhill from there and what was awaiting us was fatal and far from dangerous. It was even worse.

To be continued...