Old Sins Cast Long Shadows 2

This will be set before the beginning of It Lives In The Woods

I'll try to focus evenly on my characters and the characters from the story

I'm gonna go with what I call my 'default' look and name I use for the MC of It Lives

-Chris-

I watch my pet bat, Fang, and Mittens, my girlfriend Chelsea's cat, as they play together in the backseat of my car. In the backseat is my currently sleeping pet wolf, Snarl, while on my right is my also currently sleeping girlfriend, Chelsea Jernigan.

I pick up the microphone off my CB radio and press the button to talk to the others on the bus.

"How much further, navigator?" I ask one of my friends, Violet Gordon, who was riding in a bus with her girlfriend, and my best friend, Jordan Starks, along with the rest of our group of friends, Alaric Santos, Marissa Carver, Kyra Jones, Sapphire Thompson, Scarlett Marcus, and Amanda Harris. I take my finger off the button.

"Well, according to the map, we're about an hour away now." Violet says.

"Finally!" Jordan says.

"What's going on?" Alaric asks.

"We're almost there." I say.

"Sweet." Marissa says.

We are headed to a town called Westchester, Oregon for college. I'd gotten brochures for a couple of their universities in the mail, along with others and my friends and I decided to go to college here.

"Think there'll be some supernatural happenings here?" Amanda asks.

"Dios mío, I hope not." Sapphire says. "Not after what we dealt with last year." She adds.

Last year, we were an average bunch of high school seniors, hoping to get through school with little trouble. Yeah, not the best of luck for us. Elemental, who we called Ellie for short, began haunting our hometown of Jasper. After the death of one of our classmates, Violet and Amanda's friend, Kai Bennett, we began to retaliate against Ellie. Not long after discovering she was once Eleanor Stevens, our town's renowned supernatural expert, we defeated and destroyed her.

We soon arrive in the town of Westchester and Kyra sends Chelsea a picture of a house big enough for all of us during our time in town and I glance at it when I stop at a red light.

"It's nice. Garage looks big enough and it's fenced in with a lot of land." I say then hit the button on the mic. "You got good taste in housing, Ky." I say then take my finger off the button and start to drive again.

"Thanks." Kyra says.

We soon arrive at the house Kyra got us and see a woman standing in the driveway. We all climb out, Chelsea holding Mittens while I get Snarl on his leash as Fang sits on my right shoulder.

"Oh, my!" She says at the sight of Snarl.

"It's okay. He won't hurt anyone. I have him trained." I assure her.

She nods then looks over my left shoulder as I see Kyra walk to us. "You must be Miss Grayson." Kyra says.

"That's me. And I take it you're Miss Kyra Jones." The woman says.

Kyra nods.

"Well, the place is big enough for all ten of you and your furry friends." Miss Grayson says then hands us ten identical keys. "Here are your keys to get in the house. But I'm sure you all will pitch in on the rent."

We all nod. After that, she places one key each in our hands then Chelsea and I take Snarl, Fang, and Mittens inside and let them enjoy the backyard while we all get our things inside.

After we're settled into our rooms, we see it's in the afternoon and since we're all still energized, we head into town. Fang stays at the house to sleep, so I have Snarl on his leash while Mittens lays across Chelsea's shoulders like a scarf as we walk around and learn our way through town.

While walking, I spot a girl with short hair on one side and long hair on the other side, a necklace, a black shirt under a leather jacket with a red plaid shirt tied around her waist, ripped short shorts, dark pantyhose, and boots sitting at a table outside a coffee shop so Chelsea and I walk to her.

"Hi." Chelsea says, getting the girl to look at us.

"Hi." She says.

"I love that outfit." Chelsea says.

"Oh, thank you. It's one of my favorites." The girl says then extends her hand. "I'm Anna."

Anna and Chelsea shake hands. "I'm Chelsea." Chelsea says then nods at me. "And this is my boyfriend, Chris."

Anna and I shake hands then she looks at Snarl. "Hi, boy." She says with a smile then looks at me. "Can I...?"

I nod. "Yeah, go ahead. He's a friendly wolf."

She smiles then pets Snarl. He soon licks her hand and I smile.

"What's his name?" She asks.

"Snarl." I say.

She nods then soon looks at Mittens. "And who's this little cutie?" She asks.

"This is my cat, Mittens." Chelsea says. "You can pet her. She's a good kitty."

Anna nods then pets Mittens, who soon starts purring. Anna smiles as a result and I see the rest of my friends walking to us. They introduce themselves to Anna and vice versa.

"So, what brings you guys to boring old Westchester?" Anna asks.

"We came here for college." I say.

"Cool." She says.

I nod.

"Plus we need some time away from home." Sapphire says.

"Bad memories?"

"That's putting it mildly." Alaric says.

We spend a couple hours talking with Anna before heading back to our place.

"What should we do?" Scarlett asks.

"Well, since it's still summer vacation here, let's put together a pool party." Violet says.

We all look at each other then agree to set up for a pool party.

That's chapter one. I hope you guys will enjoy this. Review and I'll post more chapters.