Moriah sat quietly in her room, clutching her favorite book and listening to City and Colour.
She sipped on her cup of coffee as she flipped to the next page of her story. Trying not to release her gaze from her invigorating book, she slices her thumb on the page. After sitting her coffee down on the desk beside her she fumbles around in her purse for a band-aid while sucking on the newly slit finger. "Geez, I have really got to stop doing this to myself," she bites her bottom lip as she puts a band-aid on her thumb. She spins in a circle around her room and plops on her bed and turns on her Christmas lights that were placed above her bed. While putting on a Star Trek t-shirt and some of her brother's boxers she heard a loud thud, glass break, and screaming coming from her neighbor's house. She walked over to her window and saw figures dancing in the neighbor's kitchen windows. "Laheys.." she whispered putting her socks on.
She knew the Lahey boy. His name was Isaac. They sat beside each other in Chemistry 101. He was tall and handsome and had a beautiful smile. She never really saw it much this year, but every once in a while his eyes would light up at one of her 80's movies references.
"I should go check on them.." She contemplated. "No, I can't. What if something's wrong?" She paused and sat down on her bed.
"That's it, I'm going over there!" She breathed leaving her room and leaving the house. She walked over to The Lahey residence and went to knock on the front door, but the door was wide open. Something is wrong.. She walked inside of house and saw glass everywhere. "Mr. Lahey? Are you okay? Isaac?" No answer. She walked around the kitchen and into the dining room to see even more glass and the table set for two. She looked around and under the table but found no one. Then she saw the basement door wide open.
She thought to herself,'I'm in a scary movie.' She grabbed the nearest thing. A plant. A ficus. Really? A ficus? She didn't care though. She went down the dark steps, but stopped when she heard loud banging. "What the heck am I getting myself into?" She huffed and kept walking down the stairs. The banging got louder. The banging was echoed by screaming. Where was it coming from? She got to the bottom of the steps to find a single freezer chest sitting in the back corner. 'Oh great, this is where I die.' she thought growing closer to the freezer chest.
Moriah breathed in deeply and opened the freezer expecting the worse, but found something even worse. Isaac Lahey. He screamed and held his hands in front of his face, expecting his father, but saw Moriah Kane standing above him with a fake ficus in her hands, screaming.
They both stopped screaming. Moriah dropped the ficus and Isaac stood up. He stepped outside of the freezer and stared into Moriah's eyes. Then he wrapped his hands around her waist and hugged her tightly. "Thank you," he said between his cries and deep breaths. "Uh.. you're welcome, Isaac," she whispered rubbing his back.
"Oh, we have a visitor," a voice said from behind Moriah. Issac looked up and immediately pushed Moriah behind him,"Don't touch her." It was Isaac's father. Moriah peering behind Isaac's arm at his father. "The neighbors come over and don't even bring cookies," his father said with a deep laugh. He then struck Isaac across the face, making him fall to the floor. Moriah screamed and grabbed the fake ficus laying behind her and struck Isaac's father across the head making him fall to the ground,"You little bitch!" He screamed, getting up and laughing. He raised his arm in a fist to hit her when Isaac tackled him to the floor. "I said don't touch her."
Isaac grabbed Moriah's hand and they both ran up the stairs and out of the house. They ran into Moriah's house and into her room.
"What was that?" Moriah panted, plopping onto her carpet. "That was my father," he panted plopping down in front of her,"I have to go back over there." "Uh, you're not going anywhere. I'm calling the police." Moriah cut in, grabbing her phone. "You can't, Moriah," he said. "Why? she said dialing 911. Isaac placed his hand on top of hers and looked into her eyes,"You'll get hurt."