Guess who's back, back again! I finally wrote the next chapter. I'm sorry it took me so long to write it, but I simply had no idea what to write. Every single version of this chapter I wrote was just so fucking stupid that I ended up deleting all of them. Anyway, today I pulled myself together and forced myself to write a new chapter to you. I know it's really stupid and I'm gonna tell you this already in the very beginning - it's not gonna give you any violate feels. I'm sorry, but I just couldn't fit violate moments to this chapter. I'm trying to throw something to the next chapter, and I promise that I'll write it soon - as soon as I get a huge violate inspiration. But I'd just like to thank all of you for not stabbing me while I'm asleep because I didn't update this quickly, all of you are awesome. By the way, I'd love reviews. :) Now I've talked enough, so I'll let you finally read this chapter. Enjoy!
TATE'S POV
"What the hell are you doing up here?"
I was leaning against the frontdoor, smoking a tobacco. Hayden was standing on my left side, looking at me with her mouth so open I thought it was gonna hit the floor. I tilted my head back as I blew the smoke out of my mouth, and chuckled.
"I'm forced to stay in the basement for the rest of the eternity?", I answered her question with a question. Her fingers suddenly appeared in front of my face, and stole the smoke from between my lips. I turned to look at her, and she was taking small drags from it.
"I didn't know you smoke", I said, and she shrugged her shoulders.
"Makes me calm."
I nodded, and pulled my hands to my pockets. I was looking straight to the sun, but it wasn't hurting my eyes since I was wearing sunglasses. My hair was all messy again, but I hoped no one really cared. My jeans looked even more used than what they were a month ago, and I was sweating under my hoodie.
"I'm asking you again - what the hell are you doing up here?"
I turned to look at Hayden again, and lifted my eyebrows. Wasn't it obvious? I was tired of spending time in the basement, and I wanted to see the new family. And, duh - Violet.
"Just wanted to check out the new family, I guess. Where even are they? I can't see a car in here", I said as I nodded towards the empty spot in the frontyard.
"Probably shopping or something since it's Saturday. The boy's home I think, at least he was spending time with Violet earlier today", Hayden mumbled as she blew a small puff of smoke from between her pink lips. I turned to look at her with amusement.
"Really? Spending time with Violet?"
I couldn't help but laugh. I should be jealous as fuck, but for some weird reason - I wasn't. I guess it was because I knew I was way more cooler than this new guy, even if he was normal. Gabe guy was normal, Violet didn't want him. We both know that I am exactly everything she wants, because she likes the darkness. She can keep telling herself that she doesn't want me, but deep inside her... she knows she does.
"Yup. I'm sure they're in her - his, yours, whatever - bedroom. Go check 'em out, I'm gonna watch TV and probably warm myself a pizza. Yeah... pizza, pizza sounds good. Bye", Hayden said, and dissapeared leaving nothing but the tobacco to the ground.
I opened the door, and walked in and up the stairs to stare at the bedroom Hayden was talking about. The door was closed, and I had no idea what to do - I couldn't just walk in there, could I? Also, I hadn't seen Violet in months. I couln't knock on the door and be like "Oh, hi Violet! Long time, no see. What's up?" - oh, hell no. I was too busy standing in there in front of the door, being all awkward, that I didn't notice there was a girl standing beside me.
"Can I help you?"
I turned to look at her. She was tall and slender, and her hair was fire truck red. Her eyebrows were painted black, and there was a silver piercing around the other eyebrow. Her hair was up in a messy bun on top of her head, and she had no makeup. She was wearing a big black t-shirt that had a white "30 SECONDS TO MARS" text on it - what the hell did that even mean? I guess it was some kind of a rock band, or something. The shirt was too big for her, and it was hanging on her other shoulder. I forgot that I was actually staring at her, when she cleared her throat.
"I, um... Hi, I'm Tate. I'm from the neighborhood - I was just walking around the house, just, you know... checking it out. People say it's haunted, so I wanted to see if there are any ghosts in here."
Well that's a good one, Tate. You should win an award for that.
Ladies and gentlemen, the award for the worst excuse in the world goes out to Tate Langdon!
The girl looked at me with her eyebrows lifted up, and she nodded slowly.
"Right... well, are there?", she asked, and crossed her hands in front of her chest. I noticed that there were cuts on both of her wrists, and I could tell they were fresh from the blood that was dropping out of them.
"So far I haven't seen any", I said with a grin on my face. Poor girl, had no idea that she was actually talking with one at the moment.
She half smiled to me, and for a moment I saw a flash of Violet in my head.
"I'm Amber."
I shook the hand she offered me, and nodded. I was just about to ask her if I could have a glass of water or if she could show me her room, when the bedroom's door opened. I turned to look at the person standing in the doorway, and saw a teenager boy. His hair was light brown and straight, a bit messy. He was wearing ripped denim skinny jeans and a green t-shirt.
"Amber - who is this?", he asked as he looked at me with his other eyebrow cocked up.
"Hi, I'm Tate", I said, and he nodded.
"Tom."
We shook hands too, and when he moved a bit to the left, I saw her.
She was sitting on Tom's bed, her legs crossed and head turned towards the door. Our eyes met for a second, but to make it look like we didn't know each other, I turned to look at Amber again.
"Anyway... I was just about to leave, so...", I mumbled and pushed my hands to the pockets of my jeans.
"Um, right. I think you know where the front door is, since you got in here from it", she said to me, and I laughed.
"Yeah", I said as I turned to look at her again. She was actually very pretty. Not as breathtaking as Violet, but pretty.
"Are we gonna see you again?", Tom asked, and I laughed.
"Trust me, I'll be more closer than you even know", I said and smiled. It probably sounded creepy as hell, but whatever.
"Good. Tom's never spending time with me - he's so busy with his new girlfriend", Amber laughed, and slapped Tom's hand playfully. I felt like my stomach was gonna drop out of my ass, but I just forced myself to smile.
"Really? Who's your girlfriend? How long have the two of you been going out?", I asked, and I fucking swear the guy blushed.
"They've known each other for three days. But Tom's talking to me all night about how it feels like an eternity, how she knows exactly how he feels...", Amber said, saying the last sentences as dramatically as possible.
I had no idea of what I was feeling at that very moment, but I could see Violet smiling to me before I turned around to walk down the stairs after I told the new kids I was going to leave.
And let me tell you one thing about her smile - it was everything but friendly.
