YES! Next chapter! This one's kinda horrible cuz I need to get to sleep. Like, now.
Stevie's POV
"Wait!" I growled at the person on the other side of my bedroom door as I slipped my 'Wasted Love' tank top past my rat's nest and over my chest and stomach. With my tank top I had light, ripped blue jeans, silver hoop earrings, an Esc button ring and my black biker boots. I run to the door and fling it open, glaring at the person that's responsible for annoying the fudge out of me.
Idiot.
"Ya have to wait like five minutes! I haven't finished straightening my hair!" I shout in his face.
"I like your hair like this though." Charlie says softly. "You look great, come on." he reached out, taking my hand in his and dragged me down the hallway.
"But I don't like my hair like this." I whined.
"I don't care." he smirks at me. He stops so quickly I ran right into his chest. He lifted his free hand and digs it deep into my curls and kisses my forehead. "I love it."
He leans down and as our lips are about to touch, I feel someone's eyes on us. I turn to Mick and roll my eyes, stepping out of Charlie's grasp.
"Thanks, mate." Charlie smiles at him falsely, sneering the word mate.
"Sorry, but have either of you seen Joy?" he asks.
"Nope, bye." Charlie pushes him into the his room and struts back over to me with a grin. "Now where were we?"
"Going out." I reply, placing my hand in his chest, pushing him back as he leaned in again.
"Right." he nods and pulls me out of the house.
"So where are we going?" I ask hesitantly, looking around.
"To town. Nothing specific, just a walk." he shrugs, entwining my fingers with his.
"Okay, then." I sigh.
I looked back at the house. A couple of the lights were still on but other than that it looked even creepier. My gaze soon drifted to the forest and I drew in a shaky breath. Jerome was right, Renee scares the heck out of me. I want to hang out with as many people as I can. Which doesn't work well since I don't like crowds. The trees were dark and concealing. I feel as if I was being watched. And I'm sure I am. I feel like the woods are closing in on me, trying to flatten me like a pancake. I hear a twig snap behind me and tense up. I look over my shoulder as Charlie comes to a halt. There wasn't anything behind us. Charlie watched me for a second and I glared at him. He raises his hands in surrender and starts walking again. But no matter how hard I try to focus on anything but Renee and the woods around me, I couldn't.
Patricia's POV
"Eddie!" I screamed as he disappeared into the darkness below. I heard him howl for a few seconds before it stopped abruptly. Tears formed in my eyes. The others were calling for him but I didn't pay any attention. This can't be happening.
I look down at the darkness and fall to my knees, my tears pouring down my cheeks freely.
The floor started to shake again and I leaned against the wall. Eddie was gone.
Eddie's POV
I opened my eyes and blinked. I was in complete darkness. I couldn't see anything. I sat up slowly as a searing pain shot up my back. I took my phone out of my pocket and turned it on, holding it up. I looked around and my eyebrows scrunched together. I was in some kind of round, stone room. I remember now. I had been in the tunnel with the rest of Sibuna and I fell into the hole. The floor started to shake and I sat down, not wanting to fall and hurt myself even more. My head started to spin as the floor raised and I lay back, clutching my head.
Patricia's POV
I snapped out of my weeping when I notice the floor had come back up and laying on the stone, in the middle of the circle, was Eddie!
I shoot up and run to him. I knelt next to him, the others behind me, and shake his arm. His hands were clutching his head and his breathing a labored as he groaned in pain.
"Eddie?" I say softly. My eyes teared up again.
He drops his arms and looks up at me. He sits up and falls back when I throw my arms around his neck, hugging him close.
I hear footsteps behind us and suspected the others had left the room.
"Are you okay?" he asked me, pulling back and looking into my eyes.
"Are you okay?" I frown.
"I'm fine. You're the one that's acting like you lost the most important thing in the world to you." he explained.
"That's because I thought I did." I whisper, a blush creeping up my neck.
He pulls me down to him and kisses me. "You're stuck with me for life, Yacker." he smirks when we pull away.
"Same to you, Cockroach." I glare playfully and pull him up.
"Well, I'm back and unharmed." he grins, kissing me again. "I love you." he whispers against my lips.
"I love you too." I roll my eyes.
"You said it!" his grin grows.
He kisses me again and jerks away when Joy's voice shot through us as she clapped her hands loudly.
"Alright, PDA." she warned.
"Thank you, Joy." Eddie sighed, running his fingers through his hair. "Again."
"No problem." she smiled. "Now let's go look at that tunnel!"
Eddie took my hand, entwined our fingers and pulls me into the next hallway.
We followed Eddie down a short corridor to the a new room. We all stop dead in our tracks, staring at the walls, floors and ceiling in awe.
Charlie's POV
My date with Stevie is going surprisingly well. So far. We're just walking around the slightly crowded streets of town. But I have the feeling something's off. Every few minutes Stevie would tense up and take a step closer to me. She's hugging my arm with one hand while the other is still clasped tightly to mine. I'm not complaining that she's being all clingy but I'm getting worried.
I snapped out of my thoughts when I was suddenly dragged away by the arm. I look ahead of me and see that I'm being pulled to a pizza restaurant. I smile and roll my eyes. This is my Stevie.
After we ordered we sat there in a comfortable silence until it was broken by a 'hey, mate!'.
We turn to Logan Hill, one of my friends from my old boarding school.
"Hey, Logan." I grin.
He walks up to the table and looks over at Stevie, looking her up and down, summing her up.
"Who's your friend?" he asks.
"Stevie Green." I reply and motion between Logan and Stevie. "Stevie, Logan Hill."
"'Sup?" he nods at her, sending her a quick wink.
"Howdy?" she replies in a monotone, holding up a peace sign with her index and middle finger.
He sits next to her and wraps an arm around her shoulders. She tenses and I glare at him.
"Hey, Chuck, if this doesn't work out can I have her?" he asks, not taking his brown eyes off her.
I smirk when I saw Stevie begin to get angry. I can imagine steam flying out of her ears, due to Logan's question.
"No." I frown.
He looks at me confused for a second before smirking back at Stevie. "Every girl always leave me for him."
She smiled up at him sweetly. "Would you like a piece of pizza?"
"Don't mind if I do." he smiles. He lifts his arm off her shoulders, picks up a slice and just as it's about to enter his mouth he flew off the booth. Stevie smirked down at him and then frowned. Pizza sauce had gotten all over Logan's face but he was paying more attention to the evil brunette glaring down at him.
"One, I'm not property. No one owns me." she hisses. "Two, I would rather be with the idiot," she motioned to me. "for the rest of my life than be with you. And third, I never want to see you again." she growls at him and he shoots up, running out of the restaurant.
"That was awesome." I grin at her.
She shrugs and digs into the meat lover's pizza.
When we neared the house I stopped suddenly, pulling her to a halt also. She stares at me and then looks around at the dark, gloomy woods.
"What's wrong?" I ask. I had felt her tense up again and I was way more worried than before.
"Nothing's wrong. Why?" she tries to assure me.
I stare at her and she sighs.
"Alright, a couple years ago I was almost kidnapped." she explained. "And ever since then I've had this thing that I'm too afraid to be outside by myself or outside or inside at night."
"I get that." I nod. "You could've told me."
"I know." she moans and trudges up the steps to the door. Once we were in the foyer I turned to her and smiled,
"I had a great time. Great job with Logan, by the way."
"Thanks. I had fun too."
I grinned and kissed her cheek. "If you ever need a body guard, call me."
She smiles and rolls her eyes. "Duly noted."
"See you tomorrow." I say softly and make my way to my room.
"Night." she whispers and stomps up the steps, two seconds later Victor scolding her.
Sorry if it sucked. I have to get up early tomorrow! So, REVIEW! Later peeps!
Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal. 2 Corinthians 4:16-18
'Night, y'all!
-Rachel
