Chapter 5
They all go to their rooms. Once Sandra is sure that Jeff is asleep she sneaks into Matt's room.
"Hey." Sandra says quietly.
"Hi came to have some fun?" Matt asks smiling at her.
"Oh yeah!" Sandra says smiling back at him.
They start to make out on his bed. He stops them and suggests that he have a little fun first. So he decides to tie her to the bed. While she is still tied he says that he had to go get ready. As he left the room he turned off the lights. Sandra could see the shadowy outline of the chandelier above the bed.
She waited patiently for him to get ready so she finally got fed up. She tried to get herself loose so she could figure out what was taking him so long. But the ropes wouldn't move. So she just sat there and waited for what seemed an eternity. Sandra then hears the crystals jingle and she looked around to see if anyone was in there. Suddenly she heard the chandelier falling and she tried to move but it was to late.
Matt finally walked out of the bathroom only to find his lover covered in blood with a crystal chandelier on top of her body. He didn't know what to do so he panicked. He ran into Jeff's bedroom and woke him up.
"Jeff, Jeff wake up! Wake your ass up boy!! Sandra's dead!" Matt yells at his little brother.
"What? She's right…. Where did she go?" Jeff says looking next to him.
"Duh! She's not in here she's in my room dead!" Matt says annoyed.
"Why is she in your room?" Jeff asks raising an eyebrow.
"I'll tell ya later but let's do something. She's dead what are we supposed to do?" Matt asks uncomfortably.
"What the hell are you guys bitching about now?" Angel said as she walked into their room.
"Sandra's dead." they both said at the same time.
"What? You're kidding right?" Angel asks in disbelief.
"Nope she is, we ain't playing." Matt says seriously.
"Oh my god! Where is she?" Angel asks quickly.
"In my room." Matt says quietly.
"Oh no." Angel says sadly.
"What is going on here? Did I miss something?" Jeff asks confused.
"Matt should I tell him?" Angel asks.
"Tell him what? What are you talking about?" Matt asks suspiciously.
"You know…" Angel says hinting to what she means.
"Oh yeah…. Wait you know?! How?" Matt asks confused.
"Huh? Know what?" Jeff asks getting annoyed.
"One word for ya…" Angel trails off.
"And that would be?" Matt asks waiting for her answer.
"Sandra." Angel says simply.
"She told you and you didn't tell anybody?" Matt asks surprised.
"WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU GUYS TALKING ABOUT?" Jeff snaps.
"Jeff what the hell are you bitching about?" Andrew asked as he walked into Jeff's room.
"Matt should I tell them or are you gonna?" Angel asks looking directly at Matt.
"You can." Matt says rubbing his temple.
"Great. Ok well…Sandra's having or should I say had an affair with Matt." Angel explains like it's nothing.
"SHE WHAT?" Jeff exclaims.
"You heard me." Angel says looking at Jeff.
"Why do you say had?" Andrew asks raising an eyebrow.
"Because she's kinda sorta dead." Angel says uncomfortably.
"Hold up, wait a minute. Sandra was having an affair with my older brother?!?" Jeff asks angrily.
"Yeah basically." Matt says like he doesn't care.
Jeff got out of bed and got all up in Matt's face. The two of them started shit back and forth and Angel got in the middle and Jeff aimed to hit Matt in the face but he hit Angel instead. Angel turns to him and smacks him across the face. Matt gets in between them.
"Whoa you guys we gotta calm down here." Angel says calmly.
"We don't gotta do shit. We need information here." Jeff says still pissed off.
"You really wanna know what I think?" Angel snaps.
"Yeah" Jeff says taking a step around Matt.
"I think it's the spirits of Matthew and Janice trying to get revenge through us." Angel explains her voice raised.
"Well what are we supposed to do about this now?" Jeff asks like what she said is meaningless.
"I don't know yet." Angel says defeated.
"I think all we gotta worry about is getting out of here alive." Andrew says walking over to stand next to Angel.
"Yeah this has got to fucking end. We came as ten and now there's only four of us left. It's not right. We are getting picked off one by fucking one. We have to figure out a way to stop it before we all end up dead." As Angel finishes what she was saying she started to cry, Andrew puts his arm around her and she turns to cry into his chest.
"Why are you crying?" Jeff asks coldly.
"You dumb ass. She's crying because her best friend just died. Hell all of our friends are practically dead." Andrew asks protectively.
"Wouldn't you be crying too if you had a heart and you weren't so goddamn self-centered? I mean look at your brother. Even he's crying. He's got more of a heart than you, and he's crying for everyone. And you call me the ice queen? You can't even cry for your own girlfriend or your best friends?" Angel snaps hoarsely turning her head to look at Jeff.
"I know you loved her boy but I loved her too and I wasn't even supposed to…." Matt says trailing off.
"You can't choose who you fall in love with." Angel says in her usual comforting tone.
"That's for damn sure. You can't condemn me for my feelings. I've never condemned you." Matt says looking from Angel to Jeff.
"Not to sound insensitive but we should really figure out what to do about these spirit things." Andrew says as Angel steps away from him.
"You're right. So what you suggest we do Angel?" Matt asks looking to Angel.
"Who said I'm in charge?" Angel asks with a bit of a laugh.
"Nobody you just are." Matt says shrugging.
"Well, in that case it's almost dawn now and if I remember correctly from the journal entry the burning took place at dawn…." Angel says trailing off.
"Well what's that got to do with any of this?" Jeff asks dumbly.
"Well the spirits are restless because they died too early and with hate in their hearts. They got revenge on everybody else except my family…." Angel starts.
"Oh no you are not doing that." Andrew says cutting her off.
"I won't let you." Matt says taking a step closer to Angel.
"Just like you won't let us die." Jeff says stubbornly.
"It's sweet of you guys to say that but it's the only way. Follow me." Angel says nobly as she head out of the room.
Angel goes outside into the garden area and she goes out there and she is able to see the spirits of Mathew and Janice and she talks to them:
"I can't change the past. What Nathaniel did is done but if I could, I'd stop him from sentencing you to death. He didn't do it from his own free will. He did it to keep his place in town and the respect of the people. Otherwise I know from what I've heard he wouldn't have done it. If you still seek revenge take it out on me. I won't stop you and neither will they."
She looks back at Matt, Jeff, and Andrew and the spirits say:
"I don't know why but I think she speaks the truth. I can sense that this is what she feels in her heart. We have no need to take revenge on you. You gave yourself up willingly to us. We will not make the same mistake he did." The spirit of Mathew says.
"Thank you." Angel says relieved.
"You did a brave thing, little girl. You willingly handed yourself to death and still held yourself high. How could we kill that? Sorry about your friends but they deserved what they got from their ancestors. Some of them did not. We can't undo what we did as you cannot undo what your ancestors did but we hope you can forgive us as we have forgiven you." The spirit of Janice says.
"I forgive you. I know what you did was out of revenge. We all have times when we are blinded by hatred and we do things we later regret. May your souls find peace." Angel says sweetly.
Their spirits slowly fade away into the sunlight. Angel, Matt, Andrew, and Jeff all walk back to their cars and drive home. They all have the unfortunate task of telling everyone's parents about their kids being dead.