Chapter 7 (Hey guys! Sorry for the long wait time,it's been a busy month. Happy Father's day from ours to yours! Enjoy the chapter!)
Declan reads the dairy, and Abby sits on the couch painting her toes.
"Hey did you know, our mom's were supposedly best friends?" He says as he flips through another page.
She shrugs."Cool."
"Along with a 'Caroline?' She doesn't seem too nice though. My mom often wrote about her being difficult."
Abby grins."So my mom wasn't the difficult one out of the trio, surprising."
He holds the page with his thumb and turns around toward the couch.
"Did you ever sit down and talk to your mom?"
She waves her hand to dry her toes."Plenty times Declan, there's nothing to hear."
"I'm just saying, she seems like a nice women. In the diary she-"
She sighs. "Declan I don't care what you or a dusty old diary has to say. I know her."
"I'm just saying it seems highly unlikely for someone like her to-"
"Declan you barely know her!" Her voice raises a little, "It seems very unlikely for her to what? Abandon me at age six? You don't know anything about her," she brings her voice down a little, "or me. How..."
"Look Abby I'm sorry. I didn't mean to," his sentence falls off at the end.
She breathes, " It's fine just forget it."
Her phone rings.
She quickly hits the decline button.
It does it again and again and she repeats the same action.
He'd just made her upset so he's calm when he ask her a question, "Who is that?"
"Nobody." She quickly says and turns the corner.
Then there's a knock at the door.
"I'll get it. " He screams out.
"Declan no!" She walks as quickly as she can on her heels, the paint was still drying.
Before she can say anything the door is already opened.
"Hey Declan!"
"Hey Nicole."
"Surprised to find you here. You see my best friend anywhere?"
"She was just right here."
Nicole looks around. She knocks on the bathroom door.
"I know you're in there Abby!"
"I'm using the restroom Nicole, please!"
"Come on. I already bought a dress for you!"
"No I told you yesterday! I'm not going to your little party!"
"Yes you are."
"No I'm not, you can see yourself out."
"Declan could you hold these?" Nicole asked.
"Sure."
She hands him the dresses.
He stands there with the dresses for a moment until he hears commotion coming from within the bathroom.
"You alright?" He asked.
They both come out off the bathroom, a little distressed.
Declan looks puzzled, " How'd you…"
"Fire escape."
"Right, anyways enjoy the party." He says.
"Wait…. Declan you aren't coming?" Nicole asked.
"Well… I wasn't invited and I'm trying to finish up some reading so..." He holds out the dairy.
"Right, still researching I see."
He nods.
"Well.. enjoy." She says.
He goes into the living room and the girls retreat into Abby's room.
She waits until he's out of hearing distance.
"Sooooo."
Abby shrugs, "So what?"
"Are you guys like….?"
Confusion paints Abby's face."Huh?"
"You know, are you and him?"
She throws a brush at her."Nicole eww, no."
"Really?"
"No." Abby laughs a little.
"Why not!?" She peaks to make sure he's into his book. "He's hot!" she mouths.
Abby shuts her door.
"Then you date him."
Nicole frustratingly places her hands on her hips and lets her head fall back, she sighs and smirks,"I just might if you don't call dibs."
"Have at it."
"Really?….Just don't come crawling back when we're together."
Abby sarcastically crosses her fingers. "I won't."
"And J.R."
"Stop it, end of discussion. I don't want to talk about him."
"Abby that's what I'm saying. Forget about J.R and go after 'I'm looking for my parent's, steamy hot guy' out there." She tries her best to imitate Declan's voice.
"Two things."
Nicole nods.
"One, Declan's voice doesn't sound like that. Two, are you aware that J.R is your actual biological brother?"
"Sooooo….you've been studying his voice, anything else, when he brushes is it in small circles or back to front?"
Abby sighs, "You're hopeless Nicole."
"Maybe but you know who's gonna' be there, flaunting my brother like he's some prize to be won."
She stretches out on the bed and puts her feet up.
"More power to her. So change the subject, Nicole how do I look?"
She sits up and covers her mouth."Sexy, I'm feeling the green dress. I knew I picked a good one,I'm pretty sure Declan will love it too."
Before Abby can say anything Nicole cuts her off.
"Come on, time for make up."
An hour passes and both girls come out, dressed and ready to go.
Declan continues to read when they come out the back room.
"See ya Declan." Nicole says.
"Bye Declan, be home later." Abby adds in.
He lifts his head and has to double take.
Nicole looked nice but Abby was absolutely stunning.
"Abby you look really beautiful." He didn't mean too, the words just came out. For some reason she made him do that often.
"Thanks." She blushes.
Nicole stops them from leaving. "Declan sure you can't make it?"
"No, you ladies enjoy."
"You know, my father has a lot of books and historic items down in our basement. A lot on the town. I think I'd seen the name Gilbert on something.
"Really?"
"Yes."
"Do you think he'd mind if I.."
"No, Abby can personally show them to you if you come tonight. She used to stay with us a lot when we were little."
"Sure let me get dressed, I'll be down."
The girls start their walk to the car.
"We've been down there a million times, I've never seen anything with Gibert on it."
Nicole shrugs, "Neither have I."
…
The Mansion they arrive at is huge. They get to the party and it's packed.
Declan peers out the window to see all the sophisticated party goers."Are you sure my attire is okay?" He looks down at his white t shirt.
"It's fine,whatever."
They began to walk through the doors but Declan is stopped.
"Jeffrey, he's with us." Nicole says to the butler at the door.
The butler nods, reluctantly letting him pass.
Everyone was dressed so elegantly. The food was fresh and the setting was high class.
Declan walks over the center of the room where there was a picture. The women on it was slim, a brunette and dressed like everyone here.
Nicole walks up to him.
"That's my aunt Victoria."
"What happened to her?" He asked as he hand traced the death date.
"She died, a life threatening disease took her. She was a upstanding citizen, beautiful, a debutante. Shall I go on.."
"So she was awesome is what your saying."
"My dad won't let us forget."
"I'm sorry,"Declan says.
Nicole shrugs, "she died before we knew her, so ya know…"
"Hello everyone!" Her voice was so
loud.
"Ugghhhh." Nicole mutters.
Declan turns to see why she's so upset.
"Don't make eye contact with it. It might respond."
"Hey Nicole anndd….I forgot your name."
"Declan, Helena. Helena, Declan."
"We've meet." He intercedes.
Helena holds onto her date tight.
"Brother." Nicole says, eyeing J.R.
"Sister." He responds.
"Declan this is my brother J.R."
"Hey man." They shake hands. So this was the infamous J.R, Declan thinks to himself.
"You wanna' go grab a beer or something?" J.R asked him.
"Nah I'm good, I don't drink."
"Oh come on, it'll be water too."
He doesn't take no for an answer and leads Declan into another room.
When they get there he shuts the door and stands in the middle of the room, taking a long deep breathe.
"Aren't you going to get something to drink?"
"Maybe later, right now I just needed to get away from that."
"Hmm? Helena?"
He nods.
"She's not that bad."
"You try to listening to her for two hours."
Declan chuckles.
"Come on man, let's go outback."
He leads him to the edge of the property.
"So what's your story?" J.R takes a swig from the beer bottle.
"My parents. They were born here. I recently found out I was adopted."
"Sweet." He takes another sip.
"Really?"
"Yea bro, I wish I could choose my family."
"And miss out on all this?" Declan points to the landscape, "I find that hard to believe."
"It's a lot you don't know, a lot of people in this town don't much did your date tell you?"
"My date? No, I'm just here as a friend."
"You don't have to lie to me. How long have you and Nicole been together?"
" Oh no-"
"Just because I'm her brother doesn't mean anything."
"Me and Nicole are just friends."
"Any other ladies catch your eye?"
"Abby."
"Huh? Abby?"
They both see her in the distance coming over.
J.R takes a long hard stare at Declan and then his eyes go back to Abby. He flicks his bottle down the hill, shattering it.
"Hey J.R, Declan you ready to check out the basement?" She says.
"Where are you guys going?" J.R asked, his tone had changed.
"The basement I wanted to get-"
"I wasn't talking to you." J.R cuts Declan off.
"You just heard me and no your not invited." She says.
"In my own house? Don't think so."
He grabs a hold of Abby's arm.
"Let go of me J.R." She tries to pull away.
"No."
"Hey man, just let her go." Declan suggest.
"Mind your business," he turns back to Abby, "We need to talk."
"She's a friend, this is my business. Let her go."
J.R let's go and catches Declan with a right hook.
Declan falls to the ground and spits out the blood immediately. He turns back to J.R, "Look I don't want any trouble. Just let us go."
"J.R stop!" Abby says, "Matt stop!" she uses his real name.
eyes go to Abby and back to Declan."No."
Declan returns with a left hook and the two began to fight. They eventually lose balance and fall down the steep hill behind them.
The girls quickly run to get help.
When Declan opens his eyes. He's wedged between a tree and a log. He tries to get up but he can't move the log, it's too heavy.
He can see J.R across from him, he was unconscious.
Declan can feel the blood beginning to drip from his forehead and the weight of the log crushing him.
In the distance he can hear leaves beginning to quick for just wind, something or someone was out briefly sees a shadowy figure run across the forest floor. His breathing increased and he tries to move the log again.
"Help!" He screams. With no one hearing him, he drops his head back. Maybe it was gone.
"J.R". Declan whispers, "Wake up. We need to get out of here." Preferably before that thing comes back, he thought to himself.
J.R shakes his head and slowly rises to his feet.
"Can you walk? Can you help me?"
J.R sees the figure move for the first time, "Woah! What is that thing?"
"I don't know! I need help." Declan punches the log.
J.R looks at Declan and begins to run back to the top.
"J.R!" Declan yells.
The next thing Declan sees is body being thrown into a nearby tree. His head snaps back from the impact and his body slowly slides down the tree, he was unconscious again.
Declan was yanked up off the logs, something strong had a hold of him.
One hand shoots to his throbbing leg, and the other grabs the person standing before him.
"Please," Declan pleads.
He screams as the creature sinks his teeth into his neck.
It only last for a second though, the creature began to choke, blood rushes from it's mouth and it stumbles back and falls to the ground.
"What did you do to me! What are you!" The creature screams at Declan and those are the last words he hears before he passes out.
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