Here is chapter 4. Hope you enjoy and please remember to review.
-Rose
Avalon River's POV
"Can you pass the Oreos?"
"Mmmhmm." I mumbled with a mouth full of chocolate. I passed the Oreos to Scarlett who quickly shoved some in her mouth.
Knock, knock, knock.
"Did you hear that?" Scarlett asked worriedly. She paused the movie we were currently watching and moved off the couch in my room to stand by the door.
"It's probably just the wind." I replied nervously.
Knock, knock, knock.
"The wind doesn't knock!" Scarlett hissed. She nervously tugged her jacket closer around her body. "Do you think it's your parents?"
"It can't be, they weren't coming home for hours. We were the only ones here." I answered. Scarlett and I exchanged a scared glance. Even though we were probably overreacting, I had just been sent a creepy text message about someone knowing my secrets, so I had every right to be freaked out.
"Do you think we should check to see who it is?" Scarlett whispered.
I nodded. "Wait." I murmured. I quickly unplugged my lamp from the wall and held it in front of me.
"Really?" Scarlett said in disbelief.
"What! If it's a murderer at the door I want to be able to protect myself." I said defensively.
"With a floral print lamp." She replied.
"At least I'll have something to defend myself with."
"You're right." She agreed. Scarlett quickly ducked into Aiden's room and returned swinging a baseball bat in front of her.
I raised an eyebrow at her. "Don't judge me." She muttered walking past me.
We crept down the corridor to the front door. It reminded me of when I was little and the girls and I would play secret agents. We stopped outside the front door and looked at each other.
"On three." I whispered.
"One. Two." We held our 'weapons' over our heads ready to hit anyone that had come to hurt us. "Three." We swung open the door and were met with the face of a surprised looking Brielle.
Brielle furrowed her eyebrows at us. Her gaze flickered from the two of us to the baseball bat held above Scarlett's head and the lamp held in my hands. "Do I even want to know?" she questioned.
"Nope." Scarlett and I answered.
"What are you doing here?" Scarlett asked.
"And what are you wearing?" I gestured to Brielle's clothes. "Are you expecting it to snow or something?"
Brielle glanced down at her clothes. She was covered from head to toe in various items of clothing, not an inch of skin was showing. A flash of something that looked vaguely like fear crossed her face. She tugged down the sleeves of her cardigan and then the look that was on her face disappeared.
Brielle avoided my question and asked. "Didn't you guys get Charlottes message?" She looked at our blank faces and sighed. "Never mind, we just need to go to her house now."
"Why?" I asked in confusion. Brielle pulled her phone out of her pocket and flashed the text in our faces.
"Do you think she had another panic attack?" Scarlett asked, as she picked up her bag and shut the front door behind her.
Charlotte had been getting panic attacks since she was little. Sometimes they were triggered by things that were happening or sometimes they occurred for no apparent reason. It was quite terrifying to watch her experience them and I can't even imagine what she must feel like when they happen.
"I guess we'll find out." Brielle said.
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Brielle knocked on the front door of the Field's house.
Emily answered the door. She smiled at us. "Hi girls are you here to see Charlotte?"
"Yes." All three of us responded in unison.
"I think she's in her room." Emily said as she motioned for us to enter the house.
We thanked her and quickly ran up the stairs to Charlotte's room. I reached the door first and creaked it open. Charlotte was sitting at the window seat in the corner of her room. She was hugging her knees to her chest and a fluffy blue blanket was sprawled across her legs. She didn't turn her head when we entered the room. Brielle shut the door and we exchanged a worried glance.
"Charlotte?" Scarlett asked. She crossed the room and sat on the other end of the window seat. "What happened?"
Charlotte finally turned to look at us. "I did something terrible." She said quietly. "I don't know how but someone knows and I think they're going to use it against me." I looked at Charlotte in surprise, it almost sounded like what was happening to me. "I don't know who it is but they sent me a message. They signed it with..."
"A." Scarlett interrupted. Charlotte stared at her in surprise.
"Have you been getting them too?" Brielle asked. We all looked at her shock.
"What did yours say?" Scarlett asked.
Brielle nervously tugged on her sleeve. "I don't about you but mine was kind of…"
"Personal?" I interrupted. They stared at me. "I've been getting them too."
I could see the wheels turning in Brielle's head. "So all four of us have been getting messages from A."
Scarlett hugged a pillow from the seat to her chest. "Why us?"
"I'm not sure?" Brielle sighed in defeat and collapsed on Charlotte's bed.
"Well it has to be someone that really hates all of us." I said.
"Guys I'm scared." Charlotte confessed.
"It's going to be ok, we'll find out who it is." Brielle reassured her.
"And then what?" Scarlett said. "Sorry to be a stick in the mud but whoever this person is obviously knows things about us that we don't want anyone else to know. Even if we do find out who it is what's going to stop them from telling everyone what they know about us."
"I'm not sure." Brielle sighed. "But we can start by making a list of people it could possibly be."
"Guys I really need to go." I said. "I have to get ready, my family's going over to your house for dinner Scarlett."
"Oh crap is that tonight." Scarlett said jumping up off the seat. "I better get going."
"Me too." Brielle added. She turned to Charlotte. "Are you going to be ok?"
Charlotte gave us a weak smile. "I'll be fine."
"Tonight everybody think of a few people that you think could be A and we'll discuss tomorrow." Brielle said. "See you tomorrow guys."
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"It doesn't matter what you do you're always going to look like a mannequin with its head screwed on backwards."
I stopped fixing my hair and glared at my sister. "Gee thanks." I drawled sarcastically. "Why are you even here? Did clown collage kick you out because you wore too much make-up?"
Sophia gasped in outrage. "I wear the perfect amount of make-up!"
I smirked at her. "Maybe you should eat your make-up so at least you'll be pretty on the inside."
Sophia gaped at me. Her face then contorted into what was known as her 'bitch face'; so basically the face she uses every day. "Bitch please! At least I don't look like Squidward. Your nose is so long it almost touches the floor."
"Well something has to keep your IQ company!" I shot back. I then proceeded to flip my hair over my shoulder and turn back to face the mirror.
Sophia huffed and stormed out of the room yelling over her shoulder. "Mom and Dad need you to come downstairs now!"
I chuckled knowing I had won the argument. I grabbed my purse and jacket and headed out of my bedroom.
"Avalon have you seen my hairbrush?" Zoey asked as she walked out of her room.
I opened my mouth to reply when Aiden interrupted. "The purple one?" Zoey nodded. "I think I might have used it to unplug the toilet."
"You did WHAT?!" Zoey screeched.
"Whoops." Aiden smirked. He then quickly ran down the stairs to avoid the wrath of Zoey.
"I will destroy you!" Zoey yelled chasing after him. It was weird to see her like this. Zoey had such a quiet personality so if she was yelling at you it was serious.
I followed my youngest siblings down the staircase.
"Ok we need to go now!" My mom yelled from the foyer. "Zoey stop trying to kill Aiden." Zoey ignored her and proceeded to tackle Aiden to the ground. "Caleb." My mom whined.
My dad picked Aiden and Zoey up off the floor and threw them over his shoulders. "Ok let's go."
"What is wrong with this family?" I mumbled and followed my parents out the door.
It was an exhausting and traumatising car trip. In which I had almost been killed multiple times by a flying apple. Zoey had somehow managed to get a hold of it and she had chucked it at Aiden but had missed and hit me. Then Aiden had retaliated by taking off his shoe and throwing it at Zoey but he had also missed and hit me again. By the time Zoey had gotten over her little tantrum, I already looked like I had gotten run over by a tractor. Not to mention the fact that every five minutes Sophia would lean over and call me something from her very colourful list of vocabulary. So basically to sum it up by the time we drove into the Fitz's street I had already jumped out of the car and was running towards the house.
Glad to get away from my family I practically skipped up the walkway to the Fitz's front door. With my family still getting out of the car I'm the only one at the doorway. I ring the doorbell and wait for someone to answer it.
The door swings open. "Hey Avalon." A deep voice said. Nickolas Fitz. Great, just great. They have five kids but the one I'm crushing on comes to the door.
"Hello Nickolas." I stuttered nervously. Hello Nickolas, are you kidding Avalon, way to sound like a stalker.
I had known Nick my entire life but in the past few years things had shifted. He went from being the guy I used to catch glimpses of when I came over to see Scarlett, to the guy I would drool over when I came to see Scarlett. But that's the problem, notice the key word in those sentences…Scarlett. I couldn't be in love with my best friend's older brother. Honestly that sounded like a bad pop song.
It's ok, I'll just play it cool and pretend I'm not madly in love with him.
"Um Avalon are you ok? You've been staring at me for the past couple minutes." Crap. Way to play it cool.
I coughed. "I'm fine." I coughed again. "Totally fine." By this point it sounded like I was having a coughing fit.
Nickolas grinned at me, his gorgeous blue eyes sparkling. Oh my god did I just use the word gorgeous.
"Avalon!" Scarlett appeared at the door beside her brother. I mentally cheered for the awesome timing of my best friend saving me from embarrassing myself further.
By this point the rest of my family had reached the door and we were ushered inside. My mom and Aria hugged and walked into the kitchen with my dad and Ezra following behind them. Aiden ran over to Ebony and they trooped upstairs. Zoey walked towards Jeremy and they headed in the direction of the game room. However Scarlett and I, along with Nickolas, Sophia and Grace walked into the living room.
I took a seat next to Scarlett on the lounge. I could practically feel the awkward in the room. Scarlett was being no help at all as she had taken out a notebook and started doodling. Sophia and Grace were glaring at each other.
"So how's James? Has he dumped you yet?" Sophia asked twirling a strand of hair around her finger. Did I mention that Sophia and Grace hated each other? I'm not really sure why, all I know is that they were really close as kids but then one day they just stopped talking. It probably had something to do with the fact that Sophia turned into a massive bitch.
"Oh please, at least I have a boyfriend." Grace shot back, she looked absolutely enraged. "You're so ugly even the tide won't take you out." Nickolas started laughing but Sophia sent him a glare which caused him to pretend to cough.
"Well as much as I was enjoying this I have to use the restroom." I announced, getting off the couch and heading in the direction of the bathroom.
"Hey don't leave me with these people!" Scarlett called after me. "No offense guys." She added nervously. I chuckled and entered the bathroom.
I debated whether or not to go back into the living room. Since I wasn't exactly thrilled to see my sister again, I decided to take a break for a couple of minutes. I walked out the front so I could sit on the porch.
"Come to take a break?" A voice asked. I whipped around to see Nickolas sitting on the edge of the porch.
"If you're talking about taking a break from the constant whining of my monstrous sister, than yes." I answered sitting down next to him.
He laughed then his voice suddenly turned serious. "Don't let her get to you okay. I'm serious, you're a great girl Avalon she's just jealous."
I smiled. I don't think anyone had ever said something like that to me before. "Thanks." I said softly.
"You're welcome." He got up and stretched. "You coming?"
"I'll come in soon." I said. He nodded and went back inside.
I felt my phone vibrate in my pocket. Oh shit.
Hmm, wonder if Scarlett would still be your friend if she knew about your crush.
-A
What do you think? Who is your favourite sibling and your least favourite sibling. What's going to happen with Avalon and Nickolas? The next chapter will be from Scarlett's POV. Please review.
-Rose