After we finish planning, we decide to go make something for dinner, since the planning took a while.
"Biggums! Come on, we have to attempt to make something edible!" Jerome shouts upstairs. Mitch tumbles down, wearing a red Benja and Bacca T-shirt with grey sweatpants.
"I have arrived." He says. I smile.
"Well, we're gonna need this, this and this." I say, breaking the silence and getting down the ingredients for my favorite food.
Jerome looks at me funny. "Um, Betty, those are the ingredients for chocolate cake." He says. I look up at him and smile evilly.
"Exactly." I reply. "I could eat ten of those things."
Jerome smiles back, equally as devious. "Well eat this." He says. flicking a bit of flour on my face. I laugh.
"Delicious. Maybe you should try some as well." I reply, doing the same.
"Wonderful. But you know who hasn't gotten a taste yet?"
We both look at Mitch, who has a look of fake horror on his face.
"No! Pls, I fan!" He shouts as we bombard him with flour. He looks like a snowman.
"Oh, you're asking for it now!" Mitch yells, getting down a thing of powdered sugar that I didn't notice.
"RUN FOR COVER, FLUFFY!" I giggle, grabbing his hand and running into the secret space that I found in my room. It's kind of like a hidden room.
"I didn't even know this thing existed." Jerome mumbles. It's not really spooky in there: I decorated it with stuff I found while exploring the attic. Jerome and Mitch said I could take anything in there that I wanted, so I did. The room was now comfortably furnished with a bean bag chair, lit with some Christmas lights, and a blue rug was laid on the floor.
"Well I did. I kind of have a habit for exploring." I reply, smiling.
I hear Mitch creeping inside my room.
"Shut up!" I say, not trying to be mean. He laughs quietly and flops himself on the bean bag chair. After a while we hear him leave.
"So, Pepsi?" I offer, going to the mini-fridge I found.
Jerome has a total pokerface going on. "Uh, sure." He replies. I toss him one.
But then Mitch bursts into the little room, about to spray us with powdered sugar when he notices the furnishings.
"So this is what you wanted the stuff in the attic for? Huh. Nice going." He says, laughing. I grin.
"Do I have to say it?" I ask, about to pull off like my catch phrase. Mitch smiles and we all do it together.
"SO FABULOUS!" We all say breathily, pressing the backs of our hands to our foreheads.
It's then that I notice the small camcorder in Jerome's hand. How did I not notice it before?
"So that was our new daughter Betty! Betty say hi."
I smile into the camera. "Hi! Bye! I say, going up and turning off the camcorder.
I didn't want them posting it. Sure I was kind of shy, but the main reason was because I was scared for them. They hadn't admitted to being together yet. They would get a lot of
"OMG you guys are together?!"
"Oh my gawd you fukking fagotz. I unsubscribed."
"AWWW! MEROME4LIFE!"
Yeah, no.
"Aw, Betty, what was that for?" Jerome pouts. I cross my arms across my chest.
"What if you guys get hate because of being together? I don't want that happening." I admit. Jerome smiles.
"It's okay, we'll survive." He says cheekily. I sigh. "Fine." I reply reluctantly.
After they post the video of us all acting like total idiots, we go and make the chocolate cake. Because why the heck not?
We eat, and decide to watch a movie. Catching Fire, obviously.
"So, Betty," Mitch says during a commercial. I look in his direction. "Yeah?" I ask.
"Well, I think we should talk about school for a second." He replies. I nod.
"I'm actually really excited to go to a real school for once." I say happily. Jerome smiles.
"We're glad to hear that. But what we were saying is that you're starting there tomorrow. Don't worry, Halia and Blaze are gonna be there." He says, seeing my expression of slight worry. I breathe out.
"Oh thank God." I reply.
We watch the movie for a while.
As the credits roll, Mitch and Jerome say I should go to bed. So I do. But something's waiting for me that I thought would be gone.
(DREAM)
"Hello? Where am I?" I call out. It's pitch black around me. Pure nothingness. And then I hear her.
"Hello, Elizabeth."
Oh no. No no no!
"K-Kelly?"
Kelly is the demon that haunted me at night back at the orphanage. I thought that once I was adopted she would leave, but apparently not.
"The one and only." She rasps.
"I thought you were gone." I whimper. Kelly lets out a demented laugh.
"You can't escape me, Elizabeth!" She giggles in that terrifying voice of hers. I tremble with fear.
"Can't you just leave me alone?! You've caused me enough pain!" I shout. Kelly snarls at me.
"I wouldn't yell if I were you. I can make your life a living hell."
I let tears fall down my cheeks. "You already have! Just let me get on with my life!" I cry out.
Kelly smiles unsettlingly, her blood red eyes staring at me and paralyzing me with fear.
"No. I'll make sure that you never have a happy moment in your life again." She hisses.
I crumple to the ground, trembling uncontrollably.
"Mitch, Jerome, please help."
Well this took a dark turn quickly. And just so you know, Betty is not insane. She's heard the voice since she went into the orphanage. But I don't wanna give too much away!
MultiGlitter, Out!