-Chapter 4-
~Lacy~
People. That's how would I explain tonight. Adults my parents seem comfortable with. Then us, the 8 kids standing awkwardly barely making small talk. I wondered if the chatting people at the table started out like we are now. One by one, they all left. The Miller-Sweets left first, then the Rutters, then the Clarkes, then KT and Ray, then finally my parents, Joy and Mick Campbell. To be honest, I didn't want them to leave. I wanted to go back home. Return to my privileged life with private school and the flat staff that worked at my building and every other thing I grew up with that I wouldn't have here.
"Trudy?" Scarlett asks
"Yes, lovely?" Trudy replies
"Do you know where our rooms are? I'm exhausted." Scarlett says
"Yeah, me too." I say
Piper, our junior house mother, who also happened to be Oliver's aunt, showed the boys their room, while Trudy showed us ours.
"Lacy, Scarlett, your in here," she pointed to the room we were standing at. Then she pointed further ahead, to the next door, "Sarah, Kayla, Poppy, your in that room. I'll be back in about an hour and a half to see if you've settled in well, then lights out are at 10."
The room was normal, yellow and blue flowered walls. Dark wood floors and carpets under each beds. I went to one of them and started unpacking. My bedding, then other things and clothes, then finally my special personal items. I see Scarlett is doing the same, and with much similar quality items. I knew she was rich, I didn't know why.
Joy Campbell, my mum, was a interior designer, has her own TV show and everything, my dad, Mick Campbell, is a big time-movie premier.
I was used to being in the "spot-light" I've been to movie premieres to meeting some of the worlds best designers, clothes to decor. It doesn't mean I crave, or even like it, but I'm used to it.
But, Scarlett was a different kind of rich. She wasn't famous, or even known. She's from that small town kind of family with tons of money, that if a big shot person found out about, they'd auto-magically be offered a reality TV show. But, dad knew about them, so why hadn't he jumped the gun and produced them?
I shook the thought out of my head, no point in muddling in her families affairs. That's when someone knocked on the door. I just realized who it was, Trudy. I spent an hour mindless thinking about my roomies bank account and unpacking. Who have I become?
"You girls settled in?" Trudy asks
"Yeah" Scarlett looks at me "how about you?"
"Oh, yeah, totally." I wave at Trudy goodnight and she shuts the door
"Goodnight, Lacy." Scarlett nods at me,
I want to yell at her, something like, 'GOD, SCARLETT! YOU DONT HAVE TO BE SO FORMAL WITH ME!'
But I settled for "night, Scarlett."
It felt like only a few minutes before Kayla woke me up "Were all going to the attic. Are you in?" She asks me
I wanted to sleep, but I knew I would never live it down "okay?"
"C'mon!" Kayla pulls me out of bed and does the same to Scarlett
When we get to the attic, everyone's there
"Please inform me why were here." Scarlett asks as Kayla shuts the door behind us
"Maybe we would if you stop talking like Queen Elizabeth, the first." Kayla rolls her eyes
"Would you stop, Kayla?" Poppy questions "I don't know, Scarlett, ask the Rutters."
"My parents freaked out when Robert mentioned the Attic last week." Sarah tells us
"Exactly." Robert says to her sister
"So, I thought we would see what the big deal about it was..." Sarah finishes
"It's not really a big deal... Nothing's happening." AJ says,
Then the cracked open window slams shut and the wind starts to howl.
"Okay, that's creepy though." Poppy says
Thats when I hear it, a faint whispering, 'Their here.', but I just brush it off as the wind, then again, louder, 'can sense their presence.'
'Okay' I think, 'Now I'm going crazy.'
Then it sounds like it's screaming "The Chosen Blood is back!" And an evil chuckle.
I felt the hair on my neck rise and every person in that go still
"I can't be the only one who heard that." Oliver says
"No, your not." I assure him
Sarah starts glowing. No, not Sarah, something behind her is glowing.
"Sarah, could you move the side a bit?" I ask
She does so, and I see it's not her. There's a bit in the wall, a circular raised platform. With the indent of something like an Egyptian eye. And it's glowing.
"Umm.." Scarlett points to it before I do
"Okay, so creepy windows, weirdo voices and glowing walls?" Kayla asks, "I'm out of here!"
She starts to run out the room and I follow, along with everyone else, cramming through the door to escape.
No one, and I mean no one, at that point wanted to be in that attic.