442: THIRTEEN YEARS OLD (6)

THIRTEEN YEARS OLD (6)

"What happened? Is something wrong?" Alyssa frowned upon seeing how upset Hope was.0

Everything was wrong! 

Hope wanted to scream those words at Alyssa, yet before anything could slip past her lips, the situation proved that she was right. 

At first, a piercing and shrill sound was heard in the distance followed by a wave of questions 'what happened?' among the crowd. 

Hope and Alyssa also followed the source of it until they saw one of Sebastian's girl friends, lying on the ground, having seizures for a moment and then she didn't move at all.

"Sh*t! what happened to her?!" Almost all the boys sobered up from the alcohol effect, once they witnessed another girl having the same seizures before she dropped to the ground and went still as well. 

"Check on them! What happened to them!" The only girl who was left from her group was too afraid to approach her friends. Her body was shaking uncontrollably beside a blonde guy. 

"Did they overdo it?" One of the nearest guys crouched down and inspected his girl friend, with concern in his eyes.

"No way! They didn't use anything, we were just drinking." The last girl cried out. There was no way for her friends to take something without her knowledge. They were together all the time. 

"Oh, sh*t! D*mn!" The guy cursed out loud as he crawled backward, trying to stay away from the two girls. 

"What? What happened?" Automatically, the crowd that circled the two bodies on the ground, took three steps away too, scared because of the guy's reaction. 

The guy was helped to stand up and with shaking fingers, he pointed at the two girls while speaking in a hoarse voice. "The girls… they are dead!" He exclaimed. 

An uproar erupted from the crowd as they tried to go as far away as they could from the two bodies, yet near enough to shoot an anxious look at the girls' body. 

"Hope." Alyssa whipped her head toward Hope beside her, fear clear in those eyes. "Hope, you know something about this?" It was weird enough for Hope to react that way, but when Alyssa saw what was happening, she thought probably Hope knew something about this.

"No. I don't." Hope's eyes were fixed on the dead bodies. It felt like she didn't have the strength to look away from them. "Are they really dead?" She asked in a shaking voice. 

Hope had been warned to not go out alone after the dark and not to take off her necklace, yet she violated those rules.

However, how she could have known the consequences would be like this!

Hope shook her head vigorously. Maybe… maybe this was just a coincidence? This couldn't be happening just because she broke the rules, right?

It was too far- fetched to think that way.

"Hope, I am afraid." Alyssa whimpered beside her and grabbed Hope's hand tightly. 

To say Hope was afraid would be an understatement, because she could see more than what Alyssa or those people there could see now.

Hope darted her attention toward Aidan, yet he was gone, the spot where he was standing minutes ago was empty and her necklace had been destroyed. 

"Let's get Sebastian, he must know what to do." Alyssa let out a shaky breath and grabbed Hope's wrist, tugging her along with her to enter the house through the same door where Sebastian had disappeared to check on the electricity with some servants. 

"Where is Rena? We have to get her too." Hope tried to slow down Alyssa, but she was too afraid to stay in the back yard. 

"It's alright, Rena went inside the house with Gary not long before that happened." Alyssa grumbled, trying to find her way in this dark house. Only the rays of the moonlight from the huge windows that were lined at their left side in the corridor were illuminating that place. "I am sure she is fine."

Hope prayed that was the case. She didn't want anything bad happening to the people she knew. 

The further they went inside the house, the darker it became. "Alyssa, do you know where we are going? You know this place?" 

Alyssa stopped in the room that looked like a gym, frustration was written all over her face and this didn't settle well with Hope. "I don't know Hope, this is the first time I am being here too." She groaned. 

"So, why did you tug me here?" Hope let out a frustrated groan at Alyssa's recklessness. 

"I remembered I came from that door and turned this way to reach the front door." Alyssa defended herself. 

Hope let out a frustrated sigh when they had to retrace back to the corridor, from where they came earlier. 

However, when they were about to turn around, someone walked straight toward them and bumped Alyssa, because she walked ahead of Hope while dragging her. 

"Ouch!" Alyssa's hand immediately let go of Hope's wrist and flew to her face. Her nose was a little bit hurt because of the sturdy body that she bumped onto. "What the heck!" She cursed. 

"Oh, I am sorry!" 

Hope froze in an instant when she recognized that voice and the person that they encountered. Out of instinct, she pulled Alyssa away from him. 

"What?" Alyssa rubbed her nose and looked at Hope questioningly. "What are you afraid of? He is just Aidan." She grumbled. Why was Hope acting very strangely in this past hour?

Hope ignored Alyssa complaint, but her hand gripped her friend tightly, not letting Alyssa to walk over toward Aidan. 

Frustrated, Alyssa let Hope hold her as she asked Aidan. "Where is Sebastian? Have you seen him?"

Aidan shrugged. "I saw him there." He pointed toward the other corridor, "He was looking for you."

Alyssa let out an audible sigh and smiled with relief. "Let's go there." she was about to walk in the direction that Aidan told her, but Hope didn't budge and held her still instead. 

"Hope! What is it now!?" Hope's actions started to make her irritated. 

But, Hope just locked her eyes with Aidan's and spoke slowly. "Your eyes are golden in color."

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