Chapter Thirteen

"Wait, wait." John B had stopped all five of us from climbing out of out of the van. "I wanna say thank you, guys, seriously. It means a lot to me that you're here tonight."

Kie smiled. "Always."

"Of course, man," Pope does a hank shake with John B.

I leant closer to JJ. "We need a handshake."

JJ nods, wrapping an arm around me, pulling me close. "Oh, yeah."

"Make one later tonight?" I questioned and he nods, connecting our lips together briefly. Sarah grinned at us.

"All right, we done with this circle jerk?" JJ questioned, looking at the others. "Can we go do this?"

"Yep," I speak, climbing out of the van after Kie, Sarah, and Pope. JJ followed me, keeping our hands interlocked as he shuts the van door behind us.

"Let's go get that wheat in the water." Pope had said and I smiled.

"Weed? I want weed." JJ had said and I giggled.

"Wheat. I said wheat." Pope had corrected. Sarah climbs over the wall and I followed her. She helps me down and I smiled.

"This is insane," I told her. "Déjà vu shit."

Sarah nods. "Yeah, it is." JJ was quick to be by my side, putting his hands on my waist and I smiled up at him. He locks out lips together for two seconds before Sarah complained. "Can you guys not do PDA at a time like this?"

I pulled away, grinning. "Not sorry,"

"Yeah, uh, neither." JJ nods.

We had all made it over the wall, my heart beating a little faster. This time, we're actually here, about to get the gold we deserve.

We crept through the overgrown yard. We stepped out into the open, the lights switched on causing my heart to jump. I let out a gasp, holding onto JJ quickly, burying myself into him.

"Shit!" We all quietly exclaimed, ducking out of the way from the sensitive lights.

"Flashlights!" Kie told us and we all quickly turned off our flash lights. JJ puts a finger to his mouth, telling us to be quiet. He holds me in his arms as we crouched, I buried my head into his chest, my heart pounding. I was expecting to see Mrs. Crain, but, luckily, no one showed up.

"Okay, so she has motion sensor lights." Pope quietly points out once it was clear. I lift my head a little and looked at everyone.

"We could, uh... Move really slowly, maybe?" JJ suggested.

"What?" Sarah questioned.

"That's not how it works." Pope eyed JJ.

"Oh, shit. Let's throw a rock at it." John B had said and I facepalmed, moving out of JJ's grip and bend down next to him.

"What?" I hissed. "I swear, I am surrounded by idiots."

"Sorry Miss it's hard being an A+ student," JJ mocked me and I flicked his forehead. He glared at me.

"No, that's a really good idea actually," Kie said. "Let the axe murderer know that we're here."

"Throw a rock at it?" Pope questioned.

"You got a better idea?" John B challenged.

"Literally anything but that," Kie said and I nodded.

"What about the breaker?" Sarah had said and I nodded. "In the circuit box on the porch."

"Oh, yeah!" I had exclaimed quietly, Sarah and I giving each other knowingly looks. "We used to play hide and seek here as kids. And if we were brave enough—which by the way, I was the only one that did, they were a bunch of pussy's, we'd go all the way to the porch. Sarah and I have seen it."

"No, no. You're not going in that house alone." JJ protested.

"Watch me." I challenged.

"Crain chops people into pieces." JJ had reminded us.

"If you believe that, but she's what, 85?" Sarah questioned.

"Yeah, something like that." JJ nods.

"She's probably barely still kicking," I reassured JJ. "Sarah, you'll come with me."

"And I'll go, too." Kie had told us.

"Yeah." Sarah whispered, looking at Kie and I. I smiled and nodded.

"Okay, we'll wait for your signal." Pope had said.

"I still don't like this." JJ mutters to me.

"I've got this." I told him gently, turning to him. He kisses me gently and I smiled, ignoring the groans of the others. I pulled back. "Okay, we're going," I told them, standing up with Kie and Sarah.

"Hey! Be safe." John B told Sarah.

"We will." Sarah nods, grabbing onto my hand and pulling me towards the house, leaving the boys.

Sarah, Kie, and I crept towards the house, going through the overgrown yard. "She must have a generator plugged into the main power supply," Sarah had said. I moved up the porch stairs.

"Shh..." Kie had whispered, following Sarah who was behind me. We made it up the porch stairs and an electrical box stands at the wall of the house. Bingo.

Kie opens it, revealing a tangled of wires. "Where are the breakers?" Kie questioned quietly. "What is this?"

"No, no, no, no, no." Sarah whispered.

"Shit." We realized that it was inside and we looked at each other nervously. We eyed the wire that went inside the house. "It goes inside."

Kie opens a screen door and it creeks, making me cringe, then tried the main door handle. It surprisingly opens, Sarah and I give each other a look.

We hold hands tightly, Kie had crept inside and we followed her. We looked around, our mouths opened. Sarah shines the flashlight around.

A cat yowling caused my heart to jump. I covered a hand over my mouth to stop myself from screaming.

Kie points up to a wire coming through the wall. We just have to follow the wire. We followed the wire to a circuit box. Kie beams.

"All right." Sarah muttered and Kie shuts off the lights, cringing as they make a slight sound to it. She had to flick all of them to ensure the lights outside were off. I looked outside—the lights go dark outside.

I smirked proudly at the girls. We had done it.

Young-self me would be scared shitless by now.

Suddenly, a creaking sound is heard and Sarah quickly turns off her torch, gasping and we pressed ourselves against the wall.

"Shit," Sarah muttered under her breath.

I think we woke up Mrs. Crain... And oh, my God, we're so dead tonight. Sarah, Kie, and I give each other unsure looks.

I cringed when I heard the sound of walking from a distance and some wheezing and coughing. We woke up Mrs. Crain.

I covered my mouth as we pressed ourselves against the wall, trying to hide from Mrs. Crain.

"It's—It's late, Leon." Mrs. Crain croaks out and my eyes widen. "Too late." She lets out a cough. My eyes widen even further, if possible, as Mrs. Crain moves past us. "I can hear you, Leon. I've been waiting all night!"

She had turned around and it looks like she was blind, but that still scared the crap out of me. Sarah had flashed her light at the unfortunate timing and I let out a holler as we all departed our ways, trying to get away from Mrs. Crain.

We all run away. Kie went another way and Sarah pulled me into another room, Mrs. Crain screeches out; "Leon! Where are you, Leon?!"

"Sarah, Sarah, what do we do?" I panic, letting out a few whimpers. Sarah grunts as we made it to the dead in and ran back out where Kie was. She was trying to not get hit by Mrs. Crain who was swinging her fire poker towards Kie, Kie was in front of a boarded door.

I rushed forward and grabbed onto Mrs. Crain's fire poker and I threw it across the table. "Come on, come on!" Sarah had grabbed onto Kie's hand before grabbing onto mine and dragging us out of there.

We had locked ourselves in another room, our hearts beating fast. The door breaks, all three of us let out loud squeals and continued to run the opposite way. "This way!" Sarah says. "It goes underneath the house!"

We had quickly rushed down to the underground. "JJ!" I had yelled desperately, feeling the need of his protection. Of his safety. "JJ!" We run down the thin hall and eventually, to the basement, where Pope and JJ were.

"What's going on?" Pope questioned.

"Mrs. Crain!" I cried, absolutely terrified. "She's up there! She tried to kill us with a fire poker. We gotta go."

"We locked her in the parlour, but we gotta go." My twin freaks out.

"Okay, code red." JJ had yelled down to John B. It looks like he was attached to the rope. "Hey, John B! Get back on, man!"

"JJ! Hold on, I'm coming!" John B had called from the well and I gripped onto my hair, stressing out. It's only matter of time before she comes down here.

We all grabbed onto to the rope, and on Pope's call, we all pulled. We all slipped over, I let out a yelp. "Oh, shit!" I fell on Sarah.

"Where the hell is he?" JJ asked.

"Shit." Kie cursed.

"John B!" Sarah had called.

"Guys! Shh!" I speak, extremely freaked out that Mrs. Crain knows where we are.

John B had shouted something, but I couldn't hear it. "What's he saying?" JJ questioned as we're all leaning towards the edge of the well.

" JJ! Pope! Kie! Stormy!" John B called, it was echoing.

"Yo, he's drowning," Kie panicked. "We gotta pull him up!"

"Hey, John B! Get back on the rope." Pope had called down as we all scrambled to get the rope. "We're gonna pull you back up, okay, buddy?"

"Come on!" Kie had called.

"Pull!" Sarah had yelled.

"Okay! Everybody, help!" JJ had told us and. I gripped the rope.

"Okay, I'm on!" John B called.

"Let's go." Pope said and we all began to pull the rope together, pulling up John B. I kept glancing behind me, but only realized it was Sarah that was behind me. Kie was at the end.

Suddenly, gunfire was shot at and I let out a gasp, losing my grip. "Shit!" I let out a scream.

"Pope! JJ! Wat the hell was that?" John B had asked.

"Tie it up!" Pope demanded JJ. "Tie it up now!"

"Climb up, John B, climb up!" JJ called down. "Stormy, hide." JJ had told me and I hide around the corner with Sarah and Kie.

"She can't aim for shit." Kie pointed out.

"She can't see." Sarah had realised. "She's blind." The gun goes off again and I let out a whimper.

"Go, go! Go, Stormy, go Sarah!" Kie had shouted, the three of us dashing out of the house and running towards the van.

Sarah, Kie, and I had made it to the van first. Then, JJ and Pope. JJ had twirled me around. "Holy shit, thank God you're okay!" He kisses my forehead and I crashed into him, letting out a small cry. "Can we go now?"

"Start the car!" Kie had said as we all piled into the van. I heard another gunshot and I flinched. JJ was in the driver's seat.

"Why are we always getting shot at?!" Pope asked and I let out a sigh, placing a hand on my head.

"John B?!" I looked out the van door and saw John B running towards us as JJ had already started moving the car, John B running.

"Come on, run!" Kie had yelled. John B easily climbed into the van and he was covered in shit. Pope quickly closed the door, JJ had sped off quickly, stepping on the pedal.

"JJ, drive!" I pleaded desperately, looking behind me. At least she wasn't there.

"Are you okay? Are you shot?" JJ quickly asked. John B faintly shakes his head.

"Oh, my God, I'm retiring!" I yelled out, leaning onto Sarah for the report.

"I think I'd know if I'm shot, right?" Kie asked Pope, raising an eyebrow.

"You look disgusting," Pope told John B.

"God, you smell like ass." Kie scrunches up her nose.

"Can I just ask something?" I questioned everyone. "What the fuck just happened?!" Everyone laughs, adrenalin running through our veins.

"All-time Pogue Hall of Fame, baby," JJ cried out.

"Hell, yeah." Kie agreed, slapping JJ's shoulder. "That bitch is possessed."

"That bitch can't aim." Sarah and I were both cracking up with laughter along with Kie.

"How does she move that fast?" Pope questioned.

"She's possessed," Kie speaks the second time.

"I don't get it," Pope says.

"She's blind," I say. "Oh, my God, Sarah when you flashed the flashlight on her I almost pissed myself!"

Sarah laughs into my shoulder. "I'm sorry, sissy! Oh, my God!"

"She's like Master Yoda." Pope continued and I smiled.

"It feels good to be alive," I admitted.

"It makes no sense, scientifically," Pope informed us.

"She does yoga." Kie pants. "Pilates."

"John B, what is that?" I questioned, noticing that John B was holding something. He had wiped off the mud, revealing a gold bar and my mouth drops. "No. Effing. Way."

"No, you didn't!" Sarah exclaimed excitedly.

"We did it, baby!" John B hollered out.

"No, you didn't!" Sarah repeated, gripping onto me.

"I did it!" John B had screamed. "I did it!"

"Oh, my God!" JJ had yelled and I let out a holler, throwing my hands up in the air.

"That's gold!" I pointed out. "Holy shit, that's gold! Sarah!" I shake her shoulders excitedly. "That's gold!" She lets out a laugh, pulling me in for a hug.

"Wait! Wait!" Kie cuts everyone off. "Guys, we're gonna be rich!"

"Full kook!" John B yelled.

"Like Kook rich!" Sarah and I yelled, our voices were not gonna be quiet anytime soon.

"Full kook! Full kook! Full kook!" We chanted over and over again.

Holy shit. We're gonna be full fucking kook.

A/N

I love this story <3