We were running still running. "Hurry!" Alex shouted. He was way in front of us.

"What if they didn't see us?" Nico shouted as we were running.

"Well, then, we're getting in our cardio!" Chase shouted. My feet were killing me and I was struggling to run. My heeled boots weren't helping.

"Chase Wait a second." I said to him. He came to a stop. I put my hand on his shoulder and yanked my boots off. "Ok we can continue now." I said before running again.

"They definitely saw something." Karolina said from behind us. My feet were hurting from running on them on a rock solid ground but that didn't matter. My parents were murderers maybe that's what all of their PRIDE meetings were about.

"Way to go, Molly!" Gert said. Calling out her adopted sister.

"I said I'm sorry." Molly replied back. In this case sorry would never be acceptable ever again. We made it back to the staircase. Chase had another grip on my arm just so I wouldn't fall.

"Shit! Which one of you guys closed the door behind us?" Alex asked us. I didn't even know that it was shut. I thought it would still have been open.

"Are we trapped down here?" Karolina said. I was hopping I wasn't.

"God, it won't budge! It must be locked." Alex told us. Chase walked in front of me and walked towards the door.

"Don't take this the wrong way, Wilder, but a little upper body strength might help." Chase told him. He pulled up his sleeves and started pushing on the door, grunting. "Heavier than it looks." He said admitting defeat.

"Yeah, everyone, come on, push together." Alex told us. I walked up to the door and started pushing on it along with the others except Molly. It still wouldn't budge.

"I hear footsteps." Molly said. I started pushing on the door with more force. We were all grunting trying to move it. Molly walked up to the door and pushed it. The doors opened wide. I almost skidded across the floor but I didn't. I put my boots back on. The doors shut behind us.

"Let's keep moving." Alex told us. We ran across his backyard to his guest house. "You guys into the guest house. I have an idea." Alex told us. We all stopped.

"Yeah? What if it's a stupid idea that makes things worse?" Chase said to Alex.

"What if you get yourself killed or us?" I said to Alex.

"I don't see how that's possible." Gert said. I clearly did.

"They could be coming for us next." Karolina said getting my point.

"I trust you Alex." Nico said. Alex nodded and ran back over to the main house. While we ran back into the guest house.

"It must've been some kind of Gibborim ceremony for a higher level than me. That girl, Destiny, she's in the church. That's the only thing that makes sense." Karolina said. I don't think any of our parents were Gibbs. At least not mine.

"Are you kidding? That makes no sense. My parents are Jews, not Gibbs. But they are scientists. Maybe they were just doing some cool experiment that involved stuffing a human in a box." Gert said to us. She was overthinking. What kind of experiment would let you put a human into a box.

"Look, the box kind of looked like a transporter, right? My dad is obsessed with time travel. Maybe he finally figured it out." Chase said. I did make sense though.

"Great theory. Doc brown." Gert told him. I smirked a bit. Molly started yawning. "I'm sorry, Molly, are we boring you?" Gert asked the yawning Molly.

"Guys, whatever happened, I think our parents killed that girl." Nico said.

"Nico I think they did as well." I told her. I heard a click from behind me. The power in the other house was off. Then the power on the outside. Then the power of the guest house. I walked to one of the windows and stared outside. I sat on the couch in the dark. I turned my flashlight on that was on my phone. "So what do we do know?" I asked while pointing my phone at them. Chase came and sat down next to me.

"I guess we wait." Chase told me. I brung my knees up to my chest and put my head on them. I started getting hot in my jacket so I took it off leaving me in my khaki vest top. We all sat waiting for Alex to return. I turned my phone flashlight off.

"It worked." Alex said as he came in. Chase was stood by the door while I was still sat on the sofa.

"You cut the power?" Chase asked as the lights came back on.

"My parents just figured it out. I was covering the flash. Maybe it'll seem like a circuit blew." Alex told us. I didn't get a word he said.

"More like your dumb idea." Chase said. I nodded my head in agreement.

"It's actually really smart." Nico said. Sometimes I thought that she liked him and other times I thought she hated him.

"But we can't just stand around here like something weird just happened." Gert said. She pushed up her glasses after that.

"I have an idea." Karolina told us. I already hated it.

"Does that involve waking Molly?" Alex said Pushing his glasses up. I looked to my side and there Molly was asleep. We were all pretending to play twister I was in an uncomfortable position and what did help was Chase being right over the top of me which was making it hard for me to breathe.

"is that your arm in my leg?" Nico said. I think it was to me but I don't really know. I put a fake smile on.

"Hey, guys, look who showed up. How was the meeting?" Alex asked his parents as they came through the doors.

"Uh, good, good, just wrapping up." Mr Wilder told us.

"We heard you guys weren't coming." Mrs Wilder told us.

"Hopes it ok." Gert said to them.

"Turns out we missed each other more than we cared to admit." Chase said from above me.

"So, then, everything's good here?" Mr Wilder asked us.

"I wouldn't say that. Nico just landed on green, so things are about to get a little freaky." Molly told Mr and Mrs Wilder. We started laughing at Nico.

"Oh, my god." Nico shouted.

"Okay, then, we'll let you guys get to it. Parents are leaving soon, if you kids need rides." Mrs Wilder told us. I was terrified to be in the same room as my parents let alone a car. When Alex's parents left I pushed Chase off of me and sat up.

"Think they bought it?" Karolina asked us.

"I think they did." I told her. I got up from the mat and walked over to the sofa. Everyone started talking over each other.

"My parents fight for people like her." Alex said. Obviously they don't. Not anymore.

"Yeah, so does mine, and Destiny loved her. She asked for my number. She wants to hang out. She she can't be dead." Karolina told us.

"Here's an idea. How about we just march down there and ask them? 'Cause finding out my mom is evil would actually be the least surprising." Nico told us. Nico hated her mom. Her mom was strict like mine but her dad was really kind. He treated me like a third daughter.

"But the rest of our parents were down there, too." Gert told us.

"So you're saying they're all psycho?" Karolina asked.

"Actually describes my dad pretty well." Chase said. I do agree with him.

"And it describes my parents pretty well too." I added.

"No way." Gert said disbelieving that her parents would never do something like that. "Dale and Stacey may have their quirks, but their biggest character flaw is that they occasionally listen to Weird Al for pleasure." She added.

"Molly let me see that photo you took." Alex said with his hand out. Molly handed him her phone. We all gathered round Alex. The picture was just a massive blur. We had no evidence of what it was. We walked to the foyer of Alex's house. All of our parents were there. Unluckily I was stuck with Chase's mom and Gert's parents along with mine. I hugged Mrs stein and Mr and Mrs Yorkes' before us teens gathered up in the corner. "All right, we need to maintain the status quo. If we start acting weird, they're gonna notice." Alex told us.

"If I don't act weird they'll notice." Nico said. I nodded my head in agreement. I don't know how to act normal.

"We just need to buy ourselves some time." Gert told us.

"Right, there's gotta be a reasonable explanation for all this." Chase told us.

"Right, like time travel." Gert said.

"I'm gonna use the bathroom." Nico said before she walked away.

"Okay! Great party kids." Mr Yorkes said as he walked past us. I rolled my eyes. What party would that have been? "Anyone want some Brie to take home? Seems to be a lot left over." He added.

"I wonder why?" Mrs Minoru said to the Yorkes'.

"Okay. Gert, Molly why don't you guys go with us?" Mrs Yorkes asked them.

"Act normal." Alex whispered to Gert and Molly.

"Sounds super! Thanks so much." Gert said sounding suspicious,

"You've never sounded that happy in your entire life." I heard Molly whisper to her.

"Y/N it's time to leave." My dad told me. I rolled my eyes. I made a gun with my fingers and pointed it towards my head. And acted like I pulled the trigger.

"Save me." I whispered to them. Chase smirked a bit. "I'm coming." I called out to my parents. I walked over to them and got into their car. We left and headed home. Home is supposed to be a safe place but it wasn't anymore. It was where I would be afraid to sleep in case I got killed.

"What's going on with you and Chase?" My mom asked me from the drivers seat.

"Absolutely nothing. We're just friends. Old friends." I told her. She left me alone after that.

~~~

When we arrived home I was exhausted. I ran up the stairs of my house. Went to my room and locked myself in. I changed into some sleeping clothing and curled up in my bed. I hugged one of my pillows when I got a text. I looked at the ID it was Alex. 'We're going to figure this out. Meet me tomorrow @ 10.' The message read. I didn't feel safe even trying to figure it out. I let a few tears pour down my face I couldn't help it. My parents could be cold-blooded killers. I may have witnessed it myself. I closed my eyes to try and sleep but I could see the girls and the box happening all over again.