We walk outside in silence.  Atin's car is pretty high, it's a Range Rover, so I struggle a bit with getting in. It would be worse if I didn't wear heels.

When we both are done we drive off. 

The weather is really nice today, the perfect day for a wedding. Sunshine, and it's a nice temperature of 22 degrees.

Jason turns on the radio and we listen to the first channel that comes on. Along the way, we are quiet and look ahead, it'd not an awkward silence just a nice one. I sit with my hands crossed and stare out of the window. I see Jason look at me from the corner of my eye I turn a bit to look back and see that he is looking at my hair.

"What's wrong?" I run my hand over my hair to see if it's still okay.

"You have curls now, this morning you had wavy hair and normally you have straight hair," he says.

"Yeah, thats right," and smile.

"What is your natural hair?"

"My hair is wavy by nature but I always straighten it."

''Why?'' he frowns a little.

"I like it better that way," I say. 

''Humm,'' is all he says and looks away.

I laugh, ''You don't like it straight?'' I look at him.

He looks at me with soft eyes, ''No, I do, I always like it.'' he gives me a smile and looks at the road again.

I feel my cheeks warm up and smile at my hands. ''Thanks.''  

"Your mother, sister and brother all have straight hair,'' he says which makes me look up. ''And your brother and sister have light brown eyes." He states.

Did he notice that? Them having straight hair and me having wavy hair is one of the reasons I always straighten it. People notice the difference between me and my brother and sister and just draw their own conclusions.

"I have another father.'' he looks at me, a little surprised by what I say. ''My mother was married, got my sister and then got divorced. A year later she got to know mt dad, they fell in love and got me. A while later my mother went back to her first husband and got Celly." I explain finally making eye contact.

"And your dad?" I look away again. Now that he asked I have to tell him.

"I have never really known my father. He died when I was a baby during the war, he was a soldier." 

I never tell people this but when I do it always changes the vibe.

"I'm sorry," he looks away again and so do I.

We get out and I look at the clock, the guess will be coming in 45 minutes.

"Can you get Valentina's makeup and the USB stick then I will you get the rings?"

"Yeah sure," he gives me the key to Valentina's house which surprises me a little. 

We both walk away. Once inside, I decide to grab the makeup first because I know where they are. I run the stairs but that is a bit difficult with my heels. I walk into Valentina's room and see her makeup bag lying on her dressing table. Ieee we really messed up her room. I will come help her clean up tomorrow.

I walk down the stairs and remembering what Atin said. The door next to the front door. I see a wooden door, that should be it. I turn the door knob and come into a big room. There are cupboards full of books, bean bags, a dressing table with a vase. There is also a rocking chair. I think this is a place where Liz always relaxes. There is a large window covered by a white curtain now. I look at the dressing table, there are only the vase and some candles. I continue looking for the USB-stick in the windowsill and in the cupboards. I can't find the USB stick. I look further on the floor to see if I maybe fell. 

When I look up from the ground I see that I stand in front of a painting on which a bunch of roses is painted. It's pretty and fits nicely in the room but it is crooked, I have to hang it straight now. I walk to the painting, but when I am close I see silver on the wall behind the painting. I push the painting a bit to the side and see there is an electric lock behind it.

Uhm okey... that's weird. There isn't even a safe or door for which it can be used, just a lock. 

Not my bussiness.

I slide the painting back, straight this time and look further. 

I looked everywhere but the stick isn't here. All the way in the back corner of the room is 1 closet, which I now walk to. Only that one is left, if it's not there I really would not know where it can be. Maybe Atin did bring it but didn't see it in her bag. 

There are only statues and books in the cupboard. I just want to walk away from the cupboard when I suddenly see a black line on the wall. I slowly move my hand over the line, it is not a line but a crack in the wall that runs all the way from the ceiling to the floor. Well, I don't think it's a crack because it's in a perfectly straight line. How did that happen? I take a few steps back and look at the entire wall. One part of the crack is more forward than the other. I knock on the piece of the wall but you don't hear anything it's like steel instead of wood. My curiosity takes the best of me. Why would every wall be made out of wood except for this one? 

Am I going to find it out? No not today, I'll ask about it tomorrow. 

I push myself away from the wall and want to leave the room until suddenly I hear a strange noise from behind me. I turn back right away to see the piece of wall slowly slides open like a door.

I freeze and just stare at it.

What the hell...

I walk back to the door and look through it. The only thing I can see are stairs going down, for the rest, it is completely dark. So dark then I can't even see where the stairs end. What will be down there? Not just a normal basement, it's a secret one, that why they have that lock. What will they be hiding? Why is it hidden like that?

 Shall I walk down the stairs? The door was already open itself and maybe the USB stick is there... no it probably won't be there. 

No.

I'm taking another step away from the door, this is a violation of their privacy, there is a lock on the door for a reason. 

No drama today. Just leave it, you haven't seen anything.

 I walk away from the stairs again and want to leave the room.

I really wanna know why they would have a room like that. Maybe they're not as innocent as I think. It's now or never. I will never get a chance like this again.

That's it. Before I know it I am already standing in front of the stairs and walking slowly down. It is pitch dark. I hold the handrail tight. 

What if there is someone down there or an animal? 

It's too silent for that.

 When I am on the 10th step I hear something at the top of the stairs. I look back and see that the door is closing and just when I'm about to run back up it locks.  

F*ck I'm traped. Well, now there is no reason not to find out what's down there. I feel my heartbeats started to quicken and I feel warmer.

I want to grab my phone to turn on my flashlight, but then realize that I have left my phone in my bag, which is still at that location. Okay Cira don't panic we don't know what kind of room this is. I breathe in and out deeply, slowly walking further down the stairs. The lamp above me turns on, and another, and another, until the entire room is lit. The light is so bright that I have to close my eyes for a second. When I open them I see that I'm in a huge room, probably larger than the surface of the house. 

If I look straight ahead, I see a table against the wall with 5 computers. They look like the newest and most expensive computers. At my left I see...weapons.

I take a few steps to the left toward the wall. I stare at a piece of wall about 3 meters high and 7 meters wide filled with weapons. Knives and guns in all shapes and sizes, smoke bombs, sticks and all kinds of weapons that I don't know. What do they need all those weapons for? They are already stronger than most people. I continue walking, scanning the room till I'm in the corner of the room standing by a table. On the table are microscopes, a gas burner, beakers, test tubes and more chemistry tools. Against the wall is a table full of jars and bottles with powders and liquids in it. I recognize some of the names because I learned them at school.
 '

Again I wonder why they have this. Are they doing illegal stuff here?

I look further. On the right side of the room is a huge table filled with paper. Around the table, there are only bulletin boards and those transparent borders that they write on in those police programs. Photos and texts are on the boards. I walk over to them and see what the pictures. There are 15 photos of people. They are all different people. With a name and date next to them. I look further and walk on, seeing on the information about them, when I'm at the end of the board it feels like someone hits me.

Omg, I'm taking a few steps away from the board. At the end of the row with information or pictures of, their mutilated bodies, but also the place the body was found. 

My eyes shoot over the board again and see the name Niek van den Meer, with a photo. This is the forester who was murdered about two months ago. My eyes meet with the once of a pretty African girl. She will not be more than 2 years older than me. She looks very cheerful, such a girl everyone just likes. Her name wast Aizza and was killed on 11 September. September 11? I look at the 4 photos below, they all have the same date. These are those 5 teenagers who were killed yesterday. There is an open space between the photos of them and the others.

My eyes shoot again at the photos on the crime scene. The photos of the mutilated bodies covered in blood. You see the wounds under all that blood. The image of Anaya goes through my head and I feel like I'm about to trow up. Her body was also scratched open. I look at the scars on my arm and then again at those of the victims. They were killed by wolves, werewolves.

My hands start shaking and I'm starting to feel dizzy. I hear Anaya's voice in my head. You're next! Be warned! He's closer than you think!  She had already warned me.  I have to get out of here. I go upstairs and pretend I haven't seen anything. Then I take my family and get out of here. 

I turn to walk away, put a pair of eyes one me talking me unable to move.

 I see Jason standing on the stairs with a blank expression on his face. 

We stare at each other silently.

He keeps on walking down the stairs till he is all the way down, not breaking eye contact with me.

I stay still and I like him, while he walks this way. 

''What is this?'' I hear my voice shake. I had to say something, I need to know.

"A place where you shouldn't be." his voice sounding cold. 

A shiver goes down my spine.

A/N

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