With love, ~ A zodiac story

Chapter 22 - Staying Up

{Song:
Staying Up
The Neighborhood}

Cancers Pov:

Libra burst through the door and slams her self on the bed. "When I said we should I have fun I didn't mean get wasted." She slowly gets up and looks at Sag.

"Trust me, I am not wasted." She replies and starts to make her way up to her bunk.

"Yeah it was just a few drinks." Gemini backs her up.

Libra rolls her eyes at them and mumbles a quick 'whatever' before going in the bathroom to change.

I stand against the wall and focus on the items sitting on the table next to me.

My mind wasn't really fully wrapped around what had happened. Everything seemed to be a scattered mess. Like we were solving a puzzle with no border pieces to start from.

I sighed before sitting next to Taurus, who was already in bed. "What are we going to do?" I lightly whispered and looked over at her.

I knew she didn't know the answer- none of us did. But I'd like to think she would. That she would tell me the exact details on how we could all go back home and forget that this was even a thing.

She softly smiled and looked up at me, "Let's not think about that right now." I nodded back at her forcing a smile back.

As we all got into bed and the room got quiet I got left with my thoughts again.

My phone buzzed and I immediately picked it up and grinned as I saw who it was. Slowly I got out of bed, trying not to wake anyone. Turning the door nob silently and going out into the hall.

"Hey, Dad." I said smiling over the phone.

"Hi, how's it going? Did they say when you were going to come back? Are you going to visit anytime soon?" He spit out questions and I just giggled.

"I don't know yet but I'll come as soon as they let me." I told him and I could almost feel him smile through the call.

"Alright, if you say so." He said. "How are you?"

"Um.." I look back at the door that held all my classmates inside- Well, more then that, they were my friends. My away from home family. "I'm doing good." I sighed trying not to think about all the things that made that answer a lie.

There was a pause before he responded again, "You know you can talk to me right?" He asked.

I avoided his question, "It's getting pretty late. I'll call you tomorrow, ok?"

"You sure?"

"Bye Dad." I said hurriedly before hanging up.

I stood out in the hallway for a couple seconds, debating if I should go back in or not.

I turned to the door and grabbed for the handle before something caught my eye.

A shadow ran past the end of the hall and disappeared. I dropped my hand from the door nob and took a step back.

"Hello?" I yelled out so it could hear me. The hairs on the back of my neck started to stand up as I walked towards where it was coming from.

I turned the corner sharply and was met with a blank wall. I huffed and pushed my hair out of my face.

"Very funny. Can you just come out now?" I looked around for some teenagers to come out but nothing happened.

The hall was empty and tense before a bang went off at then other end of it.

I tightened my grip on my phone and slowly made my way to our room.

I started to panic once I got to the door and pushed the handle down, just to realize it was locked.

This can not be happening right now.

I turned around, letting my back lean against the door frame. "Ok Sagittarius, Gemini you got me. Please just let me in now."

My breath got heavier as I started to notice all the places someone could hide. Shuddering, I looked up at the beeping red light from the security camera. I never really noticed it until now. I imagined a person watching me through it. Laughing about how anxious and scared I was because of some noises in the hallway.

I shifted my gaze on to something else, "I'm going crazy." I said to myself as I stared into the peephole on the door across from us before a flash of a crooked smile sliced through my mind.

I zipped around and banged on the door and fiddled with the handle to get it open. Even though I wasn't looking behind me I could feel something coming closer and closer.

"HELP!" I screamed followed by the door swinging open and me falling down.

"What is your problem!" Capricorn yelled at me, still half asleep.

I quickly got up from the ground, slammed the door, and locked it. "We need to leave." I looked at him and the rest of the group, which were all awake at this point.

"Why? What happened out there?" He asked following me to my bed as I stuffed my things in a bag.

"Because we just do. We need to go home and talk to someone about this-"

"We can't talk to someone, if they knew where we went they would kill us!" He interrupted me.

"Honestly, I don't really care! Ever since we got into this town we have seen a psychotic meltdown, witnessed a suicide, been shot at, were chased down, are on the run and I swear to god their is someone out their trying to kill me or something!" I screamed at him throwing my hands up in the air.

After a pause of silence he answered me, "Ok, we'll leave first thing tomorrow."

"No." I stared at him, "We are leaving tonight."

He grumbled and was about to object before I cut him off, "And you are driving."

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Heyy I know it's been a while since my last update and as a sorry gift I'm giving you a double update! Let me know if you guys have any questions or suggestions and thanks for readinggggg 💋💋