Grotesque Trilogy (Book 1)

Chapter 16

Walking down the now lit up hallway chills were running down my back. Suddenly a door flew open to the right of me, revealing a blinding light to shine through the half lit hallway. Approaching the door I could see Peace and Olivia standing closely to it. At this point I practically ran into there arms. I noticed they were both wearing gym clothes. Olivia had on some grey nike pro yoga pants, with a black and grey sports bra. She also had on some black roshe run trainers on with her hair in a crown braid. Her make up looked as flawless as ever she had a simple smokey eye effect, with some winged eyeliner; her cheeks were shaded a blushed brown and she had red velvet lipstick on. She looked amazing.

Peace was wearing a red and yellow adidas tracksuit with white vest top. He also had on some black ZX flux adidas trainers on with his black beanie.

They hugged me the moment they seen me, it felt like we had been apart for years when in reality it had only been a couple of minutes. I never really noticed Peace lip piercing before, it was located on the left corner of his lip and it was black too. At this point I realized Olivia had a nose piercing on the left side. She had a black stud in which I thought looked really cool.

"Go over there, get a piercing and then put on your gym clothes. No slacking either" Olivia ordered. I laughed as a response and then walked into the piercing room I decided to get the left and right corners of my lip pierced. I looked in the mirror to see two lip rings, I felt pleased with my choice. As I walked out of the piercing room, Olivia and Peace ran over almost instantly to see what piercing I had gotten. Peace smiled smugly and Olivia gave me a cheesy grin, both clearly pleased with my choice.

"We also got tattoos, so you can go over there and get one aswell" Peace said. He revealed a tattoo on his wrist which said 'Believe',which had birds going through it. He already had a sleeve tattoo so god knows why he got another. Olivia also shown me hers it was located on the left hand side of her body, she had a feather that looked like it had just fell onto her.

I sighed but walked into the tattoo shop, I looked at all the designs before deciding on getting one on the bottom half of my right arm. I said courage, which I found relevant for the situations I'd gone through recently.

Walking out the tattoo place Olivia and Peace once again rushed over to see what I had gotten. I shown them my arm and they both smiled once again before they pointed towards the clothes shop and told me to go and get some gym clothes.

Approaching the shop I sighed at how much effort this fragment was already. I picked out a pink nike vest top with a pair of black cheetah print gym shorts and some black and purple nike run free (version three) trainers. After picking these out I quickly changed and then walked towards Peace and Olivia again. Peace took my clothes whilst Olivia took me to get my hair and make up done. I decided to get two french braids and a brown eye-shadow with some black winged eyeliner and a hot pink lipstick.

Walking back out me, Peace and Olivia were finally ready for whatever we had to do. A huge door opened from the cave revealing a forest. Ofelia appeared looking down at us through a glass wall.

"You three will be sent to live in our cabin home located in the forest. When you are put in Foremost you are not longer obtainable in the cave" Ofelia explained. "Now go, explore your new home. I will text your phones when I need you. Jed will also be waiting at the location with your stuff" She said one final time.

As I turned my head around I noticed me, Olivia and Peace were the only three that got sent to Foremost, but why?

I had no time to question that now, as we walked out the huge metal doors, we walked down a stoned path in the forest.

Once we reached the end of the path we seen a tightrope bridge, which was hanging over a small stream. The bridge had a huge wooden house on the other side of it. Me, Peace and Olivia stared at it in awe. Olivia was the first to race over the bridge, followed by Peace and then me shortly after.

Jed was standing at the wooden doorway, holding the keys and our suitcases. "Ofelia told me to bring your items, if you need anything my numbers next to the phone" he said with a smile before handing the keys to Peace and walking away. "Open the door then lets see the inside" Olivia said not even trying to hide her excitement.

As Peace unlocked the door, Olivia walked straight in. Me and Peace followed slowly behind making sure we didn't forget the suitcases. We noticed we were standing in the living room. It was a huge room with a massive fireplace that had a tv fitted in the wall above it. The brown sofa's were placed around the fire and small cushioned coffee table. The walls were a shade of dark green with stairs located to the right and a kitchen located behind the living room.

Olivia rushed up the stairs to claim her room.

Upstairs we noticed there was three rooms. Two bedrooms and a bathroom.

Peace's room had a double bed in the middle, with a fire place at the bottom of it in the wall and a huge window that had a balcony on it. It had a cute bedside table with an alarm and lamp on it. Mine and Olivia's room was a bit small. As you walked in you had an oak wardrobe located to the right of the room and the bunk bed straight in front of you. It had a hanging candle chandelier light in, catching your attention straight away. "Shot gun top bunk" Olivia shouted before climbing up and slumming onto the bed. I flopped down on the bottom bunk and stared at the wall in front. The window was on the left side of the room and it was only a small one.

My eyes felt heavy and I drifted off into a deep slumber.