All For Not - Wednesday

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"Seriously, you wanna go in there? This place is creepy AF." I should have known from the way she manipulated Enid into getting her out of the lockdown, she was up to something all along. Now we're on a false 'girls nite' to find some leads with her admirer who thought he was going on a date with her. Meaning I'm stuck here in the middle of all of this nonsense when I could be in bed or sitting in my chair... Thinking of Kent.

My body heat flared up as my eyes widened at the intrusive thought. I had to force myself from my mind and distract myself with the others and their conversations, "okay. This isn't what I signed on for."

"Ditto." Wednesday spoke up, interrupting the other two and their agreements, "I didn't want to celebrate my birthday by going to dinner or a surprise party. I want to do this." I frowned, feeling eyes on my cheek, "then you shoulda just said so. You didn't have to trick us." My eyes flicked over to Enid, catching her glance at me once again, "what?"

"Did you know she was tricking us into this?" My mind blanked before I spoke with a harsh tone, "no, I didn't..." Her eyes were no longer bright and scared but dimmed and saddened at my words causing her to turn her head away.

"If you want to go, you can. I'm going to go check out the garage." Wednesday was tired of the stalling, instead speaking her mind as she moved for the gate. Grabbing it made the metal creak and when she pulled on it the chains scratched against each other, clinking together until Tyler sighed stepping up next to her, "let me try."

I watched him tug at it then at the chains before groaning and giving up on the task, "this is pointless." Enid was next, stepping forward as she spoke, "can I try?" She tugged on the chains with her foot braced on the bottom of the gate, the chains snapped, "whoa."

"Werewolf thing."

Wednesday stayed quiet, walking through the gate and further into the property lines while we followed after her, the first place she searched was the garage like she said.

"This hit the mayor." My brows furrowed as the draping sheet was pulled from the light blue car, "the mayor?"

"You don't know? The mayor was in a hit and run earlier," my eyes shot from Enid to Wednesday, becoming increasingly mad with her for bringing Enid here, "okay. This just took a dark turn."

"We need to call Tyler's dad right freaking now."

"Why? So he can take me back to Nevermore and get me expelled? It's not gonna happen."

"This is the night I'm gonna die." Something told me Tyler would be fine at the end of this, Enid would probably be angry however, even if she was whimpering in fear at the moment.

Moving from the garage and through the house was worse on her, she seemed to glue herself to my side as Wednesday slowly looked around and pointed things out, "here they are. The Gates family." This was a hideous portrait, "they scrub up well for psychopaths."

"There's Garrett, his outcast-hating father, Ansel, and you must be Laurel. They're all long gone. So the question is, why did Goody lead me here?"

"Seen enough?" She had not, in fact just to ignore her 'date' she started feeling around the wall after shining her flashlight all over the place. The click of the hidden button caused the bookshelf to move and open up into a secret room, the mechanics loud and whirling to get it to work in its old age, "who doesn't have a spooky built-in altar in their family library?"

"Ours is in the living room. More seating for year-long Dia de los Muertos." Enid turned to me, along with Tyler and all I did was give a nod as I heaved a sigh, moving up behind my sister to look at everything better, "they're still warm."

"Tyler, you check the rest of the ground floor. Enid and I will search upstairs." My lip curled at her orders, Enid already uncomfortable with the upcoming situation, "we will?"