Crashing Down Into Flames

Chapter 23

Chapter Song: Crazy Bitch- Buckcherry

Monday- MIdnight

-Cole-
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She snaps her head up at August with widened eyes. August lifts his phone to her face and in the reflection of her glasses, I can see a tiny view of the video.

The volume of August's phone is loud enough to cut the tension in the room as he plays the video.

The video is shot from a corner of August's living room- in a security camera view. It starts with the doorbell ringing. A mini Evangeline walks down the stairs, but stops short, looking at something I can't make out placed on the coffee table.

She walks over to pick the long object up, puts it in the back lining of her grey sweatpants, and answers the door. In the view, is a mini version of a man I've seen once before with black hair, wearing a brown polo shirt with blue jeans. His fashion taste is as terrible as his personality.

"Mika, what a supirse! Come inside!" Her innocent voice booms in the room. She invites him inside, but he doesn't come- staying in the doorframe.

"Did you cheat on me?" He says, cutting to the chase. His voice is horrible. I don't know how the hell she deals with him when he's not attractive and his voice sounds like an adolescent going through puberty.

Her silence is overwhelming when she twists her foot and plays with the lining of her black tank top- a picture of innocence. Her silence indicates her answer.

"You whore!" He yells.

SMACK.

Mika is a dead man.

What makes it odd, is the same smack sound that came from Nicholas's line is the same as this one. This means he was watching her from a close enough view to hear the smack and I wouldn't put it past Nicholas to watch Evangeline, either.

Surprisingly, she holds her stance from the force hitting her face hard enough to tilt her head to the side. Her body language snaps from her innocent posture to the protective mode she always has on.

She whips out the object from her back and points the tip at the top of Mika's neck- in his thyroid notch.

A dagger.

The object is a dagger. The same dagger she stabbed into the table when she entered the room.

Evangeline smirks when she watches that part.

"You think you can come into my house and fucking slap me?" Her voice is threatening and deep in the video.

A smashing of glass comes from my phone -still on the line with Nicholas- and August hisses a curse.

"You crazy-" She pushes the dagger deeper into Mika's throat to cause a trickle of blood to bleed onto the metal- stopping him from his words.

"We. Are. Over. Now, get the fuck out of here before I do something I won't regret," She removes the dagger and pushes him out of the door with her other hand.

Locking the door, she spins on her heels, and takes a deep sigh, letting the camera have a full view of her face. The red slap on her face is a prominent view when she looks straight at the camera.