"It's on the three, you moron!"
~•~
John b picked Pope, JJ, Emmi and Elio up from the platform and they were on their way to get Kiara.
"She says shes not coming" Pope hollered from the porch of Kiaras parents restaurant.
"Why not?" Elio asked. "She never backs out" Emmi continued. "What did you do to her, John b?" JJ asked.
"Hang on, I'll deal with it" He said and got out of the car and went inside.
"What do you two think he did?" JJ asked and glanced back. "Something very John b thing to do" Emmi thought. "He might have kissed her, but that wouldn't make sense because of Sarah" Elio said. Emmi hums in agreement.
~•~
"Why did we wait for nighttime to do this?" Elio asked and tried to fix one flashlight. "Because it will be way more fun!" Emmi answers as she sits next to her brothers.
"You mind if i just relax on this one? It's been a long day, and a lot of weird stuff's gone down. I'm just gonna lay low. Oh, did you want a hit of this?" JJ offers his weed to Pope, "I keep the signal clear"
"Do you understand that your problem is that you don't get creative? If you got creative then-" John b cut JJ off.
"Look, I- I know i was wrong about the lighthouse, all right? And pretty much wrong about everything else going on. But I- I was right about one thing, Okay? My dad is trying to tell me something."
~•~
"Come on" John b ushered everybody out of the car in the cemetery. "Its so cold" Emmi complained. She only had a pair of shorts and a t-shirt. "Why didn't you bring something warm and it's literally summer, it's not cold." JJ said to her. He saw the look on her face and took his own hoodie off and gave it to his sister.
"You know how you're trying to remember a song, and can't remember who sings it?" John b asked as he was leading everybody to somewhere. Kiara nodded. "So, Redfield. This whole time I thought it was a place, right? But its not a place." John b raised his lamp next to a grave. "It's a person."
"Voi-effing-lὰ"
"I knew that, obviously"
John b gave a side-eye to the girl and continued: "See, my great-great-grandmother Olivia Redfield. That was her maiden name"
All the pogues stood infront of the grave just looking at it. "Help me with the door, come on"
JJ, John b and Pope all tried to move the door, with no luck. "There are probably lots of snakes and spiders there." Emmi said to Elio and Kiara. Elio's eyes widened, he did not like those at all. "Its okay, there aren't any snakes" Kiara tried to comfort the boy, and partly also herself.
"It's not gonna budge" Elio said after couple minutes of watching the boys trying to move it. But, they didn't want to give up.
Out of nowhere, a big snake comes from inside and hisses loudly.
"Whoa!"
"A snake!"
"I told you all!"
Everybody backs up as the snake hits the ground. "That's a moccasin, all right! Ye olde Dr. Cottonmouth. Death in tall grass" JJ said and starts barking at the snake. Emmi, seeing her big brother do that, she starts as well.
"Shut up, both of you shut up!" Kiara screams and backs up more. The snake slithered away. "You're gonna wake the dead, man" Pope exhales and pulls both of the Maybanks away.
"They're afraid of dogs" Emmi said, trying to defend herself. "Everyone knows that, man." JJ continued. "Yea, and it worked." Emmi spoke and moved next to her twin, who didn't like the scene what just happened.
Just as John b was about to walk closer, Emmi stopped him. "Wait, hold on. If there's one, there's probably more" John b and Pope didn't believe her, and Kiara just got more scared.
JJ moved closer to the door and barked there. "Stop barking at the snakes!" John b ripped him away. "Just making sure it's clear" JJ defended himself.
"John b look", Pope moved in front of him. "We're not gonna get in there, all right? It's not budging. We should probably just go."
"There's a hole in the wall" Elio said from behind everybody. "What?" John b said and finally spotted it. "One of us could get trough."
"One of us get trough that that hole? No way"
"Either of us could" Emmi motioned between her and Elio.
"No, you're not going" JJ decided. "I'll be happy to go there, its allright" Emmi said.
"She is the smallest" Kiara spoke. Emmi smiled at her and turned towards JJ, "Yea, I'll go"
"I don't like this idea" John b said and Pope agreed. "It's about your dad, so you deserve to know the truth"
"You sure you don't want to go to a grave filled with snakes and spiders?" Emmi asked and smiled at her twin. "I'll stay here, but please don't take long" He responded.
"I'll get those out of the way" JJ removed everything away from the hole. "I got it"
"Give her a boost" John b commanded JJ. "I'm gonna boost you, all right"
JJ leaned against the wall with his legs bend and hands infront. "I've seen this in movies several times. Ready?"
"So, what am i suppose to look for in there?" Emmi asked John b. "You'll know it when you see it"
"Well that's quite helpful."
JJ instructed Emmi on how to jump and everything, even though she already knew it.
"Okay, one, two, three" JJ pushed Emmi's leg up. She wasn't ready for this, so that lead to her falling on to the floor inside the grave. "You stupid! It's always after the tree, not on three!" Emmi yelled at her brother. "No it's not! It's on the three, you moron!"
"Okay, cut it out! Emmi, here's your flashlight" Pope said and gave her the light.
She stood up, grabbed the light and started to look around. "Are you all good? See anything abnormal?" John b asked.
"I can't really see anything, is there more light?"
"Yea, yea , I gotcha"
"Oh my God"
"What, what's going on?" Elio asked hurriedly.
"This might be it" Emmi said and gave John b what she found.
I hope somebody got the reference of the 'on three or after three'
I feel bad about how little Elio appears in this chapter, but he is almost the main one in the next!
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