Unhallowed Faces

Chapter One

It was a pretty foggy and wet day in Miami, the air was warm, almost way too warm to breathe properly. Lauren, who just recently graduated from High School, was currently packing her bags for the last trip with her class. Since they'd all be going in different directions after summer, they all decided on celebrating and having fun for the last time. Online they've booked a tiny holiday home at the end of the city.

"Alright, and you're sure you got everything?" Clara, Lauren's mom, asked as she was scanning her daughter's room one more time. "Yes don't worry, it's only for a week and if I really need something I'm gonna go have someone drive me here." Lauren replied and closed her backpack. They both went downstairs where two other girls were already waiting to leave. "Call me sometime!" yelled Clara before the door shut.

The three girls got into a big dark car and turned out of the parking lot. "Forreal girl open the window I'm suffocating back here." cried a blonde one who was trying to fan herself some fresh air with one of her many snapbacks. "And put on some music it's as silent as the retirement home I worked at two weeks ago." she added while rapidly waving her hat. Lauren and the other girl rolled their eyes and put on the radio followed by the air conditioning. "Diva." laughed the brown haired girl next to Lauren in the passenger seat. "Shut your mouth." hissed the one in the back and kicked against the seat infront of her. She was just about to throw her iced latte when Lauren stopped the car yelling. " Dinah chill it's not that deep, no scalping when I'm driving." the blonde one gave in. "Alright." she nodded. "Here, have some snickers. Everytime you get hungry you turn into a diva." smirked the smaller brunette in the passenger seat. Dinah's face immediately colored itself read and she lost every inch of her chill in a matter of seconds. She was just about to pull the other girls hair when she swallowed the bomb inside of her and pulled herself together. "Mila, just shut up." she nicely smiled and leaned back. For the next 20 minutes the car was silent, you could only hear the vibrating of phones in their hands and the radio playing the same song over and over again.

"Guys, I think that's it." Lauren said and took off her black sunglasses, trying to identify the holiday home from the website. "That is one luxury mansion." Dinah said and the sarcasm in her voice was so obvious, the three of them cracked up laughing. They got out of the car and the first thing that happened was, Camila's right high heel got stuck in the muddy ground. "I mean it's not like I spent all my savings on these shoes, but okay thank you." she mumbled and tried pulling the shoe out of the mud.

A few minutes later another car pulled in, finally the others arrived. Through the windshield you could literally see their faces going from 100-0 real quick. The guy behind the steering wheel started laughing and stopped the car next to Lauren's. Him and three other girls got out of the car and basically the same scenery from 5 minutes ago repeated itself. "Gross, just gross." a tiny girl growed and ran up the wooden stairs holding her once neon pink stilettos. "Aw, didn't your boyfriend carry you through the mud?" Dinah laughed and earned a cold look from the smaller one. "Troy was too busy packing Zendaya's 6 suitcases out of the trunk." she groaned. All of them somehow made it from the mud to the front of the door. They all sighed out loud and gasped. "Only 100 meters from the next beach." Dinah quoted reading the holiday homes' website. "We're literally in the middle of nowhere, the only beach I saw was a swamp with two squirrels doing the nasty." she added and locked her phone. "I can't believe we paid $230 for this." the tall guy, Troy, ranted. They all scanned the house from roof to mud one more time before someone had the guts to break the awkward silence. "Let's just.. make the best out of it I guess." suggested Lauren and threw her backpack over her left shoulder. "She's right." said Troy and followed her as they went further to the door. The whole group opened the dusty door and a loud squeak echoed through the almost completely empty house. "Of course we'd end up in some abandoned house, that's how I always planned on dying." the blonde girl sassed and put her bag on the creaking floor. Normani and Zendaya, who usually always just stayed in the back checking each others makeup and trashing about boys, walked to the middle of the floor and threw their suitcases on the wooden ground. "That stuff was way too heavy I could hear my bones cracking." Normani said, "Are you sure it wasn't the house that's slowly falling together." the blonde girl sassed again, she was obviously not pleased with this whole situation. "Dinah honestly just shush, your negativity doesn't make it any better." Lauren begged and pulled a portable charger out of her backpack and plugged it into her dying phone.