ESTELLA went home that morning to get a change of clothes, her family, minus diane were sitting on the couch, solemn looks in their faces, "dad?" estella questioned, "what happened?"
"come here." he said, his voice soft, "diane was taken to hospital this morning," estella felt the world pause, "what?!" she asks, "she's okay, she just had a bit of an accident this morning," estella looks at her father, feeling that an accident was his fault.
"before you say anything estella, it's not what you think, she passed out this morning and was really pale so freya called an ambulance and we'll find out what's wrong with her later." caleb explains, freya nods, her father stands up, and she feels like a little kid, he pulls her into a hug and kissed the top of her head.
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estella walked into kiaras family's restaurant, "sorry i'm late guys." her eyes were still red and teary, "stell, you okay?" pope asks her, "yeah i'm fine." she smiles, while she put her bag down the four friends just looked at eachother not believing her.
"we're going battery jasper." john b says, he grabs the map and walks out, kie and pope follow after him, "great." she says and follows after her friends, jj wraps his arm around her and presses a kiss to her head as they're behind their friends enough.
the five get into the twinkie and drive around to the battery and then try to find an old wall, they drive up and find a stone wall, "that looks like a stone wall to me." jj says.
"this is it." pope says, "not the crain house!." john b groans, "the crain house?." stella questions, "haven't you heard the stories?" kie asks, "no," stella furrows her eyebrows, "honestly i don't really believe the stories." pope defends, jj walks to kie, "what stories did you hear he asks, "the one where she killed her husband with an axe, and that she's been holed up ever since." kie says.
estella turns to john b wirh wide eyes, "is that true?" she asks, "i don't know." john b answers honestly, "on certain lights, when the moon is full, you can see her in the window!" kiara exclaims, "no, it's not funny cause it's all true." jj says.
"i swear to god guys this is all real, i knew hollis," jj explains, "you knew hollis crain?" pope asks, "yeah dude." "how'd you know her?" estella asks, "she was my baby sister, she told me all about it, told me the truth about her mother, and what happened in this house, so as a kid she heard all the stories that her mother killed her father, and.. she was a murderer and all, hollis didn't believe it, until that night..." jj says.
"what night?" estella asks, slowly moving closer to john b, "it all came back to her.. when hollis was six years old, she heard her parents arguing downstairs, so she goes downstairs to see her mom washing her hands in a sink.. full of blood, her mother just says that she cut her finger, the next morning she says her father and her split up, but then hollis noticed something, her mother going into the parlor constantly, in and out, in and out with plastic bags, weeks pass, and hollis decides to use the outhouse. and as she's using it, she looks down, and there in the outhouse, is her fathers head looking straight back at her,"
