Unnatural || Matthew Espinosa

Ch 8

Karen's pov

- 10am -

I wake up unsure if what happened last night was real or not. I sit up, noticing a note taped to my window. I walk over to it and peel it off the window.

*I had a great time yesterday. Can't wait to do it again - Matt * Ιt reads.

I crumble the note up and throw it away. Now I know what happened last night was real and I remember everything. Especially the part where I asked him if he was some sort of mind reader. What was I thinking that he could read minds? Although it does make some sense. This is all so confusing and it's giving me headache.

I walk downstairs to get some breakfast to make me feel better. When I enter the kitchen I see Siena sitting there.

"Hey, what do you want to do today?" She asks me.

"I want to stay in today," I tell her. "Maybe we can watch Netflix all day." And lock all the doors and windows so that boy doesn't get in I mentally add.

"Why, we should do something today." She complains. I love this girl as a best friend but sometimes she can get a little annoying.

"You can. I'll stay in," I honestly don't mind if she goes out without me.

"But it's a lot better when you're there but if you don't wanna go, I'm not going to push you." She puts her finished plate in the sink and walks out of the kitchen.

"You're leaving now?" I yell loud enough for her to hear me.

"Yea." She yells back.

I would ask where she's going but I don't really care. At least I won't be home all by myself. I'm seriously dreading over when Matt said he's coming again. I forget about everything and decide what I want for breakfast.

...

It's now about five in the afternoon and Siena still hasn't come back with my car. I hope my car is okay, I wouldn't want anything to happen to it. The bad part is I can't call her because she left her phone here. She probably even did it on purpose just so I won't call her.

So far I have watched about six or seven episodes of Pretty Little Liars. It's so frustrating not knowing who's messing with your life. I would hate for that show to be my life. It seems so exhausting.

My grandma walks in the living right when I'm done with the episode.

"Are you hungry? I can make something." She offers.

"Yeah, thanks." I smile and she walks into the kitchen. What are grandmas for. They are always there when you're hungry and I appreciate that.

As I'm about to start another episode the front door opens. I get a mini heart attack until I see its Siena with two shopping bags at her side. Only two?

"It took you like seven hours to get two bags worth of shopping?" I question her.

"Hey to you too," She ignores my question.

"Why did it take you so long? Please tell me my car is fine." I warn her. I really don't mess with my car. She's lucky I allow her to drive it.

"Your car is fine, Karen and the reason I took so long is because," She stops to walk closer to me. "I was hanging out with this boy!" She squeals.

To me, this is surprising. Last time she met a guy was in freshman year and only lasted to sophomore year. Which led to her having a broken heart and guess who had to go put the broken pieces back together. Me. I don't want her to go through that ever again.

She's looking at me as if she was waiting for a response.

"What's his name?" I ask her which probably wasn't the response she was looking for.

"Bryant," She says.

"Are you sure about this guy?" I make her second guess it even though I don't know him. She needs to be sure about him.

She looks at the floor as if she's thinking it over then a second later she turns back to me nodding her head yes.

"He's kind, sweet, mature, good looking. Pretty much anything any girl wants in a guy."

"You really like him?"

"Yes, now would you stop asking me that. It's not like I've never been out before." She gets annoyed and sits next to me on the couched.

"Just making sure," I defend.

"Why don't you get someone, you know to mingle with." This conversation has taken an uninteresting turn that I don't like at all.

"Okay let's not go there," I try not to let her go farther than that.

"I'm gonna go take a shower." I say and walk to my room to get some clothes. Siena mumbles an 'okay' before I leave.

Once I reach my room I decide to get comfy pajama shorts with matching shirt because it's almost nighttime so why not.

I head to the bathroom and start my nice hot shower. After about thirty minutes later I feel like I'm finally done. I dry off and get dressed quickly. I open the door to let some of the steam from the shower exit so it's not so hot in here.

Next thing I do is brush my hair. I go over to the mirror and notice something written on it.

*Cleaning for tonight I see.* It reads.

My heart starts to race. I know it was Matt who wrote this. How did he even get in the house? Of course my question is left unanswered.

I leave the bathroom and go straight to Siena's room. She has to see this. I probably have a stalker and I don't want to keep that a secret. Once I reach her room she is on laying on her bed listening to music.

"Siena you have to come see this right now!" I take her headphones out and drag her out of her room.

"Karen, what's wrong?" She leaves my grip on her arm.

"Someone wrote this on the mirror while I was taking a shower and you have to come see it!" I walk to the bathroom as fast as I can.

We walk in and see absolutely nothing written on the mirror. What? How is that even possible? I'm losing my mind.

"I swear someone-" I try and explain.

"Clearly there isn't anything written there," She interrupts me. Don't you think I can see that?

"But there was I swear!" It's so hard to make someone believe that you're not going crazy. Which by the looks Siena probably thinks that I am.

"I'm just gonna head back to my room." She says and leaves. She officially thinks I'm going crazy.

But how did... How come.... What? How did they just disappear. It's like nothing was written there in the first place.

"You know you would be a terrible investigator," Someone says from behind me. I look into the mirror and see Matt standing in the doorway.

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