Black Rose

Investigation

Alice made it back home with relative ease. She sneaks back into her room using the open window and drops to the floor. Looking down at herself, she notices that some blood got on her and frowns a bit before shrugging and dashing to her bedroom door. Alice presses her ear against the door and listens to the sounds of the hallway. 'No one. Everyone's downstairs.' she thinks to herself.

She then turns on her heels, grabs a fresh pair of pjs and dashes out the room, running quickly into the bathroom and shutting the door firmly. With the lock firmly in place, she turns and starts the shower. Ten minutes later, she comes out and turns to go to her room. "Alice. Where have you been. I've been calling you for the past minute." Mathew says and he boumds up the stairs. "Bathroom. Showering." Alice answers shortly. Matt nods his head and looks at his watch," Okay. Well, your mother and I are going out for dinner. While we're out, Michael is in charge. Don't get into any trouble." he says. Then leans down and pecks her on the forehead. After that, he leaves, and after a couple of minutes, the front door closes and the car drives away. Alice watches this from the stair railings, her face blank, save for her big green eyes.

After a few minutes of silence in the house, noise breaks out as Michael, Alex, and Chelsea start moving around, preparing for something. Alice watches for a bit before going to her room and closing the door. Turning off the light, she sits on her bed and clicks on the tv thats on the wall across her bed. After she wraps herself in the cover cloth, she clicks on a tv show named Heroes and starts watching. Downstairs, the noise slowly becomes higher and higher. Loud music plays out and people filling the house can be heard. Noise of chatter and drinking can be heard as well as yelling and screams of fun. "This. Is. Awesome." Chelsea yells as she dances about with a beer bottle in her hand. "This is an awesome party, Chel. I can not believe you managed to pull this off." one of her friends say. Chelsea laughs out and shakes her head," Folks are gone out for dinner. By their track record, they wont be coming home until the late morning. They usually get called on business after they have their so called dinner. No no more talking. Let's have fun Taylor!" Chelsea grabs Taylor's hand and drags her upstairs, going to the room to find a swim suite.

"Wow. Nice room." Taylor says as she slowly looks around Chelsea's room. Chelsea shrugs her shoulders and comes out of her room with two, two peice bathing suites. "Highschool parties are always the best. I so can't believe we're ganna be sophmores next year." she throws a blue suite to Tay and then they start dressing. "Yeah. For freshmans, we've come a long, long way. Can you believe it's only two months till school lets out. Best time for parties." They finish dressing and go downstairs.

With Alex, him and his friends go upstairs and into the game room to play some games. Michael comes in a few minutes later with his friends, one of them with their little brother. "Dude seriously? You brought your baby brother?" Alex teases. The little boy rolls his eyes and snorts,"I might be little but at least I get pussy." Everyone freezes while the boy's big brother smirks. "Alright. He bad. What's your name anyway?" Michael says. They all settle down around the tv. "Names Azazel. I've heard a lot about you guys. Alistair speaks a lot about your adventurous." Azazel smirks. Alex laughs as they put in a game of COD," Hey. What can I say. We like to have fun." they stay in a some what silence for some time. The silence is punctured by the booming music and the boys yelling and cursing at each other. "Holy shit!" a boy named Zeek says and jumps. "What? What's got you all fired up?" Alex states as he waits his turn. "Bro. I think you got ghosts. I just say a little girl who was pale af runnin past the room." Zeek answers. Alex rolls his eyes an him and Michael groan. " 's not a ghost. That's my freak little sister. She's a freakin weirdo." Michael says.

"How old is she? Four? Three?" Zeek asks. "Uhhh. Eight." Alex says after thinking about it for a second. Before anyone can say anything, a small voice is heard at the doorway, causing the boys to jump. "Have you seen my sketch book? The one with a lock on it?" the voice says. Everyone turns to the doorway and everyone, except for Alex and Michael, jumps. "No. We haven't seen your stupid book. Can you leave now Alice?" Alice chooses to ignore them and walks around the room, looking at all the shelves and things in there. "Ah." she says as she spots the book on a shelf. "Hey. How you doin?" Azazel asks. Alice nods to him," Fine." she goes to walk away but he blocks her path. "So, youre eight? That's cool; Im ten. You know, you don't looke eight." he finishes.