Chapter Seven: Beneath

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Next Morning

•Lesly•

I roll out of bed and check the rooms to see if the girls are up. I stop by everyone's room and all the doors are open except Empresses. I look at the floor and see movement in her room.

"I wonder why she's not downstairs with the girls" I think to myself. I knock on her door.

"Em?" I ask but get no response.

"Empress I'm coming in." I say.

I open the door and no ones inside, her room is empty.

"Huh.... weird." I walk downstairs to see Empress, Evie and Grace.

During breakfast I decide to tell the girls.

"Guys!" I say to get everyone's attention.

"I have an idea, today we should go through the woods on the other side of the lake to see if we can find our old treehouse dads built for us!" Evie and Grace respond quickly.

"Omg yes!" Grace says.

"Oh god I totally forgot about that!" Evie exclaims.

"Em?" I ask her. We all notice she's passed out on table. Head in between her arms. I poke at her shoulder, She quickly jumps up startling all of us.

"What? Huh?" She blinks at us.

"Em are you feeling okay?" I ask her.

"What, yeah I'm fine" she answers rubbing her eyes.

"Are you sure? You don't look okay." Evie says to her.

I look down at my feet and notice a dark liquid on the tile. I reach down a swipe it with my fingers, bringing it closer, to get a good glimpse of the liquid. I see it's blood. My eyes dart to Empress's feet.

"OH MY GOD!! Empress!" I quickly stand up pushing my chair back.

"Empress your feet are black and bloody!" The girls rush over from the island in the kitchen and come to our side of the table.

"What?" Empress asks. She lifts her leg to expose her cutted bloody feet.

"What the FUCK!!" She freaks out.

"oh my god what happened to me??" She asks.

"It looks like you've been running in the woods with no shoes or something." Grace answers.

Confused, Empress sits down and Evie goes around to the kitchen to get the first aid kit above the fridge.

"Empress did you go out last night?" I ask

"No I didn't, I didn't even leave my room, I said goodnight to Harry then I- " I cut her off.

"wait... how did you say goodnight to Harry?" I ask Empress.

"Shit." She says.

"Were you using your phone?" Grace asks her.

"You know what" Evie says shaking her head and starts to clean her feet with rubbing alcohol and wraps it. Empress winces a few times during the cleaning.

I get frustrated, I walk away towards the back door on the side of the kitchen to go onto the porch. I see muddy blood that covers a bunch of foot prints leading into the house.

"WHAT THE FUCK!!" I scream, the girls come rushing over.

"Oh my god Empress was this you?" I ask.

"No, I mean, I don't know! Shit man!" She proclaims. I start walking towards the footsteps and there's a trail around the house. The girls follow me as we follow the foot steps. They stop right in front of where the opening, to go under the house.

"There is no way in hell I went under there!" Empress yells.

"Grace go grab the flashlight." I say.

We just stand there looking at each other while Grace returns with the light.

"Here." Grace says handing me the flashlight. I shine the light under the house and we all squat down to see something, I prayed I would never see.

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A/N:

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Love ya Lesly
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