Frenemies

14.) Apology Accepted

GUESS WHAT PEASNAPS?! I JUST COMPLETED THE NEXT FOUR CHAPTERS OF THE BOOK WHICH JUST SO HAPPENED TO BE AMAZINGLY EASY TO WRITE:DDDDDDD This new development may be because I planned out the next 20+ chapters so:P I would just like to let you know, but things get very dark, very quick *cue evil, bone-chilling laug-"MWAHAHAHAHA"* By the way peasnaps, thank you to all of you who have dedicated your time to reading this book, it means a lot to me, and this is just me giving you a very heartfelt thank you on my part, you guys got this book to #333 this week just to let you know:) NOW ONTO THE CHAPTER MY FELLOW PEAS:D

Lyla was investigating Evans when she felt the thump. The rooms were soundproof; the only way she would be able to tell that something was going on was by feeling the vibrations that passed through the house.

And she heard a pretty fucking loud one.

She went to go unlock the door, but it was tightly shut.

Lyla couldn't breathe.

She didn't know if it was truly physical because of her asthma or because she couldn't think. But it didn't matter because only one word was continuously flashing through her head:

DIVYA.

She continued to fight with the door, pushing and pulling until she realized that the door wouldn't give. Lyla looked towards her window and decided that the only route that would cause minimal damage would be to go through the window of her bedroom. She slid her window up, cut through the black mesh, and climbed up onto the edge of the window. Lyla grabbed onto the ledge below her and slid herself out. She stood on a pipe that ran just under her window, one that creaked dangerously under her weight. She knew the pipe wouldn't be able to hold her weight for long.

So she jumped and grabbed onto the branch of a nearby tree.

The branch snapped.

She fell through a couple of the branches, accumulating scrapes and bruises on her skin until she finally managed to catch onto a branch without it breaking. She pulled herself up and looked up at her sister's window that loomed ominously above her. She began to climb the tree, her hands leaving handprints of blood along the tree trunk and the base of some of the branches. The higher she climbed, the longer it took for her to test whether or not the branch would hold under her weight.

When one branch finally snapped, she continued to hold onto the tree trunk, while she stood on another branch, one that was a little lower than the one that had just snapped. She calculated an approximate distance between herself and her sister's window ledge, which she estimated to be about five feet. If she had a running jump off the branch she was on, she had a chance of making it successfully through her sister's window, which was hanging wide open, a dead giveaway that something was wrong.

She inhaled a large volume of air and ran across the branch that was creaking dangerously under her weight. She bounced at the very end of the branch, but right before it could snap under the added pressure, she leaped onto the ledge, barely hanging onto the outcrop of brick beneath her sister's window. The crevices of the brick dug into her palms that were streaming with blood. She blew out a breath, trying to blow the hair away from her face, although some of it just ended up sticking onto her face which was slick with sweat. Too weak to hold on to the ledge for long, she tried to find a niche on the wall. When she finally did, she precariously dug her toes into the gaps between each layer of brick.

Lya's toes were by no means thin enough to fit into the shallow gaps of the wall, so when she tried to climb up, she found that her feet fell straight back down, but because of the sudden loss of grip, her left arm wasn't ready to take on her weight again, so her left hand slipped. Once again, she found herself in a perilous predicament. She took her left hand, brushed it through the thick, jet-black locks that clung to her sticky face, and she imagined a set of monkey bars. Slowly, but surely, she miraculously pulled herself up, with her arms trembling under her.