VEILed: Destiny Bound By Blood.

Chapter 42 Paper Trails

Recap: Sienna explains her dream. The whole team visits Adrian's house.

Chapter 42- Paper Trails

Adrian's PoV

Okay. So now I am going to ask a very simple question. You'll must have gone on a vacation, right? In the mountains or by the sea. The most difficult part of going on a vacation is packing the things you need. Your hotel becomes your second home and sometimes it doesn't provide all the things you need on a daily basis.

Another type of a vacation is when you visit your home. It's relatively easy to pack for this because you know your hometown and your parents or relatives provide you with everything.

So when I came to know that my parents were going to my grandparents and that too in such a hurry that they left me, I thought that the house would be a complete mess, with used plates in the sink and litter all over the house.

What I didn't except was it to be clean. By clean I don't mean neat and organized, but I mean clean, bare, nothing. The house was empty, no furniture, no clothes, no TV.

"Where the heck is everything!?" I glanced around trying to find something. But there was nothing.

"Maybe your parents shifted." Lydia offered her boots making a creaking sound in the wooden floors.

"I highly doubt they would leave me behind if they were shifting." I said. "And besides that, why would they tell me that they have gone to visit my Grandparents? Something isn't right."

"I found a box!" Rick's voice came from the attic outside. As soon as we entered we had taken separate ways to search the house. Not that we would find anything, the house was stripped bare. I guess I was wrong. Rick apparently had stayed behind to look at the post box because he thought that it was, and might I quote, 'Interesting'. Guess the fascination worked well.

"Show it to me." Lydia was the first one to barge out of the house followed by Sienna, Liz and then me. Something was not sitting well with me. The house being empty, this can't be the work of my parents. Then who had the key to my house? And most importantly, are my parents even visiting grandma?

I took out my phone and dialled my grandparents phone. It was busy, the same result I had been getting since the day at Renwick's.

By the time I reached the group, they were all huddled around the post box. Inside the postbox there was another strange looking box. Funny, I had checked the mail before, it wasn't there then. The box was a red brown colour with two white bands crossing each other forming an X at the center. The four parts made by the cross had a symbol each and the symbol in the top right hand corner eerily resembled the tattoo in my stomach which I had succeeded in convincing almost everyone that it was a scar.

All of us stood still anticipating our next move. Liz was the one who dared to take out the box. I had to admit she had some guts, the girl was more than just a pretty face.

Of course she is.

Liz carried the box inside the house with us following her footsteps. She placed the box at the centre of the living room lit by a single bulb hanging from the ceiling. She then sat down next to it on the ground and motioned at us to do the same. In no time, all five of us were sitting around the box forming a loose circle.

"Now what?" Lydia asked.

"We open it?" Sienna answered though it sounded more like a question.

"What if it's a bomb?" Rick asked, unease showing clearly in his face.

"Only one way to find out!" I reached for the box but Lydia was quicker than me. She snatched the box from my loose grip and held it out of my reach.