Halloween Horrors

Chapter 5: The Pentogram Puzzle

A day had passed since my friends and I got attacked , so we weren't really comfortable in our own skin or house.
" hey um, I don't really wanna go to sleep in my own um-- " Phoebe said kind of nervously
" yea me either , wanna just have a slumber party ? " I asked reading her mind perfectly
" great, I'm gonna need to ask my parents though but I think they'll allow me to stay " Alex said
" yea " Nikki said agreeing
" and guys about today, we cannot tell ANYONE we can only tell each other " I said warningly
They all agreed, this situation was like no other, I am in the position of my dad. Which terrifies me.
But no later then 5 minutes of my thoughts roaming wild in my head the front door opens and I hear my mom exhausted walking in.
She walks in to see my friends and I in a circle with bandages on our body, so as a mother she worries and suspects. When she entered the room she looked shocked and confused and was on the verge to crying.
She quickly backed up and closed the door not knowing what to do.
" oh no " Alex said face palming herself
" crap , I should go there and check on her " I said standing up - "in the mean while call your parents to sleep over"
" are you sure is your mom ok with that after witnessing us " Jess said unsure
" yea ? " I said also unsure
" Gee Gina, that sounded like a question " Nikki said worried she would have to sleep alone in her room after what had happened to us.
I didn't say anything but I just walked out the door to find my mom sobbing on the floor
" Gina , baby are you harming yourself , are you cutting . Are your friends cutting because they are like daughter to me I just I don't know - I don't know what I did wrong " my mom said in between sobs
Seeing her like this made me want to collapse onto the ground in tears, I couldn't tell her the truth because she'll think I was insane . So there were three options ...
- Make your mom bring you to therapy and cry every night thinking you were cutting
- Make your mom bring you to a mental institution and make her think you are psycho
- lie
After a while of me comforting her and holding back tears , I cleared my throat and broke the silence
" um is not what you think , we all love our lives and -- and will never turn to cutting if we are stressed or anything " I stammered trying to make up a lie in my head
" then how did u manage to get a bandage that big on your arm ? " my mom said speeding up my thinking process
" oh um, Jess came and tried to pick up Poptarts and she grabbed her the wrong way and made her act out and she started running around the house scratching and biting us until I gave her a treat and calmed her down " I said proud that I made a lie that fast.
" oh, Jess must've really hurt her, well ok, but if you ever have those thoughts come to me ok? Cause you mean the world to me and there's a light out of every tunnel " my mom said inspirationally
" yada yada yada, I know I love you. " I said hugging her tightly just incase we didn't figure this out and these were my last hugs to give
" well ok, I'm going downstairs to make dinner, do you want your friends to sleepover ? " my mom said
" oh um wow yea thanks. " I said thinking
💭wow that was easy, I didn't even get to ask YAY 💭
My mom kissed my forehead then stood up going downstairs to make dinner.
I opened the door to see my best friends that had fallen in a pile after pressing their ears against the door to hear the conversation.
" oh um NOTHING " Phoebe said obviously cracking under pressure even though I didn't even say anything yet
" our parents said yes and we already brought outfits for tomorrow " Alex said trying to change the subject
" how did you know that we were going to sleepover ? " Jess asked
" OMG are you a psychic " Phoebe said like a child would if they saw a unicorn.
"  No Phoebes just no " Alex said making everyone laugh.
" it's just your predictable already we knew we were going to sleepover " Alex said giggling
" oh " I said surprised
" anyway, we gotta figure out the demon, what the symbols on the bodies mean, and other stuff" Jess said
" dinners in 45 minutes so let's get to working " I said grabbing the laptop
We set it down on my lap and an article that popped up was one we actually didn't cover, the bodies popped on the screen under articles and they had the same symbol , except there was one body. He looked so familiar to me, he looked like someone I knew he had my eyes, who was this mysterious guy, my eyes glide over to the names: Rebeca Watson, Tiffany Rachel, Cristian Garcia, and...
My heart dropped and I felt my stomach jump up my throat, Tyler Santiago. I had just witnessed my dads body, mutilated and pale. I quickly shut the laptop and threw it off my bed.
" woah, what happened " Jess said surprised from my reaction
" that was , it was that was , my father " I said between breaths because I was getting a panic attack
" oh god " Alex said rubbing my back comforting me. My friends came in closer to a huddle and tightly grappled me as I cried hard. I stopped crying realizing something
" we need to figure out the symbol and mutilate this monster once and for all, for my father "
I said with a vengeance in my voice
Phoebe grabbed the laptop from the ground and luckily it fell on my bean bag chair at the edge of my bed so there were no cracks or breaks. She turned her front to us and put the computers back facing us so she could exit out the page avoiding me breaking down again.
We searched up demons and witchcraft and the images were disturbing...