Demons

Chapter 16- Debt Repaid

Poppy's POV-

I was currently in my living room with Amy, Evelyn, and my younger brother, Eric; playing a game titled Rattle Bones. We had invited Lily to play but her family was holding her hostage for a family-day-out or something. We were on game two, round ten. Amy was winning, her wooden blue rat was only twelve spaces away from Rattle Bones; twelve spaces from winning the second game. I decided at that moment that I loathed that wooden blue rat.

Hated it so much I wanted to chuck it into a molten vat of lava. "I think you're cheating." I said accusingly and crossed my arms over my chest. "I'm just playing by the rules!" She laughed.

"You land on all the auspicious spaces! And you choose the same dice every time!"

"It's my dice! I formed it! Just like you formed yours. Besides you can pick to roll with my dice if you want, it's not my fault you're unlucky." She stuck her tongue out at me.

"If you're both going to fight about a game, I'm outa' here." Eric said with a shake of his head and a small sigh. His hair was red, but it was a darker shade than mine and rolled and his brown eyes. Cocoa oinked and followed him to his room.

"Poppy don't be a sore loser." Evelyn teased

"Evelyn you're the farthest behind!" I glared at her.

"I like to see it that I'm just six spaces ahead of Rattle Bones."

Amy decided to cut between our little feud "Eric's right! Last day we have before going back to school-"

"Because you blew up Mr. Curtain's Classroom." I added.

Amy rolled her eyes, "So, let's go outside. I won anyways!"

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"So, Evelyn, what did you do at the Fair?" Amy nudged her. The sky stripped overhead with a few lazy fluffy clouds to fill it. We made of change of plans as well. Amy still owed me a new pair of shoes, so we were going to a store to buy them.

"Chemical warfare."

"WHAT!" We both said simultaneously with shocked looks. The wind blew a breeze past the emerald leafy branched trees that lined the sidewalk we walked upon. Evelyn through her head back and laughed at both our shocked faces and her dark hair which down in two loose braids, swung as she laughed.

"No! I was joking! I snakes in people's purse, handbags or bags. They were non-poisons of course." Evelyn said after her laughter. "I went to go pick them up later once they were flung out... And brought them back to the woods."

" How righteous of you, you brought the snakes back to their home." Amy nodded. Evelyn sent Amy a fake glare.

We passed an electronic store were some of their wares were on display. "Ohh, the news." Evelyn made both of us stop. "Oh come on! What's so important about the news?" Amy whined.

"Amy, this town is a snooze. Nothing new happens here. The News is our gossip feed!" Evelyn made exaggerated motions with her hands. "It's our connection to the outside world!" Amy rolled her eyes at the teenage-girl's dramatics.

"Ok, is there a cult I don't know about that worships the news around here?" I said "And, Evelyn are you part of it?"

"Not that I'm aware of." Her nut-brown eyes fell back to the screens on display. The screen switched from a gameplay recording to a shot of a man behind a desk with three people situated around him however the camera is focused on him.