The Queen of Earth

Chapter 5

(3rd POV)

1:00 pm (before the party)

Samaya couldn't believe the day had finally come. She's been running around the kitchen since 8 in the morning, preparing food and drinks for the party, keeping tabs on everyone she had invited for 6, and waiting for a phone call from her father. Since her family wouldn't come to the celebration, she decided to make a separate platter for them.

In exchange, her father would make his great apple-roasted vanilla chocolate cake. In addition, he would've made rum cake; he and her mother knew of their daughter's pregnancy and accepted her wishes to wait to tell everybody until she announced the party.

She has had her headphones in this whole time, blasting music. It was a new model she had been testing out for a friend she met at the library a few years ago. Your built-in security system was connected wireless into it, so if the alarm is tricked, if someone was trying to open the door of the house or even ringing the doorbell. It would sound out loud and in the headphones, so the person using it or not (depending on if she was by herself or not) doesn't miss it. There were more things implemented, but Samaya wanted to surprise herself.

As she was cutting up some vegetables, her volume suddenly went low, and the voice said, "one object, one at the door." It put her music back to blasting. Unfazed, she stops what she's doing and looks at the tablet placed on the table behind her. Looking at the cam, she sees someone standing in front of the door, but that is all they're doing. Not even going to ring the doorbell, just standing there. Weirded out immediately, she presses a button to speak through the camera by the door.

"Hi, can I help you?" The person just stood there. His features got her attention, red hair, tall. His hands were in his pockets. "I'm gonna have to ask you to-" Before she could finish, her volume went low again, "one object by the side door." The music blasting again. Getting confused, she looked at the side camera, and sure enough, stand a few feet by the door was a woman by the door now doing the same thing. This time she was looking at the camera, giving a smile and waving.

Samaya let out a breath, thinking, thank god, she always keeps everything locked. She presses the button again to speak again, but the alarm interrupts her.

"One object in the backyard"
Oh, hell no.

She puts down what's she was doing, switching her tablet to press emergency contact to phone the police. She didn't turn around to look at the backyard. Her kitchen had a huge opening to the living room with wide sliding windows to the backyard; if she decided to turn and she the person, she'd have a heart attack. Shaking a little.

"Two objects at side door"
"Object at the front door."

The doorbell rings. She jumps from the sound tears off the headphones as her heartbeat fast. She looks through the cameras. The people are gone, no sign of them on any of the other cameras around either. She turns around, not seeing anyone in the backyard either.

"Lord, I must be trippin'," she says out loud, clutching the table calming down. The doorbell rings again, and she checks the camera, sees a delivery man standing outside, holding a few boxes; she had ordered a couple of things from the party, but only two things.

"Must be for Jason." She taps the speaker button again. "You can just set them on the porch, thank you." The delivery man looks around, startled, then finds the camera and nods setting them down. However, he doesn't leave-taking out a clipboard.