BAD HABIT |Billie Eilish|

Hotel in the forest pt.2

Thunder and rain didn't stop even at night. Lightning occasionally lit the treetops. The room was dark when I heard annoying sound. My phone lay on the bedside table and lit the wall with screen light. I was half asleep and it took me a couple of seconds to realise what was happening. I sleepily grabbed my phone and pressed the green button.

"Are you fucking kidding me?" I heard Billie's sleepy mumbling.

"What do you want? It's 3pm, Isaac" I frowned and put my hand to my forehead. Billie grumbled something and covered her head with a blanket.

"Wake up Bil and get down to the library. Meet in 10 minutes" He whispered.

"What?" Isaac hung up before I could finish. I stared at the window in confusion. What library? Why library? Where the fuck is this library?

I went to the bathroom. My bare feet tingled uncomfortably from the cold wooden floor. The restroom had poor lighting from a small wall light. I stared at my reflection in the mirror and exhaled loudly. In the past, this hotel was a castle and it's old as fuck. So there are problems with water supply. To wash my face I had to wait for rusty water to drain. Eventually, it was cold but at least clean.

When I was ready the only thing left was to wake up Billie. The hard thing. I tried to gently stroke her shoulder and wake her, but then she told me to fuck off. What did I expect?

"Billie, come on, Isaac told us to get down to library" I groaned as she covered her ears with a blanket.

"And I told you to fuck off, so fuck off and let me sleep, annoying hoe" She showed me her middle finger and I rolled my eyes and sighed.

"Okay, stay here while everyone will hung out" I got up from her bed and headed to the door.

"Wait! Okay, I'm going" She mumbled and went to the bathroom. It tooks her about five minutes to get ready.

We closed our door and tried to walk as quietly as possible. We passed literally on tiptoe past the door of my parents. Old floor constantly creaked and it made our way harder. When we passed all the corridors with rooms, we were in the hall.

"Where is the library?" Bil asked while I tried to find where we should to go.

"I think there" I said pointing to the big doors.

We both went in and saw huge shelves of books, stained glass windows and an old wooden staircase. There was a huge fireplace by the wall and a big table in the center of library. The smell of old books and pumpkins hit my nostrils.

"Tell me, why the fuck did you make us drag our asses up here at 3am?" I turned my head when I heard Billie's voice. Isaac, Polly, Roe, Atiya and Kendall were near the stairs.

"You thought that we would sleep at nights when we have a chance to explore this huge fucking castle?" Polly looked excited.

"What will we explore? Reception desk?" I frowned and sat on the chair.

"You don't know the history of this castle?" Isaac asked me and I shook my head.

"I searched the Internet and found out that it was built in 1789. A wealthy family of gold robbers lived here. Father, mother and three children. The Internet says that the father raped his kids. And one daughter even gor pregnant" Isaac told this story by candlelight on the wall and, honestly, it was creepy.

"Ugh, how disgusting" I frowned.

"Are we kinda a group of idiots who will investigate incest that happened over 200 years ago? I'm in" Billie smirked.

"That's not all" Isaac exclaimed and looked around to be sure that no one here except us. "When they were declassified, they should have been publicky executed. In order not to lode their dignity, they all hanged themselves right on this chandelier" He pointed to the chandelier that hung on the ceiling.