The Other World

Chapter Thirty-One: The package

I look inside the box again and it's still disturbing. There's a head in the box that's covered in hay. The person's eyes are open so is his mouth, as if he was yelling before being beheaded. I feel sick and uneased. I sit down and take a deep breath before remembering the note. Whoever sent me this is definitely crazy. Maybe it was Ashlee but why this guy. I get up and hold my breath before looking at it. The face looks familiar and then it clicks, it's Max! The guy that was in the stone cave with me. He was the warlock pretending to be on my side. I close the box and tape it back up and bring it to my room. I slid it under my bed while I think about what to do with it.
*Hey Damon, I have a situation*
*where are you?*
*my room, get here asap*
*okay, on my way*
I put my phone back into my pocket and sit down on my bed. Luke was right, I'm only seventeen and I have seen 15 and a quarter dead bodies!

A quarter because of the head!

I hear a knock at the front door so I quickly make my way downstairs. I open the door and to my surprise, it isn't Damon. "Hey Joy, I was just in the neighborhood," says Jordon.
"I have a problem," I say flat out. He smiles at me and rubs the back of his neck awkwardly.
"We all have problems," he says.
"No, I mean there's a guy head under my bed in a cardboard box," I say with no emotion. This day is so exhausting, I don't even have the energy to be grossed out.
"Why!?" He says. He has a confused but yet disturbing face.
"Someone sent it to me as a package, I don't know who but my money is on Ashlee," I tell him.
"Who's head?" He ask him. I walk in the kitchen and he follows behind me. I hand him the note to read.
"It was a guy that double-crossed me in the stone cave, his name was Max" I explain to him.
"So this is a good thing?" He asks I don't think he understands the situation.
"No! It's terrible! A guys head is under my bed!" I say while raising my voice a little in annoyance.
"What are we going to do about it?" He asks me. I hear knocking at my door. I open it and let Damon in. He sees Jordon and looks at me.
"What's the situation?" Damon ask me.
"She has a guys head in a box under her bed. The guy was called Max, who back stabbed her in the stone cave. We think it's from Ashlee" Jordon answers for me.
"Can I see it?" Damon ask me.
"It's gross but sure. Help yourself" I tell him. He makes his way upstairs and into my room.
"You told Damon? Before me?" Jordon ask me. He looks a little upset.
"He lives right next door, I thought it would be easier" I explain to him.
"I don't care if you are across the ocean if anything comes up. Text or call ME" he really empathizes on the word me. I smile at him and kiss his forehead.
"Okay, I will from now on. I promise" I tell him. He smiles and kisses me on the lips. Drawn in by his sweet taste, I keep kissing him. We hear footsteps coming downstairs, so we pull back.
"Look at this" Damon tells us.

We are all in my room, looking at a dead guys head that's sitting on my bed. Damon wanted to show us something but we can't see what.
"What are we looking at?" We ask Damon.
"The tattoo," he says. I look at the head which makes me hurl but still can't see a tattoo.
"I can't see it," I tell Damon.
"His tongue," he says. He walks up to it and pulls out the tongue more. There's a tattoo on it and straight away I recognize it. It's the symbol that's on my jumper that my dad gave me.

Why does a dead guy have that symbol on him? Did he know my dad?

"I don't get it? He has a tongue tattoo, so what?" Ask Jordon. I forgot to tell him, he doesn't even know about my jumper.
"Joyce's jumper," Damon says like it's obvious. I walk to my draws and get the black jumper out. I show him the symbol on it and he studies it closely. He compares them and sighs.
"It's a match" he confirms. "So what? He got a tattoo of a clothing brand" He says again. He doesn't get how weird this is.
"The symbol isn't a brand. It's a symbol my Dad always drew. If you look at his stuff, it pops up a lot. He also had a tattoo of it on his right upper arm" I explain to him. "It was my Dad's symbol"
"My question is what is "Max" doing with your Dad's pack symbol on his tongue?" Damon states.