Adalyn pulled up to her driveway and pulled out her keys from the car, she stepped out of the vehicle and locked her car. She turned around and was surprised to see a trash bag waiting to be thrown away outside of her garage, she snickered and picked up the trash to go throw it out, she walked up to the trash bin on the side of her house, she threw the trash away but something caught her eye, it was something relatability shiny and she looked at it for a second. She question what is was and bent down to reach for it, it was a ring! It had a gold interior and a diamond exterior and it looked very appealing, she put it on in her and looked at her ring finger and smiled.
She walked up to her back door and slowly opened it with her hands, she edged her way into the house and slowly closed it behind her. Her parents didn't know that she was home as she only told them that she would wait for Emma until her questioning was finished, she slowly creeped up the stairs, all while her cat followed her and was meowing at her, she turned around and smiled at the feline and pet her whispering
"You're so adorable."
She turned her attention back to going up the stairs, she walked down the hall and almost opened the door to her room, until she heard something come from her parents room that caught her attention.
"I can't keep doing this Frank."
Clohe said in a distressing tone
"Our marriage is falling apart and you know it!"
"I know, but Adalyn needs us right now, with everything that's been happening."
"I know. but it's just too much right now Frank. I'll stay with you until all this murder stuff is over."
"We have to tell her eventually, do you still have your ring?"
"I threw it away, I'll go check the trash real quick."
"Now why would you-"
Adalyn heard footsteps coming from her parents room and she gasped quietly and opened her room door quick and quietly and shut it as fast as possible, she heard footsteps pass her room and go down the hall, she started to breathe heavily and started to sob quietly, she stayed at the door. Sitting down with her face in her knees while she was crying.
After about crying for 5 minutes. She looked up and wiped the tears from her eyes and then looked at the ring on her finger, she told herself that she would keep it and she would hide it in her pocket if she was ever around her parents, but she did contemplate giving the ring back to her mother, but since they were going to divorce, it seemed as if there was no choice.
Kaja and Ioa were at Sura's house, Ioa were taking care of the baby while Kaja made food. She was cooking and she heard the home phone ring, Ioa yelled from the living room
"I'll get it!"
Kaja chuckled lightly and went back to cooking, Ioa picked up the home phone and it said 'unknown number.' She seemed suspicious but it could be anything, although her bets were on Luttons .
She answered the phone and a panicked Sura was speaking on the other line.
"I-Ioa something happened and I have to stay at my job for a bit and I just- can you watch the baby for me tonight?"
Ioa was very concerned and asked
"Why? What happened?"
"I'll tell you later, but can you just do this one thing for me please?"
"Of course."
Ioa hung up the phone and Kaja turned over and asked
"What was that about?" she said confused and worried
"Something happened at Sura's job, he has to stay there for a bit and he sounds panicked, he wants us to watch the baby while we're at it."
Kaja had a shocked and worried expression on her face and said
"I hope he's alright, I mean with everything going on anything could have happened."
"Yea."
Ioa said with a scared tone, she just really hoped that they wouldn't be targeted next, but it was inevitable.
It was 7:30 and Adalyn was on her bed staring at the ceiling with tears streaming out of her eyes, She had just been thinking about her parents divorce and she started getting bored of just laying there, she wanted to do something that would get the whole divorce off her mind, she figure she go around places on her house, places she never been such as the attic, she slowly creeped out of her room and went downstairs to know her parents were home, her mom was sitting at the dinner table eating leftovers and her mom had noticed her.
"Oh Adalyn, how long have you been here?"
"Oh- uh, I got here like 15 minutes ago" Adalyn lied to her so her mother wouldn't seem suspicious. Her mom didn't question it and let her do her own thing, Adalyn walked back up the stairs and noticed the little hatch that lead to the attic, it was above her and she jumped up to reach the little handle and she pulled it down.
The stairs came down and she looked up to the darkness, she turned on her phone and turned the flash on, she took a deep breath and started to climb up the stairs.
When she finally got up, she looked around her and, it didn't seem like anyone had been up there in years, there were spider webs in each corner of the attic and the wood seemed run down, there were boxes all over the place and she seemed a bit creeped out by how abandoned the whole thing looked, she looked around the attic and was looking through boxes, she found old junk and photo albums of people she didn't recognize, she looked at the albums and it seemed to be a girl who was around her age and was a brunette who appeared to be kind, the photos seemed to be of her with friends and family, could these be the people that used to live here? Nonetheless she put the album away and kept searching.
Not long after, she was searching through the attic until something caught her eye, and it was a box. The box seemed... different from other boxes, it was white and appeared to be a large shoebox that was on a shelf in the back of the attic, she approached it. And right before she picked it up, she heard a noise come from the attic window and she flinched and looked over, but no one was there, she ignored the sound and picked up the box and opened it.
It was a... series of cassette tapes? She looked at them and there were 7 of them, they seem to be old and dusty and they were covered in a bubble wrap, she looked at them confusingly and looked back at the shelf and noticed that there was a cassette player, she grabbed it and stuffed it in her sweater. She wondered what the tapes could be about, she continued searching the attic and found a stuffed animal that she thought was adorable, so she took it with her to her room.
She was coming back down the stairs and when she was down, she could hear her dad in front of her say
"Well, someone's an explorer."
Adalyn chuckled and replied
"I mean, I got bored and wanted to explore something I never got to." She lifted the stairs back up as she was saying that.
"It's fine, we all get bored, did you find anything?"
Adalyn paused for a second and replied
"No" with a smile, she went into her room and locked the door.
She took out the cassette player and placed it on her desk, she plugged it in and took out the shoe box and opened it, she took out 'tape #1' and placed it into the cassette player. She took a deep breathe before playing it and once she felt confident enough, she pressed play.
"Hello hello hello? Ok, I think it's on? But anyways, I'm starting to tape record my weeks. Because I think I'm being stalked by someone, I'll keep on entailing my life as I keep my tape recorder in my bag wherever I go, to whoever finds this, my name is Annie Moore and I'm 17 years old, I attend East Ville High School and I'm a senior there, I'm am class of '89 and I plan to attend University of Toronto, it is currently 7:46 at the time of recording this so, this is just a quick overview of what's happening right now."
There was a cut and tape went on to the next segment
"Ok so, today is Tuesday and I'm currently on lunch break, nothing much has happened yet, although I am getting some creepy vib- oh hey Jessie! Sorry about that, my friend Jessie's just walked past, see I'm more of and introvert if anything so, I don't have much friends but I do have a small group."
The tape cut again and went to the next segment for the end of Tape #1
"It's next Tuesday; I'm back home and nothing too strange happened this week... other than some strange calls and one of my friends going missing... Although when I was walking home, an envelope came out of no where and I opened it and it read 'Love the hair.' I think the person who's stalking me must have some kind of obsession with me, but goodnight to whoever's listening to this."
The tape then stopped and Adalyn took the tape out of the cassette recorder, what the fuck did she just listen to? Was this 'Annie' girl involved in this whole murder stuff more than 20 years ago? She looked at tape #2 but didn't want to listen to it, she would invite Olivia over tomorrow as Olivia is great at putting things together, she put tape #1 back into the shoebox and hid it in her closet, and put the cassette player in her drawer, she got into bed and closed her eyes, trying to sleep. But she kept tossing and turning, 'those tapes had something to do with the murders.'
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Feared (Volume 3)
Horror7 years after the college massacre, a new killer arises and makes their way into Suras life again, mysterious murders cause Ioa and Kaja to return to their home town of East Ville. A new victim becomes Luttons main target. Can they beat Luttons this...
