Crimson

Chapter 1

We stepped out of the car and walked to the open doors. The loud sound of Phoebe's heels made some guys that were standing in front of the door instantly gaze at us.

One guy slowly sipping back his bottle of beer while he stared at me instead of Phoebe. It made me nervous. The first thing I did was avoid eye contact and kept on walking.

Almost at the doors I could already hear the pounding music from inside. The two guys that stood in front of the door took a step aside for us while one gave me a soft smile. I looked back at him showing no emotion and just walked calmly inside.

Entering the party the strong smell of alcohol and sweat hit my nostrils. People danced and kissed. I walked through the crowd of dancing people with Phoebe by my side.

Finally we found the kitchen which is littered with red cups and has bottles of alcohol on the counters.

I poured a drink for myself. "This party is so sick." Phoebe looked around with a wide smile. "Mhm... do you want a drink?"

"Yes please I need one. Also, did you see those guys outside? So hot!" She winked.

"Yes I did."

"They were hot right?"

"Honestly, yes they were hot but looked way older tho."

"Even better." Phoebe and I giggled.

"I'm going to the toilet, stay here and don't leave." Phoebe spoke.

"Okay." I nod.

As I poured a drink for Phoebe I sudden felt someone twirling a stroke of my hair.

I turned around facing the one and only...

Adalind, ginger red curls, a flawless nose and bright green eyes she is captain of the cheerleader team. The ideal bully and a pain in the ass. She spends most of her time making people's lives miserable including me.

"Violet!" she screamed, pulling me into a tight hug.

"U-uhm, Adalind." I said confused. "I missed you Violet." she added, squeezing me harder. I just stood there as a confusing stick. Her ginger red curls were all up in my face, and then she let go of me taking the drink that was ment for Phoebe out of my hand.

She brought it up to her mouth and chugged the alcohol back. "Woah I needed that." she moaned. "Adalind are you drunk." I asked her unsure.

"Shut up pretty." Adalind put her finger on my mouth and shushed me. Her long acrylics almost touched the top of my nose. I widend my eyes what the f**k does she think she's doing. Before I wanted to push that leprechaun away a pale hand snatched Adalind off of me.

"Sorry about that." a girl with raven black hair, piercing green orbs and pretty dark makeup apologized to me.

I adjusted myself. "I- is she okay I think she might be drunk?"

She chuckled. "Yes don't worry about it Adalind can be crazy and a little too touchy when she's drunk."

I gave her a weak smile.

"Oh, Marina nice to meet you. I'm Adalind's cousin." She introduced herself.

"Hi I'm Violet, nice to meet you." I nod.

Why was the tension here so awkward...

"Ugh y'all so boring... i'm out of here." Adalind waddled to the crowd with dancing people leaving only me and Marina alone. I was hoping Phoebe would be back by now but she is taking so long.

"So you guys go to the same school?" she asked.

I looked back at Marina. "Uh... yes d-do you go to Ridgewood?" I stuttered and got embarrassed. I'm not good at small talk okay.

"No I don't, I dropped out of school, it's not really my thing I guess."

"Well lucky you I was also thinking about dropping out or doing school online but my mom doesn't approve."

“Let me guess, you're a senior right? your last year you'll make it." she smiled.

“Mhm I hope so."

“It was nice meeting you, maybe we'll stumble across eachother here. Bye."

“Bye." I smiled.

I took a deep breath and poured another drink for Phoebe. About Phoebe, where is she?

"Hi Violet!" Phoebe squealed and laughed.

“Took you long enough." I rolled my eyes.

She grabbed my arm and dragged me to the dance floor.

On the way she told me why she was away for so long. "Sorry I met this boy in the hallway and he couldn't stop talking to me." she bit her lip.

I rose my brow. "What did you guys kiss or something."

Phoebe giggled. "Maybe..."

"Oh damn girl, anyways here's your drink, let's dance." I gave Phoebe her drink and we got lost in the crowd.

We danced what felt like hours.

But then I dragged myself out of the crowd and sat on a random chair at the kitchen side. I was wasted my hair was all messy on my face. I couldn't think properly. And then I heard a familiar voice saying "Woah had a good time I see!"

I looked up seeing Marina with a bottle of alcohol in her hands slowly chugging down

"Oh hey Marina." I said drunk.

She sat down beside me. "You know we should do something fun, like a game or something."

Phoebe sudden appeared in front of us "Hell yeah that would be fun."

"Hi Phoebe." Marina said.

Wait how did Marina know Phoebe's name because they had never introduced themselves to each other or did they?

"Wait how do you know her-" I said but was interrupted by Marina. "Guys let's go upstairs." she took our hands tightly and walked to the stairs.

"Why upstairs? Marina what are we doing?" I yelped.

Phoebe looked around confusingly and then her eyes met me. "A f*****g threesome?" she whispered.

I furrowed my brows. "Girl what?"

We entered a pastel pink room. A huge bed in the middle of the room and posters of a young Leonardo Dicaprio covered the walls. "Who's room is this?" I questioned.

"Mine." Adalind said, she was sitting on the ground.

"Is that f*****g Leonardo Dicaprio, oh my god." Phoebe screamed while looking at the walls.

"Sit down in a circle girls." Marina demanded.

I sat down and wondered what she had in mind. I was curious. "So what are we gonna do?"

"Shhh...You'll see." Marina said and she also sat down in the circle. I stared at her as she grabbed a few things behind her and placed it down in the middle.

Interesting.

She grabbed a tube which said liquid chalk and a paintbrush. Are we going to paint with liquid chalk or something?I tried to hold in my laugh.

But then I saw Marina easily painting a pentacle down on the ground. The smile I had plastered on my face faded. Why is she drawing a pentacle?

I spoke up "What are you doing and why are you drawing a pentacle?"

Phoebe laughed. "The f**k are you doing girl?"

Marina spoke up. "I'm just trying out something out of this old book which I found in Adalind's basement. Nothing to worry about It's probably not even gonna work."

“Yeah it's so weird. Me and my mom were cleaning out the basement and we found a box with all this s**t. It looked hella old and was full of random books." Adalind said.

I don't have a good feeling about this. Old books a pentacle no no this is not good. I glanced at Phoebe. She wasn't paying attention to this at all, instead she was chugging down a whole bottle of alcohol "Uhm guys me and Phoebe should get going it's late we don't have time for this." I said nervously.

Marina shot her eyes at me. "Why Violet? Are you scared?" she said in a dark undertone.

“N-no we just ne—."

"Then stop making excuses to get out of here, let's just try something, everything's gonna be fine just trust me."

I nod. "Alright but do it fast, I ain't got time for this bullshit."

At last she lit up some candles and placed them in the circle perfectly just as the book told.

My stomach felt like it was being twisted and I noticed my hands were shaking. This didn't felt good at all and I have a bad feeling about this.

“Everyone hold each other's hands now."

We all held each other's hands. I looked at Marina and she was saying strange words. Sudden my head start to get dizzy my eyesight blurry and I felt like I needed to puke. "Marina I don't feel so good we need to stop." I wanted to let go of Marina and Phoebes hand but Marina pulled me back in the circle.

“Violet are you okay you look pale." Phoebe looked at me worried. "N-no I need to puke."

“Marina stop, don't you see she doesn't feel good." Phoebe said.

Marina didn't respond and her eyes were rolling back. "No not yet I can't we're almost there." she shivered.

"I- I have to go." I stood up but Marina's hand was pulling me back. And then her sharp nails dugged inside my skin.

I gasped. "I-it burns stop." I yelped out, my eyes started to water.

"Marina stop, you are hurting her." Phoebe yelled at Marina still she did not respond. Her eyes were still rolling back and it seemed like she couldn't hear any of what was happening.

Blood dripped down my hand to my arm and then to the paper of the book that was placed in the middle of the pentacle.

I cried out it felt like someone was burning the inside of my body.

But then Phoebe jumped on Marina and pushed her to the ground.

Marina woke up. Her eyes were back to normal.

"YOU f*****g LUNATIC!." I screamed at Marina.

I crawled up and quickly walked out of Adalind's room. I quickly walked through a hallway it was full of people talking and chilling with red cups in their hand. I couldn't think straight my head felt like it was going to explode and this bloody arm I had was starting to hurt more and more.

And then I almost hit a white wall in the hallway.

"Are you okay?" A guy asked as he looked worried at me and my bloody arm. I started panicking "Y-yes I just—"

I ran off to the stairs and made my way to the door. I got out of there and started the car.

A/N: Thank you guys so much for reading and I hope you enjoyed. The first chapter, this took me so long.

Bye loves and take care <3