Societies Misfits (Completed)

Chapter Eight

( Very quick WARNING! This chapter contains very mild s****l references that may discomfort younger readers )

Sweat fills the top of my lip as I scurry over to the safe ready to fully examen the damage that I have caused. The crack below the door lights up with a yellow hue as I hear my mom on the second floor frantically swing open her bedroom door.

"Whats all that racket," mom says as she comes rushing down the stairs.

I look at the safe on the floor and quickly decide to throw all the money back inside before mom sees me.

"SM"

In the mists of all the thousands of dollars worth of bills that I sweep up off the floor, I discover the envelope that my mom dropped, earlier inside the safe with the initials "SM". Which looks completely identical to the initials on the necklace that Jackson gifted me.

"Ok this is weird," I say under my breath.

I slide the envelope in my bra and quickly throw all the money back inside the safe. Before I even have time to place it back on the shelf I hear the jiggling of the door handle outside.

"Maybe it was raccoons," Clair says to my mom as they both enter the dark office.

"Wait out here Clair I will go alone just in case someone is inside, I don't want you getting hurt," My mom says whispering

My heart beats so fast I feel like I'm going to have a heart attack as I hear mom enter the office. The lights turn on and I have hidden again under the wooden desk in the center of the room.

"Its fine Clair you can come in," She says in a relieved sounding voice.

"What happened," Clair says as she sits on top of the desk

"It looks to be my safe has fallen off the shelf," She says examining that hideous metal thing.

"Oh wow, what's inside it?" Clair says sounding extremely intrigued

"Nothing that important just files for work I don't want people really seeing just yet," She says in her fake voice she puts on when she talks to someone in public.

It is very strange to me how my mother can go from one minute talking like a normal human being to a politician.

"Liar," I say just barely under my breath.

I so just want to make a run for it and get out of this office space once and for all that I can't stand the look of it anymore.

"Cassandra should be here soon to start cleaning the house so I better keep this place unlocked," She says as she holds up the key to Clair.

"If you want Miss Lovey I can sit and wait for Cassandra outside just to be sure nothing else happens, I am a little jumpy after that noise." She says sounding like she is about to cry.

"There is nothing to worry about Clair, we have cameras everywhere but that would be amazing, I haven't even slept yet since I got home," Mom says while yawning

Clair jumps off the desk and from what I can hear helps my mom place the safe back on the shelf

"Wait so do you just leave it like that in plain sight?" Clair says just as baffled as I was when I first spotted it on the shelf.

"Not usually no I hide it behind books," she says proudly, Like a pile of books are going to keep a big metal box safe. I bet my mom doesn't even read those old fashion books. Like she can easily search anything up online rather than sitting with a big lump of papers flicking through it until you find what you're looking for. It's almost like the bookshelf is meant for a distraction from what she is really trying to achieve, whether that is hiding whatever was and is inside that safe far away from me or more importantly whatever is in this envelope must be so secretive that she had to lock it in a metal box full of cash. Also, I might add there is a thing called a bank!

"What are books?" Clair says dumbly zoning out for a second

"Oh my, uh is that a joke... You don't know what books are?" Mom says confusedly to Clair

On second thought maybe she is secretly a book lover and I just have never thought to ask.

"Sorry I didn't hear what you said before I'm really hung over, but I do know what books are sorry my mind is somewhere else today"

"I get like that way when I work long hours at the office," she says as she coughs

"Well I best be going back to sleep, call for me if you hear any more noises," She says staring at Clair

"Will do" Clair says

The door shuts and I breathe a long slow sigh of relief that I didn't get caught in here.

"So what are you even doing in here," Clair says as she sits down on the computer chair

"Omg, how did you know I was in here?" I say confused as I crawl out from under the desk this time making sure I don't hit my head again on the wood.

"I was looking for you everywhere and the only place I hadn't looked yet was the office, plus your phone was left on the kitchen countertop, so I knew something was up, " She says spinning around in the computer chair

"Honest to God Clair I almost had a full-on mental breakdown being locked in here," I say feeling relieved that at any moment I can just walk out here and forget about this all for a little while.

"How did you even end up in here anyway?" Clair says dumbfounded

"Long story but basically I had a bad dream when I was asleep in the basement and after that, I couldn't sleep," I say leaving out the part where I thought I had broken pieces of glass in my feet. Not wanting to scare or gross her out.

Clair has always been so afraid of anything to do with blood or pain. A couple years ago Clair and I were walking home from school and I fell on the sidewalk and grazed my knees. I will never forget her face when I got up and there was the smallest amount of blood on them. Clair fell backwards on the ground and passed out from just looking at my barely bloody knees. Clair tells me to never bring that story up ever or she said she would "End this friendship"

I continue "So I walked up the basement stairs to get a glass of water to calm myself down and then I decided to make green tea but while making tea I sat down on the couch waiting for my tea to brew and I started to hear noises coming from behind the couch and when I turned around I saw Sean and Piper naked Cuddling up next to each other" I say making up the last part. "So then I basically screamed at the two of them to even have the audacity to be full on naked on my floor and kicked them out.

"I then peacefully started to sip on my green tea but I realized I left the tea bag in for too long and"

"Stop the story right there," Clair says realizing something

"Why?"

"Um hello loser its officially your birthday"

"Omg that's right I totally forget what day it was, this room made me so disorientated," I say surprised that I forgot my own birthday.

"Happy birthday, Brent, Hudson and I have something planned for you later today," She says half winking at me.

"Thanks," I say

"Bring Jackson too," She says that before I can even finish thanking her she adds

"Continue with the story I want to hear more!" She says while crossing her legs.

"So I can't remember what I was doing but I decided I think to check on you guys in the games room by when I was walking down the hallway I saw my moms office light on and thought she was home doing work or something and I got excited to see her for some very odd reason so I knocked on the door but there was no answer so I let myself in" I say finally finishing the story

"But that doesn't explain how you got locked in," Clair says still confused

"Oh ok so about that so I was like just in here exploring her office because I had never been in here before then I heard someone coming and I started to hide under the desk," I say pointing to it and continuing

"Then she came in here an looked in the that safe for some reason than locked me in here without even knowing," I say dramatically and Clair smirks

"But how did that safe fall?" She says pointing to it with her fake purple and blue plastic colored nails.

"I don't know I fell asleep and I woke up to it on the floor," I say making up the lie on the spot, not wanting to tell her that it was me being a nosy brat trying to unlock it all this time only to notice that it was halfway on the edge and fell on the floor and opened to thousands of $100 bills.

"Looks like you had an eventful night," She says poking my left arm.

"What about your night all alone with Hudson," I said teasing her

She blushes and gets ready to tell me her wild night with Mr. Michaels

"A girl should never kiss and tell but since your my bestie I must spill all the juicy details of this wonderful night," She says as she begins awkwardly playing with a strand of her own hair which she wraps it around her fingers.

"Set the scene," I say too tired to really care but still really curious about her glamorous night with my previous but not so secretive crush I had on Hudson Michaels.

Being cooped up in this space so long alone just made me want to talk until the birds start chirping. I'm always so used to having company around me that when I was alone by myself in here I was too caught in my thoughts and was slowly going crazy amongst all these ancient artifacts my mother calls books.

"God you're so turned on today Bridget Lovey I'm dying," She says making a weird s*x noise as she says my name

"Ew gross stop just continue," I say getting comfortable that she made those noises. Clair isn't really a per say very dirty person, but she does like to flirt but I'm honestly quite shocked that she knows what those noises are since her parents are so strict with her that I don't even know if she has ever watched anything remotely dirty in her life. I'm surprised I even know what those noises were to be quite honest.

"Hudson has changed you," I say getting extremely uncomfortable with this conversation.

"Nope, Brent has changed me," She says

What's that suppose to mean I think in my head but don't protest

"It actually wasn't even romantic at all, Hudson got wasted after playing a round of beer pong with Max after you went to the basement and fell asleep he full on started vomiting all over the carpet in the games room so I ran to Cassandras cleaning closet and grabbed carpet cleaner and a sponge and bent down on my knees to clean it" She says bitting her lips are she recalls the night

"Oh wow spicey, Is that all? Is this your "Glamorous night" I say laughing to the point

my whole face starts to turn bright red as I try to catch my breath.

Frustrated with me making fun of her, Clair continues recapping the night with Hudson and her.

"And I don't know if Hudson got turned on from me cleaning his vomit or me bending down with my short dress barely covering anything down under but anyway we well did stuff," She says blushing

"What kind of stuff," I say now just wanting to annoy the hell out of her.

"Use your imagination," She says as she gets up off the chair

"Well Good for you, I'm glad at least one of us had a fun night," I say finally getting too tired to even keep my eyes open any longer as I follow her outside the office.

"I'm going to head to bed," I say yawning historically

"Same, I will tell your mom in the morning that it was too cold in her office to keep watch," She says and hugs me goodnight

"Unexpected but thank you, I needed that hug," I say smiling and make my way up the stairs to my bedroom.

It's very weird to not see your mother smiling in any of your photos I think to myself as I browse the wall of photographs hanging on the opposite side of my mom's bedroom wall. I feel like my mind has been blocking things out. My whole life every day I've walked through this hallway and seen my mom smiling happy but after having these dreams all I can see is the pure shock and disappointment in her face.

Who hurt you, mom? I think to myself as I fully collapse on my bed and fall asleep.

Waking up the day feels different. The sky looks sad and gloomy as I feel the envelope inside my bra digging into me. I struggle to breathe as I start scratching at my chest to pull this out of me. It has been glued onto my skin as I slowly hear it tear my skin and start to see blood gushing out from underneath the envelope. I run to the bathroom and turn the light on to fully see what I am dealing with here. Blood oozes out of the wound and floods the white envelope a shade of deep red as I undress of my now ruined dress and make my way to the shower.

The water melts away the remainder of the envelope and I sit down on the cold floor crying out of pain as I look down to see pieces of glass wedged into my chest. My eyes grow wide as I scramble out of the shower butt naked and run out my bedroom door screaming.

The House is quiet aside from the humming noise I hear as I make my way down the stairs and see Cassandra vacuuming up so sort of mess on the floor. Luckily she doesn't see me as I run to the kitchen and look under the sink for the first aid kit. I drop to my knees as I feel a heavy hand holding me down against the cupboard.

"Make a sound little girl and I will end you" I hear a very thick Italian accent as I turn my head and see Cassandra pinning me down as blood pours out of my chests.

She pulls me by my hair and drags me to the dining room as my blood slowly drips out and stains the floor.

"Help" I scream for someone to help me as Cassandra grabs a knife from inside her pocket

"Scream little girl and I will slit your throat" She threatens as the knife digs into my skin

I start to whimper as I see my mother coming down the stairs with her eyes bloodshot and wide eyes. She tries to run over to me but it's no use, The man in the black cloak already stops her in her tracks and,

BANG!

I've actually gotten pretty used to having these dreams I say to my self as I sit up in my bed, the envelope still inside my bra. I pull it out and begin to carefully tear it open.

"Dear.." before I can even begin to read the note inside I am rudely disturbed by my door flying open as Brent, Clair and my mom all barge inside.

"What," I say a little too angerly as I hide the envelope under my blanket

"Its Sean and Piper," Mom says as she looks at Clair and Brent

"What about them," I say as Clair starts to ball her eyes out.

"They're dead!"

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