Untitle Love

Chapter One: Party for the Horror

It came to the end of the school day on Friday, as Aygul headed to my house so I could pack a few clothes for the weekend and what not. I managed to catch my mom getting ready for another day of work in the dining room, surrounded by paper work.

“Hey mom, haven’t seen you or dad the whole week. How’s your job goin-”, as I got interrupted by a shush and her pointing at her phone as she’s on call, I decided to just head to my room and pack some clothes.

I packed a few outfits, like my favorite oversized band t and black ripped skinny jeans. Even my favorite grey sweater and black leggings. As I headed back downstairs to the front door, mom was no longer in the dining room and presumably the house either. Not even a trace that she was there, kind of creepy, but I’m used to it.

As I made my way to Aygul’s Jeep, I noticed she was staring off, like she was tranced by something. I got in the passenger seat and she shook herself out of whatever she was staring so intently at.

“You alright?”, I asked out of confusion.

“Yeah, yeah, just, saw something in the distance. Must have been a deer.”, she giggled, attempting to not seem somewhat disturbed by whatever she must have seen. I brushed it off as an Aygul thing.

It wasn’t long till we got to Aygul’s house. Her parents are security guards for some store that needed security guards after getting robbed one too many times. As I dragged in my bookbag with my clothes for the weekend to Aygul’s room and laid out the blowup mattress I always stay on at her place. We decided to chill and watch movies till we passed out cold on the couch.

Saturday night sneaked up right on me and Aygul like it was nothing. We got ready to go to the meet up. I grabbed my black sweater and black ripped jeans and put them on. Aygul decided to wear a cold shoulder, folded over, light pink sweater and white skinny jeans. She decided she was gonna do my makeup, which she decided to give nearly black smokey eyes to make my icey blue eyes “pop” more. She then curled my platinum hair for me, and she straightened her light brown locks. Her dark brown eyeshadow made her chocolate eyes look like chocolate diamonds. When we decided that we were ready to go to this “meet up”, we headed out.

It was almost a half an hour worth of a drive to our destination. When we arrived, about three other cars were parked in the small grand driveway. As we started to make our way to the grand house, we were greeted by a short girl. Jumping around excitedly, she hugged Aygul.

“It’s been so long since I’ve hung out with Aygul!”, the very petite girl was excited. Even more petite than me and Aygul. If it wasn’t for the fact I’ve seen her walking in the halls in the high school, I would have sworn she was a child.

“Lily this is Xion, Xion, this is Lily.”, as Aygul kindly informed but clearly excited too.

“It’s sooo nice to meet you Lily!”, Xion jumped to hug me. Her tight grip on me shook me for a second, not expecting such a tiny person to be so strong.

“Nice to meet you too, Xion.”, blushing slightly out of embarrassment.

Almost as if out of nowhere, a tall pale man with black hair appeared, and Xion let me go. He wore a black “Supreme” hoodie with black skinny jeans and black sneakers. He looked like a fashionable edgelord. But of course, Xion ran up and jumped and hugged him. They were like two different sides of the spectrum.

“Xion, what did I tell you about hugging strangers. You know some people are just not huggers.”, the man before me and Aygul was none other than “Higanbana Chernoff”. He is most well known for being obviously Russian and Japanese (for whatever odd reason). Unlike most of Grimhaven’s population, people with a pale complexion aren’t common and usually are thought to not have any long run ancestry to Grimhaven, for some reason. Now that I think about that, Xion does resemble a more fenime (and childish) version of Higanbana. As I started to wonder if they were related...

“Higanbana, your sister wasn’t causing us any trouble. Lily is just a bit shy. Lily, this is Higanbana. Higanbana, this is Lily.” Aygul beamed. As usual, Aygul’s cheerful attitude lightens any awkwardness in the air.

As we all headed inside, we were greeted by, somehow of course, Blaze. His dark brown yet yellowish gold eyes got caught on me. His dark brown hair was it’s usual mystery emo boy styled mess, but his tan skin almost looked like that of a super model’s up close. It was hard to not notice he was toned with his tight t-shirt with some famous superhero logo on it. He was also wearing black joggers and had grey socks on. I wondered if this was his home considering how comfy he looked. As if shocked to know I existed though, he stared at me in silence.

“Blaze! Stop ogling over Lily. We get it, she’s pretty.”, Higanbana boomed. I blushed in response. Am I actually pretty? As if not to “ruin” the light hearted mood, Blaze’s girlfriend, Melenoy Baker, wrapped her arms around Blaze’s waist. If I would have known someone so stuck up would have been here, I would have avoided the drama…

Her long black hair and emerald eyes went so well with her limestone skin tone. Of course to be expected of the top popular girl too, she was wearing some name brand red long sleeve shirt with checkers up the middle of the sleeve, with black skinny jeans, and red high top Converse. As if on cue, Blaze stopped eyeing me the minute Melenoy made contact with him. But Melenoy on the other hand had started staring me down like I must have kicked her puppy...

“Heh, heh, let's go watch some movies guys! I’m totally down for some horror!”, Aygul, even feeling the awkwardness and tension from her, yet of course excited, we all decided to go towards the personal indoor movie theater.

As we filled the movie den, we all noticed someone was missing out of our group. Where did Melenoy go? We looked at one another and then at Blaze who was just as confused. She was with all of us a second ago. The first time ever though, I heard Blaze speak.

“I go see if she ran to the bathroom, the rest of you wait here. Feel free to take a seat, this shouldn’t take long…”, he said, somewhat gritting his teeth.

As he vanished off into the house somewhere, everyone took their seats. Me and Aygul of course sat next to each other, Xion was next to Aygul. And next to Xion was her brother. As we waited...there was a sudden, loud growl somewhere in the house. Everyone looked at each other. But everyone but me had this, strange look in their eyes. Like they knew something about the growl. Suddenly there was another growl, and a crash of someone falling into something.

Clearly I was terrified, but everyone else had made up their minds and seemed more irritated than scared. What the hell is going on outside the theater den?!