11. Presenting Rhea Taylor, Mom to Idiotic Brats.

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"I can feel the air leave my lungs. I can feel my limbs wanting to fall apart from the pain. I can feel my eyes desperately fighting to keep from closing into unconsciousness. I can f-"

"Does she always exaggerate so much?"

"Pretty much."

I glared at Matt (for asking a question so ridiculously untrue) and Mae (for lying, obviously).

"Come on, Aria. It's just a little bit farther. You can do this. We all believe in you, " Owen spoke up from somewhere in front of the group. I could feel my lips twitching into a grin, when I heard a snort. Or two. Mostly from my left where Mason and Rhea were walking. I narrowed my eyes at the two.

"All of this is Ethan's fault, " I whined like the lazy, 6 year old I was (at heart, at least).

It was Saturday and we had finally decided to come down to the "Cursed House of Paradise" as some of the old citizens still called it, according to Owen.

"What?! How is anything my fault? I didn't even say anything!" the idiot was quick to defend himself.

"Oh yeah? Wasn't it you who suggested we park the cars away from the house?" I pinned him with my finest glare.

"N-no. It was Torryn," he said, pointing at the one he blamed. I looked at Torryn to see that he had an eyebrow raised at Ethan, as if to say,'really?'.

"Ha. You're only trying to push the blame on others-"

"What? I would never do that! You are-"

"God, shut up, you two! You're behaving like a bunch of idiotic, bratty kids. Ethan, everyone remembers you saying and I quote, 'let's park our cars a few blocks away and walk on the spooky road right next to the forest!'. And Aria, stop with the whining, it was just a 15 minute walk and look, we're almost there," Rhea glared at Ethan and me, when we both muttered "okay, mom" after she was done speaking.

After walking for a 100 minutes or 15 (depends on how much you like physical exercise), we finally stood in front of a huge, mysterious, almost-covered-in-fog house. Though, mansion was probably a better fitting word for it.The mansion was so tall and huge, it could be seen over the towering walls around it. The gates seemed to be made of iron and were just as tall as the mansion they guarded. The trees inside the gates had all shed their leaves. The ground was full of leaves shed by said trees. The mansion was almost intimidating, with its huge form and the darkness surrounding it.

We all stood there, almost in awe of the hauntingly beautiful house, when the sound of a gate being pushed open, pulled us out of our stupor. Everyone looked at Torryn, who was staring at us from inside the gates.

"What are you all waiting for? Let's get going." With that, he marched on deeper into the fog.

Here's a patient guy.

We all followed him inside. For some reason, all of us were walking as silently as possible. Maybe because we didn't want to disturb the quiet of the place. Or maybe, I thought as I took in Rhea's trembling hand and Ethan's cautious eyes, just maybe, some of us are afraid.

Everyone striding ahead in apprehension and excitement towards the monster of a house; the scene was something out of a horror movie. One could hear distant howling. The howling only helped to increase my excitement.

Behind me a twig snapped and everyone turned around fast enough to give 40 people a whiplash. We looked at Mason, who muttered an apology, smiling sheepishly.

All of us were almost in front of the door, when Mason hastily pointed at a room that wasn't visible from outside the gates and the walls, but, now that we were inside, we could clearly see that, "the lights in that room are on!"

And before any of us could suggest going back, the door opened.

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Hey guys! How is the new year going for you? It's going great for me! (But it's not that great considering I have exams soon)

Also, I may not update for a while since I'm going for a camp and then exams will try to swallow me whole. But I shall try my best not to let them. Swallow me whole, I mean.

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