Falling Into Darkness: The Under Series Book 1

by Dakota Lake

  I looked at my bedsheets that were splatted with the liquid. I rolled them into a ball and walked past the bathroom with the sheets in my arms.

  “Are you okay?”

  “No I swallowed some, I think I'm going to be sick.”

  She rinsed her mouth round with water and spat it back in the sink.

  “Why would someone have a flask of blood that's disgusting and really disturbing?” I asked watching her scrubbing her tongue with her toothbrush.

  “Maybe you should add vampires to that list of weird things living in Heaven's Point,” she said half smiling before spitting in the sink again.

  “It's not a joke Carly. I was in the truck alone with Emmett earlier, now I find out he has some weird blood fetish.”

  “Who said I was joking, why else would someone have a flask of blood?”

  “This is real life Carly not some paranormal novel full of vampires,”

  “Yes and just downstairs we were talking about fallen angels and the fact your brother might be a Nephilim, so why not add vampires and werewolves to the mix.”

  “Shhh! Micah's still downstairs he might hear you. Clean yourself up you got some on your top.” “Crap! I love this top.” She pulled it over her head and started running the red blood stain under the cold tap.

  I went downstairs to the room at the back of the cabin, which was basically the laundry room with the washing machine and electric dryer. I put the sheets on top and sorted them into the wash. “Didn't you just wash those sheets?” Micah said from the door.

  “What are you the washing police? Why are you still here?”

  “Is that blood?” he asked looking at the sheet that was sticking out covered in blood spots. “Maybe,” I replied adding the powder.

  “Why is there blood on your sheets?”

  “Well Micah I didn't really want to tell but seeing as you want to know everything. Sometimes during each month of a girls cycle.....”

  “Whoa, stop talking. Enough said, I wont ask another question. Carry on with what you were doing.” he hovered by the washing machine while I switched it on.

  “Has your friend said anything about me?” he asked.

  “What Carly?”

  “Obviously, unless you have another girl up in your room?”

  “No she hasn't. Why would you ask me that?”

  “No reason.”

  “Micah with you there's always a reason, you just never want to share any of them.” “Do you have any cleaning soap I can rub into this, I spilt coffee on it?” Carly asked from the doorway. She was holding her top in her hand and hadn't bothered to cover herself up so her hot pink bra was on full display.

  “I think so, let me just have a look,” I turned around and opened the cupboard but Micah pushed me out the way.

  “I'll get it.” he said searching through the cupboard.

  “Seriously,” I mouthed at Carly referring to her bra on show.

  What he's hot, even if he is crazy his hotness over rules it..... she winked at me.

  “Here it is.” he said bumping his head on the cupboard at the same time. He stood up and held it out to her while he kept his eyes on the washing machine.

  “Thanks.” she took it and went over to the sink. Micah quickly walked out the room. I had no idea what was going on he was acting so different, was it Carly? Was Micah nervous because of Carly, I'd never seen him act so strange around a girl before.

  I followed him into the front room.

  “So you two are going to be at Kate's all night?” he asked.

  “It's Caitlin and yes that's the plan. Carly is driving us over there and she can drive us back in the morning, so you don't need to worry about picking me up. Okay?”

  Carly walked into the room.

  “I think I got it out, I left it in the sink, just chuck it in the next wash.”

  I looked at her most of her curly blonde hair was covering the front of her now.

  “I should give you my number, encase you need me for anything?” Micah said to Carly. “It's okay I already have your number,” I said to him, but he ignored me and walked straight past me.

  Don't spoil it, who knew flashing your cleavage would get a guys digits so quick...... Carly pulled her cell out of her back pocket and handed it to him. I watched him type in his number and hand it back to her, I also saw the way his thumb overlapped her finger for a second when he handed it back.

  “You can call or message anytime, I mean if you need anything?”

  “I really need some crunchy peanut butter next time you're near the store, that would be great,” I said interrupting them.

  Jealous much? Carly spoke to me.

  “Am not.” I said out loud to her by accident. Micah looked at me then back at Carly. “I mean I am not in a rush for the peanut butter but I would like some sooner rather than later.” Smooth recovery.....she said while smiling innocently at him.

  “Are they drawn on?” Micah asked referring to the three small freckles Carly had near the edge of her eye.

  “Um no I've always had them, born with them, sort of like a birth mark I guess,” he nodded and walked towards the door.

  “I'm going to head out, got stuff to do.”

  He stepped backwards and ended up bumping into the door, he quickly turned fumbled with the door catch before he finally managed to get it open.

  I walked over to the window and watched him as he climbed into his Dodge. He was smacking his head with hand like he had just done something wrong.

  “What just happened?” Carly asked joining me at the window.

  “I'm not entirely sure, but I think Micah might like you? Either that or you just stunned him with your boobs and he forgot how to function.”

  He was inside his Dodge when he caught us watching him. I waved at him, I wasn't sure what else I was meant to do.

  I couldn't wait until tonight, I could forgot about what was going on for a few hours, today had bought up too many questions that I didn't have the answers for.

  “So what time's this party? I am in desperate need of alcohol to disinfect my mouth,” “Seven-ish.”

  “Come on we have five hours to kill and make you look super hot, not that it will take much you're already killer.” Carly said pulling me up the stairs.

  Chapter Twenty One

  “What number is it again?” she asked looking out the window.

  “64 it should be along here somewhere we just passed 58 a minute ago. Look there.” I said pointing at a load of cars parked on a grass verge.

  “That is one big ass house,” Carly said driving past. “Are you sure that's it?”

  “Yeah 64 it's there on the brick wall, stop the car and go back. Caitlin said we could park round the back of the house.”

  Carly drove down the long drive, all the trees were covered in fairy lights and streamers, she pulled up at the side of the guest house.

  “Guest house, how many does it sleep, what is this Robbie boy a millionaire or something?” “His dad travels a lot on business I don't know what he does though?”

  Another car pulled up next to Carly's bug. It was Caitlin with Aimee, Caitlin started waving frantically at us.

  “I take it you know them?” Carly said quietly as she opened the door.

  “Hi guys. This is my friend Carly,”

  “I'm Aimee and that's Caitlin. Do you guys want to drop your bags off, Caitlin has the key to the guest house already.”

  Carly and I followed behind and walked into the guest house and straight into a room with a huge TV hung on the wall and a couch that went around in a circle.

  “So there is four bedrooms in this place which works out just right for us I'd say,” Caitlin said closing the door.

  We all carried our bags up the stairs. Aimee went down the corridor into a bedroom and Caitlin went into the one opposite her. I looked at Carly and shrugged I didn't mind which room I slept in, this place was like a palace compared to the cabin and this was only the guest house I wondered what inside the
main house looked like?

  Carly went into the room in front so I walked into the room on the left. I switched the light on, the walls were white, which matched the bedspread. The bed was a four poster with pale blue drapes that matched the carpet and curtains at the balcony door.

  I dumped my bag on the floor and unlocked the balcony door.

  Outside the sky was dark and cloudy, the air felt icy cold, it was going to be a cold night tonight. I could hear laughing and loud music coming from the main house.

  “You ready? They're going over to the party now,” Carly called.

  “Just coming,” I caught a glimpse of myself in the glass door. I looked taller cause I had my black wedge trainers on, matched with skinny black jeans and a black vest. Carly had put some braids into the side of my head to keep my hair off my face, she was right my appearance had definitely changed.

  Caitlin locked the front door and put the key in her pocket.

  “If anyone needs to get back into the guest house you will have to come and find me cause I have the only key.”

  We walked across the shingles back around to the front of the house.

  “Do you think he's here already?” Aimee asked Caitlin.

  “Who?” I asked wondering who she was talking about.

  “Some college student in Heaven's Point set up a dating website for teenagers as a bit of fun and Aimee being Aimee went on and has apparently met the guy of her dreams on there.” Caitlin said. “Yep and he's meant to be here tonight,” Aimee added.

  “And you've never met him before?” Carly asked.

  “Nope all I know is his online name and that he will be wearing a black tie tonight.” “Ruby ask Aimee what his name is?” Caitlin said winking at me. I wondered what I was missing. “His name is Rich Randy Roberto, we've been casually chatting for months and now I get to meet him face to face and take it to next level.” Aimee said adjusting her bra under her top. Now it made sense why Caitlin was in such hysterics when Robbie's was telling her about his party and that he was finally going to meet his online girlfriend. Aimee and Robbie had been chatting to each other all this time and had no idea they already knew and disliked each other. Aimee strutted in front and pressed the doorbell.

  “She has no idea?” I asked Caitlin quietly.

  “None whatsoever, I should really get Josh to video this moment so they can cherish it forever.” “And you knew all this time, you sneak,” I said.

  “Huh?” Carly asked wondering what we were talking about.

  “I'll explain later.”

  “Well hello there,” Robbie opened the front door and leaned against the door frame. He was wearing a white shirt with the top half unbuttoned and black tie loosely hanging round the collar. I wondered how long it was going to take before Aimee figured it out.

  “So as always there is an admission fee, bras in the box girls,” Robbie said flashing his cheesy grin. Aimee rolled her eyes and shook her head like she was bored already.

  “Don’t worry it's a silly prank he does to see how many willing victims he can get.” Caitlin said. “And at the end of the party he doesn’t let anyone have them back, he just keeps them in his room, I still want my purple leopard print back you perv!” Aimee said louder than necessary. Robbie stood there smiling, I think he was enjoying it.

  “Move,” Aimee said trying to push past but he blocked her.

  “Move you little creep or I'll break your bony little neck.”

  He smiled at her and quickly leaned in and kissed her on the lips.

  She made a disgusted sound and shoved him out the way.

  “You look like an idiot in that tie,” Aimee said not looking back.

  “It's for my lady friend, so she can find me.” Robbie said smoothing it down.

  Aimee had already walked off down the hallway.

  “Come in girls, welcome welcome and new girl welcome,” Robbie said to Carly. I noticed a box on the table with a bra hanging over the side and realised they weren't joking about the bra in the box thing.

  The place looked ridiculously big. There was two staircases winding round each side of the wall in a circlular shape to meet in the middle at the top, even the entrance I was standing in could have easily been as big as the whole of the downstairs cabin put together. Robbie turned and stood in front of us.

  “Okay so seriously girls, the only things I need to mention are, if you're going to party take it outside, my mom will freak if she smells that stuff in here,”

  He was talking about drugs, I wasn’t that kind of girl and I was sure Carly and Caitlin wouldn’t touch drugs, Aimee on the other I hand I wasn’t so sure about she was a loose cannon. “Also if you're planning on getting highly intoxicated please refrain from using the pool, the last thing I want to do tonight is fish a dead girl from it and just one more thing no number twos in the flower pots this year, mom was kind of traumatised after last year.”

  The doorbell went again and Robbie stepped around us to answer it.

  I turned and saw Caitlin giggling.

  “Last year a few of the boys thought it would be funny to see how many flower pots they could.....well you get the picture it was pretty gross.”

  “That is totally gross!” Carly said.

  We walked along the hallway, there we're people everywhere, each room was crowded with faces I didn't recognise.

  “How many people did Robbie invite?” I asked Caitlin.

  “He put flyers up at Copeland College hoping all the college girls would turn up.” Caitlin turned off the hallway and into a long room which had windows running the length of it. Outside there was a long pool with teenagers jumping in and out playing with an inflatable ball. The long room we we're in had couches all pushed together in a line running the length of the room and further down there was a large table stocked with bottles and cans of alcoholic and soft drinks. Even under the table was crammed with boxes of drink.

  “Does Robbie's parent's know about all this?” I asked Caitlin.

  “Who do you think funds all this, his dad is a major business man that works abroad and his mom goes everywhere with him, topping up her tan on the beach. Robbie usually gets whatever Robbie wants I suppose they think this makes up for them not being here. But his parties are pretty awesome. You can help yourself to whatever you want, I'm going to see if I can find Josh.” “This is crazy look at all the free booze. I am so jealous of your new friends I can't believe this is your life now,” Carly said chucking her jacket onto a couch that was so piled up with other peoples coats and jackets you could no longer see the couch underneath.

  “Well it might not be for much longer, Seth might still be sending me back home.” “Oh yeah because there's someone planning to kidnap you or hurt you according to Micah's visions of the future or whatever you want to call them. So it's easy we'll just figure out who it is and send Micah round to sort them out.”

  “Yes and I don't even want to know what 'sort them out' would mean to Micah, probably something involving a shovel.”

  “So because you went following Mack to the fight club someone might have seen you while you were there and want to kidnap you, have I got that right?”

  “Yes, my guess is it's that crazy nut job Cole he wanted to know way to much information about me.”

  “But you lied to Micah and said you weren't there, so at the minute Micah thinks you're semi safe according to his vision, but instead you actually did go and might be in immediate grave danger of being kidnapped. Don't you think you should have really told Micah the truth? What if you really are in danger?”

  “No, he would have packed my stuff for me and driven me out of town that same night. I don't want to leave, I like it here. Anyway I think Micah's hiding something else I still don't know who lives in that trailer but I think Micah was on his way to see them.”

  “So to keep you safe we need to figure out who it is that's planning to kidnap you and avoid them. So we need to keep our eyes peeled for anyone suspicious, I got it I can do that.�
�� Carly said popping the lid of a pink alcoholic bottle.

  “What it's free, I'm not turning down free drink anyway I'm not driving tonight and my bed is about fifty steps that way, I can even see the guest house from here,” she said pointing at the window. “Fine but don't expect me to carry you when you can't walk anymore.”

  “No problem, maybe I can ask the boy outside who hasn't stopped staring over this way since we walked in the room.”

  I quickly looked outside and saw Mack sitting on a sun lounger with a group of people, he was looking this way but he quickly diverted his eyes when I looked at him.

  “That's Mack,” I said, my heart felt as though it skipped a beat when he looked at me. “Shut up! No wonder you can't stop talking or thinking about him, I think I'd have a hard time forgetting him, he is something else. Meooow!”

  Mack was wearing a plain white T-shirt, black skinny jeans with his green high tops. He was playing some game with a few boys, tossing coins into a cup on the floor.

  “Come on let's go outside and see if he comes over,”

  “He won't, he hates me and is currently ignoring me.”

  “Then why does he keep looking at you,”

  I sat on a small brick wall on the other side of the pool looking down at the can of fizzy soda Carly had opened for me.

  Carly was talking to some college boy behind me.. A tall guy walked through the glass doors carrying a girl in his arms, he set her down on the floor. She was wearing a cheerleading outfit carrying pom poms, I recognised her from English class. It was Millie this was the first time I had seen her since the falling light accident she looked fine now sipping on a straw in a beer bottle. She went over to the sun lounger and wedged herself in between Mack and another boy. “Scowling doesn't suit you,” Aimee said from beside me.

  “I wasn't, I don't know what you're talking about?”

  “That should be you wedging yourself in over there like a cheese sandwich, you are tons better looking than that floozy,”

  “It's fine she can sit next to who she wants.”

  “Okay but I guess you're imagining clawing her eyes out right now aren't you?” she asked smiling. “Maybe?” I replied watching Millie drape her arm over Mack's shoulders.