by Leah Adams
I frowned and stared out of my window. The trees were blowing hardly and the leaves that were on the ground blow all around.
Had it been windy earlier? Was that the reason why I thought I saw those leaves flying all around Jay?
“Bonnie, maybe you need some more sleep?” I heard my dad say. “You seem like you are still half asleep.”
“No, I’m fine.” I said folding my arms and looking at him. “So, how’s my car?”
“It’s in the shop, I should know more tomorrow, but it looks like it won’t be out tomorrow. I will have to take you to school.”
“That’s ok dad. I can get Ang or Beth to pick me up.” I said shaking my head.
“You sure?”
“Very.” I told him and then walked over to my desk. I saw my books neatly placed by my computer. I stared at them and I shook my head. I didn’t place them there. “I need to do my homework.” I picked up a book and waved it in the air.
He shook his head. “Okay. Your mother cooked, so you can go get something to eat. It’s late, but you should eat something.”
“Okay.” I said then looked at the clock and saw that it was passed eleven. I wondered why he or mom hadn’t wakened me up. I wondered even more, why I had slept so long.
Something told me it wasn’t because of the fact that I was tried.
My dad walked out of my room. I set at my desk and looked at the books that I had homework to do with, but I knew that I wasn’t going to do it. There were still too many things going through my head about the forbidden four.
What in the heck where they?
They had to be human, there was no way they were something else. How childish was I to even think they could be something else?
Did I think I was a part of some kind of Anne Rice novel? I laughed to myself and folded my arms, looking up at the ceiling. I was acting crazy and not altogether. There was just no way I was in my right mind, right now.
Honestly thinking they were anything but human was insane.
The very idea made me want to laugh some more. If someone had come to me saying they had thought this, I would think they were crazy.
The forbidden four are not human. My mind kept screaming at me, even as I laugh off the idea. No matter how hard I tried to not think about that idea, it kept coming back into my head. The forbidden four are not human.
It just couldn’t be, but if it was, I would find out.
I don’t remember how I went to bed that night or if I did indeed go to sleep. All I could remember was twisting and turning in the night, from terrors I didn’t know were true or if they were just in my head.
After I had taken my shower and put on my clothes, after I had woken up, I went down stairs. I went to the fig and opened it, so I could search for something to eat. Not eating anything the other night had made my stomach angry at me.
I had been too busy with thoughts of the forbidden four, to even remember to eat. I had even only half hearty done my homework and hoped that it was done well enough, that the teacher didn’t think I might as well not have even attempted.
My mother it seemed had cooked some pasta the other night, but I chose not to touch it. I had school today and I didn’t want to have my already twisting stomach full with something my mother had cooked.
I took out some bread and made a slice of toast, which I felt, would be enough until lunch. I told myself I would pig out at lunch. Right now my mind was too bunched up with ideas of the forbidden four and eating may not help my stomach right now, even with it upset at me for not eating.
When I closed the fig I noticed that my parents had left me a note saying, that my car would be fixed by tomorrow, and I was too call them once I got home from school.
After my toast was done I ate it in salience trying my hardest not to think about the forbidden four until I was done eating. If I thought about them while I was eating I was scared my stomach would act up even worst.
I turned the TV on, that was in the kitchen, and sat there listening to the news. The man on the TV was talking about a guy gone missing, that was close to the place where I lived.
“Eric Lakes was last seen at the book store, by Henry Jakes on Atkinson. If you know anything about this matter the police are asking that you call their hotline.” The guy said then he turned to the woman that was sitting by him. “There have been a lot of missing people over by that place.”
The woman shook her head making her shoulder-length hair move. “Yes, this is the fourth person that has gone missing from over there, but it’s the tenth that has gone missing from the overall area, in the past few months. It seems like the missing people rate has more than double these past few months. Police are even talking about putting a caw few for miners.”
The guy chuckled. “Yes, but this was a grown man that went missing. Only two of the missing people were teens.”
The woman smiled. “Yes, that is truth. Let’s go to Dave for the weather…..” I turned the TV off.
Someone else had gone missing. If the forbidden four was doing this they were moving fast. I had seen Jay move very quickly, so quickly my eyes could even get in him focus.
But why were they doing this, if they were even doing this, and why here?
This place wasn’t anywhere special? I thought to myself as I placed my now empty plate in the sink. What was here that they wanted?
In fact they were rich, so why were they even going to a school like mine? What was in this place that they wanted?
I put my coat and shoes on. When I was done I walked out of the door and locked it.
Instead of having Ang or Beth pick me up, I took the bus to school. I needed time to think about everything that had happened. I needed to map out just what I was going to do about this.
When I made it to the bus spot, I sat down, and then began to let my mind wonder to what I was going to do, when it came to the forbidden four.
Was I going to see what they were truly hiding? Yes, but what if I found out something I shouldn’t really know. I shook my head. If so, let be it. I needed to know. I needed to see if I was truly losing my mind or not. I needed to know about them.
I couldn’t let them do the things, I thought they were doing, and do nothing about it. If they were really hurting people I had to stop them.
The bus came and I got on. There weren’t too many people on the bus and I was happy about that. I was able to sit by myself and not have someone try and interrupted my thoughts.
This was the very reason why I hadn’t wanted to call Ang or Beth. They would have wanted to talk when I wanted to just think.
When the bus pulled off I began to think about just what the forbidden four could be doing to.
Damon, the guy who I thought was a jerk, was he more than just a jerk? Was he someone who took out the missing people and made sure you never found their bodies?
Nate, the guy who loved his older women, had he been the one that went after the older people, who were missing? Had he lured them into a trap with his looks and then allowed Damon to hurt them.
Jay, the guy who I had come almost to like unwilling, had he got the younger girls who went to our school to go out with him? Had he done that, and then allowed Nate to get their mothers, and then have Damon hurt them all.
Leon, the guy who always seemed so innocent, had he made their victims think they were good, so it would be easier for them all to hurt them? Had he done that, only to let Jay have the girls at our school, and then have Nate have their mothers, and then let Damon get rid of the bodies.
I didn’t want to think Leon would have done anything bad, but he knew them all so very well. He lived with them and even had told everyone they were brothers, if they were even really that.
Something wasn’t right with this picture. I just didn’t think that there was any way that all of this could be true.
I heard a ring in the bus and saw that someone had pulled the string. I saw that I was only a few blocks from my school now, so I got off of the bus.
There were tons of clouds that filled the sky and it made it seem like it was going to rain soon. It also gave me the feeling that it was night instead of day, like darkness was about to come even through, light should have been boldly written across the sky.
Shouldn’t light be able to come through to shine, even in the darkest of nights, or was that just in make believe stories, for small children to believe the world would always be safe.
My eyes stared right at the school building and I began to wonder if they would be here today or would they have not come. I wanted them to be here very badly. I wanted to see them, wanted to see him.
Jay, I needed to talk to him badly. I needed to know if what I thought was true or not. I needed to know if I was going crazy or if what I even thought was indeed something that was possible.
Had he really been there with that girl and looked like he was sucking the very life from her?
”You saw.”
Or had I been dreaming the very nightmare that I had been thinking about? I wasn’t sure but part of me knew it wasn’t. It knew that I was just trying to deny the truth.
I saw that the forbidden four cars where there. I smiled to myself as I walked into the school building. I would first go to all of my classes, and then I would talk to Leon. He seemed the safest out of them. I thought as I carried myself into the building.
When I was in the building I felt like everyone eyes were on me. I could tell by looking up around me ever so offend that no one was really paying any mind to me, but I just couldn’t help the feeling.
After I got finished getting a few books and papers from my locker I went to my first class. After each class passed by I grew more inpatient for lunch. I partly could tell that the teacher in my class, that was right before lunch, wanted me to focus more. The teacher had said side way remarks about ‘listening and not living in wonderland’ which had made me want to roll my eyes.
By the time lunch had finally come along, I was more than ready to face the forbidden four and ask the questions that needed to be asked. But I wasn’t too sure that I was ready for the answers that they needed to tell.
I walked to my locker, so I could put my books up, and then thought that I hoped Beth and Ang hadn’t waited for me, by my locker. I needed to just hurry up and put my books up. I didn’t want to talk.
When I got there I saw that Angelica was there, but Beth was no were in sight. A forced smile went across my lips when I got to her. I hoped that Angelica didn’t realize it. She smiled widely at me, and then folded her arms.
“Beth and her boyfriend already went to the café.” Angelica said bubbly. She put her arm around my shoulders then laughed. “We all need to have a girl’s night and talk about the guys.”
I frowned at her then shook my head. Having a girl’s night was something that was not on my mind at all. I needed to see the forbidden four. I needed to know what they were and what they were doing to the students here.
For all I knew it was more than just the girls here. In fact they could be the reason the missing people around town were still missing.
“Are you listening to me?” Angelica asked folding her arms.
“No, I’m sorry just a lot on my mind.” I said then looked to see that my books were still in my hand. I went to put up my books as I watched Angelica face from the corner of my eyes. I began to hope that she wasn’t still seeing Damon, even with part of me knowing she still was.
If the forbidden four were what I thought they were, then Angelica was in danger talking to Damon. I stared at her hardly after I had put my last book away.
I kept looking at her to see if she looked different. She did. She didn’t have any color what so ever on her skin. She was paler then white. She looked almost sickly, but the make-up she had on was hiding it well. In fact if I hadn’t had known her, I wouldn’t have noticed.
There looked to be dark circles under her eyes that she was trying to hide, but I noticed. If I hadn’t been trying to look for anything wrong with her, her make-up would have hidden it.
I slammed my locker door and grabbed her hands.
“Angelica, are you still talking to Damon?” I asked fearfully.
“Yeah, why?” She questioned as her eyes went wide. She stared at me as if I had lost my mind.
My hands let her go and took a deep breath. “Don’t talk to him.” Was all I said and I looked over at the café doors.
I looked into them. I could see the forbidden four. They were all sitting in the café. Nate had a girl wrapped around his arms and Jay did as well.
My mind tried to tell me that I was ok with that. I kept thinking in my head, I didn’t care who he was with. He wasn’t my boyfriend. I then noticed that the girl in his arms was the same girl from the other night.
She didn’t seemed hurt or anything. She just had the same color skin Angelica now had, but besides that she looked ok. I wasn’t able to see if she had any dark circles or anything else on her face, from where I was standing. I wondered why she was acting like nothing had happened yesterday.
There was no way I had been dreaming. I knew that. I had been telling myself I had been dreaming, but I knew the truth.
I did notice that even through the girl was in his arm; Jay wasn’t paying her any attention. The girl was trying really hard to get him to pay attention, but he seemed like he was in a daze.
My eyes moved from him and on to Leon. I knew that I had to move past whatever good feelings I had for him and see what he really was, but something told me, that was going to be easier said than done.
When my eyes moved to Leon, I also saw that he had his eyes closed and he was leaning back in his chair. Damon on the other hand looked like he was waiting for something, Ang maybe.
No, way he was waiting for her. He never waits for anyone. I thought quickly than looked away from him and back at Angelica who was now shaking her head at me.
“What in the world are you thinking about?” She asked her voice not very light. “I’ve been talking to you and you aren’t even paying attention.”
“Sorry, look please just stay away from Damon ok.” I said to her hoping she would listen to me.
“Oh this is about Jay.” She laughed. “Don’t worry, I know they say birds of a feather flock together, but Damon really likes me. And don’t worry about Jay and that girl, he doesn’t really like her. Damon told me that he likes you.”
I shook my head at her wanting to scream suddenly. I didn’t even think twice about her last comment of Jay liking me. Of course Damon would tell her something like that. Jay just wants to suck the life out of me to.
He did have the chance to do so yesterday, but he didn’t. I thought quickly after my other thought left my mind. He could have even killed me, yet he didn’t.
I shook my head at my thoughts.
“Look Angelica, just stay away from Damon. Something isn’t right with him.” I said quickly, and then my eyes looked over at Damon. I saw that he was staring at me hardly. It was like he had heard my every word.
“Why should I?” She asked running a hand though her hair. “You should get to know him okay. You will see he is really nice.”
“Ang he’s not what you think.” I said trying to keep my voice even. I kept my eyes on Damon. He had a small smile on his lips, as if teasing me. “Please.”
“Are you jealous?” She asked suddenly.
How could she even ask me that? I thought with my mouth open. I turned my eyes to her and frowned.
“No, of course not-” I began to tell her it wasn’t anything like that at all, but she cut me off.
“Then stop acting like it.” She said then walked away from me and into the café. I watched as she walked over to the forbidden four and set right on Damon lap. Damon kissed her lightly on the lips then wrapped his arms around her.
Leon eyes had come open and he was staring at them. Nate wasn’t paying any attention to them it seemed, he was too busy with a girl, who looked like she was a senior, his lips were all over her.
Something told me she wasn’t going to last long.
Then I saw Jay eyes.
They were so bright. So beautiful. So golden.
How could his eyes do that? I wondered as I stared into them through the door.
Jay kept looking at me as if he knew me so very well. I stared back at him not knowing how I should react to his eyes. Then he smiled at me and I felt my fear start to make me run.
I went right into the girl rest room. I stared into the mirror that was in the restroom and began to run the water in front of me.
My eyes stared back at me while I was looking in the mirror and I didn’t know what was wrong with me. I was in the restroom during lunch and I didn’t even want to go out and see my friends.
I wasn’t even hungry anymore.
Angelica began to come to my mind. I didn’t even think I knew her anymore. She wasn’t the bubble boy crazy girl I knew anymore. No, she was mean, crazy, and obsessed for Damon girl now.
She wasn’t the best friend that I knew. She was someone else.
I stayed in the restroom for the rest of lunch. I didn’t feel like talking to the forbidden four and asking them the things I wanted to know. I needed to do that when no one else was around, I was calm, and didn’t fell so not like myself.
But I knew I had to talk to them quickly, before I lost my friend to them.
After I left the restroom I went to class. This class was the class Leon was going to be in and I wanted to talk to him.
For whatever reason I felt that Leon would talk to me and not act the way I felt Jay would, rude.
I walked down the hall, rushing past all of the people in the halls, until I got to the door that led to my class. I took in a deep breath before I walked into class. I kept wondering to myself, I hope Leon is here. I walked into class and saw that he was. He was sitting all the way in the back, like he always did, staring out of the window.
His grey eyes glowed as they were caught in the sun light that was coming into the room like rays from a bright light. He looked nice.
