[BCOLOR=transparent]Earlier that Day;[/BCOLOR]
[BCOLOR=transparent]With his ear to the phone, he was waiting for someone to pick up. He was sitting on the curb, inside the neighborhood, but outside of his home. He couldn't deal with her ravings right now. It was a lot to take by himself sometimes. Though he didn't always have to do it all alone. He just figured sometimes it was his burden to carry, but this time was different. [/BCOLOR]
[BCOLOR=transparent]He had a thing to do. At the Harris estate today. He expected halfheartedly Hazel to just start passing out weed and PCP, and when they were high on drugs she'd pass it off as them being witches, ooooo. Except that wasn't entirely fair considering the serious weirdness that surrounded him his whole life. Except that he didn't like the idea that was he buying into this bullshit either.[/BCOLOR]
[BCOLOR=transparent]It could be like one of those placebo effects. You know, crazy mom believes and you only start believing it too because it's been your whole life. Kind of like how religion started. Pretty sure that wasn't normal either, but you get a bunch of people to believe in that bullshit and you got yourself a community of lunatics.[/BCOLOR]
[BCOLOR=transparent]Finally he heard someone answer.[/BCOLOR]
[BCOLOR=transparent]"Scott?" his aunt Rosie asked on the other line.[/BCOLOR]
[BCOLOR=transparent]"No, I stole his phone and decided to call his aunt," he replied sardonically. All though he could hear her seriously huff on the other line.[/BCOLOR]
[BCOLOR=transparent]"What's going on sweetheart?" Rosie asked.[/BCOLOR]
[BCOLOR=transparent]He didn't like when she called him sweetheart. Made him sound weaker than what he was. Also gave the kids more fuel to make fun of him and laugh at him. If they couldn't get him because of his birthmark, they certainly find something else to do so. [/BCOLOR]
[BCOLOR=transparent]"Can you watch Mom?" Scott asked.[/BCOLOR]
[BCOLOR=transparent]"Lilith, why? Is everything okay?" Rosie asked.[/BCOLOR]
[BCOLOR=transparent]"Yeah, I am just going somewhere tonight," Scott responded.[/BCOLOR]
[BCOLOR=transparent]"Like a party?"[/BCOLOR]
[BCOLOR=transparent]"Kind of like a party,"[/BCOLOR]
[BCOLOR=transparent]"How many kids will be there?"[/BCOLOR]
[BCOLOR=transparent]"A few freaks, we're not popular, or at least I don't think the others are," Scott told her.[/BCOLOR]
[BCOLOR=transparent]"Will there be drugs?"[/BCOLOR]
[BCOLOR=transparent]Of course there were going to be drugs. No one was sensibly believing there witches and warlocks unless they were taking some strong dipped acid. Like acid laced in cocaine and washed down with LSD. [/BCOLOR]
[BCOLOR=transparent]"No," Scott responded.[/BCOLOR]
[BCOLOR=transparent]"How long do you think you'll be out?"[/BCOLOR]
[BCOLOR=transparent]Scott shrugged, but he knew she couldn't see him shrug.[/BCOLOR]
[BCOLOR=transparent]"I don't know a couple hours," Scott told her.[/BCOLOR]
[BCOLOR=transparent]"Okay, I'll be there as soon as I can, give me fifteen minutes, you home?"[/BCOLOR]
[BCOLOR=transparent]"I mean yeah, Tony just left, but I don't want to go in there. She's actually asleep and I am afraid if I wake her up it's cause I stepped on a land mine or something,"[/BCOLOR]
[BCOLOR=transparent]Rosie chuckled. He didn't find it too funny. They said their "see you soons" and he just waited at the curb. Tony was his cousin, he was Rosie's son. But Tony was in college and dealt with his mom when he was at school, then Tony went to his night classes. Guess social isolation and introverted tendencies suited the whole of the family.[/BCOLOR]
[BCOLOR=transparent]It didn't take long for Rosie's beat up, emerald, sedan to make it up over the hill. And park just shy of where he was sitting. Rosie and his mom looked awfully alike, except they weren't twins. Rosie just happened to look like what his mom would look like if his mom was healthy.[/BCOLOR]
[BCOLOR=transparent]A lot of wavy, curly, red hair, coiled together, bouncing right above her shoulders and the back of it cascading into spirals to her tailbone. If her hair was straightened out her hair could be past her ass by now. She dressed like an old woman though. A velvet cardigan, with a pair of tan pants and some ugs to be hip and cool like the kids.[/BCOLOR]
[BCOLOR=transparent]Bright red lipstick and these out of date pearl earrings, with a pearl necklace. Was she taking care of his mom, or gotten ready for a night out on the town, Scott wondered.[/BCOLOR]
[BCOLOR=transparent]"Hey Rosie," Scott greeted her with a lazy wave.[/BCOLOR]
[BCOLOR=transparent]"You did do your homework?" Rosie asked closing the car door with a snap.[/BCOLOR]
[BCOLOR=transparent]"It is me we're talking about," Scott reminded her and Rosie nodded.[/BCOLOR]
[BCOLOR=transparent]"Good, I just have to make sure you're taking care of yourself,"[/BCOLOR]
[BCOLOR=transparent]"Why do you think I am going to this thing?"[/BCOLOR]
[BCOLOR=transparent]"I'm proud of you, I am tired of seeing you sit in your room with no friend, not doing anything with your social life,"[/BCOLOR]
[BCOLOR=transparent]Well social lives were underrated. Kids didn't talk about interesting things and he didn't have anything in common with them. While they groaned about their parents because they didn't let them have that flat screen TV they wanted to. He was groaning that his mom had a hard time remembering things, her dementia was off the charts, or that he legit had to take care of her. [/BCOLOR]
[BCOLOR=transparent]And those kids would just raise a brow at him, scoff, and behave like he was the freak. He was complaining because he had to take care of a parent. And these kids parents took care of themselves and their kids. Giving them whatever entitled whim they wanted.[/BCOLOR]
[BCOLOR=transparent]"I am going to head out," Scott told Rosie, "Thank you for doing this, I know it's not the-"[/BCOLOR]
[BCOLOR=transparent]But Rosie put her hand up and snapped her fingers, which interrupted his speech.[/BCOLOR]
[BCOLOR=transparent]"Any time Scott, I want you to have a life outside of this," Rosie told him.[/BCOLOR]
[BCOLOR=transparent]"Yeah thanks," Scott said looking away because he was legitimately embarrassed. He always felt like he should be the one left to carry her as his burden, but he knew he had a family out there willing to take the weight off of his shoulders. Still Scott said nothing and just nodded his head again and began walking.[/BCOLOR]
[BCOLOR=transparent]He'd take the bus and from there, more walking to the fancy estate. Scott groaned at the arguably long journey ahead of it.[/BCOLOR]
[BCOLOR=transparent]Tonight - Current[/BCOLOR]
[BCOLOR=transparent]Well the drugs hadn't yet been passed around yet. Instead Hazel gave him ultimate creep vibes. She scared him a bit. She use to be this mousy girl, who use to get the shit beaten into her twenty-four seven. Unlike him, who learned how to cope with it and deal with it in his own way. He thought she had cracked. Went from just a simple freak, to creepy freak.[/BCOLOR]
[BCOLOR=transparent]He wanted to ask things about her parents. Or wanted to ask things about, how could she believe in all of this? She thought she was like that Ariana Grande [/BCOLOR][BCOLOR=transparent]"Dangerous Woman"[/BCOLOR][BCOLOR=transparent], but he couldn't get the song from Green Day out of his mind [/BCOLOR][BCOLOR=transparent]"Basket Case"[/BCOLOR][BCOLOR=transparent]. He thought she needed to see an asylum. Yet, he didn't say anything because something was off and he didn't like that.[/BCOLOR]
[BCOLOR=transparent]Didn't like feeling like one false step and he could be dead. That was an unusual feeling to him. Right now this was starting to either look like a kool aid party or people invited to the Mason's house. When Hazel began her dark, and eerie speech. He tried to hold back in laughter.[/BCOLOR]
[BCOLOR=transparent]She was taking herself way too seriously right now. Everyone else looked at her starry eyed, excited. Like a one year old very first Halloween. Or the very first Christmas. And Scott had one eyebrow raised with a look that said[/BCOLOR][BCOLOR=transparent] "yall are crazy"[/BCOLOR]
[BCOLOR=transparent]There was skepticism on his face. And even when the demon appeared. "Demon" appeared he was looking around like he couldn't believe. These other just drank the blood, there was hunger and power in their eyes and he was trying to not crack up like this was some horrible fucking prank.[/BCOLOR]
[BCOLOR=transparent]It had to be a fucking prak. They were getting punk'd. How could anyone just blindly go into this horseshit? Looking so eager too. Scott hesitated because he was the next one up. And he admittedly raised his hand in the air.[/BCOLOR]
[BCOLOR=transparent]"I'm sorry, what the fuck is this?" Scott asked he kind of laughed, "This is a fucking joke, right? Everyone's just so eager to drink the blood of some fucking "demon". Don't even ask a single question."[/BCOLOR]
[BCOLOR=transparent]Scott stared at Hazel.[/BCOLOR]
[BCOLOR=transparent]"You're going to have to convince me to do this, and not some ominous, vague, creepy speech is going to convince me. What makes you all so sure this is real? Or are all of you in on a joke? You can't just suddenly think, oh there's a demon and I believe. Like seriously. Haunted houses have better special effects."[/BCOLOR]