Just high school things~

•Previously•

We all got crazy and weirdly same dreams leaving Penelope and all those dreams were about Penelope; the dreams warned us about Penelope's safety. Jack was most moved by it and wanted to take responsibility for her safety. He got his entire group at his back whenever he needed them and they were here this time to save Penelope from whatever was yet to come...

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Then we thought the tree house was a good hideout until the spring break starts and we thought we would have our girl's time until jack showed up; he said, "My boys wouldn't disturb your girls' time, we will be in Lia's tree house". The only thing bugging me was we were in the woods. THE WOODS.

"I am staying with a couple classmates in the wood, camping till the end of spring break! to BOND! so don't worry about me!" I told mom the next morning

We were getting near to spring break nothing really happened to Penelope; not a scratch. So we told the guys to go back for the football practice and just the evening when boys were at practice Penelope stayed back at school for practice too; it was all dark the sun was already down when she entered the woods and just then she got attacked by a wolf. Jack was just behind Penelope he had a flash he thought it would act as a distraction and threw the flash into the woods, which was actually kind of foolish. The wolf looked at the flashlight and then started advancing towards Jack. Just at the moment, Penelope started screaming on top of her lungs making the birds to leave its nest.

Jack lifted her and got her into the car and we drove to the hospital as quickly as we could. Then the nurse started to question us "how did you people even get through the wolf? Why were you in the woods at this hour? How old are you? Do her parents know?" And Lila just could not just take it anymore she yelled at the nurse "see, our friend was bleeding when she went past that door all we want to know is, how is she doing? Okay. Please." and she asked us to bring an adult and they would calculate the expenses for the medication and treatment.

The only person who was peaceful enough to take it was Mrs. Cruz, Penelope's mom. Jack was the only one who could drive a car; he went to Penelope's house with his clothes covered in blood. Mrs. Kenley was freaking out seeing blood and came rushing to the hospital and she spoke to the doctor; she got it all figured out.

Before we left we once had a glance at her scars which looked like a pattern just waiting to be solved it looked like a 'W' but inverted; looking like mountains. Well everyone was half asleep they did not even notice the scars.

We all slept over at Kenley's as Isabelle slept with Penelope in hospital. In the morning we skipped school and stayed back at the hospital to help Penelope. When we were helping Penelope to get whatever she wanted once we entered Penelope's room we saw something creepy in her nightstand; we found a box in which there was paper filled with information and map of clown house we were going to and it is creepier because it was made in 1990 with Penelope's handwriting faded out. 1990; It was the year when the steel warehouse opened. Now, I was wondering if she really was an exchange student….

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Just before spring break Penelope fully recovered but she was left with the scars permanently. As permanent sounded huge it was for her. She was the beauty of our gang but she was left with some permanent scars then. But she did not even wince at that moment. Like she had a cure to make the scars vanish. Well, she looked obvious and when she does she can turn the world around...

So, before we go into a deadly clown house just like every spring twins were having a pool party and girls sleepover which was fun because every time anything goes wrong it makes me think 'well it is not bad as walking into the clown house. Now that's how I wanted to feel when I got to know that the twins are not twins but triplets and his soul still gives Lila and Jack nightmares. She told us the truth as we were playing 21 truths;

Lila's whole story sounded something like this-

"Conall, Jack and I were triplets and everything was fine until he stayed in woods with his CULT. Until then, not a person out of this family knew about him including me and Jack, it was my dad who knew it. Then at last, after 10 years he visited home and then we were told that he was a cousin and he's going to live with us for a while. They did not even let him come to school with us and on our 11 years birthday, we got to know that he was our triplet and the truth about his cult. He left, he tried to take us with him to his cult but dad was really against the idea. We got to know all about his illness but he acted okay all the time when he was with us. I suggested he could stay with us and I told him he was okay with us but dad told us about some big plan and being destined but being eleven we understood nothing. Then they took him away. On our 12 years birthday, we got letter telling that Conall was dead and a map to lead us to his grave and dad did not want us to go but just like always Jack got a master plan in his little brain and it was to steal the map from mom's dresser and go in the wood to our brother's grave. I took the shotgun from the safe to get us protected but we had no intention to KILL anyone but we killed something that night just to defend ourselves. We made a grave for it just then and we had enough for one night so we returned back home and kept the map and gun in its place and we searched for his grave every night for a week and we lost our hope on the eighth night. So we found the grave yesterday after two years" everyone was silent and curious Lila added "then I woke up today morning from this horrible dream" everyone busted out of their seats clutched their stomach and laughed out loud

All the boys left and the girl's night out started. Lila sent all the girls back leaving me and Penelope. The instant they left Lila fell into my arms crying "it was not a dream. It was all true. Each word of it" just then Penelope ran towards the washroom and locked herself in. Jack and I tried to bring her out and like always Jack was being witty and yelled "I can't stop it and my washroom door is jammed. Can you come out, please? Seriously now please" she came out and hugged Jack and said "I had a brother too. He was sweet and funny just like you, Jack. His name was Conall and he was dead two years back" then Jack paused for a second and he said "well, I can be your brother and you can call me Conall if Lila doesn't mind. Anyway, she and Conall were not that close right, Li" then Lila lost her chill all of a sudden and burst into words "DO.NOT.DARE" with Jack's ear in her hand.

"STORY TIME" we shouted and Jack just left us alone like he did not want to interrupt our 'story time'. So when we started we were excited to listen to her story but when it ended we all had a face like dried raisins.