Chapter Three: The Family / The Dinner

Mickey wanted to bring the research to school to finish reading but he knew he couldn't he knew if he was caught he would either get himself or Bon killed or maybe even both. All day at school Mickey was distracted thinking about the research and didn't pay attention until he realized he was on the bus ride home, when Mickey got home he immediately went to his room locked the door and began reading again right where he left off. Mickey spent the whole rest of the day and night reading he finished exactly at 1:30 in the morning, instead of going to bed right away Mickey decided to do his own research. He started off only finding random and weird conspiracies which he began to wonder if they were only there to distract from the dark reality. Not long into the research he began to find crazier and crazier things one of the worst being a story told by a maid who would only tell the story anonymously about a rich family whose name she would not disclose. The maid claimed to witness many feedings the family took on a young girl whose tongue had been ripped out and mouth sewn shut to stop her from screaming or ever talking if she ever escaped, she said they took as much blood from her as they could without killing her and witnessed the youngest boy taking baths in blood. The maid also began to notice things that she overlooked before like how quick the family healed whenever they got hurt and how all the kids practically quit aging once they hit 20 years old, the maid could only take so much and told the family that her health was beginning to decline from a rare blood disease that runs in her family. The family believed the maid and let her go with no harm being done against her, after the interview the maid wouldn't tell the name of the town the family was located in but she described enough little details to connect with the town that he recently learned was hiding one of the biggest but also unbelievable secrets ever. Mickey once again went a whole night without sleeping and Bon could easily tell.

"Yo Mick, are you alright you look sick" he said.

"I umm...found something new that I have to tell you about it's about a maid that worked for this family"

Just as he said that he was called to the front office like they were listening to his every word or something.

When Mickey was called to the front office all that was going through his mind was how much did they hear, and if they even suspected Bon of having anything to do with this whole situation. Mickey came in and sat down in the one of the many chairs in the front office and the lady at the desk just sat there oblivious to his existence, he wondered if he should stand up and say anything but just as he was about to she told him to head to go ahead and go the deans office in the very back and the second door to the right. He walked towards the deans office with full worry and anxiety trying to wipe off the sweat and worry from his face, as he reached to open the door it burst open suddenly and behind it was a man that was the last thing he expected. The dean was average sized man kind of buff wearing a vest over his dress shirt with a well trimmed beard and short but ruffled hair, inside his office it made it clear when his formative years were there were many different types of band and artist memorabilia around. Straight behind his desk was a window and on one side was an Alice In Chains poster and on the other side there was a Marilyn Manson poster and everywhere else was a mix of 90’s Rap and Rock bands or artists, right away Mickey knew this was not the average dean and he was a bit more calm but still very anxious. Once he snapped out of it he realized the dean was waiting to greet himself,

“Hey, you must be Mickey” the dean said.

“Yes, but call me Mick” he said.

“Good to meet you I’m Dean Edwards but you can call me Mr. Edwards”

They walked into the office and Mickey sat down immediately as he could still feel his knees were weak, the dean talked about himself for awhile before telling Mickey that he was not the average dean but that’s ok because he’s there for the kids not the school board then he began to tell Mickey why he was called there to his office.

“Mick I’m just gonna be honest with you here I have no idea what is going on and I have a very uneasy feeling about this whole situation” Mr. Edwards said. “There’s a family in this town that’s been here for a really really long time and they like to meet everyone that’s new hear kinda like a welcome party and they invited you and your family to meet over dinner Friday night”

Mickeys face immediately dropped and the words dinner rang over and over in his head and all he could think is how did they find out about him and what were they gonna do next.

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