Light can cover dark, but it can't engulf it.
It was a half hour drive, the town left past as they crossed the bridge to the jungle.
"Are you sure it's here?" Winter asked, as they stopped beside a half burnt ruin.
"How could I forget this," Eleazar replied, slamming the door of his car after him.
"This is weird?" she mumbled, stepping out of the car.
"It's still the same," Eleazar mumbled, entering through the wrecked partially burned wooden door, stones were scattered all over, the moss had started to grow on its wall.
"That's a mess," she replied, with a straight lipped smile gazing at Eleazar as she made a space for herself clearing the space a little with her black snicker.
"I burnt it down when my family followed me," he replied, exhaling heavily.
"Hell," she screeched as slipped from the stone as soon as she started to move towards Eleazar.
"You have to be careful," Eleazar replied, wrapping his hands around her waist.
"It's slippery," she mumbled, shifting herself away.
"Huh it seems," Eleazar repeated after she shifted his hands away.
"That's a mess, how we gonna walk here," she mumbled.
"You can just follow after me," Eleazar replied, meeting her gaze.
"Huh," Winter said, with a force avoiding his gaze and looking on the ground.
"What's this?" she continued, sitting beside a carved stone.
"Eleahzar 11 Sep 1100," she read, clearing the small pebbles away from that carved stone.
"That's a name plate," Eleazar said, sitting beside her.
"The oldest one," Winter replied, clicking the picture with her phone.
"When I ran away from home, I made this house for years, it was my own world until my family found me here. I burnt this down when they found me," he said.
"Are you trying to scare me?" Winter asked, turning to him.
"Yes..," he replied with a vague smile.
"Why did they choose you to kill me, you've no qualities of one?" he thought with a sigh.
"So do we have something more about this house," she asked.
"I've some paintings at my house they can help," Eleazar replied.
"I'll see you at nine," she replied, standing up.
"You're going somewhere?" he asked.
"There is a party in the school, Dan must be waiting for me," she replied.
"I'll drop you then get in," Eleazar replied.
"Is it okay for a God to go to a party, I mean you're the divine sacred god," she commented, curling her upper lip out.
"That's not funny," Eleazar mumbled, as they both started to leave.
"So about Daniel, since when did you know him?" Eleazar asked, as both went back in the car.
"Why about him?" Winter asked.
"Nothing special," Eleazar replied.
"Since he was a kid, then he left for a boarding school and returned this year," Winter continued, with a sigh.
"He is different now."
"Different how?" Eleazar kept investigating as he began driving.
"He has grown into an amazing man! just so different…," Winter replied, with a bright smile.
"A grown up man, she's making me laugh," Eleazar thought with a forced smile.
"This is great news, he is an imposter, he is using the identity of Daniel, but Why?" Eleazar kept thinking about an opportunity to use this information.
******
Daniel, Tessa and Carla were sitting beside a bonfire holding a bucket full of ice and beer.
Carla used to be Winter's best friend until Daniel entered their life. A boy attractive enough to lure any girl, and their friendship was the cost of wanting him.
"Winter and Eleazar," Carla called, as she noticed them walking in together.
Winter gives a forced smile, as their eyes meet.
"The night would be fun," Winter mumbled, as continued to approach them.
"Who's she?" Eleazar asked.
"My ex gal pal," Winter replied.
"Sit," Daniel said, shifting himself for Winter as soon as they approached them.
Eleazar shifts between Winter and Carla.
"Shall we play a game, Truth or Dare," Carla said, trying to start a conversation, as they all finally sit.
"That would be fun," Eleazar thought, gazing at Carla as her intentions were clear, she didn't seem to be happy seeing Dan.
"We're not kids...."
"I'm in" Eleazar replied, cutting off Winter.
"Me too," Tessa replied, with a forced scoff.
"We too," Daniel replied, wrapping his fingers around Winter's.
A dark tension can be felt in the atmosphere.
"You lose, you'll drink the whole can of beer, as we're not kids," Tessa said, as she began to spin the bottle on the ground.
"Dan," Tessa said, as the bottle stopped pointing at him.
"Truth," Daniel replied.
"Have you ever dated someone in this group," Carla asked, meeting his gaze.
A girl he dated without even asking her name, when he came to this town impersonating a local ideal boy, has become a vivid reality.
"I should've erased her memories," Daniel mumbled.
"That would be fun," Eleazar thought, gazing at them with a smirk.
Daniel gulped the whole can of the beer without saying much.
Carla gazed at her and curled her fingers in a fist.
"I'll spin," Carla said, taking over the bottle.
The bottle stopped pointing at Tessa.
"Dare," Tessa replied.
"Kiss Tyler," Carla said, pointing at a boy who was surrounded between girls laughing like crazy.
Tessa took out another bottle, with her red face as she started to drink.
"That's no fun," Carla mumbled, spinning the bottle again, she took the bottle and started to spin again.
"Eleazar," Tessa announced.
"Dare," Eleazar replied.
"Do you like someone in this group?" Tessa asked.
"Yes, I do," Eleazar replied, meeting Daniel's gaze.
"You do," Winter mumbled, gazing at Eleazar.
"I'll spin it," Daniel said, taking over the bottle to spin again.
"Tessa," Winter said, meeting her gaze.
"Dare," Tessa replied, with a sigh.
"Hand over your phone to Carla and she can send a text whom she wants," Winter said.
"You can't be my best friend," Tessa said, opening another beer can.
"My turn," Carla said, spinning the bottle.
"Winter," Carla announced, meeting her gaze.
"Dare," Winter replied, with a forced smile.
"Kiss Eleazar," Carla said, meeting her gaze.
"I can't drink so," she mumbled, turning her gaze at Eleazar.
She shifted herself towards and slowly placed her lips at Eleazar's.
Eleazar swallowed widening his gaze.
Carla Gazed at Daniel, he crushed his teeth meeting her gaze.