Nate and Jay were in the process of keeping the Yarrow stems in the corners of the hexagram that they were creating . They seemed to keep one stem at a time . This meant that they would have to visit a place for 10 times to start doing the ritual . They must've mind controlled the main officials to be able to travel as soon as that , just like what we did to follow them . Now that we knew what they were doing , we decided to disrupt what they were doing for the ritual . All the others were very much tired from travelling for long so I said , "Well , we need to do something if we don't want the ritual to take place . I'm just going to need to take one single stem from among the stems . One small change and they would have to pay the price . "
Kate stated as a matter of fact , "But they would definitely check whether all the stems are there whenever they come to keep a stem since the accuracy of the steps for the ritual are to be followed if they need to stay out of death . I think you should wait until they had kept the last stem in a place because then , you probably wouldn't have to worry about them finding out . "
I hadn't thought about it like that so I told her what I thought . "But we don't know where they kept the stems . I have a feeling that it would be too late if we end up finding it after waiting for them to keep the last stem . "
Beth talked , "You don't have to worry about finding where they keep the stems because we can wait for them in the place that they would visit last , since they're going in order anyway . We can follow them , and find out where they keep the stems ."
I didn't think that they would hide it somewhere very easy to find so I shared my thought with them . "It IS true , but I think it is better than having to find out ourselves , you know ?"
I reluctantly agreed . According to the way they were travelling , their last stop would be in Montana so we decided to travel there after a small while of rest .
We had booked a three star hotel since it was only for a few hours of stay . Everybody except me , Ben , and Jennie had one partner with them in their room . Kate and dad were partners , Beth and Cora were partners , Marge and Cora were Partners , and the rest of us three were partners .
We went to our three bedroom hotel room and freshen up after a nice , warm shower . I gave up controlling my body and fell onto the bed , feeling satisfied because of the soft mattress and bed . The balcony acted like a two way door and we soaked in just enough sunlight , not too much , but not too little either .
I wasn't feeling well because I had been dealing with our travel , mind controlling people into thinking that we had been in their place for more than one week .
I fell into a deep sleep while waiting for Jennie to come out of the washroom while Ben was sitting on his bed , waiting for her too .
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I opened my eyes and saw Ben removing a strand of hair from in front of my face . Feeling blessed , I smiled at him and gave him a quick peck on his cheek . "Really ? only on the cheek ? !" He asked jokingly and started tickling me . I laughed , he laughed , and then we stopped when we heard a fake cough from Jennie . "I really feel like the third wheel here so could you please stop acting so cringy ?"
Both of us laughed at her . "You won't call this cringy if you fall in love too . I bet that you're going to regret ever calling us that ." I nodded my head acting dramatically hurt , filling in the mood . We had three more hours left so we turned the TV on and watched a horror film . It had been so long since I watched a horror film . The last time I watched it was ....
with Stacy . I missed her a lot but what could I do now ? She knows about supernatural creatures and I know that I can trust her but I didn't know whether our friendship would look the same if I went back to her . During the movie , I slowly excused myself , and texted her . "Hey."
There was no response . Maybe she was still cross with me . I closed my phone and was almost back to my bed to resume watching it with them when my phone let out a notification sound . I looked it up and was happy to see that Stacy had texted me back . "Hello dear . How are you ?"
'Dear' ? Stacy never called me that . If we ever used nicknames , we called each other 'Darling' , or 'Honey' . I texted back as fast as I saw it . "Are you really Stacy ?"
She was typing ..... "No.. I'm her mother ."
Well , I didn't know whether it was super weird in her house for her family to text her contacts , or whether it was totally normal but one thing that I knew for sure , nobody had texted me from her number other than her herself . I decided to ask more . What if she was sick ?
"I'm sorry but , is she alright ? I just want to know ."
There was long moment showing that it she was typing .. Was it that bad that she needed to explain it for that long ? The reply finally came . "She... died a few months back . She had cancer for about 2 years . She didn't want you to know both about her illness , or her death . She had planned to act like she ran away before but you drifted away from her before that ... I'm sorry "
I dropped my phone . Everything was turning dark . The phone hit the carpet floor and I stood there , feeling heavy , useless , regretting everything that I had done . Why ? She could've told me . I would've taken her more seriously . It was too much shock for my heart . I collapsed onto the floor , grabbing both Ben's and Jennie's attention . I heard a distant voice of Stacy calling me back . She wanted to see me one last time before leaving me . She loved me . I was a betrayer . I cried , not knowing in which dimension I was in . I heard Stacy's voice on one side , Ben's voice on the other . My surroundings started becoming clear for me . I was in the middle of an unidentified place . I didn't know which way to go . I wanted to follow Ben's voice but I also craved to check if I would be able to see Stacy's face one more time , apologise to her , ask her to come back even if it seems impossible .
I needed to see her . I didn't want to live anymore anyway . The world's way too messed up . People will judge you either way . I almost had my foot on towards the side where I heard Stacy's voice from when something invisible to my eyes pushed me to Ben's side . I heard Stacy's voice again . "I don't want you to see me after dying a cowardly death . Finish that Bitch who created a lot more evil in this world. I want to see you after you accomplished your goal . "
I cried more . Was it real ? or just a figment of my imagination ? I gasped deeply and abruptly because of the feel of someone touch , and woke up in the hotel bed again . I saw Ben looking worried and at the verge of tears . I cried into his arms . The others were bought in by Jennie when I blacked out .
"What happened to you , Rene !" Cora asked running to me when she saw me awake .
I stuttered . "My - my best friend .. I-I lost in touch with her because of everything . She had c-cancer. She d-died a few m-" I broke into tears again . She was so close to me and I didn't think of her when she wanted to see . I didn't care if it was real or not but one thing I knew for sure ; That I was going to kill that bastard . It was because of him that I was consumed by everything .
I asked the other to leave me alone for some time since I needed some time alone. They understood me and left me alone . I cried for some more time and then calmed me down . I wanted to finish what I needed to do and then go back to Stacy . Thinking about death , would I be able to see Stacy ? Samantha was still in the Nowhere and I feel like she is trapped there . Would I be trapped and never be able to see Stacy again ?
I packed my suitcase again and left the hotel room . Ben had texted me that they would be waiting for me at the airport .
I hailed a taxi and reached the airport after 20 minutes . Nobody asked me how I felt probably because of how I looked . I looked even more horrible than I usually do . My eyes were swollen and red . I felt bloated , hungry , at the same time wanted to vomit and knew that I would vomit if I ate anything . I didn't intend to tell them that that was how I felt right then to increase their uncomfortability . Only dad knew about Stacy and the others hadn't even seen her .
We went to a plane again and realised that the flight attendant were giving us strange looks . I didn't understand why until I saw the air hostess that had called me a murderer . She was startled to see me too . We didn't think that we would run into the same flight again when we travelled . Shouldn't they have rests too ?
The flight attendants gave us strange looks but didn't report us since they thought that we would be having serious reasons if we had to travel the same day . Once the plane took off , I headed towards the snack aisle where I found the familiar face again .