THE ROOT OF DARKNESS

CHAPTER EIGHT

Casey panted heavily as she felt her back hit the wall of the restroom as Vivan slid his hand up and down the length of her frame, pressing himself into her. 

His fingers passed under her red skirt, slipping through the areas of her black lace panties as he found her wetness.

Cassey gasped as she held onto Vivan’s shoulders tightly. “You’re going to be fine, baby”. Vivan assured her before filling her wetness with his fingers. 

“Ah..” Casey moaned as she gripped tightly onto his shirt. She felt herself almost reaching the edge. As Vivan slipped yet another finger inside her, then she exploded. 

With a loud shout, she spilled her juices all over his fingers as she appeared totally done with her disheaveled hair and rumpled skirt.

“You did well, baby..” Vivan said as he helped Cassey dress up properly. When they were both dressed, Vivan placed a light peck on Casey’s forehead as they walked out of the restroom, pretending that nothing had happened. 

“By the way…” Casey started as they made their way back to their room. “How long do you intend for us to keep doing this? Don’t you have plans to leave Desire?. Back then in the bus, when I saw you two locking lips, don’t you know how furious I was?”

Vivan smiled as he halted in his tracks just to push back the curls of Casey’s hair behind her ears. “I’m sorry. I didn’t have any choice but to act the part. As you must know, Desire is not that easy to deceive.”

“So what?”. Came Casey’s angry response as she removed her hands from Vivan’s. “Are you going to keep me as the side chick forever?”

The crease line of Vivan’s forehead got deeper as he rubbed his thumb against his forehead.

“Hey, why are you acting this way?”. Vivan scolded in a voice that left no room for compromise. “You knew this was what we had to keep on doing if we wanted to keep seeing eachother so why are you acting out of context now?”

Casey exhaled deeply as she sifted her hands through her hair. “I guess I’m just worried that you’d end up falling in love with Desire”. 

Vivan let out a deep throaty laughter as he held on tightly to Cassey’s hands. “That’s never going to happen. Trust me”

They continued their way up to their room and when they’d gotten to their front door, they slipped out their hands, intertwined with one another as they walked into the room, one after the other with Cassey having the headstart.

When she’d walked into the room, she screamed, her hands covering her mouth as she saw Liz crying beside the dead body of her bestfriend. 

Desire seemed to have been brutally killed as there was a dent in her head, showing that she’d been hit there several times. 

Upon hearing Cassey’s scream, Vivan rushed into the room. “Cassey, what’s..oh my God!”. He screamed as he saw Desire’s lifeless body on the floor. 

Tears couldn’t help but well up from Vivan’s eyes as he started to think that this was all his fault and Desire had killed herself because of him. “This is all my fault..”. He sobbed. 

Cassey gripped the either sides of his arms. “How is this your fault?”

“Desire must have found out about us and must have been really heartbroken to the point that she had to kill herself”.

Cassey scoffed at his absurd thinking.”Do you really think Desire is one to do something that stupid?”. She wiped her cheeks, dabbing her tears away. “Snap out of your self guilt, you idiot”

Liz shakes her head as she stared at Casey and Vivian utterly disgusted as the truth already came to light. She angrily springed up to her feet as she left the room unable to be in the same space as Casey and Vivan. 

“Get up. Let’s go and get rid of Desire’s body”. 

“What?”. Vivan shrieked. “We need to report this to Miss Penelope and the other as soon as possible. Somebody brutally murdered Desire!”. 

Seeing the wave of emotions in his eyes, Cassey became angry. She could see that Vivan still had feelings for Desire and that annoyed the hell out of him. 

Cassey springed up to her feet, about to walk away when she stilled at the sight of Kira behind Vivan. 

Trembling, she started moving backwards. “V…Vivan..”. She stuttered pointing to Kira who was behind him.

On looking backwards, Vivan springed up to his feet as he shouted “Jesus!”. Facing Kira, he questioned. “What are you? Rather, please don’t kill us”

“I won’t. I promise”. Kira replied smirking as she took slow but deliberate steps towards them. “I just want a hug”. 

In the span of the next few minutes, Vivan and Cassey’s lifeless body dropped to the ground as blood seeped down either sides of Kira’s mouth. 

“Kira, where have you been all day? I’ve been looking for you”. Becky says panting heavily with her hands on her knee cap. 

She straightened up as she placked her hands in Kira’s shoulders when she didn’t get any response. “Kira?....” 

It wasn’t until the lightning flashed up in the sky did Becky notice the dead bodies splayed on the floor. 

She gasped, her hands flying immediately to her mouth. “What happened? Kira, should we go report this to Miss Penelope?”. 

It turned around to face Becky as her eyes widened upon staring at the hideous sight before her. 

“Honestly…” It dragged out as it trailed it’s talon along the sides of her cheeks. “I’ve been looking for you too”.

Trembling in fear, Becky contemplated on running but knew she wouldn’t go far before whatever it was infront of her caught up with her.

This was one of the reasons she hated being fat. Becky thought as tears rolled down her cheeks. Even now that she was in danger, she couldn’t protect herself. 

As she felt it’s hands grip her hair, she prayed for someone to save her. Anyone at all but all her efforts to survive was to no avail as a loud twig sound was heard and soon enough, in the matter of minutes, Becky’s body crashed to the floor with her eyes wide open.