ROSES FOR RACHEL: EPISODES 61-THE END
Episode 67
I woke up alone, rolling over to look at the clock on the wall, then sighed when I realized it was so early still. Right now the sun would just be starting to set.
I glanced at Calvin’s pillow and I carefully pulled the note over to me, reading it through narrowed eyes, fearing he would make it a loophole to tell me the truth by writing it down and having me accidently read it, but I laughed at my paranoia when I read that it just said he was going down to have Castro released so he could speak with him.
I got out of bed slowly, running my hand down the racks of clothing to try and pick something to wear today.
I decided after a minute that I really didn’t give a crap, so I just pulled down a black knee length dress with quarter length sleeves and got dressed.
My eyes were a little puffy from all of the crying I’d done last night, and I had a tinge of a headache, but it wasn’t bothering me too badly.
I stared into the mirror at my face and I wondered to myself how long it would take for the empty feeling inside me to go away.
I went to Calvin’s book shelf and pulled out a book at random, laying on the bed with it to try and let my mind escape for a while.
I was a few chapters in when my ears were assaulted by a blaring alarm and the chandelier over the bed began flashing red.
I jumped out of bed, my heart racing. I’d never heard alarms here before, and I had no idea what they meant or what to do. I ran to the door, sticking my head out into the hallway, but it was empty, the guards all gone.
I ran across the hall and busted into the suite, coming face to face with Lexton, Greer, and Tessa. “What the h’ll is going on?” Tessa asked with big eyes.
I shook my head. “I don’t know.” I said rushed, my anxiety only getting higher and higher as the alarm continued and all of the lights in the room flashed red.
Greer was chewing on her hair. “What are we supposed to do?”
“Where’s the guards?” Lexton asked right after Greer.
“I don’t know!” I snapped again. “I don’t know! The guards aren’t out there.” I said pointing to the door.
Tessa shook out her hands. “Well, we need to do something.” She said nervously. “What about the bunkers?”
I bit my lip, trying to think what the h’ll alarms could mean. We didn’t even have them when there were rebels in the castle. “Yeah.” I finally said, nodding my head. “Let’s go.”
I could feel each of the girls right on my heels as we went out into the hallway, my senses feeling like they were all on high alert. I felt a little safer in the confines of the elevator, but my mind jumped to Calvin as the elevator moved down.
“Where’s Calvin?” Lexton asked and it took all of my energy not to slap her across the face, instead I just ignored her question.
I turned to look only at Tessa and Greer, both of them breathing heavily. “You remember how to get to the bunkers?” I asked and they nodded. “Ok, good. Go there and wait for Pedro or whoever to let you guys in.”
The elevator doors started to open but Greer grabbed my arm. “What about you?” She asked, her eyebrows high.
“I’ve got to go find Calvin.” I told her, then pulled her into a hug.
“Be careful.” I whispered into her brown hair. “Don’t worry, it is probably not that big of a deal.” I tried to ease her nerves, but I felt like it was probably a big lie.
I felt Tessa hug me and Greer too. “You be careful, too.” She said. “Go get your man.” She smiled when she let go of us.
The three of them rushed off of the elevator, Greer glancing back at me for a moment before she continued on her way.
Right before the doors closed again, I heard their screams.
I beat my hands against the elevator doors, screaming for Greer and Tessa, and I tried to push the stop button, but the elevator was already moving. My breathing felt like it hurt my lungs, as I sucked in air in ragged breaths.
My head was swimming, fighting back against all of the horrible thoughts that popped into my head for what might have just happened to them.
The elevator slowed and I counted my breaths slowly. “One, two, three.” I whispered to myself as the doors slid open.
The corridors are never very bright or welcoming, but when the doors opened and I crept slowly into the darkness, the ominousness of the corridor going from pitch black, to a hazy red as the lights flashed on and off in rhythm with the blaring of the alarm, made chills run up and down my spine.
I closed my eyes for just a second, trying to gather my nerve, I just needed to find Calvin, then we can figure everything out together.
“Where are you?” I said under my breath and then opened my eyes, trying to build up my confidence, and I marched up the first corridor I came to.
It seemed empty, but there were things lying all over the ground, and it was hard to tell what any of it was with the lights going on and off.
I knew it couldn’t be good though, not when everything is usually so orderly around here. I wanted so badly to call for a guard, but I was terrified of what kind of attention I might get if I did.
I made my way slowly, hugging up to the wall as I walked. I knew that Pedro told me when he briefed me on all of my queenly duties that there was a conference room on this level, and if Calvin had indeed gone to get Castro, then they both might still be around this area, I just needed to find where that place was.
I cvrsed under my breath for not paying attention to the map more carefully. As if it would have really helped anyway in this darkness.
I was keeping my cool until I tripped over something in the darkness and I fell to the cold stone floor with a thud.
The red light illuminated the hall again and I had to cover my mouth and bite my tongue to keep from screaming.
A few feet away from me was a man’s body laying against the opposite wall with an arm out in the middle of the walkway.
His eyes were opened, staring at nothing, and his neck was ripped open, no bI.ood seeping from the wound.
I turned away from the gruesome sight, only for the lights to go out again, then come back up for me to see the dead woman sitting against the wall a foot away from me, her head inclined my way, and her neck nearly severed in half.
I felt bile rise from my gut and the overpowering urge to run away, but my fear only became worse when I heard footsteps. Someone was running this way.
The lights went back out, then the red glow was back just long enough for me to see a young woman, wearing lingerie oddly enough, come running around the corner, fear apparent on her lovely face.
I started to call to her, but then she was on the ground, two men naked men on top of her, ripping into her flesh with their teeth.
My whole body shook and I could hardly breathe, or get my legs to move beneath me, but I finally worked myself into a crawling position, trying as hard as I could to be as quiet as possible, hoping they’d be too distracted by their kll to notice me.
I got around another corner and down the way there was another naked vampire that had someone against a wall, draining them from their neck.
I ducked into the first room I found, but it was completely empty and offered no place for me to hide.
I crouched down beside the door, swaying back and forth slightly in terror of the things I was seeing and imagining that soon I would be next.
I bit my lips as I straightened back up, balling my fists at my sides. I told myself I could do this.
I’m obviously not going to be able to find Calvin in this mess, so I need to find someplace to hide.
ROSES FOR RACHEL: EPISODES 61-THE END
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