Next day I meet Ryan in the basketball court, he was sweating after the basketball practice. 

"Hey, Lue"

"Ryan, what do you know?"

"About?"

"Olivia, you dumb head"

"Oh yah, nothing, I just saw them in the club kissing on the dance floor. Before I could go stop Olivia, she was no were to be found in the club, I tired calling her, but I figured out she went home so", he said.

"You idiot, if only you could have taken her home that day", I said, And realized I spilled the truth, Olivia's secret in front of Ryan.

"You mean she cheated on Carter", I looked at him.

"Ryan I wasn't suppose to let that out, please keep it to yourself, I can't betray Olivia", I told him.

"And she betrayed Carter? Is that the reason she's been avoiding him?", he asked.

"No, she is disturbed, I guess", I said.

"Does she have feelings for Taylor?", he asked me.

"No she doesn't, she said it was a mistake, she was drunk and one thing lead to another and she didn't stop", I told him.

"This is messed up, Lue", he said and I nodded.

"I gotta go, history class", I told him he nodded and left for practice saying,"See you at lunch".

Olivia skipped school today again, and Carter stuck around with Adam and Ryan. We met at lunch and talked about school, no one bringing up Olivia in the conversation. After lunch, the day went normal, normal as in, I got detention for not submitting homework since Monday in maths, and literature.

I texted Adam telling him not to wait for me, as I had detention. He said they had detention as well. So apparently the guys got detention because of a little fight they were involved in which started with Carter taking out his frustation on a guy after he pissed Carter off.

I called Adam.

"Are you guys okay?"

"hmm"

"Is anyone hurt?"

"Not really, just a few punched on Carter's face, Ryan and I are clean, but we got detention"

"Great, I'll meet you then"

"Yup, see you later"

After detention was over, we met in the parking lot and I saw the condition in which Carter was. A swollen eye and red marks on his face. Ryan had hurt his arm and Adam was clean. I was sure the fight would have been over earlier if Adam stepped in, which means Carter and Ryan started the fight.

"Adam told me", I said when Ryan opened his mouth to say something.

"Does it hurt?", I looked at both of them, and they didn't say a word.

"Carter there isn't a point in keeping it inside, you can talk to us", I said.

"I don't want to know" he said.

"Well we are having a boys night today at my place, you wanna join", Ryan said."Just play station, food and talk", Adam said.

"As much as I would love that, I think I'm just gonna hit the hay, I'm tired", I told them and they nodded.

"See you tomorrow",Ryan said.

"Yup", I responded. I drove to Olivia's house and found the door unlocked. I made my way up to her room to talk to her.

"Hey Lue", she said as I entered her room.

"Listen Olivia, I'm concerned now, Ryan saw you there in the club with Taylor that day, he probably kept it to himself thinking everything is fine but now he is concerned",I told her.

She looked at me in shock."Now listen to me, maybe you are having depression issues and you have been feeling guilty of what happened, so just tell Carter the truth. He got into a fight today in school, and has a swollen eye", I said.

"Swollen eye? when did it happen? with who?", she asked.

"Not important Oli, I'm concerned that's it. Come to school tomorrow and tell him the truth please. You've made him miserable enough, he thinks he rushed the things and that you are disgusted from him because of that", I said."I think I have to tell him the truth. All of this might stop then." she said.

"All of what?", I asked her.

"Lucy, I'm having nightmares about Carter, Taylor and myself and I usually end up dying in them. I'm seeing a lady with a creepy smile whenever I see Carter, isn't this enough?", she said. And all I could do was process what she just said. Before she could say anymore, I left the room shutting the door behind me, I heard her call my name. But I didn't stop because I think I might have figured all of this out.

I drove home as fast as I could. After dinner, I wished my parents goodnight and sat on my bed processing the events that have taken place ever since we visited the cave. Our lives were a mess. And what if it wasn't a coincidence but because of the cave.

The next day I knew what I had to do. I drove to the golf club and parked my car. Since it was a weekday Friday to be specific, there weren't many car's in the parking lot, but I couldn't pay attention to that. I knew what I wanted and where I needed to go. So rushed down the trail and reached the cement benches near the Asylum. I tried to figure out the way to the cave but after what seemed to be my 5th try I came up to a dead end.

I made my way back to the benches and sat there. Then I did the most obvious thing. I tried enacting the events of Sunday. So I sat where I was sitting that day and tried to remember where did Adam stand. I tried to remember the direction from which the scream came and tried following another trail now. I remembered we went off trail and what seemed like an hour of searching the source of our problems, 10 minutes later I was standing outside the cave. It was to my right, covered by weeds and creepers which had yellow flowers blossoming on them.

Wasn't sure if I should, I entered the cave and turned on the flashlight on the phone, I moved inside and reached the end of the cave. I remembered I had seen the Latin scriptures on the rough wall of the cave, so I pointed the flashlight in that direction and tried to look at them.

A minute later when I was fully engrossed in my own thoughts, I felt something on my shoulder. Wearing a sleeveless top, I could feel the warmth in the touch. 

And I screamed.