Chapter 27: Guts and Scissors

Aurora's POV

A few days have passed and I'm just laying on my bed and texting Eddie.

He didn't bother to go to school cause he's grounded for a week. He's grounded for getting into a fight, which he told his parents of course. I also heard Heather just got charged out of the hospital and she doesn't want to go to school either.

I may not be grounded but I'm still not coming out of my room. I just ignore my mom's knocking on the door, Steven's loud voice outside of my room at night and even Toby's pleadings.

I also heard Steven is also grounded but for four weeks and Dad makes him to go to school. Right now, he's in school, which made me feel a bit safe. I decided to go to Miss Victoria's house once again and I still have a lot of questions about Steven and his twin brother.

I get off the bed and change into warm clothes. After that, I head out of my room and quickly go down the stairs.

As I slowly reach out to the doorknob, I can hear footsteps which made me turn around and I saw Mom, entering the living room with her arms crossed. Oh and also, Mom decided not to go to work for a while, just want to make sure that I won't do anything to myself.

"Aurora, where are you going?" She asked, approaching me.

"Um... just going over to Miss Victoria's house." I answered. She nodded but puts on a confused look on her face.

"You need something from her?" She asked another question.

"Yeah and I just want to talk to her about something. Can I just go?"

She let out a sigh and nodded her head, saying yes. "Sure. But don't go anywhere else."

I nodded and slowly head out of the house. I close the door and walk towards Miss Victoria's house. I saw one of her cats by the front porch and pick her up and don't want the poor cat freezing due to the weather.

I gently ruffled its grey fur before knocking on the door. A few moments later, the door opens and Miss Victoria greeted me with a smile on her.

"Oh hello again, Aurora. You found Lola." She took the grey cat into her arms and let me inside the house. She motioned me to follow her to a room, which is the living room, and we sit down.

"How are you doing these days, Aurora?" She asked, petting her cat.

"I'm okay I guess. Um, Miss Victoria... I have some things that I would like to ask." I said as she puts her cat down.

"And what is that?" She asked, putting on a curious face with a hint of concern in her eyes.

"It's about... Steven. And I remember the past incidents that you told me. About a little boy fell off the slide and broke his leg and the old man who got food poisoning... are you it was Steven doing it?"

"Well... I was there and I happened to see Steven here and there, specifically during those incidents. The incidents are coincidentally to be connected and those kinds of incidents rarely happened in this neighborhood."

3RD POV

As Miss Victoria continue telling the incidents to Aurora... little did they know that there was a specific person, wearing clothes as dark as a black night, quietly enters the house and hide in the shadows as he listens to their conversation.

"That reminds me I have a journal that I kept for quite a while and I've written all about the incidents and the suspicious behavior of Steven that might help. I even have some old newspapers about the incidents." Miss Victoria said.

This caught the attention of the dark haired guy and decided to leave the house quietly, with a plan cooking up in his head.

Aurora's POV

"You happened to observe Steven around?" I asked.

"Well, he's quite suspicious and if there's anything that could lead him to be the culprit, then we have a little bit of proof." She said. "It's not much though but I can't remember the last time I placed it so it might take a while."

I nodded and I decided to head back home. I stand up from the couch.

"I should head back home, Miss Victoria but I'll come back tomorrow for that journal you told me." I said.

"Okay, take care." She said. I give a small smile and head out of her house. I walk back to the house and I can feel someone behind me.

I slowly turn around and I saw a glimpse of someone walking by. I furrowed my eyebrows and decided to follow that person. I walk over to where he's going however I found nobody there. I shake my head and walk back to the house.

I enter and close the door behind me. I head upstairs, on my way to my room. I walk towards the door but stopped my tracks.

Since Steven is not around... I decided to look for more evidence and unravel the secrets he's been hiding.

I walk over to his room and head inside. I look around his room and search for some evidence. I open one of the drawers of his desk and found a red journal notebook with the name 'Steven' engraved on it. I pick it up and head out of the room.

I enter my room and close the door. I sit down and begin to open the red journal. It's just some pictures of Steven and his twin brother when they're little. They look so identical.

I flip through the pages and I happened to found a picture of their mother. Strangely, she looks a bit like my mom except with dark hair. And she seems so young.

I continue to flip through the pages and I found another picture of a white rose bush. I furrowed my eyebrows and flip the picture and found something written on it.

'Mother loves white roses and I always thought that this rose bush is a bit suspicious since it's the only white rose bush at the backyard. I decided to dig and look for something there and I couldn't believe my eyes... it was mother's corpse.'

Just reading send chills down to my spine. I put the picture down and flip the page.

My eyes widen up and I cover my mouth. It was a grotesque picture of their mother's corpse, sitting on the walking chair, wearing the same dirty white dress from the attic.

I close the journal notebook and breathe in and out. I hide the red journal in a safe place and decided to take a nap.

I lay down and look up at the ceiling. My heart still beats fast yet I managed to close my eyes and drift off to sleep.

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Stefan's POV

Some time passed and it's already night time and I waited for Steven to get here since he got back from school a few hours ago. I heard footsteps as I look up and saw Steven walking towards me.

"What is it now?" He asked.

"Well, Miss Victoria had a small chat with little Aurora and we need to do something about it." I said.

"What do you mean exactly?" He raised an eyebrow.

"She's going to expose everything about us and let Aurora report it to the police once she has all of the evidence, not only in Miss Victoria's hands but also in our own house." I said and he runs his face in frustration.

"Shit." He mumbled. I hand him a pair of scissors and I pull out a knife.

"Now let's not waste time and get this over with." I said as we walked over to the house.

I open the door and it looks like Miss Victoria forgot to lock the door. We head inside and I found three of her cats sleeping.

Steven decided to destroy some of her stuff in order to wake Miss Victoria up.

"Who's there?" Miss Victoria called out. We look at each other and nodded.

I quickly kill two of the cats and grab the third cat by the neck, ignoring the sharp sensation of the claws as it scratched me.

We heard the footsteps of Miss Victoria, going down the stairs and I decided to surprise her with the last of her precious cats.

I throw the cat to the ground and quickly cut it's head off. I grab the bloody head of the cat and I happened to came face to face with her as I smirked.

"Long time, no see... Miss Victoria." I said and before she let out a scream, Steven covers her mouth and pushes her to the ground as she groans.

I drop the head of the cat and hold her down.

"Stefan, stab her." Steven said and I nodded. I raise my hand up before stabbing her again... and again... and again.

"Ah!"

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Aurora's POV

I let out a gasp and jerk out of bed. I can feel my heart beating faster and faster and beads of sweat forming on my neck and forehead despite the cold weather.

Something's not right...

I look at the time and it's already 10 in the morning. I quickly get off the bed and head down the stairs.

"Aurora? Where are you going? Aurora!" Mom called and I ignore her.

I run towards Miss Victoria's house and stop my tracks. I noticed that the door is open and I push the door to let myself in.

I look around and there has been a lot of damage going on. Some of her vases are smashed, her paintings and picture frames are scattered... it looks like someone is on a rampage and it couldn't be Miss Victoria obviously.

I look to my right and I saw three of her cats dead and one of them got decapitated. I cover my mouth and swallow the vomit that threatened to come out of my mouth.

I found a trail of blood going up the stairs and decided to check up on it.

I follow the trail and it leads me to a room. I gulp and slowly open the door. I head inside and I can't believe at what I'm looking at right now.

It's Miss Victoria dead body and all of her guts are found hanging out of her stomach with a pair of scissors stabbed on her chest.

"Ahh!"

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The police arrived and I'm wrapped in the arms of Mom as I cried on her shoulder.

Almost everyone came out of their houses and they're all digusted and despondent once they hear the news.

"She doesn't deserve this!" I cried and Mom hugs me tighter.

"None of it, baby. " She said.

"Um... excuse me, Miss Aurora?" I turn around and realized it's Detective Brian. I wipe my tears and sniffled.

"I'm so sorry. But one of the police found this and it says it's for you." He said, handing a dark blue journal.

I take it from him and he decided to interview my mom as well. She agreed and they left somewhere else.

I look down at the journal and I run my fingers through my hair in frustration. I look around and I saw a familiar black hooded guy isolated himself from the neighbors and quickly walks away.

I decided to follow him and he started to run off. I begin to run and follow him.

However, I run out of oxygen and I stopped my tracks as I fall to my knees and take a breather.

I panted as I watched the hooded guy continue to run off as far as possible until his figure grew smaller and smaller until he disappear.