Heart of the Storm by Nicole Stiling

Author:Nicole Stiling [Stiling, Nicole]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781635557909
Publisher: Bold Strokes Books
Published: 2020-11-03T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-three

Screams emanated from the television, the pulsing blue light in the darkness providing a much-needed distraction. Sienna shoveled a handful of microwave popcorn into her mouth while Declan sat on the chair across from her, scrolling on his phone.

“This is dumb.” He kept looking up at the screen intermittently.

“Come on, this is a modern classic. The first of its kind to do the whole ‘found footage’ thing,” Sienna said. The iconic scene of one of the campers with her face in the camera, nose running and all, was playing. “It’s actually terrifying.”

“Oh, please,” he said, though he didn’t look away.

A high-pitched witch cackle came from behind them and caused the two of them to scream. Sienna spilled popcorn all over her lap and Declan threw his phone to the ground.

“Wow, you guys are easy,” Juliet said. She was laughing so hard Sienna could see tears in the corners of her eyes.

“What the hell, Mom?” Declan yelled. “You could have broken my phone!”

“Oh, this isn’t scary, this is for babies,” Juliet mocked him.

“Whatever. It’s only because it’s dark in here and you surprised me.” He gave her an epic eye roll.

Sienna smiled at their interaction. They had a great relationship, and she was glad Declan had such a good support system. “Take a seat, we’re getting to all the good parts now,” Sienna said. She patted the couch next to her, trying to make it seem like everything was normal.

She sensed Juliet’s hesitation, but Juliet sat next to her anyway. She removed her hairpin and let her hair fall over her shoulders. She looked good either way, but Sienna loved it when she wore her hair down. Not that it mattered.

“Give me some.” Juliet took her own handful of popcorn. “We should take a field trip to Maryland to see if we can find the Blair Witch ourselves.”

“You guys can go. I’m not wasting my time in the woods looking for some made-up witch.” Declan scoffed.

Juliet looked at Sienna with wide eyes. Sienna caught her drift and covered her mouth.

“What?” Declan asked, seeming the slightest bit uneasy.

“Legend has it that if you say out loud that she doesn’t exist, she comes and proves it to you. While you sleep. Why did you have to say that?” Juliet asked. Sienna had to give her kudos for how genuinely shaken she sounded.

“That’s bull…crap.”

Sienna uncovered her mouth slowly. “Didn’t you ever hear about that girl in Delaware? She told her friends it was all a myth and that the Blair Witch could bite her ass. The next day, she was found floating facedown in a pond behind her house. And she never went near that pond because she was deathly afraid of water. It was ruled an accident, but everybody really knows what happened that night.”

“Stop trying to scare me, it’s not going to—”

“Behind you!” Juliet screamed.

Declan leapt out of his chair so fast he knocked it over. Sienna was laughing as hard as Juliet was, and at one point, Juliet put her hand on Sienna’s knee.

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