VOID CLUBHOUSE*

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"You don't have to. I'm aware that you smoke joint" Mrs. Wilson smiled, walking to her.

She took her hands.

"You knew?" Pearl said.

"I've only been pretending, remember what I said about never judging you?" The woman smiled, and Pearl hugged her.

"How's school treating you? I told you not to fight the mad guy who ruined your car, I'll just get you another one" she said.

"I didn't fight him, didn't even see him" Pearl lied, and the woman smiled.

"Pearl!" Mr. Wilson's voice came downstairs.

"Gawd, this oldie" Pearl groaned, breaking the hug.

Mrs. Wilson chuckled as they left the room together.

They got downstairs and met Mr. Wilson in his study.

He's standing beside one of the shelves, the one with the scattered books as a result of Roonie's violence.

Pearl cursed him inwardly immediately...

She forgot to arrange the books!

"Care to tell me what happened here?" Mr. Wilson questioned gruffly.

"It's nothing, I'll arrange it right now" Pearl replied and started picking up the books.

Her mother helped out too.

"Rebelling like this won't help this situation, Emory. You're my daughter añd I won't stop telling you the truth" Mr. Wilson said, and Pearl stood.

"What do you mean? You think I knowingly poured the books away?"

There's hurt in her voice.

"What else? It's not your first time throwing tantrums just to get back at me, and it's not my fault ok? It wasn't!" Mr. Wilson snapped.

"Lies! If you had taken me with you that day, it wouldn't have happened...if you didn't leave me at home, uncle Fred wouldn't have his way into my pants!" Pearl shouted.

"pearl bby..." Her mother held her, but she broke free.

"It was a business conference, I couldn't possibly take you!" Mr. Wilson said.

"I begged you, I begged you like crazy! I did...but you left me, the fault is on you!" Pearl shouted and rushed out of the study.

She could hear her mother's voice echoing after her as she took each step farther and farther from the house, but it's not in her agenda to go back into that house tonight.

She doesn't even have a car anymore, so walking it is the only option.

Her mother called many times, but she didn't pick as she quickened her steps, wrapped by darkness.

She sent a text to the girls group chat.

Pearl: anyone in for clubbing? I need to drink.

Lizzy: didn't we settle for no clubbing tonight?

Pearl: something happened.

Rebekah: Sneaking out of the palace will be impossible tonight.

Morgan: I can't come, I'm busy with mum.

Lizzy: I'll come with you... should I come pick you at your place?

Pearl: Nope, we meet there.

She pocketed her phone and quickened her steps, but then she felt a chilly presence behind herself.

She turned, but no one in sight, so she continued her walk, but still, her feeling of being followed persisted.

Actually, this is not her first time feeling it, but it's stronger tonight.

She stopped and turned back for the second time, but no one again.

She hissed out and took the last step out of the street.

She stopped a taxi and got in.

"Void clubhouse" she said, resting back.

The taxi moved.

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VOID CLUBHOUSE*

"Are you the only one going in tonight?" The gate bouncer asked immediately Lizzy showed up.

"Nope, Pearl is coming" Lizzy replied.

"She's always available" the bouncer replied, and Lizzy chuckled.

"Need to use the restroom, be right back" he said, and Lizzy shrugged as he left.

She got her phone to call Pearl, but someone snatched it from her, and she looked up to see Rook staring piercingly at her

Rue is beside him, a mean smile on her pale lips.

"Fashion icon, what's up?" Rue waved tauntingly, popping gum in her mouth.

"Give me my...

Lizzy couldn't say the rest cos someone injected her from behind, and she fell flat on the ground.

Jeremy appeared afterwards, he did the injecting actually.

He carried her on his shoulder, and he followed Jeremy away.

Rue dropped a note on the bouncer's table before following them.

A minute later, the bouncer came out and took the note.

His eyes widened, and Pearl appeared almost immediately.

"Tell me Lizzy got here already" she said.

Speechlessly, he gave her the note.

Pearl's pupils dilated when she began reading.

~•~Lizzy will be trapped till you bring Banks to us. The two of you will go down on your knees in front of us before Lizzy can be free. You have 24hrs, else I'm killing her. Code: Black/White~•~

Merely seeing the code, she got who it's from immediately... The Titans.

"Rook" she gritted her teeth.

"Rook!!!!!"

Lizzy is not healthy, this can't be happening.

She got her phone with shaky hands.

*

Jeremy is still walking to the car with Lizzy on his shoulder when she began stiffening up, and he almost fell.

"Walk!" Rue shouted behind him.

He took another step, and Lizzy fell from his shoulder to the ground.

"Dumbass!" Rook made to kick him, but Rue held him.

"Rook, look at this" she muttered.

Rook turned to look at Lizzy, and his forehead knitted.

Lizzy is still stiffening on the ground, and her body is moving violently like a worm does when salted.

That's not all though, she's also foaming from the mouth.

Rue couldn't believe her eyes, and Jeremy gasped.

She's epileptic!

"Interesting, damn interesting" Rook grinned.