"Welcome to Willow Spring!" Emy shrieked excitedly, throwing her hands up in the air. I giggled as I looked out of the tinted window. We were finally in Willow Spring to study. We were all excited to take a break and fulfil Victoria's last wish.
It wasn't necessary to go to the college, we already went to much better universities, but we just had to fulfil her wish. Cameroon Lance's University wasn't a known university and certainly didn't have much worth, but it was for bonding. Judith was the only one who hated the idea of going back to school for real, she's the dumb one and also hated the fact that we were going to hide our identities.
"Wow, I'm so excited," Judith said sarcastically, "can I die now?"
"Oh come on, Judith, be excited for real, it's going to be fun!" Emy replied with her usual shriek.
"No, seriously, can't you see my excited and joyful grin," Judith said mirthlessly.
"Cut it off with the sarcasm, Judith, be glad about the new adventure for once." Sage said chidingly.
"Well sorry if I'm not shrieking over something as meaningless as this," she scoffed, "we don't have to come here because Tori said to. Couldn't she have sent us to somewhere more classy and eminent? Sending us to this poor town isn't worth it."
"Judith, look around, this town isn't as small as you make it to be. It is big enough to contain two universities, eight high schools, five junior high and enough nurseries. It also have enough exciting places and the town is very beautiful, just too beautiful." I said as I looked at the town. The town was indeed beautiful, a nature town.
"I agree, it's amazing," Sage agreed.
"Okay, fine, I admit that the town is beautiful and a place I can take cool pictures in. But, do we have to dress like commoners or rather, act like one? I don't want to let go of my fabulous dress style," she whined, "and next, I don't want to have to study so hard, I almost died the last time I had to study online, let alone by myself. I'm too young to grow white hair." She cried.
I turned my head to her with a chuckle. Sage stroke her chin. "So basically, your issue is you studying hard when you can easily get someone to do it for you and also going back to study yourself is worthless?"
"Judith, you do realise that you literally have the poorest degree in the history of poor, right?" I asked with raised brow.
"The questions were confusing! What do you want from me?!" She shouted, throwing her hands up in the air. "At least, I have a good high school certificate, that's enough, no?"
"You passed after retaking the exams thrice," Emy said jestingly. We broke into laughter.
"We are talking to Judith McDumb Bill, don't stress the conversation." Sage said with a wave of her hand.
"I am not dumb! I just don't like books! I'm allergic to books, why don't anyone understand!"
"Oh dear," sage laughed, running her fingers through her thick blonde hair. She tinted the lower part of her hair red and weaved it into cornrows to make it harder to recognise her. She wore steel grey eye lens over her golden brown irises.
"Judith have been acting more paranoid than usual, what's up with you?" Emy asked with a playful look.
"Yeah, I've been meaning to ask you that myself, what is wrong with you, Judith?" Sage asked drily.
"I'm always paranoid," Judith said as she rolled her eyes.
"Yeah, but you are overly paranoid, your anxiety has evolved." I knew where this was going, they were going to tease her. The way they were looking at her said it all.
"And why are you looking at me like that?" Judith asked unnervedly, "you guys are creeping me out, stop it."
"Judith, are you aware that mood swings are signs of pregnancy?" Emy blurted out with a stifle laugh.
"Yeah…?"
"Judith, are we going to be mums soon?" Sage asked teasingly. Judith choked on her saliva while I broke into a stifled mirth. "Just tell us, we would understand,"
"Who's the father? The model that looks like a half ox?" Emy added jokingly.
"Or is it the bamboo with the two left legs?"
"Are you both crazy?!" Judith screeched angrily, "I'm not pregnant!"
"Then are you in your period?"
"For five months?" Sage laughed stiflingly, "can't be period."
"Maybe she doesn't know that she is gonna be a momma," Emy thought distantly.
"I am not pregnant! What am I? Virgin Mary!"
"Mary Magdalene actually, you sleep around a lot," Emy sighed lazily. Judith huffed through her nostrils, her face as red as a tomato.
"I haven't had sex since I broke up with Nicholas! And that was fucking five months ago!"
"I say five months," Sage uttered with a satisfied nod, "tho I can't figure out why her stomach is still flat."
"Maybe she is putting on a girdle or her womb is located at her back or her baby knows it mother is too scrawny to manage a big stomach, Judith will snap into two if she should ever carry such load." Emy added thoughtfully.
"Bloody Pete! I'm not pregnant!" Judith screamed furiously. That did it, the cabman burst into laughter.
"Or is it that the baby is too small to come out?" Sage cried, "I don't want my niece to be a rat."
"Niece? I want a nephew, one as fat as The Tower of Babel."
"No, niece and I'm going to be the godmother…"
"No way, Sage, you can't be the godmother, I am. You can manage the aunt position while I be the godmother."
"Shut up, Emy, I have always been there for Judith, even through the hard labour…"
"Candy," Judith cried out, almost in tears. I sank down with my hand on my stomach, "don't laugh, make them stop!"
"Okay, cut it out, guys, stop stressing the baby…"
"Candy!"
"Okay, okay," I laughed with hands raised, "stop, don't do that."
"Wait, didn't you have unprotected sex with Raphael three months ago?" Emy gasped. Judith's ruddy face turned pale instantly. We broke into laughter again. Judith slapped my shoulder sheepishly.
"We are here, miss," the cabman announced laughingly. We took two cabs, one for our luggages,
by our, I mean Judith's and Emy's
instruments and stuffs. And the other for us and few stuffs.
"Wow! Is this where we will be staying?!" Judith exclaimed in shock, "I thought we were going to stay in a barn or under a bridge." She added derisively.
"Very funny, Judith, I was thinking we were going to live in a yard or something." I eyed Sage and hissed.
"We might be going simple, but that doesn't mean we have to live completely low. This house belongs to Victoria, part of the things she willed to me."
"Are you kidding me? This house looks like one of those houses in movies that is always haunted, a place where only one will end up surviving." Sage said with a disapproving tone.
"And if anyone is to survive, it would be you because you are like the cat with fifty thousand lives." Judith scoffed. The house was a dark painted Queen Anne's styled Victorian house, a house located deep in a beautiful flowers and willow trees road path. The path only led to the house, we were all alone in here.
"Are you sure that you want to live here, miss?" The cabman asked with a little worry, "this house is haunted, no one lives here."
"Great, now it is an haunted house."
