The Reckoning

~DARIUS~

I walked through the gates because Declan said to come now.

No context. No joke. Just come to the house. I could sense that something was wrong without him saying it. I could feel it through the phone.

The house looked the same. The man waiting for me did not.

The second I got there, my best friend punched me straight in the face.

Shock came first. Then the hit.

I saw the sky. Felt the pa