Something, a webseries

JR had only been gone for a few minutes when there was a knock on the front door. Dev, Ian and Ed all looked at one-another for a few seconds before Ed finally got up and walked to the front door, Ian and Dev close behind. There was no way that Others would still bother them – at least none of them thought so, and Ed opened the door without first looking through the window.             “Yeah?” Ed asked, studying the appearance of the person on the other side of the door. The man wore casual clothing; an American baseball cap, sneakers and jeans. No firearm. No melee weapon. Ed heard Dev’s disappointed sigh and felt his presence dissipate as he went back to the chessboard.             The man on the other side of the door peered inside at Ian and Ed, then cleared his throat and pulled an envelope out of his pocket. “This is for you,” he said as Ed retrieved the envelope.             Ed looked the man straight in the eyes as he closed the door without saying goodbye. Ian merely

            JR drove around aimlessly for hours after witnessing Devon and Melisa having sex. He had tried not to look but he could not, and even now he could barely believe what he had seen.             A million thoughts and emotions were racing through his head. He thought of killing Devon, of kidnapping Melisa and forcing her to grow to love him. He thought of killing both of them. He thought of killing himself.   “Ian would kill me if I tried,” he said to himself as the last thought came to him. “Besides, I’d fail at doing that as well.”             He hadn’t been paying a lot of attention to where he had been driving and soon found himself in the middle of nowhere, stopping in front of a burned down mansion.             JR didn’t know why, but he felt compelled to leave his car and walk through the mansion. Something, or someone, was drawing him towards it, so he went. He walked through the burnt halls, up the remains of the stairs to the second floor and down anothe