Our lives changed with just487Please respect copyright.PENANAfq9ymPaWA5
the sound of a gunshot.
One night, one gunshot, one dead body487Please respect copyright.PENANAgyoaIexuTZ
discovered the next morning.
That was how my best friends and I got tangled487Please respect copyright.PENANAEgHvdbDCTl
up in a murder mystery that changed not just our summer plans, but our entire487Please respect copyright.PENANArTdMJa1bf3
lives.
Here I am right now, sitting in my bedroom and487Please respect copyright.PENANA8Zi3zaBfqf
looking impatiently at the time waiting the doorbell to ring. Evelyn and I had487Please respect copyright.PENANAA1Q2GuolKd
to search the Smith’s mansion for a clue. This is our third search since the487Please respect copyright.PENANAlxtGgSWkDP
murder. The second search left a sour taste in our mouth. Iris, one of our best487Please respect copyright.PENANAmQxDuj1eHg
friends, was almost killed. She is currently in the hospital in a coma.487Please respect copyright.PENANA0lJV8WUwtH
“indefinite” the doctor had said. These words echoed in my head and drove me to487Please respect copyright.PENANA7tdrPj7WB2
get to the bottom of this mystery.
7:45am
The doorbell rang.
Finally.
I picked my stuff, ran out of my room, down the487Please respect copyright.PENANAbk6UhH0JIz
stairs and to the door. I flung it open.
“After a million years! We487Please respect copyright.PENANAd5K7Iid7rb
have no time. Let’s leave now!” I stated as I pulled my tote bag along with me.
I know I was being quite bossy and487Please respect copyright.PENANAv6Zx3JBLt2
dramatic but, in my defense, my heart was beating like crazy, and I just wanted487Please respect copyright.PENANAiBzYhki1mW
to get things over with. I was already overthinking things as it was already.487Please respect copyright.PENANAwVtwOl0Xsv
All I could think of was the fact that Iris was almost murdered, and her killer487Please respect copyright.PENANAEUrVmgjFaa
is running free. Probably camping out at the Smith`s mansion… or in my house. I487Please respect copyright.PENANABAEs6ULxxF
don’t know, and I don’t even want to think about anything else but to find the487Please respect copyright.PENANAXCcQoYT96v
answer. And the answer, is behind those huge thick doors of the smith`s house.487Please respect copyright.PENANAj4a2gVvTXP
And today, I hope to uncover it.
Those doors…. quite like that of the487Please respect copyright.PENANAPgu4TXnDL4
entrance to hell. All these years, I had never seen the house as such a scarred487Please respect copyright.PENANAjqKjJhess5
monument. But at the beginning of summer break, things changed. LOADS of487Please respect copyright.PENANAb7WHS1vg5T
things. And I must deal with these changes.
Evelyn stepped in front of me and dropped487Please respect copyright.PENANAQnyofFqa1A
the duffel bag on the dusty porch.
“Ready when you are!” she announced487Please respect copyright.PENANAYaOR7iShu6
as she dropped to her knees and unzipped the bag.
“Ready!” I replied. For some odd487Please respect copyright.PENANAxwvy8zJ0bg
reasons, that word was so difficult for me to say. It seemed like the weirdest487Please respect copyright.PENANAXCOZXrYD40
thing to admit. Who in their right senses would be born ready to go exploring487Please respect copyright.PENANAioNbRPYM5T
an abandoned house where a murder was committed, where her best friend was487Please respect copyright.PENANAjirOw4Vsew
almost killed, and most importantly, where a potential killer is hiding.
“Done!’ Evelyn announced as she487Please respect copyright.PENANABUYinXHygX
straightened up and pushed the door opened just a crack.
“Wait!” I demanded, preventing her487Please respect copyright.PENANAxsDA1cwNpV
from going in. “We should know that as we are walking into this place, we might487Please respect copyright.PENANA05Npws911C
be the next target.”
“Yeah, I know. And we should be very487Please respect copyright.PENANAgOXWEEqAi9
careful.”
“Very! You have your backup487Please respect copyright.PENANAsZYWerMufz
flashlights, right?”
“Never go anywhere without them!”
We laughed nervously. Evelyn then gave me487Please respect copyright.PENANAucvVcT4jtp
a reassuring nod, then pushed the door open. Taking a huge breath, we walked487Please respect copyright.PENANA1sq5a46BMV
into our very own doom.
The house greeted us with the usual487Please respect copyright.PENANAF3BocsUtfE
dust. We went around the house. Our circle487Please respect copyright.PENANAqzInz9TlYn
of white light from our torch, followed us on our journey. I clutched my pepper487Please respect copyright.PENANAlsWCahnzPP
spray tight in my other hand with my heart beating like crazy. Everything seemed487Please respect copyright.PENANAsGZNcZg0MV
to be going well, till we got to the study.
When we approached the study, I already decided not to go in. Because that was where Iris was almost murdered. I487Please respect copyright.PENANAfvGtIpn6uN
began walking away from the room. Then the strangest thing happened.
I heard a voice.
MY voice, but in my head. The voice willed me to487Please respect copyright.PENANA13R0it5Xp9
go into the study. I tried shaking of the strange feeling and walking away, but487Please respect copyright.PENANAlAga2DI3u0
I felt myself being dragged to the door.487Please respect copyright.PENANApft8x8xRGo
NO… Not dragged. I was WALKING! Even487Please respect copyright.PENANANIvTeuGuXi
though I didn’t want to go, I saw myself walking towards the study.
Fear gripped my whole being. I487Please respect copyright.PENANAVdjztiH729
heard Evelyn`s voice ask if I was ok.
“OF COURSE NOT!” I screamed. “I can487Please respect copyright.PENANAZXL0rPG5ci
hear my own voice in my head telling me to do what I don’t want to.”
Adrenaline flowed through my veins487Please respect copyright.PENANAkrHEy76VNG
as I listened to myself talking. To my horror, that wasn’t what I screamed. I heard487Please respect copyright.PENANAnsWhOeUsgP
myself scream: “I AM FINE! LET’S JUST GET THIS OVER WITH!”
WHAT? That so not what I wanted to487Please respect copyright.PENANAmEcuiSZu7R
say. I stared at Evelyn as she asked me what was wrong with me. She explained487Please respect copyright.PENANAMgfQ1qaaIt
that she understands how I feel but I need to be calm.
“Did you sleep at all last night?”
I didn’t even give her a reply. Maybe487Please respect copyright.PENANAEFSW6f293g
that’s it. Maybe because I didn’t get enough sleep last night, I am hearing487Please respect copyright.PENANAcpbENgBsLX
things.
“Sorry Eve, I didn’t mean anything I487Please respect copyright.PENANA4zm5CBwKAf
said.” I apologized. As we continued our search.
We walked away from the study door487Please respect copyright.PENANAeMUssEOr6Y
again. Then I heard it loud and clear this time.
“GET487Please respect copyright.PENANAqLVmeL5JmF
IN THERE!”.
I was so startled that I sprayed my spray into Evelyn’s eyes out of487Please respect copyright.PENANARn9Cbk8sLi
shock. I dropped the pepper spray, quite dazed. I started apologizing but487Please respect copyright.PENANAmYBPvMD4BD
stopped in shock. I stared at Evelyn in surprise.
Something is wrong. Very wrong.
Evelyn wasn’t in pain. In fact, she didn’t487Please respect copyright.PENANA49DqDKUChV
look as though she was in pain at all. Instead, she smiled at me, walked487Please respect copyright.PENANA1Y3aHnY7wj
towards the study door, and opened it.
“Evelyn, are you ok?” I asked as the487Please respect copyright.PENANAg9Ui5oUdGu
fear and shock I felt made my leg quiver.
“Yes, I am! Fiona. She wants us to487Please respect copyright.PENANAnOkDsfsqDo
search the study!” she replied in a hypnotic way and with a horrific smile.
“Who?” I stammered as I looked487Please respect copyright.PENANACprc65oCKZ
around in fear. Everything about this house is just off.
"The487Please respect copyright.PENANARLBrEhiXmd
girl." Eve replied impatiently. Still with that weird smile on her face. Then she487Please respect copyright.PENANAasZn4I9Dgw
added, “The girl that always tells us what to do.”
Then she disappeared into the room.
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