Our lives changed with just334Please respect copyright.PENANA8Y8n2mBTTy
the sound of a gunshot.
One night, one gunshot, one dead body334Please respect copyright.PENANAZFnL6gFSF9
discovered the next morning.
That was how my best friends and I got tangled334Please respect copyright.PENANArxxeRQQsLw
up in a murder mystery that changed not just our summer plans, but our entire334Please respect copyright.PENANACLPlLLq2hI
lives.
Here I am right now, sitting in my bedroom and334Please respect copyright.PENANAoz65CM0VHh
looking impatiently at the time waiting the doorbell to ring. Evelyn and I had334Please respect copyright.PENANA5Nlg6NeqwG
to search the Smith’s mansion for a clue. This is our third search since the334Please respect copyright.PENANAbnYxqrCJuc
murder. The second search left a sour taste in our mouth. Iris, one of our best334Please respect copyright.PENANAXLAlBga5ee
friends, was almost killed. She is currently in the hospital in a coma.334Please respect copyright.PENANAnMJLm05NW7
“indefinite” the doctor had said. These words echoed in my head and drove me to334Please respect copyright.PENANAD6lvT2jbCr
get to the bottom of this mystery.
7:45am
The doorbell rang.
Finally.
I picked my stuff, ran out of my room, down the334Please respect copyright.PENANAEpmutxBVFs
stairs and to the door. I flung it open.
“After a million years! We334Please respect copyright.PENANAwZRq87Ryre
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 and334Please respect copyright.PENANAk112k3eiTV
dramatic but, in my defense, my heart was beating like crazy, and I just wanted334Please respect copyright.PENANAe1cAbeVPEs
to get things over with. I was already overthinking things as it was already.334Please respect copyright.PENANAIzuvzqtwEx
All I could think of was the fact that Iris was almost murdered, and her killer334Please respect copyright.PENANAdfiUvcuJ7H
is running free. Probably camping out at the Smith`s mansion… or in my house. I334Please respect copyright.PENANAG9xxVCdcxn
don’t know, and I don’t even want to think about anything else but to find the334Please respect copyright.PENANAywgQgJgbEy
answer. And the answer, is behind those huge thick doors of the smith`s house.334Please respect copyright.PENANAbsiAWw8rLU
And today, I hope to uncover it.
Those doors…. quite like that of the334Please respect copyright.PENANALN0lAD3pV5
entrance to hell. All these years, I had never seen the house as such a scarred334Please respect copyright.PENANAwNPcu7JC95
monument. But at the beginning of summer break, things changed. LOADS of334Please respect copyright.PENANAINNTAhUyEx
things. And I must deal with these changes.
Evelyn stepped in front of me and dropped334Please respect copyright.PENANAWujuQR7xSx
the duffel bag on the dusty porch.
“Ready when you are!” she announced334Please respect copyright.PENANARBUW4VoBkt
as she dropped to her knees and unzipped the bag.
“Ready!” I replied. For some odd334Please respect copyright.PENANAwRLBAcpdMv
reasons, that word was so difficult for me to say. It seemed like the weirdest334Please respect copyright.PENANAIB8Vi6NqHB
thing to admit. Who in their right senses would be born ready to go exploring334Please respect copyright.PENANAJj2Hxv1djv
an abandoned house where a murder was committed, where her best friend was334Please respect copyright.PENANAI0fwZYxWfs
almost killed, and most importantly, where a potential killer is hiding.
“Done!’ Evelyn announced as she334Please respect copyright.PENANAPP9gJddUfD
straightened up and pushed the door opened just a crack.
“Wait!” I demanded, preventing her334Please respect copyright.PENANAX8FXd0Kv7L
from going in. “We should know that as we are walking into this place, we might334Please respect copyright.PENANA05y9Np6glf
be the next target.”
“Yeah, I know. And we should be very334Please respect copyright.PENANAT1MwhV7wUf
careful.”
“Very! You have your backup334Please respect copyright.PENANA52EjkOj12R
flashlights, right?”
“Never go anywhere without them!”
We laughed nervously. Evelyn then gave me334Please respect copyright.PENANADweyq8Z8qu
a reassuring nod, then pushed the door open. Taking a huge breath, we walked334Please respect copyright.PENANAATbO2wPfhp
into our very own doom.
The house greeted us with the usual334Please respect copyright.PENANAsDWUWhS3Gy
dust. We went around the house. Our circle334Please respect copyright.PENANArxequhyYwN
of white light from our torch, followed us on our journey. I clutched my pepper334Please respect copyright.PENANAzaNsm9KWBJ
spray tight in my other hand with my heart beating like crazy. Everything seemed334Please respect copyright.PENANAhcJlwmgw8G
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. I334Please respect copyright.PENANAYi0ZAwiFIE
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 to334Please respect copyright.PENANAtVCnUY829N
go into the study. I tried shaking of the strange feeling and walking away, but334Please respect copyright.PENANAF7svlfZMp8
I felt myself being dragged to the door.334Please respect copyright.PENANAoBNbVhtGpp
NO… Not dragged. I was WALKING! Even334Please respect copyright.PENANA1KjAtCGon8
though I didn’t want to go, I saw myself walking towards the study.
Fear gripped my whole being. I334Please respect copyright.PENANA50ZexX2YSD
heard Evelyn`s voice ask if I was ok.
“OF COURSE NOT!” I screamed. “I can334Please respect copyright.PENANA6pfGcXHIXf
hear my own voice in my head telling me to do what I don’t want to.”
Adrenaline flowed through my veins334Please respect copyright.PENANAnTo0n0YiE6
as I listened to myself talking. To my horror, that wasn’t what I screamed. I heard334Please respect copyright.PENANAXlQL65nUS1
myself scream: “I AM FINE! LET’S JUST GET THIS OVER WITH!”
WHAT? That so not what I wanted to334Please respect copyright.PENANARE80YZc2cR
say. I stared at Evelyn as she asked me what was wrong with me. She explained334Please respect copyright.PENANAbHq9HZfAbk
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. Maybe334Please respect copyright.PENANA4gI5160liV
that’s it. Maybe because I didn’t get enough sleep last night, I am hearing334Please respect copyright.PENANAjVabFaCRJX
things.
“Sorry Eve, I didn’t mean anything I334Please respect copyright.PENANA86udJipFJ9
said.” I apologized. As we continued our search.
We walked away from the study door334Please respect copyright.PENANAswyja0elcP
again. Then I heard it loud and clear this time.
“GET334Please respect copyright.PENANAzapGfokYzm
IN THERE!”.
I was so startled that I sprayed my spray into Evelyn’s eyes out of334Please respect copyright.PENANAkOXrD0g4Jo
shock. I dropped the pepper spray, quite dazed. I started apologizing but334Please respect copyright.PENANAZVRMyAcJYK
stopped in shock. I stared at Evelyn in surprise.
Something is wrong. Very wrong.
Evelyn wasn’t in pain. In fact, she didn’t334Please respect copyright.PENANAO8SSmltTUR
look as though she was in pain at all. Instead, she smiled at me, walked334Please respect copyright.PENANAuTx6U4afkD
towards the study door, and opened it.
“Evelyn, are you ok?” I asked as the334Please respect copyright.PENANAZnTh8Oiw1T
fear and shock I felt made my leg quiver.
“Yes, I am! Fiona. She wants us to334Please respect copyright.PENANAyG62bsgHlO
search the study!” she replied in a hypnotic way and with a horrific smile.
“Who?” I stammered as I looked334Please respect copyright.PENANAPJNXK6fxE2
around in fear. Everything about this house is just off.
"The334Please respect copyright.PENANAlkTVisGn36
girl." Eve replied impatiently. Still with that weird smile on her face. Then she334Please respect copyright.PENANAOp75zxgWSr
added, “The girl that always tells us what to do.”
Then she disappeared into the room.
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