Our lives changed with just453Please respect copyright.PENANAx9meIaKvmn
the sound of a gunshot.
One night, one gunshot, one dead body453Please respect copyright.PENANAmbzp7x3AbR
discovered the next morning.
That was how my best friends and I got tangled453Please respect copyright.PENANAvtyGHhTcuX
up in a murder mystery that changed not just our summer plans, but our entire453Please respect copyright.PENANAVTzotlWNxp
lives.
Here I am right now, sitting in my bedroom and453Please respect copyright.PENANAT65cpTsmHP
looking impatiently at the time waiting the doorbell to ring. Evelyn and I had453Please respect copyright.PENANAXDYOwACzwZ
to search the Smith’s mansion for a clue. This is our third search since the453Please respect copyright.PENANAtQbFGQxMME
murder. The second search left a sour taste in our mouth. Iris, one of our best453Please respect copyright.PENANAysM6nmsY2Y
friends, was almost killed. She is currently in the hospital in a coma.453Please respect copyright.PENANAZT2J0gyTm4
“indefinite” the doctor had said. These words echoed in my head and drove me to453Please respect copyright.PENANAalUZWrCUss
get to the bottom of this mystery.
7:45am
The doorbell rang.
Finally.
I picked my stuff, ran out of my room, down the453Please respect copyright.PENANADgbJsT1nOz
stairs and to the door. I flung it open.
“After a million years! We453Please respect copyright.PENANAf6gsDwQPBI
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 and453Please respect copyright.PENANAe2VARAz7Ss
dramatic but, in my defense, my heart was beating like crazy, and I just wanted453Please respect copyright.PENANAUsUkPZ9aLQ
to get things over with. I was already overthinking things as it was already.453Please respect copyright.PENANA8D01PWjGQL
All I could think of was the fact that Iris was almost murdered, and her killer453Please respect copyright.PENANA1gYJKlDEbe
is running free. Probably camping out at the Smith`s mansion… or in my house. I453Please respect copyright.PENANAyA7Cm2pUsE
don’t know, and I don’t even want to think about anything else but to find the453Please respect copyright.PENANA3lefdwiENx
answer. And the answer, is behind those huge thick doors of the smith`s house.453Please respect copyright.PENANAtQMZgmjNqC
And today, I hope to uncover it.
Those doors…. quite like that of the453Please respect copyright.PENANAJyFGjNsD0A
entrance to hell. All these years, I had never seen the house as such a scarred453Please respect copyright.PENANADvl3cv5iAQ
monument. But at the beginning of summer break, things changed. LOADS of453Please respect copyright.PENANAnEJS7MaJHk
things. And I must deal with these changes.
Evelyn stepped in front of me and dropped453Please respect copyright.PENANAwUnHCxG8oc
the duffel bag on the dusty porch.
“Ready when you are!” she announced453Please respect copyright.PENANA1Qq8RQ1jRL
as she dropped to her knees and unzipped the bag.
“Ready!” I replied. For some odd453Please respect copyright.PENANA5HJZsyMSdY
reasons, that word was so difficult for me to say. It seemed like the weirdest453Please respect copyright.PENANAZLj1Ud4eJ7
thing to admit. Who in their right senses would be born ready to go exploring453Please respect copyright.PENANA7Soncfocr4
an abandoned house where a murder was committed, where her best friend was453Please respect copyright.PENANAyAULKBfUCd
almost killed, and most importantly, where a potential killer is hiding.
“Done!’ Evelyn announced as she453Please respect copyright.PENANA14PahuXoLa
straightened up and pushed the door opened just a crack.
“Wait!” I demanded, preventing her453Please respect copyright.PENANAdRRbnLXRh7
from going in. “We should know that as we are walking into this place, we might453Please respect copyright.PENANAqEhLS9OfPy
be the next target.”
“Yeah, I know. And we should be very453Please respect copyright.PENANAOEPsZOtmoX
careful.”
“Very! You have your backup453Please respect copyright.PENANAnyrsyr2Vav
flashlights, right?”
“Never go anywhere without them!”
We laughed nervously. Evelyn then gave me453Please respect copyright.PENANAgIZrHaHUvB
a reassuring nod, then pushed the door open. Taking a huge breath, we walked453Please respect copyright.PENANAdFO6GHH89d
into our very own doom.
The house greeted us with the usual453Please respect copyright.PENANAmUODQ7nIU8
dust. We went around the house. Our circle453Please respect copyright.PENANAIOTEHo9AEa
of white light from our torch, followed us on our journey. I clutched my pepper453Please respect copyright.PENANAO7sEiBf1xL
spray tight in my other hand with my heart beating like crazy. Everything seemed453Please respect copyright.PENANAh4blNPXc5B
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. I453Please respect copyright.PENANAQQmoNqw9XW
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 to453Please respect copyright.PENANAlRLQTgo7el
go into the study. I tried shaking of the strange feeling and walking away, but453Please respect copyright.PENANADRr6pj9w3V
I felt myself being dragged to the door.453Please respect copyright.PENANAKYukCx8mWY
NO… Not dragged. I was WALKING! Even453Please respect copyright.PENANA8wjvtaGiO4
though I didn’t want to go, I saw myself walking towards the study.
Fear gripped my whole being. I453Please respect copyright.PENANAWQ4WAYNM5y
heard Evelyn`s voice ask if I was ok.
“OF COURSE NOT!” I screamed. “I can453Please respect copyright.PENANAMVxwx8Qen3
hear my own voice in my head telling me to do what I don’t want to.”
Adrenaline flowed through my veins453Please respect copyright.PENANAS3xa71T0yP
as I listened to myself talking. To my horror, that wasn’t what I screamed. I heard453Please respect copyright.PENANA3T6kyz2oVf
myself scream: “I AM FINE! LET’S JUST GET THIS OVER WITH!”
WHAT? That so not what I wanted to453Please respect copyright.PENANA0mG3clMFQq
say. I stared at Evelyn as she asked me what was wrong with me. She explained453Please respect copyright.PENANAMvUBPCvGh8
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. Maybe453Please respect copyright.PENANA3ZnIURpBGw
that’s it. Maybe because I didn’t get enough sleep last night, I am hearing453Please respect copyright.PENANAWvhjLDtMN6
things.
“Sorry Eve, I didn’t mean anything I453Please respect copyright.PENANAM3wGdex8Aa
said.” I apologized. As we continued our search.
We walked away from the study door453Please respect copyright.PENANA8HXi0kGW94
again. Then I heard it loud and clear this time.
“GET453Please respect copyright.PENANArr5CNqYB7w
IN THERE!”.
I was so startled that I sprayed my spray into Evelyn’s eyes out of453Please respect copyright.PENANAGkH7iDZfic
shock. I dropped the pepper spray, quite dazed. I started apologizing but453Please respect copyright.PENANAUkF1ctR0xM
stopped in shock. I stared at Evelyn in surprise.
Something is wrong. Very wrong.
Evelyn wasn’t in pain. In fact, she didn’t453Please respect copyright.PENANA2gyYPdvj8g
look as though she was in pain at all. Instead, she smiled at me, walked453Please respect copyright.PENANAYL7dr2gK7m
towards the study door, and opened it.
“Evelyn, are you ok?” I asked as the453Please respect copyright.PENANAyfVbZ8koIq
fear and shock I felt made my leg quiver.
“Yes, I am! Fiona. She wants us to453Please respect copyright.PENANAsAyFsZ6unJ
search the study!” she replied in a hypnotic way and with a horrific smile.
“Who?” I stammered as I looked453Please respect copyright.PENANAdQQQV2YeeZ
around in fear. Everything about this house is just off.
"The453Please respect copyright.PENANAjGMrHNKZgW
girl." Eve replied impatiently. Still with that weird smile on her face. Then she453Please respect copyright.PENANAztuxjLqhgT
added, “The girl that always tells us what to do.”
Then she disappeared into the room.
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