Our lives changed with just185Please respect copyright.PENANAnuGigYkkda
the sound of a gunshot.
One night, one gunshot, one dead body185Please respect copyright.PENANAhE0UgKc3zf
discovered the next morning.
That was how my best friends and I got tangled185Please respect copyright.PENANAozEnAyGpK2
up in a murder mystery that changed not just our summer plans, but our entire185Please respect copyright.PENANAf3dnayEYB5
lives.
Here I am right now, sitting in my bedroom and185Please respect copyright.PENANAz5pItoltVf
looking impatiently at the time waiting the doorbell to ring. Evelyn and I had185Please respect copyright.PENANAKZHRxBsaRo
to search the Smith’s mansion for a clue. This is our third search since the185Please respect copyright.PENANANQwGwMUxMH
murder. The second search left a sour taste in our mouth. Iris, one of our best185Please respect copyright.PENANAV6mRFevcwp
friends, was almost killed. She is currently in the hospital in a coma.185Please respect copyright.PENANAtb9croqKaO
“indefinite” the doctor had said. These words echoed in my head and drove me to185Please respect copyright.PENANAwO3lJQAamM
get to the bottom of this mystery.
7:45am
The doorbell rang.
Finally.
I picked my stuff, ran out of my room, down the185Please respect copyright.PENANAZon5KVqjZx
stairs and to the door. I flung it open.
“After a million years! We185Please respect copyright.PENANAE7j187T1jM
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 and185Please respect copyright.PENANABI2Z2E7FJx
dramatic but, in my defense, my heart was beating like crazy, and I just wanted185Please respect copyright.PENANAdUW61EQscp
to get things over with. I was already overthinking things as it was already.185Please respect copyright.PENANA9864fEsdlO
All I could think of was the fact that Iris was almost murdered, and her killer185Please respect copyright.PENANAGV6O6xSXDi
is running free. Probably camping out at the Smith`s mansion… or in my house. I185Please respect copyright.PENANAcSxKVtp1Gr
don’t know, and I don’t even want to think about anything else but to find the185Please respect copyright.PENANAn2xraadCAS
answer. And the answer, is behind those huge thick doors of the smith`s house.185Please respect copyright.PENANAUV1eJHOTgN
And today, I hope to uncover it.
Those doors…. quite like that of the185Please respect copyright.PENANAUvutfjZBQN
entrance to hell. All these years, I had never seen the house as such a scarred185Please respect copyright.PENANAvWKlgeOJa0
monument. But at the beginning of summer break, things changed. LOADS of185Please respect copyright.PENANAvxCUWmGivn
things. And I must deal with these changes.
Evelyn stepped in front of me and dropped185Please respect copyright.PENANArmjQACnN6C
the duffel bag on the dusty porch.
“Ready when you are!” she announced185Please respect copyright.PENANAibLbgRkFIW
as she dropped to her knees and unzipped the bag.
“Ready!” I replied. For some odd185Please respect copyright.PENANASvhdqIxEVI
reasons, that word was so difficult for me to say. It seemed like the weirdest185Please respect copyright.PENANA2SfOfgjf4Z
thing to admit. Who in their right senses would be born ready to go exploring185Please respect copyright.PENANA9q00SRfhs1
an abandoned house where a murder was committed, where her best friend was185Please respect copyright.PENANAFP8adG68bI
almost killed, and most importantly, where a potential killer is hiding.
“Done!’ Evelyn announced as she185Please respect copyright.PENANApWzPOvYFsq
straightened up and pushed the door opened just a crack.
“Wait!” I demanded, preventing her185Please respect copyright.PENANAqxlwHhfUtV
from going in. “We should know that as we are walking into this place, we might185Please respect copyright.PENANANctLhoQqmw
be the next target.”
“Yeah, I know. And we should be very185Please respect copyright.PENANAZLoPGCrSbU
careful.”
“Very! You have your backup185Please respect copyright.PENANAHc1Vmztyoi
flashlights, right?”
“Never go anywhere without them!”
We laughed nervously. Evelyn then gave me185Please respect copyright.PENANAGQi8Zp7jeh
a reassuring nod, then pushed the door open. Taking a huge breath, we walked185Please respect copyright.PENANAHROLcBduFx
into our very own doom.
The house greeted us with the usual185Please respect copyright.PENANAB43hM9nUyM
dust. We went around the house. Our circle185Please respect copyright.PENANAQmRQgzLWoK
of white light from our torch, followed us on our journey. I clutched my pepper185Please respect copyright.PENANAPEmYdEiqeX
spray tight in my other hand with my heart beating like crazy. Everything seemed185Please respect copyright.PENANAcJiQEG1qSM
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. I185Please respect copyright.PENANA9iZIsW8Vl8
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 to185Please respect copyright.PENANAUx5QmniAWG
go into the study. I tried shaking of the strange feeling and walking away, but185Please respect copyright.PENANAx9nKFArkLu
I felt myself being dragged to the door.185Please respect copyright.PENANAGpsyWks18C
NO… Not dragged. I was WALKING! Even185Please respect copyright.PENANAF9PCJKLJjn
though I didn’t want to go, I saw myself walking towards the study.
Fear gripped my whole being. I185Please respect copyright.PENANAqft0vi6ZR8
heard Evelyn`s voice ask if I was ok.
“OF COURSE NOT!” I screamed. “I can185Please respect copyright.PENANAWQ2Tmso6RB
hear my own voice in my head telling me to do what I don’t want to.”
Adrenaline flowed through my veins185Please respect copyright.PENANAI0Wgtre3rF
as I listened to myself talking. To my horror, that wasn’t what I screamed. I heard185Please respect copyright.PENANA1C5kMVWL00
myself scream: “I AM FINE! LET’S JUST GET THIS OVER WITH!”
WHAT? That so not what I wanted to185Please respect copyright.PENANAHSuHySr1UV
say. I stared at Evelyn as she asked me what was wrong with me. She explained185Please respect copyright.PENANAga0D3x5wq4
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. Maybe185Please respect copyright.PENANA5NUjRYGGB1
that’s it. Maybe because I didn’t get enough sleep last night, I am hearing185Please respect copyright.PENANA09aKGds4xC
things.
“Sorry Eve, I didn’t mean anything I185Please respect copyright.PENANAkUuWXnVnWC
said.” I apologized. As we continued our search.
We walked away from the study door185Please respect copyright.PENANA9OARvAJehT
again. Then I heard it loud and clear this time.
“GET185Please respect copyright.PENANAq33eVAMS1O
IN THERE!”.
I was so startled that I sprayed my spray into Evelyn’s eyes out of185Please respect copyright.PENANAQrvK1AKyLw
shock. I dropped the pepper spray, quite dazed. I started apologizing but185Please respect copyright.PENANAUW7LItlToq
stopped in shock. I stared at Evelyn in surprise.
Something is wrong. Very wrong.
Evelyn wasn’t in pain. In fact, she didn’t185Please respect copyright.PENANAcfvHn881By
look as though she was in pain at all. Instead, she smiled at me, walked185Please respect copyright.PENANAtu0fKGLlHZ
towards the study door, and opened it.
“Evelyn, are you ok?” I asked as the185Please respect copyright.PENANAK41F651EFG
fear and shock I felt made my leg quiver.
“Yes, I am! Fiona. She wants us to185Please respect copyright.PENANAlfoWBHuMkb
search the study!” she replied in a hypnotic way and with a horrific smile.
“Who?” I stammered as I looked185Please respect copyright.PENANAELgr5gw7nl
around in fear. Everything about this house is just off.
"The185Please respect copyright.PENANAloPpSWIwMV
girl." Eve replied impatiently. Still with that weird smile on her face. Then she185Please respect copyright.PENANA7QqIF44uam
added, “The girl that always tells us what to do.”
Then she disappeared into the room.
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