Our lives changed with just181Please respect copyright.PENANAIXy1LPk7eP
the sound of a gunshot.
One night, one gunshot, one dead body181Please respect copyright.PENANAmYMbVLsxPI
discovered the next morning.
That was how my best friends and I got tangled181Please respect copyright.PENANAUVGwudSJeR
up in a murder mystery that changed not just our summer plans, but our entire181Please respect copyright.PENANA1P1fDWJsrJ
lives.
Here I am right now, sitting in my bedroom and181Please respect copyright.PENANAxOlC5yJ93h
looking impatiently at the time waiting the doorbell to ring. Evelyn and I had181Please respect copyright.PENANAr357b7PUGq
to search the Smith’s mansion for a clue. This is our third search since the181Please respect copyright.PENANA1NpfReuQ5l
murder. The second search left a sour taste in our mouth. Iris, one of our best181Please respect copyright.PENANA109LfAenFL
friends, was almost killed. She is currently in the hospital in a coma.181Please respect copyright.PENANAnT6T6Q6IYb
“indefinite” the doctor had said. These words echoed in my head and drove me to181Please respect copyright.PENANAGkklD0s52t
get to the bottom of this mystery.
7:45am
The doorbell rang.
Finally.
I picked my stuff, ran out of my room, down the181Please respect copyright.PENANAkMAWPQFEk5
stairs and to the door. I flung it open.
“After a million years! We181Please respect copyright.PENANAW4RCKjBMNk
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 and181Please respect copyright.PENANAEAXcu67UT9
dramatic but, in my defense, my heart was beating like crazy, and I just wanted181Please respect copyright.PENANANfMkk3nrnV
to get things over with. I was already overthinking things as it was already.181Please respect copyright.PENANA8iABIOVi0l
All I could think of was the fact that Iris was almost murdered, and her killer181Please respect copyright.PENANAq8nJgCMlgG
is running free. Probably camping out at the Smith`s mansion… or in my house. I181Please respect copyright.PENANAuPRm7crqOD
don’t know, and I don’t even want to think about anything else but to find the181Please respect copyright.PENANAb2s1Kiqh7m
answer. And the answer, is behind those huge thick doors of the smith`s house.181Please respect copyright.PENANA9OqtjdJBTS
And today, I hope to uncover it.
Those doors…. quite like that of the181Please respect copyright.PENANAYGxWPUWR9F
entrance to hell. All these years, I had never seen the house as such a scarred181Please respect copyright.PENANAQtFFPkvRL7
monument. But at the beginning of summer break, things changed. LOADS of181Please respect copyright.PENANA19OewsXT5C
things. And I must deal with these changes.
Evelyn stepped in front of me and dropped181Please respect copyright.PENANAHadX8CYEDn
the duffel bag on the dusty porch.
“Ready when you are!” she announced181Please respect copyright.PENANAVExJceDgyj
as she dropped to her knees and unzipped the bag.
“Ready!” I replied. For some odd181Please respect copyright.PENANAL1198l8qK0
reasons, that word was so difficult for me to say. It seemed like the weirdest181Please respect copyright.PENANAWxIipxnbot
thing to admit. Who in their right senses would be born ready to go exploring181Please respect copyright.PENANABJW0JRgQyr
an abandoned house where a murder was committed, where her best friend was181Please respect copyright.PENANAItnPyc9Akq
almost killed, and most importantly, where a potential killer is hiding.
“Done!’ Evelyn announced as she181Please respect copyright.PENANAOGHFaA2BKL
straightened up and pushed the door opened just a crack.
“Wait!” I demanded, preventing her181Please respect copyright.PENANAXuoWDk79UL
from going in. “We should know that as we are walking into this place, we might181Please respect copyright.PENANAQEgQoHNij9
be the next target.”
“Yeah, I know. And we should be very181Please respect copyright.PENANAWYFy3FDm61
careful.”
“Very! You have your backup181Please respect copyright.PENANATEcwWArrcb
flashlights, right?”
“Never go anywhere without them!”
We laughed nervously. Evelyn then gave me181Please respect copyright.PENANA7GyZBOO2vH
a reassuring nod, then pushed the door open. Taking a huge breath, we walked181Please respect copyright.PENANAHG97mCgGjp
into our very own doom.
The house greeted us with the usual181Please respect copyright.PENANAS6iv1X0V1f
dust. We went around the house. Our circle181Please respect copyright.PENANAxrdZsW23PI
of white light from our torch, followed us on our journey. I clutched my pepper181Please respect copyright.PENANAiQlXhwWXjk
spray tight in my other hand with my heart beating like crazy. Everything seemed181Please respect copyright.PENANAZTd0LcCfgW
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. I181Please respect copyright.PENANAqruHNDqmcP
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 to181Please respect copyright.PENANA4atZnajlNw
go into the study. I tried shaking of the strange feeling and walking away, but181Please respect copyright.PENANArrm9AGks9V
I felt myself being dragged to the door.181Please respect copyright.PENANANKEpb2Jfpi
NO… Not dragged. I was WALKING! Even181Please respect copyright.PENANAA43BEDbwvI
though I didn’t want to go, I saw myself walking towards the study.
Fear gripped my whole being. I181Please respect copyright.PENANAJ8Fsu9fbTr
heard Evelyn`s voice ask if I was ok.
“OF COURSE NOT!” I screamed. “I can181Please respect copyright.PENANAbP5opBvD04
hear my own voice in my head telling me to do what I don’t want to.”
Adrenaline flowed through my veins181Please respect copyright.PENANAc3V4Xfq3em
as I listened to myself talking. To my horror, that wasn’t what I screamed. I heard181Please respect copyright.PENANA0kNfSn7fLA
myself scream: “I AM FINE! LET’S JUST GET THIS OVER WITH!”
WHAT? That so not what I wanted to181Please respect copyright.PENANALAKWYa4Ty3
say. I stared at Evelyn as she asked me what was wrong with me. She explained181Please respect copyright.PENANAvSR2ObGi1H
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. Maybe181Please respect copyright.PENANAUSlwUiKlHX
that’s it. Maybe because I didn’t get enough sleep last night, I am hearing181Please respect copyright.PENANACOzOMwlssO
things.
“Sorry Eve, I didn’t mean anything I181Please respect copyright.PENANAsMpCQIHdYy
said.” I apologized. As we continued our search.
We walked away from the study door181Please respect copyright.PENANAbuAxumTiDd
again. Then I heard it loud and clear this time.
“GET181Please respect copyright.PENANADPSClCi3KD
IN THERE!”.
I was so startled that I sprayed my spray into Evelyn’s eyes out of181Please respect copyright.PENANAlM5mfGag8b
shock. I dropped the pepper spray, quite dazed. I started apologizing but181Please respect copyright.PENANAai9R4PrSUl
stopped in shock. I stared at Evelyn in surprise.
Something is wrong. Very wrong.
Evelyn wasn’t in pain. In fact, she didn’t181Please respect copyright.PENANADhwN9EhRNH
look as though she was in pain at all. Instead, she smiled at me, walked181Please respect copyright.PENANABiVDOxnJ7F
towards the study door, and opened it.
“Evelyn, are you ok?” I asked as the181Please respect copyright.PENANAKs6ZcJ8R3l
fear and shock I felt made my leg quiver.
“Yes, I am! Fiona. She wants us to181Please respect copyright.PENANALAy6zIhJbA
search the study!” she replied in a hypnotic way and with a horrific smile.
“Who?” I stammered as I looked181Please respect copyright.PENANAI1aOVmciUx
around in fear. Everything about this house is just off.
"The181Please respect copyright.PENANAWv9AUrAcPE
girl." Eve replied impatiently. Still with that weird smile on her face. Then she181Please respect copyright.PENANAAgGQaoBrF1
added, “The girl that always tells us what to do.”
Then she disappeared into the room.
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