Our lives changed with just363Please respect copyright.PENANAIwOote0QKQ
the sound of a gunshot.
One night, one gunshot, one dead body363Please respect copyright.PENANAS5vzqthLni
discovered the next morning.
That was how my best friends and I got tangled363Please respect copyright.PENANAGW8dRcUHuK
up in a murder mystery that changed not just our summer plans, but our entire363Please respect copyright.PENANA72nZvBFs9u
lives.
Here I am right now, sitting in my bedroom and363Please respect copyright.PENANAbZNhT9J3Ic
looking impatiently at the time waiting the doorbell to ring. Evelyn and I had363Please respect copyright.PENANAEyQDhkxDTw
to search the Smith’s mansion for a clue. This is our third search since the363Please respect copyright.PENANAiZNs3QisQd
murder. The second search left a sour taste in our mouth. Iris, one of our best363Please respect copyright.PENANAgu0p7t2HkW
friends, was almost killed. She is currently in the hospital in a coma.363Please respect copyright.PENANA8vfexI3vnu
“indefinite” the doctor had said. These words echoed in my head and drove me to363Please respect copyright.PENANA7JXy6ViCdc
get to the bottom of this mystery.
7:45am
The doorbell rang.
Finally.
I picked my stuff, ran out of my room, down the363Please respect copyright.PENANA41dJYB1JwY
stairs and to the door. I flung it open.
“After a million years! We363Please respect copyright.PENANAzv2DuggXrX
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 and363Please respect copyright.PENANA5ISQKnVAhX
dramatic but, in my defense, my heart was beating like crazy, and I just wanted363Please respect copyright.PENANACb8XqhPyqj
to get things over with. I was already overthinking things as it was already.363Please respect copyright.PENANAqQa4O8Cxkz
All I could think of was the fact that Iris was almost murdered, and her killer363Please respect copyright.PENANAA8Gtbn8NwN
is running free. Probably camping out at the Smith`s mansion… or in my house. I363Please respect copyright.PENANA0YXxxP2dtW
don’t know, and I don’t even want to think about anything else but to find the363Please respect copyright.PENANAimTmT0O8wg
answer. And the answer, is behind those huge thick doors of the smith`s house.363Please respect copyright.PENANAG8rtiuto26
And today, I hope to uncover it.
Those doors…. quite like that of the363Please respect copyright.PENANATWrAQ3m069
entrance to hell. All these years, I had never seen the house as such a scarred363Please respect copyright.PENANAWSqxuybCIa
monument. But at the beginning of summer break, things changed. LOADS of363Please respect copyright.PENANA2DqZ6YqdXM
things. And I must deal with these changes.
Evelyn stepped in front of me and dropped363Please respect copyright.PENANAMEwCmIJTVX
the duffel bag on the dusty porch.
“Ready when you are!” she announced363Please respect copyright.PENANAT35PxcqY7l
as she dropped to her knees and unzipped the bag.
“Ready!” I replied. For some odd363Please respect copyright.PENANA9JAOq7RTnu
reasons, that word was so difficult for me to say. It seemed like the weirdest363Please respect copyright.PENANABjzOrV2eOY
thing to admit. Who in their right senses would be born ready to go exploring363Please respect copyright.PENANAB0FL1EgMdT
an abandoned house where a murder was committed, where her best friend was363Please respect copyright.PENANAndKRGkdq6M
almost killed, and most importantly, where a potential killer is hiding.
“Done!’ Evelyn announced as she363Please respect copyright.PENANA4osh3Ns5Qk
straightened up and pushed the door opened just a crack.
“Wait!” I demanded, preventing her363Please respect copyright.PENANAT4rmSb1I04
from going in. “We should know that as we are walking into this place, we might363Please respect copyright.PENANAp5GJeDMwWq
be the next target.”
“Yeah, I know. And we should be very363Please respect copyright.PENANAO3XqaB7axK
careful.”
“Very! You have your backup363Please respect copyright.PENANAyEO7zos91M
flashlights, right?”
“Never go anywhere without them!”
We laughed nervously. Evelyn then gave me363Please respect copyright.PENANAjQKdfpHmTS
a reassuring nod, then pushed the door open. Taking a huge breath, we walked363Please respect copyright.PENANADLWuly1oRD
into our very own doom.
The house greeted us with the usual363Please respect copyright.PENANAnziewwMO9B
dust. We went around the house. Our circle363Please respect copyright.PENANAngjaZ00Bvs
of white light from our torch, followed us on our journey. I clutched my pepper363Please respect copyright.PENANAUQr4mOxo4t
spray tight in my other hand with my heart beating like crazy. Everything seemed363Please respect copyright.PENANAwNap0dmwON
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. I363Please respect copyright.PENANAOzrRRu41uD
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 to363Please respect copyright.PENANAdd1PDF1m8z
go into the study. I tried shaking of the strange feeling and walking away, but363Please respect copyright.PENANAKvraadz0M0
I felt myself being dragged to the door.363Please respect copyright.PENANAqqUgrpZ3zC
NO… Not dragged. I was WALKING! Even363Please respect copyright.PENANA11VYFUgUy9
though I didn’t want to go, I saw myself walking towards the study.
Fear gripped my whole being. I363Please respect copyright.PENANAq3EF8OJ6wc
heard Evelyn`s voice ask if I was ok.
“OF COURSE NOT!” I screamed. “I can363Please respect copyright.PENANAX4O1IFBeiA
hear my own voice in my head telling me to do what I don’t want to.”
Adrenaline flowed through my veins363Please respect copyright.PENANANz1NKokK0w
as I listened to myself talking. To my horror, that wasn’t what I screamed. I heard363Please respect copyright.PENANAKWhVM8OuTV
myself scream: “I AM FINE! LET’S JUST GET THIS OVER WITH!”
WHAT? That so not what I wanted to363Please respect copyright.PENANA7ph2vPi5LM
say. I stared at Evelyn as she asked me what was wrong with me. She explained363Please respect copyright.PENANAaaB83bZO33
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. Maybe363Please respect copyright.PENANAwkfpGhMlXP
that’s it. Maybe because I didn’t get enough sleep last night, I am hearing363Please respect copyright.PENANA4Cczs3A971
things.
“Sorry Eve, I didn’t mean anything I363Please respect copyright.PENANAV2C3oNRBXz
said.” I apologized. As we continued our search.
We walked away from the study door363Please respect copyright.PENANAfT3Rtz9gvo
again. Then I heard it loud and clear this time.
“GET363Please respect copyright.PENANAFuDbrNuWSM
IN THERE!”.
I was so startled that I sprayed my spray into Evelyn’s eyes out of363Please respect copyright.PENANAL12M9uECCS
shock. I dropped the pepper spray, quite dazed. I started apologizing but363Please respect copyright.PENANA3zmrmz9Xju
stopped in shock. I stared at Evelyn in surprise.
Something is wrong. Very wrong.
Evelyn wasn’t in pain. In fact, she didn’t363Please respect copyright.PENANAGBgXstkpKP
look as though she was in pain at all. Instead, she smiled at me, walked363Please respect copyright.PENANAJpqSnKP0h3
towards the study door, and opened it.
“Evelyn, are you ok?” I asked as the363Please respect copyright.PENANAV8oR4b3Fp1
fear and shock I felt made my leg quiver.
“Yes, I am! Fiona. She wants us to363Please respect copyright.PENANA4g92fmz2uA
search the study!” she replied in a hypnotic way and with a horrific smile.
“Who?” I stammered as I looked363Please respect copyright.PENANAMy708H3zbS
around in fear. Everything about this house is just off.
"The363Please respect copyright.PENANA0Ey37IGN2G
girl." Eve replied impatiently. Still with that weird smile on her face. Then she363Please respect copyright.PENANAI0eX1P4eKY
added, “The girl that always tells us what to do.”
Then she disappeared into the room.
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