Our lives changed with just332Please respect copyright.PENANAaUojOKsrQb
the sound of a gunshot.
One night, one gunshot, one dead body332Please respect copyright.PENANA78kXAjqzUd
discovered the next morning.
That was how my best friends and I got tangled332Please respect copyright.PENANAyLXlXsprPB
up in a murder mystery that changed not just our summer plans, but our entire332Please respect copyright.PENANAwWDs1eD1PU
lives.
Here I am right now, sitting in my bedroom and332Please respect copyright.PENANAdky1IcMNKN
looking impatiently at the time waiting the doorbell to ring. Evelyn and I had332Please respect copyright.PENANAwIECVbl44f
to search the Smith’s mansion for a clue. This is our third search since the332Please respect copyright.PENANAg3w2BRrElW
murder. The second search left a sour taste in our mouth. Iris, one of our best332Please respect copyright.PENANAF2dfTEbTjV
friends, was almost killed. She is currently in the hospital in a coma.332Please respect copyright.PENANAVo6yF30ig1
“indefinite” the doctor had said. These words echoed in my head and drove me to332Please respect copyright.PENANA2mRuVllm54
get to the bottom of this mystery.
7:45am
The doorbell rang.
Finally.
I picked my stuff, ran out of my room, down the332Please respect copyright.PENANAeg70MIRVg1
stairs and to the door. I flung it open.
“After a million years! We332Please respect copyright.PENANAbbEJsS6ME4
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 and332Please respect copyright.PENANAMvCQG8qnyS
dramatic but, in my defense, my heart was beating like crazy, and I just wanted332Please respect copyright.PENANAa2kLaLi9FC
to get things over with. I was already overthinking things as it was already.332Please respect copyright.PENANARwhNep7mGZ
All I could think of was the fact that Iris was almost murdered, and her killer332Please respect copyright.PENANAnQ3AizwAYl
is running free. Probably camping out at the Smith`s mansion… or in my house. I332Please respect copyright.PENANAHOeNZbgI4n
don’t know, and I don’t even want to think about anything else but to find the332Please respect copyright.PENANAXJO9ZUXfTt
answer. And the answer, is behind those huge thick doors of the smith`s house.332Please respect copyright.PENANA3RL6RSibAd
And today, I hope to uncover it.
Those doors…. quite like that of the332Please respect copyright.PENANA4SUz5Q8RbD
entrance to hell. All these years, I had never seen the house as such a scarred332Please respect copyright.PENANAT8xLc7Ctkn
monument. But at the beginning of summer break, things changed. LOADS of332Please respect copyright.PENANAtx7eaY0TWh
things. And I must deal with these changes.
Evelyn stepped in front of me and dropped332Please respect copyright.PENANAcAHa7kf4eJ
the duffel bag on the dusty porch.
“Ready when you are!” she announced332Please respect copyright.PENANACM6HwGKvnH
as she dropped to her knees and unzipped the bag.
“Ready!” I replied. For some odd332Please respect copyright.PENANAz9ERQWTxqj
reasons, that word was so difficult for me to say. It seemed like the weirdest332Please respect copyright.PENANARlD9UFgWXE
thing to admit. Who in their right senses would be born ready to go exploring332Please respect copyright.PENANAYbZmafdxNz
an abandoned house where a murder was committed, where her best friend was332Please respect copyright.PENANApNvFVEVzJi
almost killed, and most importantly, where a potential killer is hiding.
“Done!’ Evelyn announced as she332Please respect copyright.PENANAbagijoBXWL
straightened up and pushed the door opened just a crack.
“Wait!” I demanded, preventing her332Please respect copyright.PENANACjLmuqrrkb
from going in. “We should know that as we are walking into this place, we might332Please respect copyright.PENANAvEgTBr3zEm
be the next target.”
“Yeah, I know. And we should be very332Please respect copyright.PENANAGLVYbkCE9X
careful.”
“Very! You have your backup332Please respect copyright.PENANAwuhsQ74Jzk
flashlights, right?”
“Never go anywhere without them!”
We laughed nervously. Evelyn then gave me332Please respect copyright.PENANAjDuR8y6pcH
a reassuring nod, then pushed the door open. Taking a huge breath, we walked332Please respect copyright.PENANApEQDmdCnKU
into our very own doom.
The house greeted us with the usual332Please respect copyright.PENANA0xWbhVCxB7
dust. We went around the house. Our circle332Please respect copyright.PENANAcMZGo30slF
of white light from our torch, followed us on our journey. I clutched my pepper332Please respect copyright.PENANA9SWEL83ckX
spray tight in my other hand with my heart beating like crazy. Everything seemed332Please respect copyright.PENANAId8s8fkz0D
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. I332Please respect copyright.PENANACVsKzJtc3O
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 to332Please respect copyright.PENANAPbsgW0KI0V
go into the study. I tried shaking of the strange feeling and walking away, but332Please respect copyright.PENANA2wzX1eQJEh
I felt myself being dragged to the door.332Please respect copyright.PENANATzdqz9PqSu
NO… Not dragged. I was WALKING! Even332Please respect copyright.PENANAekotEYS6yz
though I didn’t want to go, I saw myself walking towards the study.
Fear gripped my whole being. I332Please respect copyright.PENANACUqeug96OP
heard Evelyn`s voice ask if I was ok.
“OF COURSE NOT!” I screamed. “I can332Please respect copyright.PENANAe86c7IxLk2
hear my own voice in my head telling me to do what I don’t want to.”
Adrenaline flowed through my veins332Please respect copyright.PENANAcltXMtG281
as I listened to myself talking. To my horror, that wasn’t what I screamed. I heard332Please respect copyright.PENANA6UAFbuAMZH
myself scream: “I AM FINE! LET’S JUST GET THIS OVER WITH!”
WHAT? That so not what I wanted to332Please respect copyright.PENANAGfstO8qfXM
say. I stared at Evelyn as she asked me what was wrong with me. She explained332Please respect copyright.PENANAzENBL1U8rf
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. Maybe332Please respect copyright.PENANAE53awSFxEu
that’s it. Maybe because I didn’t get enough sleep last night, I am hearing332Please respect copyright.PENANAzopgNT3lJ5
things.
“Sorry Eve, I didn’t mean anything I332Please respect copyright.PENANAIvtZFdq4M7
said.” I apologized. As we continued our search.
We walked away from the study door332Please respect copyright.PENANAQoAkhECOzp
again. Then I heard it loud and clear this time.
“GET332Please respect copyright.PENANAHsFv70VnnV
IN THERE!”.
I was so startled that I sprayed my spray into Evelyn’s eyes out of332Please respect copyright.PENANAHZ7dvUTf2h
shock. I dropped the pepper spray, quite dazed. I started apologizing but332Please respect copyright.PENANAS0pVTslZ7c
stopped in shock. I stared at Evelyn in surprise.
Something is wrong. Very wrong.
Evelyn wasn’t in pain. In fact, she didn’t332Please respect copyright.PENANAvLlXkweayU
look as though she was in pain at all. Instead, she smiled at me, walked332Please respect copyright.PENANAsa7SZwfYon
towards the study door, and opened it.
“Evelyn, are you ok?” I asked as the332Please respect copyright.PENANAK5qxVWtwHo
fear and shock I felt made my leg quiver.
“Yes, I am! Fiona. She wants us to332Please respect copyright.PENANAOKUB7pYgWY
search the study!” she replied in a hypnotic way and with a horrific smile.
“Who?” I stammered as I looked332Please respect copyright.PENANA6xCmCfSDit
around in fear. Everything about this house is just off.
"The332Please respect copyright.PENANAvOF130OrF7
girl." Eve replied impatiently. Still with that weird smile on her face. Then she332Please respect copyright.PENANAQbMtNgRMjE
added, “The girl that always tells us what to do.”
Then she disappeared into the room.
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