Our lives changed with just174Please respect copyright.PENANAQSD4wn6OlT
the sound of a gunshot.
One night, one gunshot, one dead body174Please respect copyright.PENANAYvGTI7290S
discovered the next morning.
That was how my best friends and I got tangled174Please respect copyright.PENANAoyscb7p7yp
up in a murder mystery that changed not just our summer plans, but our entire174Please respect copyright.PENANAhrOXjtWIO1
lives.
Here I am right now, sitting in my bedroom and174Please respect copyright.PENANA32i3AflELP
looking impatiently at the time waiting the doorbell to ring. Evelyn and I had174Please respect copyright.PENANAYSPaY7KPJ7
to search the Smith’s mansion for a clue. This is our third search since the174Please respect copyright.PENANAgfKgsi8yf6
murder. The second search left a sour taste in our mouth. Iris, one of our best174Please respect copyright.PENANAcwgUQ8mtNI
friends, was almost killed. She is currently in the hospital in a coma.174Please respect copyright.PENANA3IWKQ2bIs8
“indefinite” the doctor had said. These words echoed in my head and drove me to174Please respect copyright.PENANA1DUofsBwv7
get to the bottom of this mystery.
7:45am
The doorbell rang.
Finally.
I picked my stuff, ran out of my room, down the174Please respect copyright.PENANA7oThU646th
stairs and to the door. I flung it open.
“After a million years! We174Please respect copyright.PENANAcwgdPMW7wo
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 and174Please respect copyright.PENANA31y14PPP4x
dramatic but, in my defense, my heart was beating like crazy, and I just wanted174Please respect copyright.PENANAwmg8eaCEaq
to get things over with. I was already overthinking things as it was already.174Please respect copyright.PENANArefGc1cqDX
All I could think of was the fact that Iris was almost murdered, and her killer174Please respect copyright.PENANAlM4DBHKrOL
is running free. Probably camping out at the Smith`s mansion… or in my house. I174Please respect copyright.PENANAoNTZDv7QNN
don’t know, and I don’t even want to think about anything else but to find the174Please respect copyright.PENANAxWfZNPYPei
answer. And the answer, is behind those huge thick doors of the smith`s house.174Please respect copyright.PENANAcOYbYpO3rN
And today, I hope to uncover it.
Those doors…. quite like that of the174Please respect copyright.PENANAkYg8Z5fm1F
entrance to hell. All these years, I had never seen the house as such a scarred174Please respect copyright.PENANA8YCsrys32j
monument. But at the beginning of summer break, things changed. LOADS of174Please respect copyright.PENANA5gmsJLh77j
things. And I must deal with these changes.
Evelyn stepped in front of me and dropped174Please respect copyright.PENANAIYvkuhjeoV
the duffel bag on the dusty porch.
“Ready when you are!” she announced174Please respect copyright.PENANAJndKeSwq1T
as she dropped to her knees and unzipped the bag.
“Ready!” I replied. For some odd174Please respect copyright.PENANAMlxWQjK2Sm
reasons, that word was so difficult for me to say. It seemed like the weirdest174Please respect copyright.PENANAiTVdUUBGpz
thing to admit. Who in their right senses would be born ready to go exploring174Please respect copyright.PENANAoGFi9uv3Ny
an abandoned house where a murder was committed, where her best friend was174Please respect copyright.PENANAytMxPPmXXk
almost killed, and most importantly, where a potential killer is hiding.
“Done!’ Evelyn announced as she174Please respect copyright.PENANAuH6YNNPN24
straightened up and pushed the door opened just a crack.
“Wait!” I demanded, preventing her174Please respect copyright.PENANAT9FHBsVA9O
from going in. “We should know that as we are walking into this place, we might174Please respect copyright.PENANA2DzTUCT1nj
be the next target.”
“Yeah, I know. And we should be very174Please respect copyright.PENANAHW0xw91cm6
careful.”
“Very! You have your backup174Please respect copyright.PENANAOD969UiJWf
flashlights, right?”
“Never go anywhere without them!”
We laughed nervously. Evelyn then gave me174Please respect copyright.PENANAzKNujgni9U
a reassuring nod, then pushed the door open. Taking a huge breath, we walked174Please respect copyright.PENANAxA20cng5na
into our very own doom.
The house greeted us with the usual174Please respect copyright.PENANAcI8cGxAIal
dust. We went around the house. Our circle174Please respect copyright.PENANAQRvnGjX47J
of white light from our torch, followed us on our journey. I clutched my pepper174Please respect copyright.PENANAskHwYkA9vy
spray tight in my other hand with my heart beating like crazy. Everything seemed174Please respect copyright.PENANAuyhqFBm29I
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. I174Please respect copyright.PENANAPqqT6vNXMh
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 to174Please respect copyright.PENANAv2FOv9boUf
go into the study. I tried shaking of the strange feeling and walking away, but174Please respect copyright.PENANARmA41GQCkz
I felt myself being dragged to the door.174Please respect copyright.PENANA3bIBlA36qn
NO… Not dragged. I was WALKING! Even174Please respect copyright.PENANAH8tzFH8TtI
though I didn’t want to go, I saw myself walking towards the study.
Fear gripped my whole being. I174Please respect copyright.PENANA58GcnxVsUK
heard Evelyn`s voice ask if I was ok.
“OF COURSE NOT!” I screamed. “I can174Please respect copyright.PENANACtZgvOeiXt
hear my own voice in my head telling me to do what I don’t want to.”
Adrenaline flowed through my veins174Please respect copyright.PENANAaoc00J1vyE
as I listened to myself talking. To my horror, that wasn’t what I screamed. I heard174Please respect copyright.PENANAfFwWkyZYHK
myself scream: “I AM FINE! LET’S JUST GET THIS OVER WITH!”
WHAT? That so not what I wanted to174Please respect copyright.PENANAsYvUSUqYpv
say. I stared at Evelyn as she asked me what was wrong with me. She explained174Please respect copyright.PENANAnCqVA2aO9L
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. Maybe174Please respect copyright.PENANA73a76UcYRt
that’s it. Maybe because I didn’t get enough sleep last night, I am hearing174Please respect copyright.PENANAIsDJgCSNDa
things.
“Sorry Eve, I didn’t mean anything I174Please respect copyright.PENANAm4o6v1i18K
said.” I apologized. As we continued our search.
We walked away from the study door174Please respect copyright.PENANAJ1JGDEDBgW
again. Then I heard it loud and clear this time.
“GET174Please respect copyright.PENANAeaBgtDjVYe
IN THERE!”.
I was so startled that I sprayed my spray into Evelyn’s eyes out of174Please respect copyright.PENANAqLKERGr56A
shock. I dropped the pepper spray, quite dazed. I started apologizing but174Please respect copyright.PENANAtw6elKJaF5
stopped in shock. I stared at Evelyn in surprise.
Something is wrong. Very wrong.
Evelyn wasn’t in pain. In fact, she didn’t174Please respect copyright.PENANAR23aS8WEdH
look as though she was in pain at all. Instead, she smiled at me, walked174Please respect copyright.PENANAj5cWVLYr0e
towards the study door, and opened it.
“Evelyn, are you ok?” I asked as the174Please respect copyright.PENANAg8fqp7Y7SR
fear and shock I felt made my leg quiver.
“Yes, I am! Fiona. She wants us to174Please respect copyright.PENANAli3azyjCkQ
search the study!” she replied in a hypnotic way and with a horrific smile.
“Who?” I stammered as I looked174Please respect copyright.PENANA9GpuoSRhcG
around in fear. Everything about this house is just off.
"The174Please respect copyright.PENANACoo4R1MQQ5
girl." Eve replied impatiently. Still with that weird smile on her face. Then she174Please respect copyright.PENANACajxPCMzMs
added, “The girl that always tells us what to do.”
Then she disappeared into the room.
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