“Oh come on Linda it will be fun”. Linda had a very bad feeling about this. She thought she had a 6th sense that she could tell when things are going to get bad! But no one would ever listen to her. So they went towards the house and suddenly thunder struck and they could hear wolves howling. They had reached the haunted house…
Suddenly the night got very dark and cold, that could be heard was the occasional cricket, and the owl hooting somewhere in the distance. The moon was clearly visible but not doing very good job lighting up the road!!
All the lights were off, apart from one at the very top in the loft, shimmering.
There was a misty smell from it being a cold night. No activity could be seen around the house at all; apart from the swaying of the trees...
Linda could sense someone watching them. She looked up and thought she saw, the curtains from an upstairs window move almost as if someone... Or something... had been watching her the whole time. She shook Joan’s hand and asked if she saw the curtain moving. Joan replied “you’re seeing things again Linda. There is nothing there.”
“Let’s go in then” said Joan. She sounded excited… nothing like how Linda was feeling!!
“Yeah, I’ll go in first.” Tony too was excited. Linda was surprised to see that they weren’t the least bit scared. But she did not want to ruin the fun for her friends so she followed Tony and Joan inside the house.
As they walked inside they could smell rot and something burning. Lindy opened her eyes and all she could see was dust, broken things and lots of paintings. Every wall shed looked at, there was a painting of some old people. She knew none of them and was kind of scared at how all the eyes seemed to be watching her!!
“You guys please stay together. I don’t want us to get lost”. As she turned around they were gone. She looked around the mouldy room and started shouting. “JJOOOOAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNN, TOOOOONNNNYYYYYYYYY…WHERE ARE YOU GUYS!!!!!!!!!!!” all she could hear was her own echo in the whole empty house... but she knew that they were not alone in this house. Her 6th sense told her that other then the there of them; there was someone else in the house with them.
She went towards the stairs and out of the corner if her eye, she saw a shadow. She quickly looked but there was no one there. She had to find out what that was. She ran up the stairs and with every step she could hear the creek of the stairs. She went into a room filled with mirrors but she could not see her own reflection in any of them. she quickly ran out the room into another room. The room was a dining room. There was a long table in the middle of the room. She noticed that at the end of the table was a man. He was sitting down and when she started to back out of the room, he got up and started walking towards her. She froze and rubbed her eyes’ - hoping that she was imagining him- and he was gone. she must have been imagining him. She ran out of the room and into another room. she was tired from running and was wondering how many more rooms until she found her friends. “JJOOOOAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNN, TOOOOONNNNYYYYYYYYY…WHERE ARE YOU GUYS!!!!!!!!!!!” she tried again but this time she heard a muffled scream. “it must be them” so she opened the door of the room and this one was full of more scary pictures that she had seen in the hall. She looked carefully into each of the pictures and noticed that the 2 at he end were her friends. “AAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHH” she screamed. She stopped screaming and started crying. She didn’t know what to do and was confused. She sat up and stopped crying. “Wait if you guys got trapped, then why didn’t I?” she asked. She knew she was talking to herself because her friends couldn’t obviously hear her!!!
Then she remembered the locket that the priest had given her when she was 3 years old. Her parents always made her wear it and never took it off her. He gave her this because of the nightmares she used to get when she was little. She remembered him telling her that if she ever came across a problem she should read the verse 3 times facing every direction. He told her that it will take care of her and protect her from any evil. That is why that man did not come near her and could not do anything to harm her and that is the reason she did not get sucked into the picture!
She looked around the room and soon realised that all these people have been sucked in. they all needed to be freed!
She touched her neck and looked for the necklace. She found it and took it off her neck. She tried opening it butt it was stuck. She looked around the room for a rock to break it with but instead found a key. She picked it up and tried opening the locket. It was a perfect fit and it opened the locket. She took out the paper that was inside it and began reading it out loud in every direction like she was told to.
Then a hole in the wall opened up and it was the size of the locket. She used her common sense and put the locket inside the wall. The whole house shook and the people came out if the frames. Her friends were back. “Joan, tony, you guys scared me like anything. Please lets get out of here and never come back!!!!”
So they walked out of the house and while walking out she saw-from the corner of her eye- the man again. She then realised that she wasn’t wearing her locket and now he could get her......
