Our lives changed with just178Please respect copyright.PENANAxp28uXF4Zy
the sound of a gunshot.
One night, one gunshot, one dead body178Please respect copyright.PENANAt04cNpcSej
discovered the next morning.
That was how my best friends and I got tangled178Please respect copyright.PENANAPzXARGnqcq
up in a murder mystery that changed not just our summer plans, but our entire178Please respect copyright.PENANAvT55YESCtE
lives.
Here I am right now, sitting in my bedroom and178Please respect copyright.PENANAgaWKzePkq3
looking impatiently at the time waiting the doorbell to ring. Evelyn and I had178Please respect copyright.PENANA9OEtU6I4zS
to search the Smith’s mansion for a clue. This is our third search since the178Please respect copyright.PENANACAw7Brt5fN
murder. The second search left a sour taste in our mouth. Iris, one of our best178Please respect copyright.PENANAC953o54pYv
friends, was almost killed. She is currently in the hospital in a coma.178Please respect copyright.PENANAsjiLi7tsx2
“indefinite” the doctor had said. These words echoed in my head and drove me to178Please respect copyright.PENANABWDSEtHdTy
get to the bottom of this mystery.
7:45am
The doorbell rang.
Finally.
I picked my stuff, ran out of my room, down the178Please respect copyright.PENANAyjx9FsbIPw
stairs and to the door. I flung it open.
“After a million years! We178Please respect copyright.PENANA5GveTbVMQa
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 and178Please respect copyright.PENANAjybHGSSMIL
dramatic but, in my defense, my heart was beating like crazy, and I just wanted178Please respect copyright.PENANArbC6jH43H4
to get things over with. I was already overthinking things as it was already.178Please respect copyright.PENANA7gDeiWFtx3
All I could think of was the fact that Iris was almost murdered, and her killer178Please respect copyright.PENANAUyKZqZvQEq
is running free. Probably camping out at the Smith`s mansion… or in my house. I178Please respect copyright.PENANAzYiIjBbQFH
don’t know, and I don’t even want to think about anything else but to find the178Please respect copyright.PENANA5OTqRAmhbN
answer. And the answer, is behind those huge thick doors of the smith`s house.178Please respect copyright.PENANAJbawLXg9TV
And today, I hope to uncover it.
Those doors…. quite like that of the178Please respect copyright.PENANAfQMe7jCna9
entrance to hell. All these years, I had never seen the house as such a scarred178Please respect copyright.PENANAjyixl6gDtT
monument. But at the beginning of summer break, things changed. LOADS of178Please respect copyright.PENANASfsnhPNbSZ
things. And I must deal with these changes.
Evelyn stepped in front of me and dropped178Please respect copyright.PENANAYISBuYYT4z
the duffel bag on the dusty porch.
“Ready when you are!” she announced178Please respect copyright.PENANAZNfs0iC4WH
as she dropped to her knees and unzipped the bag.
“Ready!” I replied. For some odd178Please respect copyright.PENANAFP81ZG8pBp
reasons, that word was so difficult for me to say. It seemed like the weirdest178Please respect copyright.PENANAZVrEMFKipt
thing to admit. Who in their right senses would be born ready to go exploring178Please respect copyright.PENANAAj6PrxtDir
an abandoned house where a murder was committed, where her best friend was178Please respect copyright.PENANAMmEQinXrJl
almost killed, and most importantly, where a potential killer is hiding.
“Done!’ Evelyn announced as she178Please respect copyright.PENANAYoiuqO07A2
straightened up and pushed the door opened just a crack.
“Wait!” I demanded, preventing her178Please respect copyright.PENANAIftQuRGM2K
from going in. “We should know that as we are walking into this place, we might178Please respect copyright.PENANAt5yB0Nd8Bk
be the next target.”
“Yeah, I know. And we should be very178Please respect copyright.PENANArSjgLb55Ku
careful.”
“Very! You have your backup178Please respect copyright.PENANAB2wH4bxFd2
flashlights, right?”
“Never go anywhere without them!”
We laughed nervously. Evelyn then gave me178Please respect copyright.PENANAvi4OkaZzTI
a reassuring nod, then pushed the door open. Taking a huge breath, we walked178Please respect copyright.PENANAGydivYdfr1
into our very own doom.
The house greeted us with the usual178Please respect copyright.PENANA5pAYmhB3oh
dust. We went around the house. Our circle178Please respect copyright.PENANA1oqFrCgwYr
of white light from our torch, followed us on our journey. I clutched my pepper178Please respect copyright.PENANA2KWrY1YrJs
spray tight in my other hand with my heart beating like crazy. Everything seemed178Please respect copyright.PENANAcJBYLfWbjN
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. I178Please respect copyright.PENANAQ70oTogW39
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 to178Please respect copyright.PENANAXK4bbkwkIL
go into the study. I tried shaking of the strange feeling and walking away, but178Please respect copyright.PENANAdbNF4vxYrd
I felt myself being dragged to the door.178Please respect copyright.PENANAOmp5I7Fo6G
NO… Not dragged. I was WALKING! Even178Please respect copyright.PENANAXk9Pd0mqZF
though I didn’t want to go, I saw myself walking towards the study.
Fear gripped my whole being. I178Please respect copyright.PENANAv3pLZujG4s
heard Evelyn`s voice ask if I was ok.
“OF COURSE NOT!” I screamed. “I can178Please respect copyright.PENANAzphGrY4Lsd
hear my own voice in my head telling me to do what I don’t want to.”
Adrenaline flowed through my veins178Please respect copyright.PENANA9j8Eud0Vdj
as I listened to myself talking. To my horror, that wasn’t what I screamed. I heard178Please respect copyright.PENANASIn0oR5tTx
myself scream: “I AM FINE! LET’S JUST GET THIS OVER WITH!”
WHAT? That so not what I wanted to178Please respect copyright.PENANAJTLATm7aNf
say. I stared at Evelyn as she asked me what was wrong with me. She explained178Please respect copyright.PENANAzvcC1dHtt0
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. Maybe178Please respect copyright.PENANA7JvKrHGLF8
that’s it. Maybe because I didn’t get enough sleep last night, I am hearing178Please respect copyright.PENANAQbfaGdOO9M
things.
“Sorry Eve, I didn’t mean anything I178Please respect copyright.PENANA8ypGnPgx7N
said.” I apologized. As we continued our search.
We walked away from the study door178Please respect copyright.PENANAovsz4nJeqj
again. Then I heard it loud and clear this time.
“GET178Please respect copyright.PENANAEcfSoiKtkq
IN THERE!”.
I was so startled that I sprayed my spray into Evelyn’s eyes out of178Please respect copyright.PENANAyXynPLuDz0
shock. I dropped the pepper spray, quite dazed. I started apologizing but178Please respect copyright.PENANAxI65kciN75
stopped in shock. I stared at Evelyn in surprise.
Something is wrong. Very wrong.
Evelyn wasn’t in pain. In fact, she didn’t178Please respect copyright.PENANA5EbjxAVKTw
look as though she was in pain at all. Instead, she smiled at me, walked178Please respect copyright.PENANAMqQsIbB8Qe
towards the study door, and opened it.
“Evelyn, are you ok?” I asked as the178Please respect copyright.PENANA5Q1ZMrYQeS
fear and shock I felt made my leg quiver.
“Yes, I am! Fiona. She wants us to178Please respect copyright.PENANAGiPD3UFFua
search the study!” she replied in a hypnotic way and with a horrific smile.
“Who?” I stammered as I looked178Please respect copyright.PENANApKzVq43oem
around in fear. Everything about this house is just off.
"The178Please respect copyright.PENANAj4J5FxZRSy
girl." Eve replied impatiently. Still with that weird smile on her face. Then she178Please respect copyright.PENANAzysExGmmYI
added, “The girl that always tells us what to do.”
Then she disappeared into the room.
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