Our lives changed with just176Please respect copyright.PENANAMFjEVThfC1
the sound of a gunshot.
One night, one gunshot, one dead body176Please respect copyright.PENANAGLZjzKKJws
discovered the next morning.
That was how my best friends and I got tangled176Please respect copyright.PENANAePyCwbXEto
up in a murder mystery that changed not just our summer plans, but our entire176Please respect copyright.PENANAvTyI6SfPGB
lives.
Here I am right now, sitting in my bedroom and176Please respect copyright.PENANAkN6hw0PQRv
looking impatiently at the time waiting the doorbell to ring. Evelyn and I had176Please respect copyright.PENANALrcUinqFjk
to search the Smith’s mansion for a clue. This is our third search since the176Please respect copyright.PENANAsfjcI1O2vp
murder. The second search left a sour taste in our mouth. Iris, one of our best176Please respect copyright.PENANAP6Do2Ky2cs
friends, was almost killed. She is currently in the hospital in a coma.176Please respect copyright.PENANAAkLa6vgkkz
“indefinite” the doctor had said. These words echoed in my head and drove me to176Please respect copyright.PENANACD7z8b7h1Z
get to the bottom of this mystery.
7:45am
The doorbell rang.
Finally.
I picked my stuff, ran out of my room, down the176Please respect copyright.PENANA6fBuZRGmV0
stairs and to the door. I flung it open.
“After a million years! We176Please respect copyright.PENANAvfuiUcdVEr
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 and176Please respect copyright.PENANAfULzkZuF9b
dramatic but, in my defense, my heart was beating like crazy, and I just wanted176Please respect copyright.PENANAEOVDU6fQFU
to get things over with. I was already overthinking things as it was already.176Please respect copyright.PENANAW8ai4WZbQK
All I could think of was the fact that Iris was almost murdered, and her killer176Please respect copyright.PENANAupIYH5muFI
is running free. Probably camping out at the Smith`s mansion… or in my house. I176Please respect copyright.PENANAg6fQd5KBPf
don’t know, and I don’t even want to think about anything else but to find the176Please respect copyright.PENANAQeUeRZADy6
answer. And the answer, is behind those huge thick doors of the smith`s house.176Please respect copyright.PENANAD67NZzLgbg
And today, I hope to uncover it.
Those doors…. quite like that of the176Please respect copyright.PENANA7cRdZtcwLo
entrance to hell. All these years, I had never seen the house as such a scarred176Please respect copyright.PENANAZs8WeIZSPb
monument. But at the beginning of summer break, things changed. LOADS of176Please respect copyright.PENANAtTuqKUwEsN
things. And I must deal with these changes.
Evelyn stepped in front of me and dropped176Please respect copyright.PENANAU0oBzaFplR
the duffel bag on the dusty porch.
“Ready when you are!” she announced176Please respect copyright.PENANAv9POKjSd7p
as she dropped to her knees and unzipped the bag.
“Ready!” I replied. For some odd176Please respect copyright.PENANAiyxKW81wSw
reasons, that word was so difficult for me to say. It seemed like the weirdest176Please respect copyright.PENANAtE2RAaneI7
thing to admit. Who in their right senses would be born ready to go exploring176Please respect copyright.PENANAIh9A43ZMZw
an abandoned house where a murder was committed, where her best friend was176Please respect copyright.PENANA8wBxRjSOcs
almost killed, and most importantly, where a potential killer is hiding.
“Done!’ Evelyn announced as she176Please respect copyright.PENANAQBwNnozjii
straightened up and pushed the door opened just a crack.
“Wait!” I demanded, preventing her176Please respect copyright.PENANAAksHPRgh4x
from going in. “We should know that as we are walking into this place, we might176Please respect copyright.PENANA0tIqAPplMg
be the next target.”
“Yeah, I know. And we should be very176Please respect copyright.PENANAp6nEeTQjho
careful.”
“Very! You have your backup176Please respect copyright.PENANA6YsxmxBP45
flashlights, right?”
“Never go anywhere without them!”
We laughed nervously. Evelyn then gave me176Please respect copyright.PENANA2YtyoRshTr
a reassuring nod, then pushed the door open. Taking a huge breath, we walked176Please respect copyright.PENANAVxOEwx7Hk8
into our very own doom.
The house greeted us with the usual176Please respect copyright.PENANANYkIsevzDP
dust. We went around the house. Our circle176Please respect copyright.PENANAj3tFb7OCGg
of white light from our torch, followed us on our journey. I clutched my pepper176Please respect copyright.PENANAAXgY01Bl9d
spray tight in my other hand with my heart beating like crazy. Everything seemed176Please respect copyright.PENANAqRKcO5wZpP
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. I176Please respect copyright.PENANArgN5pI0Nak
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 to176Please respect copyright.PENANAP7GD6q6Rxp
go into the study. I tried shaking of the strange feeling and walking away, but176Please respect copyright.PENANAQ5jmnZRMku
I felt myself being dragged to the door.176Please respect copyright.PENANALYxYPY1teV
NO… Not dragged. I was WALKING! Even176Please respect copyright.PENANAlrDvqKoFRe
though I didn’t want to go, I saw myself walking towards the study.
Fear gripped my whole being. I176Please respect copyright.PENANAS1UM7Il34N
heard Evelyn`s voice ask if I was ok.
“OF COURSE NOT!” I screamed. “I can176Please respect copyright.PENANAg6S3lyO0FG
hear my own voice in my head telling me to do what I don’t want to.”
Adrenaline flowed through my veins176Please respect copyright.PENANAKKPQt8aC7K
as I listened to myself talking. To my horror, that wasn’t what I screamed. I heard176Please respect copyright.PENANAmH70kdHXWl
myself scream: “I AM FINE! LET’S JUST GET THIS OVER WITH!”
WHAT? That so not what I wanted to176Please respect copyright.PENANAh2bHAEkIh9
say. I stared at Evelyn as she asked me what was wrong with me. She explained176Please respect copyright.PENANAZojaZM5u6i
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. Maybe176Please respect copyright.PENANAESdmsbIzCz
that’s it. Maybe because I didn’t get enough sleep last night, I am hearing176Please respect copyright.PENANAzrGpY2PmF7
things.
“Sorry Eve, I didn’t mean anything I176Please respect copyright.PENANAgXRkA1c8uT
said.” I apologized. As we continued our search.
We walked away from the study door176Please respect copyright.PENANA5nccCaETDp
again. Then I heard it loud and clear this time.
“GET176Please respect copyright.PENANA9M4JHohw25
IN THERE!”.
I was so startled that I sprayed my spray into Evelyn’s eyes out of176Please respect copyright.PENANASRdB6a3tvx
shock. I dropped the pepper spray, quite dazed. I started apologizing but176Please respect copyright.PENANAqXnuHDjp1o
stopped in shock. I stared at Evelyn in surprise.
Something is wrong. Very wrong.
Evelyn wasn’t in pain. In fact, she didn’t176Please respect copyright.PENANAPvg0BDsY5I
look as though she was in pain at all. Instead, she smiled at me, walked176Please respect copyright.PENANAMBVD7Zpi0s
towards the study door, and opened it.
“Evelyn, are you ok?” I asked as the176Please respect copyright.PENANADZUa59tAOu
fear and shock I felt made my leg quiver.
“Yes, I am! Fiona. She wants us to176Please respect copyright.PENANA1TSWQQk8XV
search the study!” she replied in a hypnotic way and with a horrific smile.
“Who?” I stammered as I looked176Please respect copyright.PENANAWLPDuAIpQm
around in fear. Everything about this house is just off.
"The176Please respect copyright.PENANAkJR74y9awa
girl." Eve replied impatiently. Still with that weird smile on her face. Then she176Please respect copyright.PENANATCkOFSfZhI
added, “The girl that always tells us what to do.”
Then she disappeared into the room.
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