Chapter Three
The Game Is Just Beginning
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Teri went over across the hall to Nick and Brian’s room after she left hers and
knocked on the door. A few seconds later, Brian answered the door.
“Hey Ter! What’s up? Come on in.”
Teri stepped in the room and he closed the door. She sighed slightly, “Just
wanted to see how you guys are doing. Laura’s ticking me off too.”
“Oh, I’m sorry,” Brian said, giving Teri a hug, “anything I can help with?”
Teri pulled out of the hug and looked at him. “Do you believe this place is
haunted?”
Brian sat down on the bed. “I’m really not sure Teri. It could be but you heard
what Ms. Calhoun said and I mean, she does live here.”
“I know, I know, it’s just...I don’t feel right about this place.”
“Hey, we’ll be outta here by tomorrow, we can just sleep the whole time.”
“Yeah, easier said then done. By the way, where’s Nick?”
Teri had just finished that sentence when she felt someone grab her from
behind. She screamed, jumped about a foot in the air, and then landed on top of
Brian, who yelled out in annoyance.
“Ohh, sorry Bri. Who the hell did that?!” Teri said, turning around after she got
off of Brian.
“NICK!!!!” Teri and Brian both said at the same time.
“I should’ve know,” Teri said, shaking her head, “you are such a dead man.”
Nick gave her an innocent look. “Who me? I didn’t do anything. Though that was
pretty funny to see you jump and land on Rok like that,” he said, unable to
control his giggles.
Teri turned to Brian, who gave her a look. “Let’s get him.”
Nick looked up. “Uh, oh! Gotta run!” He opened the door and took off.
“Not so fast Carter! Get back here!”
Teri and Brian took off after him down the hall. Nick had left their hallway and
was turning into one of the other ones. Teri, not seeing that Nick had gone into
the hallway two after theirs, went down the very next one and just kept running.
Brian ended going down the one Nick had just went in.
Teri kept running down the hall. It twisted and curved around a bunch of times
and wasn’t very lit, a few candles were scattered around, giving the hall a
ghostly look. Teri started to slow down and eventually stopped in the middle of
the hall.
“NICK!!” she yelled out, “Where are ya?”
There was no answer except for a slight echo from her own voice.
“Nick?” she called out again, a little less sure sounding, “Brian?”
Teri looked up and down the hall but saw nothing, except for the shadows from
the candles and the hallway disappearing in both directions eventually. The
hallway looked a lot like the other one she was staying in, only creepier.
“Oh shit, this is not good,” she thought to herself, “this is the last place I wanted
to be in all alone.”
She decided to start going in the direction she had come to get out of there. Just
as she started to move, Teri heard something. She stopped in her tracks.
“Hello?” she called out timidly.
“Hehehehe,” a little girl’s giggle could be heard.
Teri wheeled around and looked down the hall, squinting in the darkness. Where
was that coming from?
“Hehehe, I’m over here,” the girl’s voice said again.
Teri turned back in the direction she had been going.
“No, I’m over here.”
Teri turned around again, feeling a little scared. Shouldn’t she be running away
about now? Teri felt like giving up, she couldn’t see anything at all. “Maybe it’s
my imagination,” she thought.
That’s when she caught sight of a light underneath the one door right near her.
Teri’s instincts were telling her to leave and not even go near the door but her
curiosity took over and she started walking slowly towards it.
“Help me, help me,” the little girl’s voice said again, this time, it sounded full of
terror instead of the playful tone like before.
Teri stopped right before her hand go on the door, unsure. Then with a shaking
hand, she put her hand on the door. As soon as she did, it blew open on it’s
own. She took a step back in surprise before looking in the room.
The room was made up like a little girl’s room. Colored in pink with dolls on the
shelves and other toys. A beautiful window was on the other side with a balcony
outside of it. But Teri wasn’t paying any attention to the rest of the room, she
didn’t even see it. All she could see was the horrible thing that lay right in front
of her eyes on the bed. On the bed was a little girl but she had been murdered.
Her body lay there in pieces and her blood was slowly dripping on the floor.
More blood was pooled all around the floor of the room. Teri gasped when she
saw it and stumbled backwards, sickened by the smell of blood in the air. All of
a sudden a smoky figure rose up from the dead girl’s body. It was her ghost.
“Help me, help me,” she said, a sad look on her face. Then her voice changed
and an ugly look came over her face. “You have killed me, now you must pay.”
The ghost started advancing towards Teri.
Teri was so shocked she couldn’t move, say, or do anything. Finally, she let out
the loudest scream that she could and ran as fast as she could from the room.
The ghost went right after her.
Teri had been so busy staring at the body of the girl that she hadn’t noticed the
message painted in blood on the mirror. ‘The Game Is Just Beginning.’
Chapter Four - The Search
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