Chapter Seven
The Fog
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Everyone decided to go back to their rooms. It was only 7 PM and they would be
eating in an hour. Teri was refusing to talk to anyone now, upset that no one
would believe her. She had known what she had seen and it scared her. This
place was haunted and she wanted out now.
Teri, Laura, and Emily all entered their room. Teri went right over to the one bed
and plopped down on it, not even acknowledging the others. Laura took one
look at her and quickly motioned Emily outside. Once out in the hall, Laura
started speaking.
“I’m worried about Teri, do you really think she saw something down there?”
Emily shook her head. “I really don’t know, I want to believe her but.....do things
like that really happen? I mean, ghosts and stuff.”
Laura sighed. “I don’t know. I’ve got this feeling though that something else is
gonna happen soon, I don’t know what though.”
“Come on, let’s go back into the room, we’ll talk to everyone at dinner.”
Laura nodded and followed Emily into the room, still unable to shake the bad
feeling she had.
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AJ and Justin had gone back into their room and AJ was now throwing a fit
about what Teri had said.
“Ugh...I don’t believe her! This place is NOT haunted! I don’t know what the fuck
she’s talking about, crying and everything. She probably imagined the whole
damn thing!!”
Justin nodded, not knowing what to say. In the back of his mind he was thinking
about what he had seen down that hall when he’d been with Chris and Laura.
“Yo Justin! Ya with me?” AJ yelled at him, waving his hand in front of Justin’s
face.
“Huh? What did ya say?”
AJ gave him a weird look. “I said, wake me up in about an hour so we can go
down and eat with everyone.”
“Yeah sure,” Justin replied, “hey, I’m gonna go and umm....talk with JC, ok?”
“Yeah whatever,” AJ mumbled, starting to fall asleep.
“See ya.” Justin grabbed the flashlight off of the dresser and headed out the
door. He really wasn’t going to see JC, he was going to see what that fog was
that had been hanging in the middle of the fourth hallway.
Justin looked up and down the hall making sure no one was out there to stop
him from going. The hallway was deserted fortunately. He quickly walked out of
the hall and started heading for the fourth one. He stopped in front of the
entrance and took a deep breath. “Come on Justin, you can do this.” he told
himself quietly.
With that, he started walking down the hall, his eyes darting everywhere. He
shivered slightly, noticing a slight draft coming from somewhere. “Damn, this
place looks even creepier then before.”
He continued walking, jumping at even the slightest noises, thinking maybe this
wasn’t such a great idea. He turned around one of the corners and his flashlight
caught on the fog, still hanging in the middle of the hallway. It was an extremely
thick fog and it swirled around slightly, Justin couldn’t even see through it. He
shivered again, noticing that it had gotten even colder.
“What the hell is that? Why would a fog be in the middle of a hall?” he thought
to himself. He started to slowly walk towards it, unsure if he really should be
doing that. He turned his head and looked behind him, only seeing nothing but
shadows cast from the candles. Justin continued walking towards the fog until
finally he stopped right in front of it, considering going into it. Before he even
decide, he felt a tug and was yanked right into the middle of the fog.
“What the ---” he stuttered. He reached for his flashlight but it was gone. “Oh
great....just great....this is exactly where I wanted to be.” He started to turn
around but heard a noise and stopped in his tracks. Suddenly, all Justin heard
around him were strange voices. They were all saying something but it wasn’t
loud enough for him to hear what.
His eyes widened, not believing what was going on. Had Teri been right? Was
this place really haunted? He started to slowly back out of the fog when
something caught his eye. Justin could see the end of the hall, for some reason,
through the fog in front of him. At the end, was a door but it looked nothing like
all of the other doors, it was a bright gold color and clearly stood out.
“What is that?” Justin started walking towards it. Before he knew, he stood in
front of the door, the fog still swirling around him. He slowly lifted his hand and
turned the knob. Justin stepped into a dark, gray looking room with not much
light. It had no windows or doors. What he saw in there made him sick and he
felt like running. In the room were a bunch of skeletons either hanging or
leaning against the wall. The weird thing though was that they were bleeding,
their blood was pouring all over the floor. Justin gasped and turned to run out of
the room but as soon as he turned, the door behind him snapped shut.
“No...get me out of here!” he yelled. He grabbed the handle and tried to turn it
but the door was locked and wouldn’t budge. He slammed himself against it but
it was no use. Then behind him, he heard a noise. Justin slowly turned around
and stared in shock, not believing what he was seeing. The skeletons were
starting to come alive and were slowly getting up and starting to walk towards
him. The blood was pouring out of them faster and they started to chant
something. As they got closer he could tell what they were saying. “Die, die,
die.” they were saying.
Justin screamed but it was no use, the skeletons kept coming towards him, the
blood pouring faster and faster out of them till the floor was covered with it.
Justin pushed himself as far up against the wall as he could, crying out for help.
The skeletons were almost on top of him though, grinning at Justin evilly. But
before they could lay a hand on him, the floor pulled out from beneath him and
he fell into darkness.
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