HALLOWEEN NIGHT IN A HAUNTED HOUSE
Chapter 1
By, Brittany Bauer
*Anything italicized is someone's thought, someone's singing, it's someone's dream.
Hey everyone. This is my first time coming up with something scary. So I hope you all like. And if any of you have any suggestions on what the following chapters should be, review and let me know, and I will take them into consideration. Thanks again for reading. Happy Halloween, and God bless. ^_^
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The week before Halloween was nerve racking for Elsa Arendelle. She was still working on Anna's Halloween costume and didn't even know what she was going to dress up as, even though she was going to pass out candy the day of trick or treating while Anna went out with her friends, like Rapunzel and Merida. Elsa was going to stay home, pass out candy for the little kids, and spend some time with the best boyfriend ever.
"So, how's my costume coming, Elsa?" Anna asked while they were walking out the door to head to school at the beginning of that week.
"It's getting there, Anna. You must know, making a dress that looks like it was made out of hearts isn't easy." Elsa replied as they started walking down the sidewalk.
As they did, they passed the old house that hadn't been occupied in for who knows how long. It was dark and gloomy. Window shutters were practically hanging by a thread, and the door looked almost like it didn't fit anymore. The porch had stuff scattered about it, mostly dead leaves and tree branches. But there were broken down chairs and a table that hadn't been used for centuries.
Elsa stared at the house with a creepy chill running down her spine. And from where she stood, she could have sworn she saw something, or someone, move in the upstairs window, making the torn pink curtains blow about.
"Anna, do you wanna ride from a certain boy?" Anna's voice broke Elsa from her sudden spook and look over, only to see a royal blue car, with a snowflake decal on the passenger side of the car, and the white hair and blue eyes. She smiled as Anna got in the back and Elsa got in the front seat.
"Thanks Jack." Elsa said as Jackson Overland, or as everyone called him Jack Frost, drove off towards school.
"Anything for my snow queen." Jack replied, making Anna go aw, and making Elsa blush a tiny bit.
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As school went on, Elsa was thinking about what to be for Halloween. "Jack, I'm telling you, I have no idea what I should be, and Halloween is in a week!" Elsa complained at lunch to her boyfriend.
"Hey, don't stress about it. If you ask me, I'd say go as a slutty nurse, but that's just me." Jack replied, making Elsa giggle a little.
"Jack, stop it. I'm not putting on an ultra short skirt just so you can get the wrong idea!"
"Damn...oh well."
"Elsa, could you please tell Astrid that ghosts aren't real?" Anna said, as she walked up with Astrid behind her.
"Ghosts are real! I keep seeing one in that old house on your street!" Astrid yelled.
"Really? And Hiccup is dating you?" Jack said, making Astrid give him an evil look.
"Astrid, ghosts don't exist." Elsa said.
"Oh, yeah? Then explain the movement of that pink curtain."
"Drafty house...probably the wind." Elsa said, sounding confident in what she believed in.
"Alright...Anna, I dare you to spend the night in the old house on Halloween night, and if you say that there were no ghosts in that house, I'll stop believing in them." Astrid said.
"But...I can't. I'm going to hang out with Rapunzel and Merida on Halloween."
"Not anymore."
"Astrid...she's not going." Elsa said.
"Why? Is she chicken?"
"No...I'm saying she's not going because...I'll take the dare." Elsa said. She wasn't afraid. She knew ghosts didn't exist, so she had no problem accepting the dare.
"Elsa..." Jack began.
"Elsa, you don't have to."
"I want to. I'll stay the night in that house...all night in that house, just to prove to you that there are no such thing as ghosts."
"Fine." Astrid said, looking at Jack. "Just in case though, Elsa, take that frost guy with you. I mean, would you want to die and not have anyone know?"
"Oh, there's no doubt about it, I'm going too." Jack said, touching Elsa's hand and wrapping his fingers around it.
"The only real reason you should have someone with you in that house, is because legend has it that one year, around the time that it became the trademark haunted house, a young boy went inside, and he never came out." Astrid said, making Elsa's heart leap a bit. Maybe she was a bit scared to go into that old house now. "Happy camping!" She had started laughing as she walked away.
Anna looked at Elsa and Jack as Elsa sat back down.
"Elsa, you didn't have to do that. I would have asked Rapunzel and Merida to come with me."
"What about Kristoff?" Jack mentioned.
"Oh, yeah...him too."
"Anna, you are just 17, I'm not letting you stay the night at an old house that could fall apart at any moment."
"Then why are you?"
Elsa was stumped by the question. She didn't know why she was. Maybe it was a way to stay the night with Jack, since his parents won't let them at his or her house. But mainly, it was to protect her younger sister.
"Elsa..." Jack began when the bell rang and Anna ran to her next class as Elsa and Jack threw away their trash and headed off to their next class, which was awesome because they had their next class together.
"Well, looks like that answered my question of what I should be...I'm not dressing up this year."
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After school that day, Jack went over to Elsa's house to help her with Anna's costume a little bit. He wasn't as creative as Elsa was, but he tried his best to help out Elsa with creative stuff every now and then. But this time, he was there only to do some research while Elsa worked on the costume for Anna.
"Elsa, drop out of the dare!" Jack yelled, scaring Elsa in the process.
"Jack, don't scare me like that! Why do I need to drop out of the dare?" Elsa asked, continuing on the costume.
"Because of this article." Jack grabbed his laptop from his lap and walked over to Elsa, sitting down next to her project. "It says here, that long ago, there was a man named Kozmotis Pitchiner who died in that house." Jack began.
"So?"
"Elsa!"
"What?"
"It says here that he was waiting for his girlfriend, Amalie to come to his place on Halloween night, but she never showed up. So he waited and waited for her to show up. He died on Halloween night many years later. They say that his ghost haunts that house to this very day."
"Jackson Overland, there are no such things as ghosts!" Elsa yelled.
"Sure there is!" Jack began. "I mean, how do you explain that creepy sound I hear at night?"
"Okay..." Elsa began as she stopped what she was doing again. "1) what sounds do you hear and 2) how are you hearing creepy sounds when you don't live anywhere near it?"
"Oh, didn't I tell you? I moved out of my parents place and I now live next door to that haunted house on this street."
"No, you didn't tell me!" Elsa yelled before going back to Anna's costume.
"I'm telling you, Elsa. That place, is haunted."
"Whatever you say, Jack." Elsa retorted, but she was now secretly wishing that she never took the dare, in the first place.
~END OF CHAPTER~