Chapter 1
"You're doing it rather you like it or not!" yelled my friend Lily, who was shoving me to an abandoned mansion. Well what I consider to be a mansion is a large house that would cover an average sized pond. Lily shoved me to the fence making my shoulder bag cling against the metal fence.
"Why do I have to do it?" I yell back at her, gripping the fence for dear life. Who knows what kind of entities were in that house! Before you ask, yes I do believe in the paranormal. Lily sighs and opens the gate to the large yard of the already too big property.
"I will at least walk you to the door. Stop being such a scaredy cat!" she said as she pushed me through the gate doors and up the long walk way. I try to fight her push but she seems to have grown a tad bigger than me so I give up and let her push my dead weight.
The mansion seemed to be at least 3 stories high and the length of 2 football fields. It was completely vacant with cobwebs and overgrown grass. A snake crawls in front of us and stops, seeming to be looking at us. Ok let me clarify that snakes cannot see. They feel vibrations of surrounding objects with their tongues. I halt dead in my tracks making Lily almost trip over me till I caught her before faceplanting the concrete.
"What the hell?! Why did you do that!" She screams as she gets up. I put my finger to my lips, making a shushing face, to shush her and she shuts up, knowing I might be hearing something she cannot. My hearing and sense of smell is much better to many other peoples but I believe because of that my eyesight is poor. You know, to keep things balanced. She looks in wonder as I put my hand down slowly to pick up the snake. It was a beautiful emerald green color and quite small.
"Is that a snake?" Lily asks as I nod my head. She sighs in defeat. "Fine, you can take it with you." I let out a happy squeal as I look at the snake. I check to see if it's a boy or a girl to find it to be a girl. "I'll name you Star." I say to the snake who seems to be quite comfortable with me. I move her up to my neck as she leaves my arm and wraps around my neck and rests there. Lily just looks at me.
"What? You know I love snakes and they seem to like me." I state. Lily shakes her head. "What about Ciel?" she asks. Referring to my ball python I have back at home. "What will he do when he meets this new snake, besides where did you even find a name like Ciel?" She asks. I turn towards her and chuckle. "They won't be in the same tank, Lily. They will never meet and I found the name on the internet looking for a name for my new Pokémon game." I reply. She shrugs and begins to walk towards the mansion again.
"Come on, you're not getting out of this." Lily waves for me to follow. I no longer feel scared now that I have Star with me. "Ok, so what am I doing?" I ask Lily as I catch up to her. "You are going in there to stay the night, remember? This is the crazy awesome house I told you I explored." Lily says as we walk up the stairs and stop at the door. I look at her with a blank face as I scan her attire. She was wearing a Black Veil Brides shirt with skinny jeans half black half red. She wore a Bob Marley beanie that covered the silver blonde hair that she tried to keep covered. Hair dye mistake. Half of her mascara had worn off but you could still see the effect it made. Seeing her clothes made me look at mine. I was wearing a Pikachu shirt a made for Halloween, just a plain mustard yellow shirt with Pikachu drawn on the front. My pants were long black slacks that I used for band concerts.
"You ready?" Lily asks. I shook my head. "Not yet." I say as I open up my shoulder bag with some crochet lines that I made. Inside my bag was my wallet, deodorant, phone charger, my Iphone, a box with an orange camo pocket knife inside, and some eye-glass cleaner for my glasses, a bottle of Tylenol, and my car keys. "Hold on I forgot my backpack." I walk back to the fence where I dropped it and forgot about it. I open it up to look at what I had inside. A couple sets of clothes, my toothpaste and toothbrush, hair brush, shampoo and conditioner and my laptop with its charger. "I was supposed to be staying the night at her house." I whisper to myself as I grab my backpack and slip an arm into one of the carrier things and up on my shoulder, but not close enough to Star to bother her. I reclimb the stairs of the mansion and meet Lily at the top. "You ready now?" She asks getting annoyed. I glare at her and open the door of the mansion. "Where are you going?" I ask before I enter the dark dusty house. "I'm going to hang out with Stephan. Mom will wonder why I was home and your car in the driveway but you not be there." She stated. I nodded my head in agreement and look at the house. Lily was already halfway back to the gate when I looked back and yelled "Be careful, ya hear me!" She looks at me and smiles. "Yea yea." She chuckles as she leaves the yard and starts to walk down the road. I sigh and look at the large dark house. I gulp and take out my phone turning the brightness as low as I could go and turn it on silent. I turn on the flashlight and begin to walk into the house.
There was dust everywhere. I shined the light around the large room. "Looks like a ball room to me." I mutter and head up the stairs. At the top they split off to the left or right so I choose to go left. Walking up the stairs, I end at a large hall way with large windows, letting the moonlight light up the hall. Paintings decorate the walls. I turn off the flashlight on my phone and put it away as I walk to one of the paintings and blow on it creating a cloud of dust making me cough and back away. I continue down the hall to see several doors that lead to whatever they did. I decided to choose just one and I walk to a door and open it. I raise an eyebrow to see a desk with papers on top. Not looking at the papers I walk to the window behind the desk that gave a beautiful view to the back yard gardens. Nobody has lived here for centuries, but the gardens still bloomed beautiful white roses that glowed almost a light blue with the moonlight. I smile at the view. Turning around, I tripped over the chair and hit my head on the desk and black out cold.