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Authors note: Here's the second chapter! Yay! Thanks to everyone who reviewed! I didn't think I would this chapter out so quickly but here you go…
Also, I think I might try focusing on this story for a little while because I've run out of inspiration for my other stories at the moment so it should be a few days before I can sit down and start writing the next chapters for them…
Fact or false suspicions?
On my way home from school my mind was still focused on what I had seen, or thought I had seen this morning. There were so many rumours about that house but all of them seemed ridiculous and impossible.
As I walked past it I had that feeling of eyes on me again but resisted the instinct to look. I was imagining it. I had to be. The house hadn't been lived in for years so there was no was in there, right? I had two options; either the rumours were true and the place was haunted or I was going insane. Right now, I'm not sure which one made most sense.
I sat at the dinner table; Charlie at the head of it, Sue sitting opposite him, Seth between her and me and Leah on sitting opposite me and Seth. Sue was an exceptionally good cook; she complimented Charlie perfectly as he couldn't even make a piece of toast without burning it.
Light conversation filled the silence while we were eating but I was too preoccupied in my own thought to pay too much attention to anybody else. My curiosity about the old house just across and down the street from ours was burning so strongly I couldn't concentrate on much else. Something was drawing me to it and I had a hunch that 'something' was the boy I had seen this morning, even if he was a figment of my imagination which I was sure he had to be.
"Dad?...I was wondering, well, you know the old abandoned house across the street?" I began hesitantly. I really wasn't sure what I wanted to ask. Is the place haunted? Are they're vampires living there? I might as well ask if 'pigs could fly' for all the good it would do me. My father was pretty sceptical when it came to things of the supernatural so it wouldn't be too hard to guess what his thought on the matter would be.
"You mean the old Sanderson place?" (A/N: Yes, I got this name from the film 'Hocus Pocus'. hee-hee) Charlie asked, most of his concentration focused on his dinner.
"Why is it called that?" This seemed like the most normal question, it definitely was in comparison to the many others that were floating around in my head.
Charlie opened his mouth to speak before Seth cut in, looking at me with excitement filled eyes at the prospect of telling me this particular story. "Well, it's called that because just after it was built a magician lived there and he cast a spell on it so that seven people would turn up within the boundaries of the house and be cursed to be vampires for eternity but –"
"Seth." Sue scolded, giving him a disapproving look that made it obvious she didn't believe anything of what he was saying.
"But, it's true." Seth protested then started to eat his dinner after getting a stern look from his mother, grumbling under his breath. I looked up and my eyes met Leah's, a smirk tugging at the corners of her mouth.
"That house is one of the ones originally built here, the only one still standing." Charlie said with a shrug. "A family did move in there a couple of years ago but they moved away straight after." He said as he continued eating his food.
"What do you mean?" I had a bad feeling about the answer to that.
"They arrived with all there furniture, a removal van and everything, but a few days later, nobody had seen them and all there possessions had gone as well; so they moved." He replied nonchalantly.
"You mean they just disappeared?" The circumstances seemed a little too suspicious to me; Maybe because something really was going on inside that house, or maybe because Seth's stories were fuelling my over-active imagination.
"People just don't disappear, Bella." Charlie said simply as Seth moved his attention from his food to the conversation once more.
"I remember this one guy; apparently, he and a bunch of his friends were daring each other and one of them dared him to go into the garden of that house…" He said pausing for effect, "…all his friends could hear was the high pitched, terror filled screams muffled by the wind. Nobody has seen him since, he just disappeared." He grinned at me and lowered his voice slightly. "Or got eaten by the vampires."
"Seth." Sue scolded once more. Apparently his last comment hadn't been quite as quiet as he had hoped it would be.
And awful sense of foreboding consumed me then. It had to be true. What are the chances that that family and the boy Seth was referring to would all disappear at the same house? I definitely did not believe the family had simply moved away, although I wasn't prepared to accept the fact that the house was the home to a family of vampire's either. Surely there had to be a reasonable explanation, didn't there?
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Having finished all my homework and having nothing better to do, I was sitting in a wooden deck chair in the large front garden of our house, reading on of my well-loved books in the last of today's sunlight.
As always; I was immersed in my book, oblivious to the world around me until I had the skin-crawling sensation of eyes watching me again. I looked up quickly, in an attempt to catch whoever was watching me.
My eyes were drawn to the dark house across the road and a couple of doors down, completely deserted apart from the figure in the front garden, standing right at the gate as if about to leave. In the weak light that was still lighting up the sky I would see the figure was a small girl, maybe my age or a little older but only 4" 10' at the most. Her short black hair was spiked up and a smile lit her face. If wasn't friendly though, more ominous and knowing than anything else. A shiver of fear ran down my spine as I stared at her and a moment later she was gone completely. As quickly as she had appeared she had disappeared. My eyes darted around the deserted street then back to the house, searching for some sign of the girl I had just seen, or even the boy from this morning but it was still, lifeless.
Uneasiness filled me and I picked up my book and went back inside my house, shutting the door firmly behind me. Was it my imagination or had I really seen them? Whatever it was I was determined to find out what was hiding in that house and the secrets that surrounded them. There had to be a reasonable explanation and I was going to find out what it was. Tomorrow, after school I was going to find out what's wrong with that house once and for all.
A/N: Seriously, my sister cant even make a piece of toast without burning it and kept asking my mum how to make baked beans when it was her turn to make dinner; she made beans on toast. She's 14 and took home economics (cooking class) last year but is still pretty pants at it…
Anyway, I have decided to give anybody who reviews a sneak peek of the next chapter because I've found that doing so makes me more motivated to write because I have to have that sneak peak ready for the first person to review…