Later that day, boxes of stuff from their old house had been dropped off aswell as their furniture. Jess took all of her stuff and put it up in her room, and her dad helped her with the furniture. Once he had gone downstairs, Jess beganto un pack the boxes.
She put all her clothes in her drawers and her wardrobe, and then put the TV on top of the drawers. She put her laptop on her desk along with a lamp, and put boxes of stuff underneath her bed.
When she was almost finished, her mother called her from the bottom of the stairs.
"Jess, dinner!" She called, and Jess realised just how hungry she was. Her stomach growled and she ran down the stairs to find her favourite food, pasta, waiting for her. Zoe saw her face light up.
"Hungry, I take it?"
"Yeah!" Jess said, sitting down and tucking in. "Mmmm."
They all sat and ate when a draft came into the dining room. Jess's hair blew about and she shivered.
"Cold?" Her mother asked.
"Yeah there was a draft." Jess said, putting her hair back in place.
"There was?" Zoe asked. "I didn't feel one."
"Me either." Nick shook his head.
"Oh." Jess said, getting up.
"Where are you going?" Zoe asked, confused.
"Checking the back door, see if its open." She shouted.
"We haven't been out the back yet. It wouldn't be open." Nick laughed.
"Oh." Jess sat back down and began to eat again. "Okay."
After dinner, Jess went upstairs to finish off putting stuff in her room, and when she was done, she got her laptop from her desk and sat sprawled out on her bed, and turned it on. She was going to find out what that marking was on the wall and the mirror.
When her laptop had booted up, she went to the internet and went to a search engine, and she typed in what she saw.
'Upside down star in a circle'
She clicked on the first link that came up, and it was an answers page. Someone was describing the same thing, and she looked at the answer.
'What you are describing to me sounds like the Pentagram, but upside down. A pentagon normally brings good luck, but when upside down, it invites spirits into the home.'
As Jess was reading, she could swear that her room got colder, so she got up and got a cardigan out. She put it on, and sat back down on her bed, and looked around. She couldn't help feeling a little bit anxious at what she had just read, but she didn't believe in ghosts.
She went back to google and typed in 'upside down pentagram' and sure enough it came up. She looked through numerous websites where it told her that the symbol represented Satan and it invited him to wherever it was inscribed.
While she was searching, she heard someone walked up the stairs. They walked up to her door, and then stopped.
"Mum?" Jess asked. "Dad?" She recieved no answer.
She got up, and cautiously got up to open her bedroom door. She opened it slowly, and again felt the draft. But, there was no one stood by the door. Jess looked down the corridor and there was no one there, so she decided to go downstairs.
"Mum?" She asked as she heard her parents in the living room.
"Yeah?" She replied. Jess walked in and they were sitting cuddled up on the sofa drinking wine. Jess picked up her glass and had a sip. She mever normally minded. "Get yourself a small glass if you want some."
"Nah." Jess said. "Did you go upstairs like two minutes ago?"
"No." She laughed. "Why?"
"Oh, I heard someone up there." Jess said. "Never mind."
"Your dad went out to the kitchen to get wine." Zoe said. "Maybe you heard him." Jess shook her head.
"No." She said. "They stopped outside my door."
"They did?" Zoe said. "Weird."
"So it wasn't any of you?" Jess asked, heart pounding a little more.
"Nope." Nick shook his head. "I can assure you I didn't go upstairs."
"Okay." Jess said, looking a little bit frightened.
"Don't worry Jess." Zoe said. "There's no one there. We would have heard them."
"I guess so." Jess said, slowly making her way upstairs.
"Jess looked scared, didn't she?" Nick said to Zoe, thinking of how Jess paled when they said no one went upstairs.
"Yeah." Zoe said. "She went white!"
"Hmm." Nick said, thinking.
"What?" Zoe asked. "What 'hmm?'"
"Just wondering why she heard footsteps." Nick shrugged.
"She's probably just paranoid."
"But it is possible that she heard them..." Nick said. "This house is old."
"Nick, ghosts don't exist." Zoe said.
"How do you know?" He asked.
"They just don't." Zoe said. "Seriously Nick. Don't be stupid."
"Im not." Nick argued. "I just want to know."
"Well, its not ghosts." Zoe said, and went back to drinking her wine.
Upstairs, Jess was sitting in her room, becoming increasingly paranoid. So there was no one there, outside her door. But she wasn't just hearing things. She heard the footsteps loud and clear.
She put in her headphones and sat on her laptop for an hour or so before her parents came upstairs, as they were going to bed. They walked in.
"Wow." Zoe said. "You did a good job with this room."
"Thanks." Jess said, taking out her headphones.
"We havent unpacked yet." Nick laughed.
"I have."
"Everything?" Zoe asked.
"Yup." She said. "Everything."
"Okay." Zoe nodded. "Well, we are going to bed."
"Okay. Me too I guess." Jess said, walking to the bathroom.
She thought about the pentogram as she brushed her teeth. Should she tell her parents? They seemed like they didn't care about the footsteps, so would they care about the pentogram? Well, she decided she was going to tell them, whether they believed her or not.