CHAPTER 2 – Fights, frights and solitude

It has been almost a month since Charles and Rebecca "Becky" Grady moved in with their children at the secluded Overlook Hotel as winter caretaker. The snow already started falling; the feeling of solitude grows each day between the Gradys. Becky and Charles´ wedding is slowly tearing apart, with fights and argues.

One Sunny winter morning, Gabby and Lucy were playing in the attic. Lucy decides to look the old stuff under the white sheets. "We aren´t allowed to do this!" said Gabby "Don´t be such a jerk, we won´t get into any trouble". Suddenly Lucy stumbled upon an old Ouija board made in early 20´s. "Sweet!" she said.

Lucy sat down next to Gabby and theirs dolls – Lilly, Sissy and Maggie. They made a circle around the Ouija board. Lucy conducted the "séance" with mystical words that not even Gabby or herself knew it existed "Spirits appear, spirits manifest yourselves… Come to us!" suddenly the attic door shut with the wind. "Lucy stop it!" said Gabby, but I didn´t work. The board was going crazy. It was marking the letters r, e, d, r, u, m making the word "Redrum" then it started forming a word with other letters and numbers; r, o, o, m, 2, 3, 7.

Suddenly, a small window in the attic blew in millions of peaces of glass, nearly killilng the girls. They ran into the door, but it was locked. The Overlook was alive. Once again, it was reborn.

Meanwhile, Charles was typing in the basement next to the boiler. He would write a paragraph then check the boiler to dump it; on the contrary, the Overlook would go with the wind.

The girls escaped from the attic and ran into the hallway. Suddenly, all the doors wide opened on their own and the chandeliers tinkled, they seemed to be going to crash into the ground. The Gradys the hotel´s guests and it wanted them to never check-out. Then, the girls stopped in front of the door of Room 237. "That´s what it tried to say to us!" said Gabby "It can´t save us, Gabby! We must go and find mommy and daddy!"

In the lobby, the big crystal chandelier crashed into the ground. The haunted noise of it caught the attention of Becky, who was cooking in the kitchen and Charles, who was in the basement. "What´s going on here?!" said Charles angrily as he saw Becky "I don´t know! I don´t know!"

They ran through the hallways into they arrived at the lobby. The Gradys were shocked. The twins were next to the accident.

In her entire life, Becky Grady never saw her husband as a monster, not till that they. He spent almost one hour beating on the girls with the belt and made them stay up the how night cleaning the mess without any food for a week! She knew the man who did that, was not Charles, whom she met and got married to.