CH. 3

"Another day of cooking, cleaning, and listening to some old dude yell all day" Amelia said dropping herself on her bed, acting as if she was exhausted, I rolled my eyes when I saw her do that as I neatly pulled my bed's blankets back and sat down on my bed properly. "You mean me cooking and cleaning all day, you were the only one being yelled at by Britain because you wouldn't do the cooking or cleaning…" "Pfff, same shit! I'm still exhausted it's not easy looking good and still getting an old dude annoyed you know, especially when I got competition on annoyance by twiddle Dee over there" She mocked waving her hand in the air towards the direction of America's room. I let out a long sigh and just laid back on my bed, relaxing from this long day, until the thought finally came to mind.

"A-Amelia…." She had her face planted in a rather fluffy pillow and said yes in muffled tone, "U-Um…have you ever wondered about the East wing?" My sister automatically lifted her head from the pillow and looked at me with her bright sea-green eyes, identical to mine, automatically regaining all her energy back somehow. "OF COURSE I HAVE DUDE! I always wanted to go! But that stupid old lady Alice keeps catching me! Damn I wish I could get past those bolted doors…but like I said it's bolted and shit and we can't get past without some key or a hammer to take down the wooden boards out. And we'll get caught if we do that too…"She starts to tell me all the ideas she already had of barging in through those doors, and never once did she mention the opening in the wall I had found recently.

I knew if I told her about that opening she'd want me to go with her to the East wing just to know what the whole fuss was about, but I just couldn't bring myself to tell her. We're too fragile, no matter what my sister says about being so strong, I still saw her as a fragile young lady like me. And I'm sure whatever is at the East wing, it's nothing we should have any part in. And if anyone should go, it would be me, I found the entrance and I don't want anyone else getting hurt because of my curiosity…or foolishness. Amelia just stared at me blankly; I didn't realize that she was waiting for me to reply to what she just said, "Huh?" I said lifting my head up quickly, my sister narrowed her eyes at me, as if she was interrogating me or something, "Whatcha thinking about Maddie?" I looked away trying to look as convincing as I could, "Oh nothing, I was just thinking about what happened today…" Amelia jumped out of her bed and ran to mine, sitting on my legs so that I wouldn't walk out. Something she always did to me when trying to get info out of me. How I hated whenever she did that…"Tell me what happened lil sis!" She grinned looking down at me mischievously, I gave out a sigh seeing that I couldn't get out of this death grip or sit in this case, but I couldn't tell about the opening…So I just told her something else, it wasn't a lie, it did happen. "Well I made food for America…and he got her angry…" Amelia looked down at me this point, irritated and with an expression saying, 'Are you serious?'

I just laughed nervously and rubbed the back of my head; Amelia jumped off me and went back to her bed to stick her head in her pillow, board and as ever. I waited till she finally drifted off to sleep. I blew out the candle so that it looked like we were asleep in our bedroom, when Alice walked by.

Finally the entire house was finally quiet, I slipped on a pair of white socks that I had, and made my bed look like I was still sleeping in it, making Kumarie sleep under the covers. I tip-toed past my heavily sleeping sister and opened the door slowly, slipping away from her. I thought deeply on how I stumbled upon that hallway from earlier today, it was just too close to Canada and America's rooms…it didn't seem real. And when Canada spoke to me that way, I felt something in me say that wasn't him. I shook the thought out of my head and looked down each hall, marking it with my nail, lifting a piece of the wallpaper up so I knew how to get back. I finally reached those giant doors again, I looked up amazed at how bolted shut they were. I looked back at the opening of the wall, and sighed. 'Should I really go in..?' I said to myself quietly, I lifted my hand slowly towards the opening feeling a slight breeze emanating from it. It brought a chill down my spine, something wasn't right…I put my ear to the wall and listened patiently for something, I didn't know what, but it was something. And I felt that something was waiting on the other side for me. Suddenly I heard a loud noise come from the other side, like laughing…insane laughter. And a scream, I automatically put my hands to my mouth to stop myself from screaming taking a step back away from the wall.

I ran quickly back to my room, hiding myself under the covers and I just couldn't hold back anymore and screamed at the top of my lungs crying my eyes out as if I were a 2 year old again. My sister immediately woke up and ran to my bed side, as she did I heard two doors slam open and the footsteps of people running. I just started panicking as Amelia tried to comfort me, looking at me horrified. Then I heard two people rush in; it was Alice and…America? That surprised me, they came in and they all hugged me tightly trying to calm me down. I started hearing more footsteps and in came Canada and Britain, looking at the group hug confused, they were a bit shaken by the scream. At the end Alice shooed all the men out and made Amelia go back to her bed, she hugged me close and stroked my hair softly telling me everything was going to be all right and that it was just a dream.

But it wasn't a dream Alice…it was real, I heard it with my own ears, do I dare to go through that opening? Something in me now more than ever wants to enter into the East wing…but I can't go in my condition…