Chapter 9
All four gasp as the darkness surrounds them. They huddle together trying frantically to get the door open, with no luck at all. Just then Sam goes stiff. Standing next to her, Kyrie and Lee feel her stiffen.
"What's wrong, Sam?" Kyrie asks.
"Well, other than the fact that we are all trapped in a haunted house, in the middle of no where, with no light, and something out to either get us or scare the living daylights out of us, I would say that the fact that ghosts are in this room right now, might be a factor as to why I'm FREAKING THE HECK OUT!" Sam replies.
"Ghosts, in the room right now…" Gaara trails off as a luminescent light starts to form across the room. They all turn to look. The light separates into white lights, two tall ones and two smaller sized ones. Looking closer, the four realize that the lights aren't just weird shapes, but the shapes of people, two adults, and two kids. As the four watch, the lights become more detailed, less blindingly white, and more like humans, but able to be seen through. The kids seem to laugh, but no sound can be heard. They are playing a game on the floor. The parents walk over and look down at the kids, smiling at one another, and saying something, but once again, no sound can be heard. Then the parents and children jump, as if startled, and look toward the door. The father lunges for a cabinet and proceeds to rummage through it. The mother gets her children and pushes them into a corner, behind her, her face full of terror. The children are crying, scared. The father finds what he's looking for and runs in front of his wife and children, and waits. The gun he found pointing towards the only entrance, but only exit as well, to the room.
The four watch, fascinated, not able to turn away from what they know to be the final minutes before the death of this family. The room goes icy cold. The four, with the illumination of the spirits, can see their breaths before them. Ice seems to form all over the room. The windows ice over, obscuring the outside. The four start to shake violently.
The father yells, but no noise can be heard. His hand starts to shake, and then it flies back as he pulls the trigger. The mother weeps, holding her children close, trying to comfort them, but still…no noise. Then the father's eyes go wide, the mother freezes, and the children pause…
BANG!
The windows start to rattle as the scene disappears. The light in the room turns on, then off, then on, then off. This keeps going on as the four are rooted to their spots. Then Sam snaps out of it and lunges once again for the door.
This time it opens, and they all pour through the door, back into the entry room. They slam the door closed, all four out of breath as if having run for miles. They all lean against the closed door, as the lights continue to go off and on inside the room and watch the floor as the light pours through the crack at the floor. Then the light turns off and stays off. They all sigh in relief. After a few minutes, they relax and start to stir.
"What the heck was that! A glimpse into the past!?" Lee says, a bit worried.
"They were trying to show us what happened," Sam replies, all nervousness gone, replaced with utter calm.
"But why us?" Kyrie asks, more to herself than to anyone else.
"I don't know…to warn us perhaps. To show us what happened to them so that perhaps it wouldn't happen to us. We have got to get out of here," Sam says.
"Yeah, I agree," Gaara replies. "I'm heading to the kitchen to see if a phone is there and if it still works." Gaara starts to walk off, but Kyrie grabs him.
"I don't like that idea," Kyrie tells him, looking earnestly up into his face. "Listen…the wind has stopped, everything seems pretty normal. Maybe we should go back outside and try the caretakers place again. Maybe the caretaker is back by now or something."
"That sounds better to me than going to the kitchen," Sam says, heading toward the front door. Turning the knob slowly, Sam holds her breath, as does everyone else. With the knob completely turned, Sam opens the door slowly. Once completely open, they all look around, noticing nothing. Sam walks slightly outside, with Lee close behind. They look all around. Not seeing anything Sam turns back to the others. "I don't see anything."
WHAM!
Sam flies back inside the house, lifted up by a strong wind. Sam lands hard on something. The door slams shut, an audible click can be heard as the door locks.
"Sam!" Kyrie yells, running toward her friend.
"I'm fine," Sam moans, "but I landed hard on something that broke my fall."
"That would be Lee," Gaara replies from a slight distance off.
"What!! Lee!! Are you ok?" Sam says frantically, getting off him.
"Yes…I'm…fine…" Lee replies brokenly. "Are you ok?"
"Yes, thanks to you."
"I'm glad you are ok…though I might need you to help me up…I'm a little sore at the moment."
"Of course!" Sam proceeds to help Lee up, rubbing her hands all over him to see if he's ok. Meanwhile Lee has forgotten all pain with just the touch from Sam's hands. He starts to wobble. "Lee! You're about to fall over!"
"No, I'm fine, really. Just a little weak in the knees. I'm feeling fine."
Hearing this, Kyrie snickers and grins a wolfish grin, knowing why his knees are weak. Walking by him, she whispers to him, "Perhaps a little too fine."
Heat pours over Lee's face. 'Thank God this place is too dark for Sam to notice me blushing. I would die if she knew.'
"Let's go, Romeo," Gaara says from right behind Kyrie. Kyrie nearly jumps out of her skin.
"Jeez, Gaara, make more noise will you. I didn't even hear you come up behind me. You could have given me a heart attack," Kyrie says, whipping around to face him.
"Sorry," Gaara replies, looking down at her with a look that obviously said he wasn't sorry one bit. "Let's go to the kitchen. We have no other choice."
