Darry was having dinner with his new boss. The restaurant was extremely posh and Darry was glad he wasn't paying.

Meanwhile, back in the Curtis household, Sodapop was babysitting his young brother Ponyboy.

"Come on," Sodapop hit his leg with a newpaper, "Bed,"

Pony rolled his eyes, "I'm not two, Soda,"

"Bed," Soda said firmly, and Pony knew not to push it any further.

When Ponyboy was in bed, Soda flipped the telly on. He didn't get to watch more than five minutes of the TV program, when everything went dark.

Power cut.

Sodapop swore, and fumbled around in the darkness to find the phone. He phoned Darry.

"Soda, what is it, I'm busy,"

"The powers gone out,"

"Are you ok?"

"Yeah,"

"Is Pony in bed?"

"Yeah,"

"You need to go to the fuse box and fix the fuses. I'll talk you through it,"

"Ok, where is it?"

"In the basement,"

There was a deathly silence.

"Soda had a panic attack in the basement last year," He explained to his boss, "He's convinced it's haunted,"

His boss nodded, "Where do you live?"

Darry told him his address. His boss nodded, "Ah yes, the kids back in my day used to say it was the devils basement,"

Darry spoke down the phone, "Soda, I'm going to talk you through this, ok?"

There was a pause, "Ok,"

"Right, are you at the basement door?"

"Yes,"

"Right, remember this, there are ten steps. Ok? Ten steps,"

"Ten steps," Soda confirmed.

"We'll do this together Soda, ok? Count with me, one,"

Soda stood on the first step, "One,"

"Right, now two Soda,"

Pause, "Two," Soda moved onto the second step.

"Now three, you're doing great Soda,"

"Three,"

"Good. Four,"

"Four,"

"Now five, you're half way there Soda, well done,"

Soda stepped onto the fifth step. Half way, "Five,"

"Good boy. Six,"

"Six,"

"Right, now seven,"

Soda didn't reply.

"Soda, go onto step seven, you can do this,"

"It's so dark Darry," Soda whispered.

"I know Soda, you can do this, Seven,"

Pause. "Seven,"

"Great. Just three more, eight,"

"Eight," Soda stood on the 8th step.

"Nine,"

"Nine,"

"You're doing brilliant. Just one more, can you do this for me? Ten,"

There was a pause. Soda took a deep breath, and Darry heard his feet land on the tenth step.

"Ten,"

"Well done Soda, that was gr-"

"Eleven…twelve….thirteen…fourteen…"

A/N: No, your not seeing things, I really did update! This was based on a short horror film called "Ten Steps," It's amazing. The link to it is below. It's only ten minutes long, watch it! If the link doesn't work, type "Ten Steps Horror Movie Short" into Google and you'll find it.

watch?v=XpURRW80LnM