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My lonely road


It was Saturday morning and I couldn't get much sleep last night. After seeing that weird phenomenon for the third time since I moved here I couldn't stop thinking about it. I have never been so curious about anything, and this has certainly caught my interest. After I ate breakfast I sat in the garage with the door open to give me a view of the driveway and street, mom and dad had left to have brunch with some professors that were dad's friends and I was by myself.

I have considered trying to go to the mansion…but that's crazy. First off I would be scared silly to be myself up there where there are probably venomous snakes and gross insects along with rats that probably have diseases. Then there's the possibility of me not being alone and there would be some crazy guy who is either a rapist or killer…or combined.

But what if I go in prepared? Say there is a crazy person taking refuge up there and I happen to take him out, id come out a hero! Wait a minute…a hate publicity and attention from people I don't know. Well attention in general. Ugh there are so many things pushing me to stay where it's safe!

But I really want to know…no. Suburbia, good. Mansion, bad. I nodded and went to close the garage, as I got to the opening I was about to press the red button that shuts the large door down and starred up at the huge house that seemed like a thousand miles away.

I chewed the inside of my cheek, "Erm…"

Twenty minutes later

I reached the end of the cul-de-sac and starred up at the huge iron gates that have rusted over the many years it has been up. I ran my fingers over the dirty yellow caution tape and lifelessly clung to the iron bars as if begging for retirement. I inspected the iron gates and saw that it used to be broken down but someone had put up a new fence made of wired steel to replace the old one which lied on the ground on the other side. How do I get over there?

I looked at the iron gates and saw that I can probably manage to climb over…but the height scared me too much. Um…maybe I can squeeze through? No the bars are too close together for me to squeeze through. I walked down the iron fence until I got close to the house one of the kids I met at the barbeque lives in.

Nope, nothing. There was only one way to get across and that was to climb. I groaned annoyed with myself. Curiosity is a-

"OKAY let's do this." I sighed and toke a firm grip of the rusted iron bars and began to pull myself up and climb. Okay so far so good, as long as I don't look down I'll be fine. I managed to reach the top and swing my leg over the bar and let out a sigh of relief. Now the easy part.

Or it was going to be easy when I suddenly opened my eyes and froze. The ground far below me wavered and blurred a little as it tried to focus but I couldn't manage to take in the view. I tightened my grip on the bars and gulped, what the heck was I thinking!? This is dangerous and stupid! Not to mention I am probably breaking and entering private property.

"Okay bad idea! I think I'll just climb down and go home. Forget this ever happened." Just when I was about to climb down the wavering ground through me off, making my head dizzy and I leaned back!

"NO! NO! NO! AHH!" I lost my footing and fell down making a loud thud. "Oh holy cheese and crackers…my back…" I groaned. Surprisingly it didn't hurt that much. My duffle bag cushioned my fall a little, but it still hurt. I was just happy the flashlight shifted to the edge of my bag otherwise my back would have been penetrated by the stupid plastic thing. This would have been very pathetic on my terms since I'm a "genius".

I rolled over and groaned as I felt and heard my back pop, "Wait a go Addis…" I climbed to my feet and saw that I was on the other side and gulped. The trees leaves have grown so long the branches are practically blocking the way up. Well I didn't just climb over a huge fence, get dizzy, and fall flat on my back for nothing.

I patted the dust off my jeans from behind and started forward. I pushed all the branches away as I made my way through, I felt like an explorer traveling the mysterious jungles. I looked down to see if I was on the right path but I couldn't tell. I could tell a little that this used to be a dirt pathway but over the years it has grown grass and left patches of what used the be the way up to the mansion.

"Ugh, I better not get lost up here." I mumbled.

I made my way up the hill by walking on the path and cutting down branches that got in my way. It was a warm day so I put of my black basketball cap and shades to make it easier for me to see without being blinded by the suns bright light. Occasionally I would mark my paths by tying some hot pink yarn I took from my mom's crocheting basket and cutting it into pieces. At first walking up here was scary but it's kind of like a nature walk, except the grass was dry and yellow and there was patches of green every so often and the trees had a fake green color to it. Which only made me thirsty.

"How much further? My legs are killing me and I'm starting to wish I wore shorts." I wiped sweat off my face and yanked my t-shirt neck line to get some air, "Honestly…I thought you're supposed to feel breezes when you climb a large hill…" I stopped dead in my tracks when I came before a huge iron gate that was blocked off by weeds and other strange plants. "…h-huh…" I squeaked as I starred up at the huge structure. I made it.

"Well…I…I came this far…no turning back." I whispered like a chicken. I toke out a pair of scissors and began cutting some weeds from the iron bars and mentally scared myself when I kept thinking the plants are alive and is going to wrap around my ankle and pull me into the bushes, hence never being seen again.

I sighed with relief once I was done cutting and was able to re open a section of the bared gates, this time I can just squeeze through. And once I did I was blown away. Never had I expected to see the most beautiful garden I have ever seen in my entire life.

"Oh my god…" I breathed amazed. This place was fresh and lush with green plants that didn't look thirsty like the ones I saw on the way up here. There were bushes trimmed to shape different things like a water serpent going in and out of the water. I turned to the right and giggled when I saw a squirrel in mid leap with its tail curled. There were many other beautifully trimmed hedges and bushes but the one that blew me away was the large hand in the center of the garden slightly open and shaped to look like it was going to catch a rain drop or a snow flake.

I smiled and shook my head, "This is incredible…but who did this?" I asked myself and scanned the area around me. Someone must come up here to maintain this beautiful garden. My attention turned to the mansion where it towered over me like a beckon, the same structure that I've seen every day from a far away distance was here before me and I wanted to do nothing but go inside and see what lies within.

I gulped, "Hopefully not a murderer…"

The creak of the door echoed inside and scent chills down my back, I swear if I see or hear something that will scare the living day lights out of me I will literally and truly (cross my heart and hope to die) piss myself. I don't even have to go to the bathroom but if I do get scared silly pee will magically appear, I guarantee it.

I took slow steps as I entered the huge mansion and looked around, this place is incredibly huge! It was dirtied of dust, cobwebs, and weird scraps of medal scattered about though. I looked across the large room to the back to see a dusted machine practically made of cobwebs and walked over to it. It was a large contraption that consisted of weird robotic like machines that had built in cookie cutters, another with a built in wisp, a large oven, and on the other side of the oven was a basket to catch whatever fell in. I'm guessing my by the cookie cutters this thing used to make cookies from scratched. I smiled, how adorable! I looked around some more to see there was another room that had a very large desk with dusted books stacked in shelves and paper with faded drawing everywhere.

I picked one up and examined it, they weren't drawings, they were blueprints. "Wow…" I smiled and set the paper down on the desk. Aside the blueprints and cobwebs scattered about there was also screws and more metal scarps sitting around as if they were never completed. And nothings been touched for years…make that decades.

"No one must live here anymore. Well at least I'm alone." I sighed relieved. The person who originally lived here must have been an inventor. Man…that must have been so cool! I wonder if there are any other inventions he or she created. All I've seen was that cookie making machine.

I left the study and came back to the larger room to look around some more and turned to the right to see a pretty stair way that curved all the way to the second floor. I smiled, "Guess where I'm going?" I echoed and climbed the stairs. As I did I inspected every step I toke to make sure it didn't look weak or faulty, but once I made it the next floor I concluded that the stairs were safe and still strong after all these years. There was a massive hallway that strangely just take me to one room, a master bedroom with a dusted bed, couch, more scrap metal and semi-large inventions and a stained window that was covered in dried cobwebs I couldn't properly see through it even though it was sunny outside.

I left the room and went back up the hallway to see I had passed by a stair way that lead up to another floor. I walked up and squeaked when the floor boards made a chilling sound that made me think it was going to collapse. I counted to three and ran up the short flight of stairs to the next floor like a kid would run back to bed after flushing the toilet in the middle of the night.

"Holy molly…it's the room…" I whispered a little scared as I reached the last floor; it was the attic with the gaping hole that gave a view of the entire Suburbia neighborhood and in the distance the city where my parents were having brunch right about now. I looked around and saw how dark and glum everything was. Grey floorboards, dust everywhere, more cobwebs (surprise surprise), pieces of wood and nails, and a fireplace tucked away in the back. Instead of seeing wood or ash I saw the poorest looking bed I have ever seen along with a dirty quilted blanket and snips of newspaper articles and pictures pinned to the stone wall.

"Weird…" I whispered as I drew closer to the fireplace and examined the pictures. Conjoined twins born, woman with no arms, tree man with bark legs and arms, they were articles of people born with birth defects. I wasn't disgusted by them, but the reason I'm creep out right now is…why on earth would someone hang these articles here in a fireplace, let alone having a bed in here, as if they were posters? Why do I get the feeling something really really REALLY bad is going to happen? "Okay I think thast enough exploring for one day…I n-need to get home and practice then head to the hospital…yeah don't want Mr. Johnson calling me a lazy girl who comes on her own time." I said as I began to walk back the way I came in.

Snip.

I think I just dropped my heart. What the heck was that noise? I breathed through my mouth utterly horrified and still like a deer as my hearing senses suddenly increased to the max.

Snip. Snip.

I tried to swallowed but my entire esophagus has dried up and I'll never be able to eat food again. "H-h-hello?" I turned around terrified. There was nothing, it was just me and my crazy stupid imagination. I sighed a bit relieved but was still scared, of all things to imagine hearing I end up hearing,

Snip.

…scissors….

"D-don't be afraid…please…"

…I…I think I just pissed myself…


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Samono out!