Chapter 12
The Corridor of Doors
What they ran into next was yet another hallway, this one with bluish purplish wallpaper and eyes that followed you wherever you went. The hallway stretched on for quite a while.
"Hey Charley", said Scarlet, "Do you know where the song 'Ring Around the Rosy' comes from?"
"No, and I don't really want to either. But I suppose you're going to tell me."
"You bet! Anyway, there was this disease in England called the Black Plague that killed like, half the nation or something. You knew you had the disease if you had little red circles on you. Get it, "ring around the rosy"?"
"No."
"Oh shut up. Then they said that if your put posies in your pocket that it would cure you. 'Pocket full of posies'?"
"Yeah, ok, I get that part."
"There were so many dead people, that they didn't have enough room to bury them all, so they just threw them into a huge pit and burned them. 'Ashes ashes'."
"Whoa."
"We all fall down." Cause they're dead."
"Wow. And to think they made it into an innocent little children's song."
"Oh, I don't know, I think it's pretty cool."
On either side of the hallway were numerous doors, and halfway down was a photo wall with pictures of the ghost host's family. The pictures were of skeletons and corpses and were quite freaky looking, which is really all for the better. There was also a wall sampler that said "Tomb Sweet Tomb."
The doors were almost alive. At first the door knobs turned, then you could hear pounding from the other side, then screaming, then shouts of "Let me out!", then a door that was literally breathing, and finally a door that had a skeleton furiously attempting to get out.
"Don't you think we should help them?" asked Scarlet.
"What, help them get us?" said Charles.
"For all you know they're really nice", said Scarlet.
"Even so, I say we get!" said Noelle, "But I'll have to come back here. I just love that table!"
"Only you would think about decorating in a haunted mansion", sighed Scarlet.
