GH5 9: Family Secrets.

I stood at my bedroom window, with Copper at my side, and watched as Adam exited the house with and Seth. Adam pressed a button on the device of his car-keys and the trunk of the black van opened, followed by him going over to where Seth's bike was, picking it up, carrying it over to the trunk, placing it inside, and then closing the trunk. He then got in the driver side of the van while Seth got in the back-seat on the right side. Adam then backed the van up and then drove off, heading for Seth's place to drop him off.

I then began thinking about all of what, Connor, Seth, Isaac, Copper and i had learned about the Victorian house. So the old 19th century home had been originally owned by a serial killer back in 1979 and the early 80s before the Dale family bought it in 2020. I would have never thought that i would be in this kind of situation. Never in a million years. Then again, i never thought i'd lose my Mom in 2015...or that i would have an abusive stepmother for five years...or that i would get caught up in a second 104 Dalmatians incident in New Zealand in 2022...or a 103 and 104 Dalmatians incident back in June of this year. So why should this current fiasco be any different?

Then i thought about the mystery intruder that was in the house last night. Was it possible it could've been R.L. Bogman? Could he have survived his gun-shot would on Halloween night-1988? Could he have still been alive? Could he have been the intruder in the house last night? Had he come back to retrieve the bodies of the five missing boys he had killed? If so...where in the house were they? Where were the bodies of the five missing boys? Where had he stashed their bodies? Seth, Connor, Copper and i didn't get a chance to search the basement thoroughly because we were too creeped out by those foot-prints leading to and from the basement closet and beginning and ending at the wall inside it.

Then my mind went to the darkest theory of them all. Was it possible this R.L. Bogman dude was still alive and had been secretly living in the Victorian home all these years without anyone knowing about it? Could he have been the creature i had seen in my two nightmares and in my bedroom last night? Could he have been the monster living in the Dales' basement? Could this guy have been after me or Connor now? Was i the next target? Was Connor? Was Isaac? If so...why? Why either of us? Why now? Why would this guy wait after all this time to start his killing-spree again?

I didn't know. But one thing was for certain: Copper and i were definitely going to get to the bottom of this mystery.

"Keegan?" Came the voice of aunt Candace from outside my room. But i didn't hear her because i was lost in my dark thoughts about the R.L. Bogman and the Bog-Man. "Keegan." She repeated as she entered my room. No response. "Keegan!"

I snapped out of my thought and Copper and i turned to face aunt Candace. "Yeah?"

"Excuse me?" Aunt Candace asked.

"Yes, ma'am?" I asked.

"Chelsea said a therapist is gonna be here to see Connor soon and that you should go tell him." Aunt Candace said.

"A therapist?" I asked. Seth and i had told Connor about the foot-prints in the basement that led to and inside the closet, leading to and from the wall of it, and it kind of creeped him out. It creeped me and Seth out too, to be honest. Connor must've told his parents about it and they must've called and asked a shrink to come out here and talk with him. I knew they would be weirded out, but i didn't think they'd over-react to the point where they felt like their son needed to talk to a crazy doctor.

"Yes, now go tell him." Aunt Candace said, referring to Connor.

"Right now?" I asked.

"Yeah, right now, hop to it. The doctor's gonna be here any minute." Aunt Candace said.

"Okay." I said. "Come on, Copper." I said before Copper and i exited the room to notify Connor.
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Later, outside, Copper and i hid around the corner of the house, secretly watching Connor and his female shrink, trying to listen in on what they were talking about in the backyard of the home while they were sitting in white lounge-chairs. Adam and Chelsea, meanwhile, stood by the back door, watching them. Adam had just gotten back from dropping Seth off at his house, and everybody else was inside the house. I couldn't hear what Connor and the shrink were saying to each other, but imagine Copper could, as dogs could hear things a mile away. But dogs couldn't talk, so he couldn't tell me what they were talking about. However, i was able to hear Adam and Chelsea talking to one another and i tuned in to listen.

"It's not fair to him." Adam said.

"What?" Chelsea asked.

"He said that he didn't do it." Adam said.

"Do what?" I thought to myself. I knew they were talking about Connor, but...what had he done?

"He's 9...he knows he's in trouble...so he blamed it on the imaginary monster." Chelsea said. "How can you not see that this is a problem, that he needs counseling?"

"He's a playful kid." Adam said.

"A lot of kids are playful. Not many of them nearly kill their siblings." Chelsea said before going back inside the house through the back door and closed it afterward.

"Kill their siblings?" I thought. What were they talking about? Had Connor tried to hurt Emma at some point before we arrived? What was going on in this house? Why hadn't Adam told us about the cellar-doors being open this morning? Why hadn't Chelsea and Adam explained to us about knowing about the Bog-Man? Why hadn't they felt the need to tell us about any of this? What were they hiding from us? What?

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