GH5 12: The Man In The Walls.

Later that evening, Connor and i were outside playing frisbee with Copper. Connor threw the red frisbee and Copper ran to get it. Connor wore a shamrock green short sleeve Under-Armour t-shirt with a black H-like design on the front of it, pale green knee-length Under-Armour shorts and brown flip-flops.

"Hey, you guys!" Came a female voice.

"Connor and i turned around to see Harper and Seth riding their bikes towards us. Harper's bike was pink. Seth wore a dark blue short sleeve shirt with a button-up collar that had the top button un-buttoned. He wore tan pants-like calf-length shorts and black flip-flops.

Harper wore a pink short sleeve t-shirt, light blue shorts, pink laceless sneakers with white trims, and white ankle-length socks. She and Seth stopped their bikes a few feet away from us.

"How's finding the boys' bodies working out for ya?" Harper asked.

"I know what you're trying to do with this whole haunted house thing, Harper...but you're wasting your time." Connor said. "Hey, Seth."

"Hi, Connor." Seth greeted.

"Who said anything about a haunted house? I was just wondering if you found the secret passageways yet." Harper said.

"What are you talking about?" I asked.

"I did some more research and it turns out that an old rich guy who lived here back in the 1820s had hidden passageways installed throughout the house. He said it was just in case he needed to hide something important in the walls." Harper explained.

"Hahahahahaha!" Seth laughed. "How messed up is that? Hiding stuff in the walls."

"That sounds crazy." Connor said as Copper ran up beside him with the frisbee in his mouth. However, both Connor and i were too tuned in to what Harper and Seth were saying to notice the pup's return.

"He said terrible things might happen if he didn't have the passageways installed." Harper said, referring to the rich old man that lived here back in the 1820s.

"Yeah, and four weeks later, some of the town's folk found him completely naked face-down in the basement...dead." Seth added.

Connor and i had freaked out expressions on our faces.

"Oh, don't listen to him." Harper said.

"Okay. He wasn't naked, but he was dead. Stone cold dead." Seth stated.

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Later on in my room, i was sitting on my bed, listening to the 80s theme song of 'Charles In Charge', the 1984-1990 TV series on an 80s cassette-player, with headphones on that were plugged into the device, as well as Copper lying down on the bed beside me. I was kind of messed up in the head after what Harper and Seth had shared with us outside earlier, so i told Connor i'd be in my room with Copper, listening to songs on my phone. Connor then suggested that i listen to some old 80s songs on a cassette-player his Dad had given him last year, so i decided to take him up on the offer. He gave me the tape-player, and now here i was in my room, listening to one of the songs on the tape in the device.

The new boy

in the neighborhood

lives downstairs and

it's understood

He's there just

to take good

care of me

like he's one

of the family

Charles in charge

of our days

and our nights

I then heard the sound of creaking and removed one of the ear-muffs on my right ear and Copper and i listened as we heard the sound of creaking again. This time it sounded like it was coming from inside the wall. I turned off the cassette-player, removed the headphones, and Copper and i got up and went over to the wall where i put my left ear up to it and listened to see if there was any sound coming from within. But there wasn't. As i had my left ear up against the wall, i couldn't shake this eerie feeling that Copper and i were being watched.

I then heard the sound come from outside and Copper and i exited the room and i put my left ear up against the wall as we walked down the stairs hallway, as i was listening for any sound that would come from the wall and sure enough, the creaking came from within it as well. As we walked, i felt the same eerie feeling come over me again. The feeling that we were being watched.

Adam then came up the stairs and saw me and Copper walking with my left ear up against the wall, and the creaking noises in the wall stopped. "Uh...what are you doing?" The man asked.

Copper and i turned to face Adam.

"I thought i heard a noise in the wall." I said before Adam put his right ear up against the wall, only to hear nothing. "But it stopped when you came up."

Adam moved his right ear off the wall. "Probably just the house."

Chelsea then came up the stairs, carrying Connor's clothes in a laundry-basket. "Everything okay?"

"Yeah. Good." Adam said.

"Meanwhile, the feeling of being watched came over me again. "It happens with these old places." He said as Chelsea went into Connor's room. "Sometimes when a squirrel, a cat or a racoon find their way into the walls, they usually find their way out."

"CONNOR! GET UP HERE! NOW!" Chelsea screamed.

"Wonder what that's all about." I said.

"I have no idea." Adam said.

Connor rushed up the stairs and stopped where Adam, Copper and i were as Chelsea came out of the room now holding a familiar cake-stand with dark brown chunks of cake-crumbs on it.

"What is it, Mom?" Connor asked.

"Connor, i can't believe you did this." Chelsea said.

"Did what?" Connor asked, confused. "I didn't do anything."

"You ate all the dark chocolate cake." Chelsea said. "I just found this in your closet."

"I didn't touch it, i swear." Connor said.

Chelsea and Adam just looked at each other.

"You don't believe me, do you?" Connor asked. He then started storming off.

"Connor, calm down. Connor." Adam said.

Connor stormed into his room and slammed the door shut.

"O-kay. On that note...we're out of here." I said before Copper and i went back into my room, followed by closing the door. We went back over to my bed where i sat down and Copper hopped onto the bed and sat down beside me. I then thought about Connor and the eaten chocolate cake situation. Why would Connor-a boy who is only 9 years old-take a whole cake in his room? How was it possible for a 9-year old to eat a whole cake like that in just one day? The answer is...it wasn't. It wasn't possible. No way in the world was it possible for a 9-year old-or any child, for that matter-to devour a whole cake without making a mess or having remains of it on them. There was no doubt in my mind that he hadn't touched that cake. None at all. But if Connor didn't do it...who did?

I was then brought out of my train of thoughts by the sound of the creaking noise coming from inside the wall of my room. The feeling of being watched came over me once more. Copper and i looked at the wall for a minute before we got up off the bed to investigate. We went over to the wall and i looked and saw a small hole in it that was eye-size. I leaned in closer to the hole to see what was in it. And boy, did i regret that. For inside the hole was a red eye...staring back at me.

"(Gasps)!" I gasped as i moved back a little and stared wide-eyed at the hole, only to see that there was nothing in it now. Maybe after everything i'd learned about this house, my fears were starting to get to me. But i had to be sure that's all it was. I poked my index finger on my left hand inside the eye-size hole in the wall...and then the most impossible...un-natural...un-logical...un-explainable...un-realistic thing...happened.

The part of the wall i had my finger poked in turned soft and liquid-gooey-like and my hand went through it, with that part of the wall making a brief churning sound. Then i felt something grab my hand and pull my arm into the liquid-gooey-like part of the wall. "AH! AH! Let me go! Let go of me! AH!" I said as i struggled to pull my arm out of the wall, to no avail, as who or whatever had ahold of it had a firm grip.

"If you tell anyone about me...i'll take your friend, Isaac, and Connor's two friends, Seth and Harper. I'll take them." Said a deep distorted voice from inside the wall.

"No. I-i won't. I swear i won't say anything, i swear, just let me go!" I said.

The mysterious unknown source released my hand, allowing me to pull my arm out of the wall, and that part of it returned to normal.

"Wha-what...what on Earth was that?" I asked, staring wide-eyed at the wall.

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