Title: House on Haunted Hill
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"Where'd you guys go?" Trish looked down both hallways but found both empty.
Trish pouted, crossing her arms. "Hide and seek isn't one of my favorite games, I guess it'll have to do though."
She picked one of the hallways, and started to walk.
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"Matt I think I found the way out, here," Lita excitedly rushed down the hallway, turning right.
"See I was right!" Lita triumphantly pointed towards the stairs leading to the main hall.
"Uh…Matt?" She looked over her shoulder, as she realized not a word came from him.
He wasn't behind her; she walked back to the edge of the hallway, peering down the dark end ways.
"Matt where are you?"
Lita sighed, "I guess I'll have to go back." She ventured back into the darkness.
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"Lita, you shouldn't run off, we have to stick together –" Matt's voice trailed off as he realized Lita was not listening to him. The excitement of possibly finding the exit had rendered her senses negative.
"Lita?" Matt jogged down the hallway, looking past each room in between.
He began to panic when he realized he had no idea which hallway he had come down from.
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Lita walked backwards, calling his name out every second step, finding that it helped to no avail.
She bumped into someone, making her almost jump out of her skin. "Matt you shouldn't –"
It was Trish who she had collided with, not Matt. "Oh it's you."
Trish returned the same weary look, "It's not like I'm jumping over joy at bumping into you."
"Do you know where Matt is?" Lita ignored Trish's comment.
Trish played with her bleached blonde hair, looking uninterested; "I was looking for Matt until you came, why? You lost lover boy?"
"I found a way out, I just seemed to have lost track of where Matt was."
"Which way are the stairs?"
Lita pointed towards the left exit from her vision.
Trish took a few steps, waving; "Good luck on finding Matt."
Lita looked bewildered, "Aren't you going to help me find Matt?"
Trish was dumbfounded, "Why would I try to look for Matt in such a creepy place like this? He'll come around; he's a guy. And just for the record, if you find him, tell him he lost the one chance in a lifetime that he could have spent with me." With that, she turned left, vanishing from view.
She saw a shadow of someone walking across to another room at the end of the hall.
"Matt there you are, I was looking for you!" Lita rushed down the hall, poking her head halfway into the room.
Matt stood over what seemed like a small swimming pool filled with blood. There was an unusual shine to his eyes, something that wasn't there before.
"What is that Matt? Why are you up there, get down before you get hurt…" Her voice was cut off abruptly as Matt jumped head first into the now overflowing blood pool.
Lita immediately jumped onto the stool Matt was standing on only seconds before, looking into the deep blood, trying to spot Matt.
"Matt? MATT!" She was frantic, dipping her hands deeper into the blood, trying to find what she was looking for, Matt's hand.
"What are you doing?" A familiar voice asked from the opening of the door.
She glanced up, shocked to see Matt standing at the entrance, a look of confusion etched in his face.
Her hands immediately stopped searching for Matt, whom she had thought had jumped into the blood.
She was about to pull her hands out of the blood, when a force began to drag her down with great strength.
"Matt help me!" Lita yelped, she could already feel herself slipping into the rouge blood.
Matt was instantly by her side, trying to pull her hands out of the blood.
Lita could feel the last strings of hope begin to disappear when suddenly, the hold on her was gone, and she went flying backwards, the wall catching her fall.
She could feel the sharp pains shooting up and down her back.
"What were you doing Lita?" Matt asked quietly, helping her up.
"You were standing there, and you jumped into the blood, I was trying to save you!" Lita, now that she knew he was all right, stared at him accusingly.
Matt held up his hands, "Whoa, I was going past by the hallways when I heard you scream, whoever you saw jump into the blood wasn't me."
Lita shivered, "Let's just get out of here."
Matt took off his jacket, wrapping his prized leather jacket around her shoulders. "As long as you don't spill anything on my jacket you can wear it…"
Lita laughed nervously, still recovering from the incident, "Don't worry, I won't. Thanks, for saving me I mean."
"Anytime Miss. Dumas." He said jokingly.
Lita lightly punched his shoulder, enter twining her fingers with his. Matt blushed, looking away. Her playfulness vanished; she reached out with her other hand, to turn his head to her. As their lips neared closer to eachother, they were interrupted by a scream coming from somewhere down the hall.
Their moment was ruined, they both pulled back.
Matt coughed to get her attention, "So you think we should check out what that is?"
Lita agreed, hastening out of the room, looking over her shoulder to make sure Matt was still in sight.
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Note: Very short chapter compared to other chapters, but the next one will be extra long to make up for it. I just wanted to get this up very quickly because it's been about 4 days since the last chapter, so I thought a refresher might be due :)