Chapter 4

Harry pushed on the brakes as he stopped before the tree with the sign. He glanced at his niece's picture....the same tree. Harry smiled lightly and put the picture back in his pocket before driving off into the parking lot of the Hansbourough Inn. He walked through the door and up to the front desk. A man was standing behind the deck, looking at a deck of cards. The raven-haired, emerald-eyed man walked up to him and started to speak when...

"Pick a card..any card," the man behind the desk, Blaise, said. Harry reached out and pulled out the card, looking at it secretly. The 7 of spades. Blaise shuffled around the cards and pulled half the cards off of the deck and placed Harry's in the middle before putting the other stack on top of it. Blaise shuffled around.

"Um...I was wondering, did these 4 kids stay here?" Harry asked and showed him the picture.

"Uh...yah, they stayed here over the weekend in Cabin 12, had a couple of complaints. Mostly about the t.v., we've always had bad reception up here.....that's why we bought video players so they could watch videos....we've got te videos over there and......they didn't pay," the man said grudgingly. Harry turned to the shelf of movies. One caught his eye among them all...it had no cover.

"Well, I'm kinda tired I think I'll take a nap before I head back...I'll take..Cabin 12," Harry said, giving Blaise the credit card.

"Is this your card?" Blaise asked, pulling up the 3 of spades.

"No..." Harry murmured, still eyeing the tape.

"Is this your card?" he showed a jack. Harry shook his head. Blaise left the room to put it on credit. The raven haired man grabbed the coverless tape and shoved it in his bag before Blaise walked in again.

"This, has to be your card," Blaise flipped up a queen of spades. Harry hesitated and then pretended to look surprised.

"That's it..."

Harry sat on the couch of Cabin 12, a blood red light coming over him from the window where a tree stood on the top of a hill, it's leaves the blood red color of the light. Taking light steps, Harry walked to the t.v. and put the tape in the player. The t.v. flickered a few times and then seemed to go off. Harry sighed until he noticed a ring like thing in the middle of the screen. He leaned closer and very random and gruesome pictures flashed before his eyes. A woman brushing her hair in a mirror turned to him and smiled, like she knew he was there. He blinked when she turned to a mirror beside her and he saw a little girl walking away from the mirror. Fingers in a box, a ladder against the wall, a glass of water on the table, a centipede crawling out from under the table, water running, a moving black thing and then the woman again until it turned to a chair spinning around and around. Finally, horses in water, dead. And lastly, a well in the middle of a cleared out plain. Two hands appeared at the top when the tape stopped. Harry was still watching the static screen, pupils dilated when the phone rang. His breath hitched in his throat.

"Hello?" he asked shakily when he picked up the phone. A whispery voice answered," 7 days..."





~I know this was a very short chapter and I know sum of u are waiting for me to hurry up for Noah (or whoever I may pair Harry up with *wink wink*) but he will be in the next chapter which I am working on as we speak. Please Review!!~