"You'd be surprised by the history this little place's got!" said
Dick." This mansion goes back to the oh.say the 17th century."
"Amazing isn't that kids?" said dad.
"Oh yeah. Really interesting." Felicia said. She gave a look to let me know she was really exaggerating.
"Oh! I almost forgot!" said Dick. "You guys have your own cemetery in your front yard." When Dick pointed that graveyard out behind us, I really got a chill down my spine.
"Are you kidding me?" said Felicia to me. "That is dead creepy."
"You said it." I said. Only that soon I was to know here joke was too true. Dick went to the door, and took out a large king ring. It had about good 5 or 6 keys hanging off it. He slowly fliped one through one until he said "Aha! Here's the nasty bastard."
He made an attempt to squeeze the key into the key hole. Soon enough, we had our first problem. It seemed that the hole wouldn't turn. "Damn it!" said Dick under his breath.
"Do you need Help Dick?" said dad.
"No. If I can just ugh! Come.on.there!"
Dick finally unlocked the door. "All right now. Dear Jackson Family, meet your new home!" he opened the door, and there it was! A mammoth forked Grand staircase curved to the second floor. Above was a large balcony that circled the whole hall. The floor was solid marble, and just between the forked grand staircases was a large wooden door that led the rest of the mansion's first floor.
It was purely gothic. A foreboding, dark, and twisted atmosphere was what this place had on me. The chandelier above us was more than Erie. This place was still creepy, but also too fascinating and memorable to turn your eyes away from.
"Wow!" said Kyle. "Really Cool!" Those were the grand words exiting a five year olds' lips.
"This place is a keeper! Isn't it?" said Dick. "You folks are more than lucky to have such a historic house like this to yourselves."
As I stood there staring at the enormous structure. Dick slammed the door behind us with a THUD!
"AHHHHH!" it scared the daylights out of Felicia.
"Sorry!" Dick said. "But you do have to admit; that was a good trick wasn't it."
Dick was right. Felicia was still breathing hard from that door.
"Ha Ha! You got scared! Ha ha!" Kyle said as he teased Felicia. Felicia pushed him away as she began to regain reality. She was easily frightened.
"Now if you'd kindly follow me," said Dick "We now make our way up these damned stairs."
We followed Dick up the stairs, and came to the balcony. Once I got a closer look, the pillars were wrought iron, and twisted in an artsy manner. The wallpaper was back to back endless rows of symmetrical orchids, colored in a really gay pink. The last half wall on the bottom was solid oak, with elaborate designs on them. The moldings on the top were very line like, and straight. From the pillars I saw the first floor underneath us.
"As you can see," said Dick. "Master Gracey was very into style, and decoration for his mansion, and his work paid off. Literally."
"Wait," I said. "So there was a real Master Gracey? The name wasn't just a name pulled off from somewhere?"
"Nope. Mansions just aren't named. Let's continue shall we." We walked the opposite way behind us and came to a very elaborate entrance. It seemed to lead to a corridor of doors.
They were very odd looking; The doors. They seemed to have straight modern artistic feels above them, though but with a classical touch. The wallpaper was one of the gayest things I've ever seen in my entire life!
It was flowers symmetrically against each other on a blue surface.and they didn't even look like flowers.
"As you can see here, the decoration in this corridor is very modern for its time." Dick said "You can even see the design on the door's woodwork."
Only soon enough, this tour was getting a little boring. What am I saying? I mean Really boring! But what could I do about it; nothing. And I am not going to bother to give the rest of the tour to you. It would be a waste of your time. So I'll just skip to an hour later.
After the tour, we had dinner in the ballroom. It felt odd because the table was probably 10 feet long. The falling sun shined an orange glow through the window as particles of dust danced in its rays. We had hot clam chowder for dinner, and some grape juice.
I felt uncomfortable for some reason. This rich life wasn't something I was use to. But I had to get use to it. Besides this was were I was going to spend the rest of my life.
"So." said Dad. "how does everyone feel about the new house we've bagged?"
"I like it very much!" said Kyle.
I wish we could say the same thing. But I just couldn't find the words.
"We like it too." Said Felecia. Thankfully she came in time for me. But deep inside, I knew she couldn't bare this place. I couldn't either. But I kept eating and remained silent.
That whole night I couldn't sleep. I had this feeling in my gut that kept me awake. This bedroom I was lying in with Felecia on the bed next to me and Kyle on the other side, was fancy enough, even the nicest bedroom I've ever seen. But somethnig kept me up.
"Can't sleep?" said Felecia.
"No." I said
"I don't know how that always happens with those type of kids. The young ones."
"What?"
"Kyle. Look at him." Kyle was just lying there on his bed snoring. "He sleeps Like a Baby."
"Or a corpse." I lay on my pillow and I wanted to sleep. And I did.
"Wake UP!" said Felecia. She was shaking me violently as she said it.
"What the hell.what time is it?"
"Who cares what time it is?" said Felecia
"I DO!"
"KYLE IS GONE PETE!" that's when I got the full wake-up call. I was so freaked out I jolted up, and saw that Kyle's Bed was empty. I couldn't believe who would do such a thing. But whoever did, they have Kyle.
"How did you wake up to see he was gone?" I asked.
"I heard Kyle scream, turned on the light and he's nowhere to be found!" There was only one way to find him. I jolted out of bed to the closet and opened it with great urgency. "What are you doing Pete?" said Felecia. "Well How are we going to find Kyle in our Pajamas."
Before I Knew it we were out side the front door and in the front yard of the mansion. The Darkness of the night sky gave the mansion a very sinister tone but we couldn't worry about that now.
"Dad is going to kill us if he finds out where out here!" said Felecia.
"Well I think we shouldn't worry about Dad being pissed about us leaving." I said.
"Maybe we should just Call the police. They can handle it."
"The police wont do a thing useful. They don't know Kyle like we do. Did you bring the flashlights?"
"Yes."
"Well turn them on. Kyle could be anywhere." We clicked the lights on and started walking from the mansion. "and don't yell his name Felecia."
"Why? We have to find him."
"Yelling his name might give his captors a chance to hide because they'll know were looking for him. So we whisper from now on." As we walked from the front door, at the corner of my eye, I saw something slither away from me into the graveyard. I quickly jerked my light to see it, but I saw nothing. Though I knew something was back there. And it had Kyle. "Follow me!"
"You know where he is?"
"Sort of" I ran with Felecia stumbling behind me, and jumped into the graveyard. Our lights flashed across the grounds and the tombstones. We kept crushing leaves under us as we ran. I honestly had no idea where we were going, but I still followed my gut. We kept running until I stumbled into a steep hole. I crushed the sticks and dirt under me, and felt like a just thrust against a solid brick wall. Felecia ran to me above.
"Are you okay Pete?" Felecia said. Her light she shined really blinded me.
"Jesus Christ Felecia!" I yelled.
"Sorry. Just needed to see you." She stuck her arm down as I grasped it with all my strength left and pulled myself from the hole. "You okay?"
"Yeah." Just before I finished my sentence I saw a cloaked figure glowing in a hellish light. Its ghostly whiteness gave more to illumination to its feature. The face though was just darkness, and two glaring eyes not taking their sight off of me. They just glowed vilontley. It behind Felecia shadowed by the darkness.and it had Kyle! I ran toward the figure as fast as I could, but at an inhuman speed, it quickly flew away with Kyle. I saw it fly deeper into the woods, with the leaves fly behind it.
I kept running toward it as fast as I could but I tripped over a rock again. I quickly stood up and regained my sanity.
"PETE LOOK OUT!" I turned around and saw the figure. It snarled at me, and struck me in the stomach, grabbed me by the neck, and flew me against a tree. It put Kyle down, and placed him near a tree. Kyle was still asleep. I wanted to get up, but something was holding me back. I was too bruised to notice what it was, but I think it was some force from the figure. Slowly and menacingly it slithered toward me. Slowly it crept into the moonlight. I saw it was breathing heavily. It's eyes raging in a hell swarm of deadly red. It slowly lifted its arms and.
KABOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!!!!!!!
It vanished in a heartbeat in a poof of mist in about a good second I looked and I saw Dick with his shotgun , his skinny dog barking, and dad next to him.
"Don't worry Pete!" said Dick. "We're coming." For once in my life, I'm glad that thrill experience was over.for now.
"Amazing isn't that kids?" said dad.
"Oh yeah. Really interesting." Felicia said. She gave a look to let me know she was really exaggerating.
"Oh! I almost forgot!" said Dick. "You guys have your own cemetery in your front yard." When Dick pointed that graveyard out behind us, I really got a chill down my spine.
"Are you kidding me?" said Felicia to me. "That is dead creepy."
"You said it." I said. Only that soon I was to know here joke was too true. Dick went to the door, and took out a large king ring. It had about good 5 or 6 keys hanging off it. He slowly fliped one through one until he said "Aha! Here's the nasty bastard."
He made an attempt to squeeze the key into the key hole. Soon enough, we had our first problem. It seemed that the hole wouldn't turn. "Damn it!" said Dick under his breath.
"Do you need Help Dick?" said dad.
"No. If I can just ugh! Come.on.there!"
Dick finally unlocked the door. "All right now. Dear Jackson Family, meet your new home!" he opened the door, and there it was! A mammoth forked Grand staircase curved to the second floor. Above was a large balcony that circled the whole hall. The floor was solid marble, and just between the forked grand staircases was a large wooden door that led the rest of the mansion's first floor.
It was purely gothic. A foreboding, dark, and twisted atmosphere was what this place had on me. The chandelier above us was more than Erie. This place was still creepy, but also too fascinating and memorable to turn your eyes away from.
"Wow!" said Kyle. "Really Cool!" Those were the grand words exiting a five year olds' lips.
"This place is a keeper! Isn't it?" said Dick. "You folks are more than lucky to have such a historic house like this to yourselves."
As I stood there staring at the enormous structure. Dick slammed the door behind us with a THUD!
"AHHHHH!" it scared the daylights out of Felicia.
"Sorry!" Dick said. "But you do have to admit; that was a good trick wasn't it."
Dick was right. Felicia was still breathing hard from that door.
"Ha Ha! You got scared! Ha ha!" Kyle said as he teased Felicia. Felicia pushed him away as she began to regain reality. She was easily frightened.
"Now if you'd kindly follow me," said Dick "We now make our way up these damned stairs."
We followed Dick up the stairs, and came to the balcony. Once I got a closer look, the pillars were wrought iron, and twisted in an artsy manner. The wallpaper was back to back endless rows of symmetrical orchids, colored in a really gay pink. The last half wall on the bottom was solid oak, with elaborate designs on them. The moldings on the top were very line like, and straight. From the pillars I saw the first floor underneath us.
"As you can see," said Dick. "Master Gracey was very into style, and decoration for his mansion, and his work paid off. Literally."
"Wait," I said. "So there was a real Master Gracey? The name wasn't just a name pulled off from somewhere?"
"Nope. Mansions just aren't named. Let's continue shall we." We walked the opposite way behind us and came to a very elaborate entrance. It seemed to lead to a corridor of doors.
They were very odd looking; The doors. They seemed to have straight modern artistic feels above them, though but with a classical touch. The wallpaper was one of the gayest things I've ever seen in my entire life!
It was flowers symmetrically against each other on a blue surface.and they didn't even look like flowers.
"As you can see here, the decoration in this corridor is very modern for its time." Dick said "You can even see the design on the door's woodwork."
Only soon enough, this tour was getting a little boring. What am I saying? I mean Really boring! But what could I do about it; nothing. And I am not going to bother to give the rest of the tour to you. It would be a waste of your time. So I'll just skip to an hour later.
After the tour, we had dinner in the ballroom. It felt odd because the table was probably 10 feet long. The falling sun shined an orange glow through the window as particles of dust danced in its rays. We had hot clam chowder for dinner, and some grape juice.
I felt uncomfortable for some reason. This rich life wasn't something I was use to. But I had to get use to it. Besides this was were I was going to spend the rest of my life.
"So." said Dad. "how does everyone feel about the new house we've bagged?"
"I like it very much!" said Kyle.
I wish we could say the same thing. But I just couldn't find the words.
"We like it too." Said Felecia. Thankfully she came in time for me. But deep inside, I knew she couldn't bare this place. I couldn't either. But I kept eating and remained silent.
That whole night I couldn't sleep. I had this feeling in my gut that kept me awake. This bedroom I was lying in with Felecia on the bed next to me and Kyle on the other side, was fancy enough, even the nicest bedroom I've ever seen. But somethnig kept me up.
"Can't sleep?" said Felecia.
"No." I said
"I don't know how that always happens with those type of kids. The young ones."
"What?"
"Kyle. Look at him." Kyle was just lying there on his bed snoring. "He sleeps Like a Baby."
"Or a corpse." I lay on my pillow and I wanted to sleep. And I did.
"Wake UP!" said Felecia. She was shaking me violently as she said it.
"What the hell.what time is it?"
"Who cares what time it is?" said Felecia
"I DO!"
"KYLE IS GONE PETE!" that's when I got the full wake-up call. I was so freaked out I jolted up, and saw that Kyle's Bed was empty. I couldn't believe who would do such a thing. But whoever did, they have Kyle.
"How did you wake up to see he was gone?" I asked.
"I heard Kyle scream, turned on the light and he's nowhere to be found!" There was only one way to find him. I jolted out of bed to the closet and opened it with great urgency. "What are you doing Pete?" said Felecia. "Well How are we going to find Kyle in our Pajamas."
Before I Knew it we were out side the front door and in the front yard of the mansion. The Darkness of the night sky gave the mansion a very sinister tone but we couldn't worry about that now.
"Dad is going to kill us if he finds out where out here!" said Felecia.
"Well I think we shouldn't worry about Dad being pissed about us leaving." I said.
"Maybe we should just Call the police. They can handle it."
"The police wont do a thing useful. They don't know Kyle like we do. Did you bring the flashlights?"
"Yes."
"Well turn them on. Kyle could be anywhere." We clicked the lights on and started walking from the mansion. "and don't yell his name Felecia."
"Why? We have to find him."
"Yelling his name might give his captors a chance to hide because they'll know were looking for him. So we whisper from now on." As we walked from the front door, at the corner of my eye, I saw something slither away from me into the graveyard. I quickly jerked my light to see it, but I saw nothing. Though I knew something was back there. And it had Kyle. "Follow me!"
"You know where he is?"
"Sort of" I ran with Felecia stumbling behind me, and jumped into the graveyard. Our lights flashed across the grounds and the tombstones. We kept crushing leaves under us as we ran. I honestly had no idea where we were going, but I still followed my gut. We kept running until I stumbled into a steep hole. I crushed the sticks and dirt under me, and felt like a just thrust against a solid brick wall. Felecia ran to me above.
"Are you okay Pete?" Felecia said. Her light she shined really blinded me.
"Jesus Christ Felecia!" I yelled.
"Sorry. Just needed to see you." She stuck her arm down as I grasped it with all my strength left and pulled myself from the hole. "You okay?"
"Yeah." Just before I finished my sentence I saw a cloaked figure glowing in a hellish light. Its ghostly whiteness gave more to illumination to its feature. The face though was just darkness, and two glaring eyes not taking their sight off of me. They just glowed vilontley. It behind Felecia shadowed by the darkness.and it had Kyle! I ran toward the figure as fast as I could, but at an inhuman speed, it quickly flew away with Kyle. I saw it fly deeper into the woods, with the leaves fly behind it.
I kept running toward it as fast as I could but I tripped over a rock again. I quickly stood up and regained my sanity.
"PETE LOOK OUT!" I turned around and saw the figure. It snarled at me, and struck me in the stomach, grabbed me by the neck, and flew me against a tree. It put Kyle down, and placed him near a tree. Kyle was still asleep. I wanted to get up, but something was holding me back. I was too bruised to notice what it was, but I think it was some force from the figure. Slowly and menacingly it slithered toward me. Slowly it crept into the moonlight. I saw it was breathing heavily. It's eyes raging in a hell swarm of deadly red. It slowly lifted its arms and.
KABOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!!!!!!!
It vanished in a heartbeat in a poof of mist in about a good second I looked and I saw Dick with his shotgun , his skinny dog barking, and dad next to him.
"Don't worry Pete!" said Dick. "We're coming." For once in my life, I'm glad that thrill experience was over.for now.