Chapter 4:
The Nightmare Begins...
Kyle's story
I woke up about an hour later to find that the TV had been turned off. As I look around some more, I found that EVERYTHING was turned off! I was scared of the dark, because I'm totally blind in it, and I'm serious.
Me: (to myself/ whispering) I'm glad I brought my flashlight with me...
I very slowly got off the couch and made my way to the stairs; trying not to wake up Lindsey and Joey. I crashed into a few things, but nothing fell over or broke. When I reached the stairs, I glanced towards the laundry room and felt more scared than I already was! I turned back to the stairs, grabbed the railing, and slowly walked up to the top floor.
My flashlight was in my bag and finding it was going to be a little difficult, because it was dark colored. It took me a couple minutes to find my bag, but when I did find it, I quickly opened it and searched through my clothes until I found the flashlight. I turned it on and got a better view of the room. During the day time, the family room looked beautiful, but at night, it reminded me of some haunted house!
I shined the flashlight on the table to see where my cell phone was. I picked up the phone and looked at it: the cell phone said that I missed two calls, but there were no messages on it.
Me: (to myself) Dad might call back in about an hour...
I put the cell phone in my pocket and made my way to the kitchen to turn the light on, but when I flicked the switch, the kitchen light didn't go on.
I was starting to freak out.
Me: Maybe the light bulb burnt out...
I walked over to the bathroom, which was next to the kitchen and flicked that light switch, but that light didn't come on either. Now I was freaking out!
Me: (scared) What's going on here?...
Suddenly, the phone in the kitchen began to ring, but it was ONLY the kitchen. I answered it quickly.
Me: (scared) Hello? Dad? Aunt Linda?...
All I heard was static on the phone, but a few seconds later, it went away... and than I heard laughter come over; and it sounded just like Slappy's! I dropped the phone in horror and backed away from the kitchen.
Me: (scared/ slowly) We have to get outta here...
(voice that sounds familiar) I don't think so...
I jumped in surprise and slowly turned around to find the Slappy doll sitting on the couch in the family room. I breathed heavily as I quickly backed away to the stairway, with Slappy never taking his eyes off me.
Me: (slowly/ terrified) It - can't - be...
Slappy: You kids are MINE!! (maniac laughter)
I screamed and ran downstairs to the living room, and as I got there, I ran into someone. I shined the flashlight to see that it was Joey. I also saw Lindsey slowly getting up from the love seat.
Joey: Kyle, what's wrong?
Me: (terrified/ quickly) Slappy! Slappy i- is alive! He's alive! He's actually real!
Lindsey: (scared) WHAT?!
Joey: (sarcastic) Yeah, right. Kyle, I think you should go back to bed now.
Me: (terrified) Look in the laundry room! I bet he's not there anymore!
I pointed towards the laundry room with a shaky hand, and Joey quickly walked over there and flung the door open. He gasped loudly and backed away. I took Lindsey's hand and walked over there to see what Joey saw. Me and Lindsey shrieked, because Slappy wasn't in the laundry room anymore!
Joey: (shocked) He's not there anymore!
Lindsey: (scared) Than Kyle must be telling the truth!
Me: Of course I'm telling the truth; and we have to get out of here before he gets us!
The three of us quickly ran up the stairs to the next level and put on our shoes (or in my case, sandals.) As soon as that was done, Joey made a dive for the door knob, and started to wiggle it like crazy.
Joey: (shocked/ scared) The door! The door is locked!
Me: (shocked) What?!
Lindsey: (shocked) That's not right!
Joey: (scared) That doll must have locked us in!
Me: Lets try the patio door!
As we all ran up the stairs, we could hear Slappy's laughter fill all the rooms of the house. When we reached the patio door in the kitchen, I grabbed the handle and tried to open it, but the door wouldn't budge.
I slowly backed away from the door and shook my head slowly.
Me: (terrified) No... he's got to this door, too...
Joey: (scared) How are we supposed to get out of here?!
Slappy: (coolly) You don't...
We slowly turned around to find that Slappy was standing behind us. We backed away into the patio door.
Slappy: There's no escape for you!
Joey than noticed that Slappy was right next to the kitchen table... and the chairs. Joey quickly grabbed a chair and knocked Slappy down to the ground with it.
Joey dropped the chair hard to the ground.
Joey: Lets go! I think I know a way out of here! (to himself) I think...
We followed Joey quickly downstairs into the living room, and in there, Joey looked at the small rectangular window above the love seat. He stood on the seat and quickly opened the window.
Joey: (relieved) Good, he hasn't gotten to this window! (to me) I hope you can fit through it!
Me: Me too!
Joey: Than you go first, but hurry up!
I stood on the love seat and started getting myself through the window and onto the outside. I was struggling a bit, since I was almost bigger than the window, but I managed to get through.
Next, I took Joey's hand and helped him through it. It was easy for him to get out, because he was very skinny!
Joey turned to the window and held out his hand for Lindsey.
Joey: Come on, Lindsey!
Lindsey slowly got up onto the love seat and Joey grabbed her hands to get her out. Just as Lindsey's body was half way out, Slappy finally came downstairs and quickly grabbed Lindsey's ankle. Now it looked like Slappy and Joey were playing tug-o-war with her!
I grabbed Joey's shoulders and tried to help him pull Lindsey out.
Slappy: You kids won't get away so easily! You are going to be my slaves forever!
Lindsey: (scared) AAAAAAHH!! Joey!! Kyle!! Help me!!
Joey and I pulled as hard as we could, but Slappy was really strong!
Me: (shocked) Dang, this dude is strong!
Just after I said that, we finally pulled Lindsey out through the window.
We both helped her up and started to take off running to the football field that was to the right of us.
When we were running, we could hear Slappy calling out through the window.
Slappy: (hysterical laughter) Come back!! HA HA HAH!! My bride!! MY BRIDE!!...
The three of us didn't stop running until we reached the end zone of the football field.
I sat down on the ground and leaned myself on the posts, while Joey and Lindsey sat in front of me. We were breathing heavily, and when we seemed to have caught our breath, I broke the silence.
Me: (worriedly) What are we going to do?
Joey: I don't know... All I can think about is how scared I am!
Lindsey: (worriedly) We have to do something! I don't want that doll running around the house!
Me: Lindsey, he's not going to be staying in the house; he's most likely to come after us!
Lindsey: (scared) No!
Joey: If that's the case, than he's probably coming after us right now!
Lindsey: (worriedly) But where are we going to go?! How are we supposed to stop Slappy?!
Me: Wait! Joey, did you see anything on Slappy that looked suspicious or weird? Like some piece of paper?
Lindsey: I remember... there was some little paper in Slappy's pocket that had weird words on it...
Me: That's what brought Slappy to life. If you read the card, than he comes alive!
Joey: (slowly) But... we didn't read it... out loud...
Me: (confused) Huh... than I don't know than. Um... well... where is the card?
Lindsey: (sarcastic) Joey didn't want to take it home, so he decided to throw it in his locker on the day we went to that "thing" at school.
Me: (confused/ to Joey) Why did you throw the card in your locker?
Joey: I didn't want to take it home, is that a problem?
Me: Well, now it is, because maybe we can destroy Slappy with it! We need that card!
Lindsey: (worriedly) But the school's all locked up! How are we going to get in?!
Before any of us could say anything, we heard Slappy's laughter close by. The three of us got up from the ground and started to panic!
Me: (worriedly) Lets just get to the school, NOW!
Joey: We're already in the football field of my school, so...
Joey than pointed to the right, and in the distance, we could see the school. Since it was really dark out, the school looked like a giant, black blob or something.
I brought out my flashlight and shined it in the direction of the school. Joey looked at my flashlight suspiciously.
Joey: (suspiciously) When did you get that flashlight?
Me: I brought it from home, because I can't see in the dark when I go to the bathroom and stuff.
Lindsey: (worriedly) Lets get to the school, (pointing somewhere) I think I see Slappy over there!
Joey and I looked to where Lindsey was pointing too, and saw something small in the distance.
Me: (worriedly) We gotta go!
I took Lindsey's hand, and we all began to run to the school. The building wasn't that far away from us, but neither was Slappy. The whole run took about a couple minutes, but I was getting tired!
When we arrived at the entrance doors into the school, we all stared at it in silence. The school that Joey goes to was HUGE! It was at least thirty of my schools!
Joey went up to the doors and wiggled the handles, but they wouldn't open.
Lindsey: I told you the school was locked up.
Me: There has to be another way in!
Joey: (slowly) I think I might know...
We followed Joey around to the other side of the building, but not all the way, because he stopped. Joey kneeled down to a small metal plate in the wall and kicked it open. I was confused (and so was Lindsey.)
Me: (confused) What is that?
Joey: It's a secret fire escape. Not many people know about this.
Lindsey: (confused) Than how did you find out?
Joey: (being weird) I'm sneaky - sneaky...
Fortunately, the hole was big enough for us all to crawl inside it, but Slappy can also get in the school this way, too!
Joey was the first to crawl in. Lindsey looked at me worriedly.
Lindsey: (worriedly) Does Slappy know we're going into Joey's school?
Me: I don't know, but Slappy probably does. He's already followed us this far...
I than heard Slappy's laughter close by. I started to push Lindsey towards the hole.
Me: (worriedly) You have to get in there now, Linds!
Lindsey hesitated for a moment, but she finally got onto the ground and crawled inside. When there was enough room for me to go in, I got on the ground and started to crawl in, but suddenly I heard the laugh again. I turned around slowly to see that Slappy was very close by.
Slappy: (calling out) I will find you! I want my bride!! YAH HA HA HAH!!
I screamed and than I quickly crawled into the hole to get away from Slappy. The hole was rather narrow, and smaller than it looked from the outside. I didn't see Lindsey ahead of me, so I guessed that she already made it into the school.
I could still hear Slappy's laugh coming closer, so I quickly crawled through the hole. The hole had a small little hallway to crawl into, so I crawled through it as quickly as possible. When I reached the other side, I could see that Joey held out his hand to help me out. I grabbed it and he pulled me out of the hole.
As I stood up, I looked around the school with wide eyes. The inside of the school was really dark, so you couldn't see anything that wasn't in front of you. Fortunately, I had the flashlight to light our way around the hallways and stuff.
Joey turned to me and Lindsey.
Joey: My school has five floors; each floor holds a different class of grade, like the ninth-graders are on the top floor, the tenth-graders on the third floor and you know how the rest goes. The bottom floor is the basement, which is pretty large, too. We're on the twelfth-grader floor right now. We have to get to the third, because that's where my locker is.
Me: Than lets go.
We have to find that piece of paper with that spell on it... before Slappy gets us...