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Chapter Three: The Pictures on the Laptop

"I can't believe you two went upstairs! I told you it was off limits, but did you listen?! Noooo!!!!" Dewey was yelling at Katie and Freddy, who were both wincing in the middle of the jam room the next morning. After the two had ran scared crapless into the reck room last night, they had explained to the others what had happened.

It didn't take much more than the fact that the house was already super creepy to convince Zack that they were telling the truth. Not to mention, that as Freddy and Katie's best friend, he knew that it took quite a lot to freak them out.

"Sorry, man." Freddy rolled his eyes, who unlike Katie was not taking Dewey all too seriously.

"Yeah Dewey. At least we were sticking it to the man?" Katie smiled weakly.

Dewey seemed to think about this. "You do have a point but in this case, I say it doesn't count!"

"Why?!" Freddy complained.

"Because... er... it was I who you refer to as the man in this case, and I am a clear anti-Man activist, so I am not the Man and you have no... er, what is it, Summer? Proof... or..."

"Proof works just fine, Dewey." Summer sighed.

"Proof! You have no count of proof against me! So... I say we download those pictures on to old Gordo here's computer and have a look! I didn't even get to see the second floor yet!" Dewey exclaimed. Zack saw Freddy and Katie sigh in relief, and Summer roll her eyes.

"So much for that whole 'you're the boss, let 'em know it' speech I gave him yesterday." Summer mumbled. Zack smiled. Summer was always trying to get Dewey to become more 'responsible'- but even she knew that she had enough responsibility for the two of them.

"That was what? The third time you gave him that speech, too?" Zack asked, laughing, walking up to her.

"Fourth." She sighed. The two walked together to the technology room- where everyone was gathering to watch Gordon set up the photos Freddy and Katie supposedly took.

"It's too bad you couldn't stay after with us. Then maybe we could have gone up with them too, and see if they have any proof to these spooks." Zack said. Summer's ruby lips went into a pout.

"You're not suggesting that I should have ditched the meeting with a possible gig-getter to do what I have never willingly done before?" Summer smiled.

"Break the rules you mean?"

"What else?"

"What about the whole Dewey thing. If I recall- it wasn't me who got the bus driver to take us to the Battle of the Bands."

"Yeah, well... that didn't exactly count, okay?"

"And what about last weekend when you supposedly snuck out to come to practice that one time when you were supposed to be playing hostess with your cousins?"

"That doesn't count either!"

"I sense a little defensiveness?"

"Oh, be quiet, Zack."

"You."

"No, seriously. Be quiet. I wanna see the pictures and hear what Katie and Freddy have to say."

"Oh."

The group became silent as in clusters, they went to look at the slideshow Gordon had set up of the pictures.

"Move over! As the photographer I say me and my accomplice get first looks!" Freddy exclaimed, shoving his way through.

"Come on," Zack pulled Summer, taking this as a chance to get up front, too.

"This is the room that the stairs go to." Freddy said blankly as Zack looked onto a small room that had six doors along its walls. Each of the seemed to give an eerie glow to the camera's flash.

The scene changed. Now there was another room- with four doors instead. Something seemed to be hanging from the wall, but Zack couldn't see it from the angle.

Switch.

"The portrait." Katie gasped. Zack looked at the framed photo that was placed in between of the doors. Something... the lighting maybe?... made the portrait impossible to see. The shape looked something of a man, but no matter how hard Zack tried, the photo would not become clear.

"It wasn't blurry like that when we were in the room." Freddy said, confused.

Switch.

This one showed the other two doors, and a horrified Katie holding a flashlight. Poor Katie, Zack thought while looking at her purely frightened face. Zack felt Summer inch towards him a bit and he was sure she felt the same for Katie.

Switch.

Katie was only in the corner of this one. It showed one door by her, and another- blurred in motion. The door was being closed. If it hadn't been for the shadows from the other room, Zack would have sworn the door had been closed to whole time- the movement was that blurred. But the odd thing was, was that the blur went outside the door...

"The door..." Freddy bit his lip, close to turning away from the computer screen. "It was open. And then..."

Switch.

Complete darkness.

"What the hell?!" Freddy exclaimed.

Katie had turned pale as a sheet. "The light did not go out until after you finished taking the pictures. I swear. And where is the flash, Freddy?!"

"That's it." Gordon stated solemnly, clicking out of the show and looking up at the ceiling suspiciously.

Katie was gripping Freddy's arm, and both seemed to be in shock.

"I never saw the door close." Katie whispered. "And... and where was the light in the last picture?! Freddy- where were you facing taking that picture?!"

"I... I don't remember..." He gulped. "I was turning around then stopped then the flashlight and the door and..."

"Whoa, dudes..." Dewey had a look of distaste on his face. "Either you guys are playing a majorly late April Fools joke on us, or you just aren't remembering anything clearly."

"We're not kidding, Dewey, I swear!" Katie roared.

"Shh..." Summer consoled, walking over. "We'll figure this out."

"Yeah," Zack agreed, following Summer. "And I think we need to take a trip to the library..."

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