Chapter 6

The group had formed a way to distract the old man, they only hoped it would work as planned. It was sort of a dumb idea, but he was old and it didn't take much effort to distract an old guy. He was sitting at one of the tables sipping coffee and reading through a magazine, he faced the staircase, unknowingly. Theo was the first to come down, she came down the stairs casually with a big fate fake smile.

"Goin'' outside to get a little fresh air" She waved as she walked away and out the door. He went back to his reading, after about a minute passed John came down the stairs casually. The old man looked over his newspaper, as John started to walk by him.

"Going outside, get a little fresh air" he nodded and went on through the doors to outside. The man looked in the direction for a minute, then went back to his newspaper. The next one coming down the stairs was Craig. He was walked by when he was about to say something, when the old man interrupted.

"Can I come with you?" he asked.

"With me? Where?" asked Craig.

"Well, you were going to say you were going out to get some fresh air right?" the old man asked as Craig nodded. He got up and they went outside to chat with the rest of the group.

A minute or two later Frank, Dr. Marrow, and Sara headed down the stairway. Sara quietly went to the door to watch that he re-mained outside. Frank and Dr. Marrow continued to the picture. Dr. Marrow looked around the edges of the picture to check for cracks. As he did so Frank only lightly touched the picture and it creaked open like a door. It was a dark hallway, but the entrance to it was high. There was a five foot brick wall between the picture-door and the actual hall way. It was very weird, and Dr. Marrow had to sort of jump up and land hard on his butt, before he could get over. Frank waited on the other side, as Dr. Marrow found a light. There was a desk, and two book shelves. It was semi messy, but Dr. Marrow didn't have the time to look through everything, even if it was real organized. He quickly looked on the desk, he figured whatever was on the desk top would be the most important. There were some papers, a book, nothing special it seemed.

Meanwhile Mary stayed up stairs, she wasn't there when they made the plan, so got left out. She decided to break into Theo's room, she knew there was something suspicious about her. She quietly opened her door, and looked down the short hallway. She took out a pin and started to wiggle the lock as she heard a noise come down from the opposite hallway. Mary was confused. Everyone was supposed to be down stairs, and the old man was down there too, who was in the last room. She ignored it as she began to wiggle the lock again, when the door started to open. Mary was frightened and ran back to her room, the doors had peep holes and she tried to look to see where this person was going. No one walked by, so after a minute she opened the door slowly with her shoe in her hand. She jumped out of her room and started to head down the hall to the open door at the end of the hall. She walked slowly, almost like an ape, with her legs spread wide and her shoe still held high in her hand. She got about half way between her room and the room at the end when she heard a noise come from behind her. She wasn't quick enough though, as she started to turn she was struck by a cane, and fell to the floor knocked out.

"Come on get out!" Sara ran over quickly to Frank shouting to Dr. Marrow.

"Come on, Dr.!" Frank held out his arms over the wall to take the small amount of things he managed to grab. Sara helped him up and out of the room, and he shut the picture/door behind him as they quickly ran back up the stairs. They waited half way up the stairs as Theo, Craig and John came into view. They were all chatting at the same time, as the filed into Frank and Theo's room. Sara stopped though, she slowly walked down the hallway, seeing Mary sprawled out on the floor.

"Oh my god!" Craig had come out of the room just to see where she had gone when he dashed over to Sara and Mary. The rest of them ran over to her too, as they brought her back to Theo's room.

The group decided to wait till the next day to discuss things, and Dr. Marrow took one of the things, as the others took something too. They all went to their rooms, it was getting late, but Mary lay on Theo and Frank's couch. Frank was tired and went to bed early, as Theo kept lightly touching Mary's forehead with a wet towel. Mary started to wake up, it was still only eleven at night, and her head was pounding. She opened to her eyes to see Theo above her, which startled her and she sat up quickly.

"Nice to see you up again" Theo smiled as she went to get the towel wet again.

"Yeah" Mary squinted from the pain in her head and neck.

"What happened?" asked Theo. Mary struggled to remember, and as she did Theo came and sat next to her.

"Well…" Mary began and finished explaining to Theo her suspicions and what happened, from what she knew.

"Wow" Theo stood up.

"Let's go check it out!" Theo was excited.

"Wait, wait what? Check what out?" Mary's head still hurt.

"The room at the end of the hall" Theo smiled devilishly again.

"No! I was almost killed the first time I got curious! No" Mary quieted down as Theo came close to her.

"You know sometimes it doesn't hurt be curious." Theo smirked as she walked to the door and waved Mary over. Mary reluctantly went to her, and Theo quietly went into the hall.

"Watch my back" Theo told her, as Mary closed the door behind her. Mary was nervous as hell, while Theo was having a great time. They got to the door at the end of the hallway, but there was no way to tell if he or she was in there or not.

"Here" Mary handed Theo the same pin she had used before. Theo smiled as she quietly and lightly started to pick the lock. Mary heard footsteps.

"Theo, Theo" Mary whispered as she lightly placed her hand on Theo's shoulder. Theo was surprised and turned to her with another one of her evil smiles. Mary took her hand away and broke eye contact.

"I think I heard footsteps" just then it was obvious that someone was climbing the stairs.

"Maybe its one of the group" Theo whispered frozen.

"What if its not?" Mary whispered, when it became apparent the figure was coming down to the room where they were standing.

"Oh my god" Mary started to get nervous and back into Theo, but then quickly moved to the side of her. Theo began to get nervous too and furiously tried to unlock the door. She did and both of them quickly ran into the room.

"Find a place to hide!" Theo warned Mary, as she ran and slid under the bed. Mary panicked as she saw the door start to open, she glanced both ways, as Theo finally grabbed her and pulled her under the bed. They were frozen and laid as quiet as they could. It seemed as though they weren't even breathing, as they heard footsteps come around the bed. Mary leaned a little on to Theo, this time not caring about being afraid of her, as the persons foot barely went under the bed a little. Mary sighed a little to loud as the person back away from the bed, Theo quickly covered her mouth with her hand, as the person paused… then went to the bathroom closing the door. Theo got up and out from under the bed quickly.

"Come on" she whispered to Mary. Mary was afraid though.

"No"

"Come on!" Theo came back to her a little, as Mary sighed and carefully began to come out from the bed when the person started to come out from the bathroom. Theo motioned her to go back under the bed just as she darted out of the room and into the hall. The person came back and after awhile went into the bed, as Mary fell asleep under the bed.

Theo darted down the hall and quickly went to Dr. Marrow.

"What's… what's wrong Theo?" he asked waking up slowly, and putting glasses on.

"It's Mary"