Chapter 7: From the Start

She reached the last step. It was darker then upstairs and the air was more heavy. What was that shadow she just saw? Mabey someone else was here? That could be a bad thing...

She took a couple of steps forward. She looked at the map and saw that The Power Room was on the other end of the hall. "Great...", she thought. She moved the flashlight around to look at the hallway. Nothing was there, just some leeches on the wall which were getting annoying. Her shoes were covered with goo from where she stepped on them upstairs. She slowly walked down the hallway passing the Storage Room on the right. She kept going and on the left she saw a sign on a door called Nurses Station. As soon as she passed the door she heard a shreiled woman's scream!

"What was that!", Alice asked herself. She tryed to open the door, but it would'nt budge. She waited for a minute and heard nothing else. She decided to continue on to The Power Room. She went down the hallway again and on her left side she saw a bright red door that stuck out from the walls and the floor. On it was a big sign that said: THE NAUGHTY ROOM. Alice felt like laughing, but she was afaid she might throw up again and this was not the time or the place to laugh. She started to feel depressed again. Her, Rhyan, and Chris would always laugh together. She decided not to find out what exactly the naughty room was. So she continued down the hallway and saw The Boiler Room and The Power Room facing each other in oppisite directions.

"Bingo!", Alice thought. She went toward The Power Room and tryed to open it but it was locked.

"No! It can't be!", She said. She looked at the door knob and saw a keyhole in it. It needed a key. All she needed to do was find it! But where? Mabey it was in the Main lobby 2 floors up! She quickly ran down the hallway, but tripped over something and landed her face in a big leeche. Goo was all over her face. She screamed and tryed to wipe all the goo off of her, but it would'nt come off. She looked to see what she tripped over. It looked like a large metal hook. She picked it up and started to kill the leeche in front of her.

"Gross! This hook could come in handy.", She said. She put the hook in her backpack and headed upstairs. She looked over at the girls bathroom she was before. She could wash all this goo off her face with the good faucet in the bathroom.

She went in the bathroom and went to the second faucet and washed the goo off of her. "Thats better", she thought. She heard a noise coming from the faucet next to her. She turned it on, but nothing would come out, something was stuck in it. She took the hook out of her backpack and started to jerk the faucet with it. The faucet flew out of the sink nearly hitting her in the head. Like she needed anymore head aches. She picked up the faucet and started to shake it. A key came out. There was a tag attached to it, it read: Power Room. Yes! Now she could open the door.

Suddenly she heard a toilet flushing from the stall she was in before. She looked in the stall. Nothing out of the ordinary...exactly! Nothing...the corpse from before was missing...

"Where did it go? Its not alive and walked away...is it?", Alice asked herself. She can't worry about this now! She had to get back to the power room. She left the girls bathroom and headed for the stairs, but when she did she saw someone. She could'nt exactly see it, because it looked like a shadowy figure. It looked like it was limping down the stairs and she heard it laugh. When she heard it laugh...it was not a good thing. It sounded like an evil laugh, it made her want to cry. She had to go down stairs and she would probably run into that thing. It looked slimy and disfigured. It looked like the corpse from before. She watched go all the way downstairs.

"What am I going to do?", Alice asked herself."I can't go downstairs with that thing".

She looked at the hook she was holding. Mabey she could kill it if it attacked her. But that was a problem. She never killed anything before in her life.

Flash Back

Alice was in the cemetry with rhyan and chris. They were there because rhyan's uncle was dead. They were attending his funeral. Alice was dressed in a red dress, chris had on regular clothes, but wore sunglasses.( Like that was just like him, always wearing his same old clothes no matter what the aucasion.) Rhyan was wearing a long white trench coat that looked like what scientists wore, but alice was'nt going to comment on it to her after all her uncle just died. They were the odd balls of the funeral, because everyone was wearing black. But they were always that way. Rhyan did'nt look sad at all.

"So...how did he die?", Chris asked breaking the akward silence.

"My Aunt Elenore pushed him out of a second story window", Rhyan responded, still looking emtionless, but she usually was goofy and weird sometimes. So this was way different from how she acted.

"Why?", asked Alice.

"She was defending herself from him Al. You know how abusive he was to her when he was drunk. The police would never do anything about in the past, because my uncle was related to the sheriff in town. One night last week he got so drunk he held a knife to her throat , but she pushed him out the window before he could do anything. It sounds harsh and the situation sounds cliche ,but I'm glad he's dead", Rhyan anwsered with a cold tone toward her uncle's grave.

"And you said your aunt is in jail now?",Chris asked rhyan.

"No, standing trial. I hope she's found innocent she's the only family left that I have. Besides that idiot sheriff", Rhyan said.

This was true. Rhyan was addopted and lived with anouther family, noone knows where her real parents went. But Rhyan looked past that and lived a happy life with her new family.

"She was only trying to defend herself...", Alice thought to herself again.

End Flash Back

Alice realized that she could defend herself from anything as long as her life was in danger.

"I can do this. I can do this", She reapted to herself over and over again as she went down the stairs.

There was something different about the downstairs hallway then before...it seemed more terrifying. She heard that creepy laugh again.

"Its ok! I can do this. I can do this", Alice thought to herself. Her flashlight went dead. A overwhelming feeling of fear came over her.

"I can't do this!"Alice thought.

Ok! I have anouther chapter coming! Thanks for the nice reviews! And I promise I'll do better on spelling and longer chapters!