Author's Note: Well, school is starting soon so I'm trying to get this fic done! I'm not going to rush through the story, though. Heh. It just means that I'll update less. Enjoy!

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"AH!" Hailey cried, looking around frantically. "Spiders, spiders, spiders! There are creepy-crawlies everywhere!"

"Creepy-crawlies?" Matt asked, looking at Hailey with a grossed-out face. "What the hell is a 'creepy-crawly'?... If there is such a thing."

"Never mind that," Maia said, shutting the attic door behind Donald. She looked to see if everyone was there, and they were. Then she said aloud, "How long do you think we're going to be up here?"

"UGH," Tom groaned, slapping himself on the head. No one even bothered to answer Maia's question.He looked at Maia and said quickly, "I have to get things down there. Can you open up the attic again, please?"

"'Things'?" Kate asked. "What 'things' could we possibly need up here?"

"Well, uh, I don't know," Matt said sarcastically. "Our heads were in a pretty fast-thinking mode when we all climbed up here that we forgot that we just came from a kitchen, and inside kitchens' there are-"

"Food," Katie mumbled, cutting Matt off.

"Yes, food," Matt said, frowning at Katie for interrupting him. "Uh...how are we going to get the water and stuff up here?"

"It'll be a bundle of joy if you come with me," Tom said, rolling his eyes. Maia quickly opened the attic down and Tom jumped out, and was quickly followed by Matt.

"Hurry up!" Katie cried, leaning over the attic and looking out. She peeked out and looked at both of the doors, and could still hear the constant banging. "Tom! Hurry up! They're not going to wait for you two!"

"She's right," Maia yelled to the two of them. "There's no time for you two to get the food and run back and forth! Throw it up here to us and we'll catch 'em! Now, hurry up!"

"We're coming, we're coming!" Matt said, holding packages of different food under his arms. He placed them on the counter and started throwing them up at Maia. He threw up the bread, and she caught it, then Tom appeared with a lot of water bottles. He started throwing them up, too, and Kate and Donald started to catch them. Katie moved out of the way and crawled over to Hailey.

"Are they coming back?" Hailey asked her nervously. Katie nodded slowly; reluctantly, as if she wanted to believe her own answer. "You sure?"

"Yeah, positive," Katie replied, nodding still.

"Hurry!" Katie heard Matt scream. "Tom, hurry up and get up here now!" Katie turned to Matt, who was up in the attic already. He was over the edge, and one of his arms were out to try and get Tom. Tom cried something back, but Katie couldn't hear it over the muffled banging and moaning. Then she stopped breathing. Moaning. She heard moaning. But where was it coming from?

"TOM!" Maia shrieked, and she offered her hand hurriedly to him. Katie suddenly saw him climb into the attic with more food and fall down on the floor, breathing heavily. Katie put a hand over her heart and exhaled a deep breath of relief.

"Don't do that ever, ever again," Maia told Tom and Matt, panting heavilyfrom suspense.

"Don't think we have much of a choice," Matt said, rolling his eyes.

"Did they break in?" Donald asked. Then he repeated, "Did they break in?"

"...Yes. Yes, they did," Tom said, shutting his eyes and sighing. Their was a long moment's silence, while everyone tried to take in what they were now doing.

"Are we going to stay here forever?" Hailey asked curiously.

"I don't know," Kate answered, sighing. She looked at Hailey and smiled weakly, trying to comfort her. "Hopefully not."

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"Shh...," Maia said, putting a finger to her lips. Tom looked at her with curiosity and confusion in his eyes. "Shh, Tom. Just listen."

"Okay," Tom muttered, listening. He didn't hear anything, so he looked at Maia with more confusion. "Uh, I don't hear anything."

Maia smiled hopefully. "Exactly." Tom then realized what she was implying. There was no more banging, no more moaning, no more sound at all. But that must mean that they've stopped, Tom thought. He grinned happily. They stopped!

"Do you think we should wake the others?" Maia asked, looking at everybody else. They were all sound asleep. It had been at least five or six hours since they had climbed into the attic. Tom shook his head and started to slowly open the attic. The whole kitchen was empty. Tom and Maia peered at both doors, that were both on the floor. Maia frowned in disgust at the blood stains all over the place. Tom peered all around the kitchen, and began to slow, slowly climb out. At first he was reluctant, but then he was sure that the kitchen was empty. And it was.

"It's so empty," Maia said, getting down with Tom's help. "Why? Where'd they go?"

Tom shrugged and replied, "Wherever they wanted to. Like us, they left."

"You guys!" Matt cried in a hushed tone. Tom and Maia both jumped, then looked up at the attic confusedly. Matt was frowning at them. "Thank you for leaving me in a room with some woman, some man, and two little girls. Yes, yes, just thank you."

"Well, come down here then," Maia said told him, frowning back.

"Well, well, what were you two doing?" Matt asked, smiling sheepishly.

"Yeah, like we'd do something in a time like this," Tom said, rolling his eyes.

"So...now what?" Tom asked.

"Hell with this," Matt said. "I need to, uh, do something." And with no other words, he walked outside.

"There's none out there, right?" Maia asked. When Tom didn't answer, she cried out, "MATT!"