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dannyrox: I actually am doing the same thing but with the ring 2! Lol right now it's still in my big note book thing but after this is done I'll wait a while, then type it in. hope you like it as much as you like this one!
Long chappie!
Chapter 9: flashbacks and a 'new viewer'
Later that night – Rachel's apartment…
Rachel held the phone up to her ear and continued talking. She was talking to her sister, Ruthie, and Katie's mom.
"Can you please look after Aidan while I go into town to investigate a killer video tape? It's only for one week." Rachel said, wandering round her living room, heading towards the kitchen.
"Huh?" Asked Ruthie, confused.
"Erm…" Rachel stuttered. "I mean…could you look after Aidan for a week while I…um…go buy him a puppy?"
"Sure!" Ruthie shouted excitedly. "I love puppies!"
"Dumb blonde…" Rachel muttered. "Wait…"
Rachel was thinking about how she, too, was a dumb blonde, until she started choking for no reason.
"You can't choke on water…" Ruthie muttered down the phone.
"Sorry Ruthie…" Rachel managed to choke out between gags. "Maybe I…shouldn't have …eaten that…spicy curry…"
Rachel dropped to her hands and knees and started coughing more and more violently. A small black string fell out of her mouth. She pulled on it as she wretched. It was longer than she thought.
"I…didn't eat…spaghetti…" She coughed.
Ruthie's voice murmured from the phone
"How long is a piece of string? tee hee"
Rachel finally stopped choking as she pulled a small sucker out of her mouth, like the kind you attach to the heads of mental people to monitor their brain waves.
Rachel staggered and grabbed the phone. "Hello?" She half shouted. The dial tone hummed in the background. She looked at the phone. A small trickle of water came from the holes.
"Oh my god…" Rachel whispered. "She hung up on me…bitch…"
The audience gave a small grunt of "oh my god she is so stupid."
Rachel watched the small trickle.
"Mmmmmm…..I'll have to ask her how she fixed her leaky TV…"
Rachel staggered out of the kitchen, still panting a bit from her choking on something she didn't eat ordeal. She walked up the hallway.
"They have hallways like the frickin' Shining too!" The audience whispered to one another.
Rachel walked past the living room screen doors. There was a low murmur – static on the TV. Aidan sat in front of it, looking like a fricken skeleton. Rachel walks right past. With a low mutter of
"Hi Aidan…"
Rachel catches on – bless her little blonde brain cells…I mean…socks…
Rachel raced back along the corridor and flung open the screen doors in an over-dramatic way. She launched herself at Aidan, almost crushing him, and covered his eyes. The way she launched at him actually had the audience flinching in their seats.
"What did you watch?" Rachel screamed. "Was it the tape?" (dun dun dun)
Aidan was terrified by Rachel's strong grip on his bony shoulders and her bulging eyes staring into his. He finally spoke.
"I…I…" he stuttered.
"Tell me now, woman!" Rachel shouted.
"I was just watching re-runs of Will and Grace! I'm sorry!" He shouted, waiting for Rachel's reaction.
"Oh. That's okay then." She turned to walk away.
"It was a really gross episode…horrible images…"
"Noooooooooo!" Rachel screamed. Aidan flinched as she re-gripped his shoulders.
Later that night…
Rachel walked into Aidan's room. She muttered to herself, thinking.
"I'm sure I couldn't have just lost 8 lipsticks…"
She noticed that Aidan's room was empty, apart from a young girl sitting in a chair, with her back to us. Her long, black, wet hair was stuck to her back. She wore a thin white night dress, and the floor around her chair was wet.
"Puh-lease tell me your chair is surrounded by water…" Rachel asked, staring warily at the liquid on the floor. There was no answer from the girl.
She approached the girl.
"Idiot…" The audience whispered, as she moved closer.
The girl suddenly grabbed Rachel's arm. Her skin was rotted and decomposing.
"EW!" Rachel screamed. "Oops…that's not my line…um…GASP!"
There was a scream. Rachel had images flashing through her head. A young girl sitting in a chair in a white, bare room. The girl was Rachel. There was a camera facing her as she sat in her chair. Rachel suddenly woke with a start, to find herself lying in her bed, sweating and exhausted.
"Hey…Now the movie's not so bad…" The audience whispered.
Rachel looked at her arm. The menchi SAMARA WOZ ERE was scrawled into her arm. More like scratched into it…
Rachel gasped at the horror of it.
The audience stared sarcastically at her. "Whatever…. you can FINALLY stop panting now!"
The audience spoke again 10 seconds later.
"Wait…didn't the whole "Aidan/video tape thing" and the whole "Girl in Aidan's room thing" happen the other way round in the movie?"
Geek: "sssssshhhh!"
Rachel finally stopped panting.
Noah spoke up from the cinema room.
"Okay…let's go back a bit…"
The reel re-wound.
"Okay…So Rachel's just woken up from her dream, the menchi on her arm, and Aidan is not in her room or his, so she…" Noah sat back to watch the tape.
Rachel checked the living room for Aidan. He was sitting in front of the TV, watching the blaring static. Rachel throws the doors open in an over-dramatic way, and once again, lunged at poor skeletal Aidan. A girl on the TV screen crawled out of the well, and then more static.
"Nooooo!" Rachel screamed. "See…I reacted quicker this time…"
"I was only watching re-runs of Will and Grace! I'm sorry!" Aidan shouted for the second time.
"That's bad too but save it! I know how it went 2 minutes ago!" Rachel yelled. She threw Aidan into a painful hug.
She threw the tapeunder the couch.
"Why baby, Why…WHY!"
Aidan's eyes bulged as much as they could, and he tried to speak.
"I…I couldn't sleep…" He stuttered.
The audience and Rachel shouted at Aidan sarcastically.
"Aw and you think that was gonna make you sleep EASIER?"
Aidan looked on terrified at Rachel's face.
"I think he's inherited some of his mother's intelligence…" The audience sarcastically muttered.
Aidan finally found his voice.
"I'm supposed toask who she is…but I know she's Samara."
The phone rang. Rachelanswered it and immediately slammed it back down onto the receiver. It rang again. She put it to her ear and screamed in an over-dramatic way
"LEAVE HIM ALONE!"
There was a silence.
"Rachel?"Asked a slightly confused, scared and deaf Noah from the other end of the phone.
Aidan removed his hands from his ears and listened.
Noah's car, same time
Noah sat in the front seat of his car, with 100000000000000000000000000 pictures of him in the passenger seat, every one smudged like the way they go when your going to die from the tape (aaaaahhhhh)
Back in Rachel's house
"He watched the tape…" Rachel sobbed quietly.
"Who?" Noah asked.
"The Taco Bell Dog…" Rachel whispered softly again.
"No!" Noah yelled. "I loved that little guy!"
"Huh?" asked the audience
"Our son you nitwit!" She shouted.
"tee hee" The audience giggled.