Chapter 8: What they figured out
Gordo was in his room with Lizzie looking at the photo album of the 6 teens of 1812.
Gordo: I find this all to be a little creepy.
Lizzie: What do you mean?
Gordo: Think about it, Lizzie. Don't you think it's freakishly ironic that the new teacher from our school asks 6 teens like us to come to a luxurious mansion for as long as we want without supervision?
Lizzie looked at Gordo with a look on her face.
Gordo: What?
Lizzie: What you just said sounds really familiar. But where have I heard that before?
Lizzie thought for a while. She's heard that before but where did she hear it? Lizzie thought and thought then finally...
Lizzie: Oh my gosh!
Gordo: What?
Lizzie: Matt!
Gordo: What about him?
Lizzie: He said the same exact thing to me yesterday before we were going to move into the mansion.
Lizzie ran to her room and got the walkie-talkies and the mini cameras then ran back to Gordo's room.
She plopped them on his bed. Gordo was confused.
Gordo: Where did you get these?, Why did you bring them?, and Why do we need them?
Lizzie: I said the same thing to him!
Lizzie was excited because she was getting closer and closer to figuring something out. At least she thinks so.
Lizzie: Remember last night when you and the other 5 came over to my house to pack?
Gordo nodded still confused.
Lizzie: Hang on. We have to tell everyone.
Gordo: Why, what's going on?
Lizzie: Just go get Kate and Ethan and tell them to come here.
Gordo: What about Miranda and Larry?
Lizzie: I'm getting them.
Gordo found Kate and Ethan and told them to hurry to his room and Lizzie found Miranda and Larry and told them to come to Gordo's room immediately!
All 6 of them were in Gordo's room.
Lizzie: You guys won't believe what I just figured out.
All: What?
Lizzie: Ok, one of you tell me something. Gordo asked me this question which Matt told me the day before we were about to leave and it freaked me out that gordo asked me the same exact question.
Miranda: Lizzie! What's the question?
Gordo: Let me just put it this way, Don't you think it's freakishly ironic that the new teacher from our school asks 6 teens like us to come to a luxurious mansion for as long as we want without supervision?
Everyone pondered on that idea for a while. Gordo was right; it is a little creepy.
Kate: That is freaky.
Lizzie: Well, what do you think.
Larry: I think that the cooks and the butler and everyone else is also in on this.
Ethan: This reminds me of a movie. Only except they had 4 people and there are 6 of us.
Lizzie: What movie?
Ethan: It's called...
Larry: The Haunting!!
Everyone's heart dropped.
Kate: The Haunting? I never saw that.
Gordo: I did. It's a really scary movie and come to think of it, This is just like that movie.
Miranda: Yeah, except this mansion is a little more updated and less creepy.
Kate: So what do we do now?
Larry: Well, if I'm right about this. This is also like that Eddie Murphy movie called umm...
Miranda: The Haunted Mansion.
Larry: Exactly, and if I do recall, In both movies, They had to solve a mystery to get out of the mansions.
Ethan: Yeah, like in The Haunting, Nell found out that she was actually part of the family that was killed in the house and the person who killed them was her great great great grandfather.
Larry: Exactly.
Miranda: And in The Haunted Mansion, is almost like The haunting only it's less violent.
Kate: Ok so we have to solve the mystery
Lizzie: Report Kent to the Police.
Gordo: and go home.
Ethan: What about these books and stuff? We can't just leave them here.
Miranda: Umm how about we give them to a museum. I read that if you find something historic, you'll get a cash reward.
Larry: Around how much?
Miranda: An estimation of about six hundred to ten hundred.
Ethan: Ten hundred! That's a thousand dollars!
Kate: Duh
Gordo: Is the gate open?
Lizzie: I have no idea. Why don't you and Ethan go an check.
Ethan and Gordo did as told. As they left, Larry remembered something from The Haunting.
Larry: Wait, In the movie The haunting, The gate was locked with a huge lock and they couldn't do anything but wait until the owners came and opened it up for them.
Lizzie: Larry, what makes you think that the gate is locked? I mean, not everything relates to the movies.
After 3 minutes went by, Gordo and Ethan entered the room.
Gordo: The gate has this huge lock on it and we found asked one of the cooks if they had the key and they said that we have to wait until Kent comes back.
Ethan: Yeah, supposedly, he's the owner.
Lizzie looked at Larry baffled.
Larry: Told you.
Lizzie: Ok, fine,whatever I believe you.
Miranda: When will Kent be back?
Ethan: In 3 months.
Everyone groaned.
Kate: I have my cellphone. Hang on, I'll be back.
Lizzie: I have mine too.
Miranda: I have my laptop. I can just Email my mom and tell her to come here.
Larry: I have mine too.
Gordo: I'll just grab my palm pilot.
Ethan: Ditto
Everyone got what they were going to get.
As everyone returned, They got right to work trying to contact anyone they could.
Kate: I have to go outside.
Lizzie: Yeah, we get better reception out there.
Miranda: Ok How about the roof.
Kate: Where's the roof?
Lizzie: Right to her room. Here I'll show you.
As Kate and Lizzie left, Miranda, Larry, Ethan and Gordo went right to work in Emailing as many people as they could.
Meanwhile with Lizzie and Kate, They were up on the enormous roof. It was so high up that that you could even see they could see their school.
Lizzie and Kate each called their parents.
Jo: Hello?
Lizzie: Mom! I'm soooo glad I got you. Mom You need to get here Immediately!
Jo: Why what happened?
Lizzie: This was a set up. Have you seen that movie, The Haunting?
Jo: Yeah, why.
Lizzie: This is just like that. Exactly like.
Jo: WHAT!
Lizzie: Please get over Kent over here.
Kate was talking to her cousin Amy.
Amy: Hello?
Kate: Amy! I need you to come here immediately!
Amy: But you just got there. What's wrong?
Kate: We just need you to come here immediately.
As Kate and Lizzie were talking to their relatives, behind them was trouble.
Jaq, The cook, was on the roof with them overhearing the two panicking girls talking on their phones. Jaq didn't know what to do. The only thing he could do was approach them in a manly way.