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See my problem?
Anyway, thanks for the reviews! Next part comes now! ;)
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Robert
I held my nose to stop myself from sneezing from all the dust.
"You comin or not?" Rachel asked from a few steps below me.
"I'm comin, I'm comin!" I muttered, clomping down the stairs to catch up to her. She gave me a weird look, then shook her head and we continued down the stairs to the basement.
Yes, the basement. Really friggen scary.
I kicked an old box aside, trying not to sneeze again. There was just so much dust!
"And that Dean guy thought this was scary? pfft! I've seen two-foot aliens that were scarier" I scoffed as we wandered around the basement, occasionally having to move bits and pieces.
"Agreed. Heck, even Ax is scarier than this!" Rachel grabbed a small cord in the fairly dim basement, and suddenly there was… well, slightly more light than there had been.
"Ax is scary?"
Rachel just gave me a look. I rolled my eyes.
"Whatever"
I moved away from her, going to open an old box in one of the corners. I dug in until I found an old yellowed book. A few pages fell out, and I bent to pick them up.
"What's that?" I heard Rachel ask.
"I dunno. Just found it" I muttered as I picked the papers up and began to read them. It was pages of a girls diary. When she'd just moved into her new house. She spoke about the new school, missing friends… you know, that stuff.
I shoved the pages back in and began to read it a little more. Heck, it was only slightly more interesting than walking around a stupid old house.
"What is it?" Rachel began to read over my shoulder. I simply gave her the loose papers, flipping through the book some more.
Then something caught my eye.
"Hel-lo" I muttered, looking at it more closely.
"What? What is it?" she tried to read over my shoulder again. I shrugged her off.
"Stop that!"
"Then tell me what it is!" she snapped, holding up a fist. I just looked at her, bored.
"I'll tell you if you just put that… weapon…" I grinned "Down"
And I got a vicious glare.
"All right, all right. I'll read it"
"You'd better"
I was almost about to tell her she had no sense of humour, but decided against it. I respected Rachel, a fellow warrior, too much to get on her bad side.
Plus, the basement was too small for a fight right now.
So cleared my throat and looked back down at the page I was reading "Something strange is happening to me here. I keep hearing voices and feeling a cold presence when I'm alone sometimes. I think something is happening to here"
I turned a page and continued to read out loud "March twelfth. I have to get out of this house, but it wont let me. I can't get out! I cant-" I stopped suddenly.
"Can't? Can't what?" Rachel snatched the book from my hands and read it. Then she looked up at me.
"It just stopped. She just… what happened to her?"
I snorted "It's probably those five geeks trying to scare us"
The book was suddenly in my face "This is not a guys writing. I know"
I shoved the book away to look at her "They have girlfriends probably. Even though I shiver at the thought of those-"
"Was that you?"
"Was that me what?"
Rachel suddenly dropped the book, looking terrified at me.
"You…" she suddenly slapped me!
"OW! HEY! WHAT WAS THAT FOR!"
"YOU SLAPPED MY BUTT!"
"NO I DIDN'T!"
"YES YOU DID!"
Now we'd jumped back from each other and were facing one another, wide-eyed. I had so not slapped her butt!
"You know I'm with Tobias!"
"As if I would! I don't drag myself to the point of slapping girls butts! Especially not yours!"
Rachel just glared at me. I glared back.
Then I felt something slide over the back of my neck. Almost like fingers…
"Ah!" I cried out, slapping the back of my neck. Whatever it was stopped.
"What? What was it?"
"Probably a bug" I shook my head a little, trying to shake the feeling off.
"Yeah. Right. A bug…" Rachel rolled her eyes, starting to move around the room. I followed her.
"This is just slightly nerve-wracking" she muttered, tapping a wooden box with two of the fingers. Almost like she was knocking.
"Just remember, whatever happens is probably the work of Dean and his gang" I muttered, splitting off and going over to the only spare corner of the room. It was covered with a warn carpet, probably from about fifty years ago.
And then I hit a wooden floor.
"Uhh, Rach?"
"Now what?" She said tiredly.
"C'mere for a second"
She sighed angrily, then stomped over and hit the wooden part of the floor.
Thunk!
She stopped "What the…"
"Exactly what I was thinkin"
"Let's move this carpet"
We grabbed the edges and hauled it up. Then, suddenly…
"It's a wooden floor!"
"No duh Einstein"
"Robert! Would you just shut up!"
"Make me!" I blurted angrily before I could stop myself.
"THAT'S IT!" Her hands were suddenly around my throat. I fought back, and we somehow landed on the floor.
She placed her legs on either side of my hips, strangling the life out of me. I returned the favour, grunting as I tried to knock her off. It wasn't working too well.
Creee…
We stopped, looking at each other.
Ccre-e-e-e-…
"Oh this can't be good" she muttered. I barely heard her, looking at the thing that was hovering-
CRACK! CRASSHHH!
"AHHHHHHHHHHH!" We both screamed.
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Sorry! I thought it'd be scarier!
Next time though! I promise!