Chapter Two:
After the tremendous explosion, the four of us just stood there horrified with all the evnts that occured. " What should we do?" I asked. " There might be some animal in there." " How could an animal get up here?" David asked. " If you ask me, I think it's a spirit of some kind that we released into our world." " Stop dreaming, will you?" Tim said, annoyed. " There is nothing like that going on. Something probably just fell. If we check it out, we won't worry anymore." " Fine," Eric said. " Go and check it out, Tim." Tim gulped as he began walking very slowly towards the bathroom door. It was so quiet that it seemed as if nothing had happened, but this was no dream at all. If it ended up being one, it was a horrible nightmare. Tim was up to the door. He pressed his ear against it to hear for something inside. Nothing.
The rest of us came with him. David was holding a glass bottle of coke in his hand as Tim slowly opened the bathroom door. There was a creek as the door opened. All was dark, but Tim fixed that by turning on the lights. David dropped the bottle, letting it shatter on the tiled bathroom floor. Just over the sink, there was a firly large hole where the medicine cabinet used to be. There were chunksw of plaster scattered on the floor along with the smashed medicine cabinet. I gasped and we were all starring at what had happened. Nothing human could have done something like this. Eric backed out of the doorway. A look of terror had formed on his face. The rest of us watched him as he began to shake his head.
" No," he said, gulping. " No, no, no, I don't see this!" He ran through the bedroom and to the living room. The rest of us ran after him as he approached the front door. He was yanking on the knob. The door was jammed. " It's jammed!" he groaned. " I can't open the door!" The rest of us helped him, but the door wouldn't budge. " Let us out!" Tim screamed. " Get us out of here, someone!" David started pounding on the door as I looked out the peephole. " Hey, guys, you better look at this," I said. The others quieted down as I told them what I saw. On the wall opposite of the door, the words, " No Exit," were written in red letters. " We're locked in!" I shrieked. " What's happening here!" Eric ran to where the beds were. The rest of us gathered around as Eric grabbed the phone reciever and started dialing for the front desk. " It's dead," Eric said after a moment or two.
We all sighed. We were locked in our hotel room with no outside communication. " What about the windows?" David asked. " Can you open them?" " I can try," I said, standing up. The windows wouldn't budge at all. It was as if someone had nailed it shut. I gave up with them. " There has to be some way to get out of here," Tim said, out of breath. " There just has to be some way." After a few moments, Eric's eyes widened. " You guys," he said, pointing up at the wall. " Look!" We all followed his gaze. The wall clock had stopped, the hands stopped at 7:12. " Did it just stop?" I asked. Eric shook his head. " I don't know." I ran to the coffee table and grabbed the remote for the TV. The TV wouldn't come on. The radio wouldn't, either. " There's only one way out of here," David said as the others came to join me in the living room. " Where?" Tim asked. David pointed to the bathroom. We could all see the hole through the doorway. We all lookd at each other.
" Are you sure about this?" Eric asked. " That hole could lead anywhere and someone has to hear us if we keep pounding on the door." " We need to try the hole," David insisted. " I suppose we could always come back and I want to find out what's going on." The rest of us agreed. As we entered the bathroom again, we swore that we could hear voices from inside the hole. " I don't know," Tim said. " It sounds like there's something in there." " I'll go in first," David said as I ducked my head inside the hole. It was pitch black inside and it seemed like it would lead to the end of the building. I let David climb through first. I went second and Eric went third. Tim was still standing in the bathroom as the rest of us were already in the hole. " Are you coming?" Eric asked. Eric shrugged. " Why not?" Sighing, Tim entered the hole.