Chapter Seven:
Like it had been before, everything had gone blank. A crimson color took over my vision before everything came into focus. I happened to be laying on the bed this time. I was on the bed in our hotel room. Again, it was as if nothing had happened. I groaned as I turned over. The room's window's were sideways because of the way I was laying down. " Maria?" I called. Then it all came to me. Maria was dead, just like David. They were taken over by strange evil forces. It was something to do with Silent Hill like Tim had said. I sat up in thebed. Tim was laying on the floor against the wall right below the wallclock which was still stopped at 7:12 PM. It was much later, though. Several hours had passed since then. Eric was laying on the floor in the area where the bedroom and the living room were seperated. His eyes were open and he was beginning to sit up. Tim was doing the same. We were back in our room, but I wasn't sure if I'd rather be here or in one of those worlds we had visited.
" It happened again," Tim said. " My God, it happened again!" " We've been transported here again," I said. " We're still trapped here." " How do you know?" Eric said, chuckling. " I say we get out of here, now!" Eric ran over to the front door. Tim and I followed him. He started banging on the door again. " Stop it!" Tim said as he ran up to Eric. " It won't do any good! They can't hear us, don't you understand that?" Eric spun around with an angry look on his face. " Look, I can do what I want, Tim! You two can do whatever you want, but I'm getting out of here!" He looked through the peephole. Tim and I huddled on each side of him to see, too. The janitor was looking back at the door. Our teacher who was staying in a room on this floor walked up to him. " How's it going with room 218?" she asked. " Have you been able to get in?" The janitor shook his head. " No, it's locked and no matter what I do, I can't get it open. It's like it's sealed shut or something." Mrs. Good, our teacher, spoke up. " I know the people who are staying in this room" she said. " They're four of my students. saw them go in here earlier this evening. That was around seven, but they haven't come out since. We were going to have dinner in the hotel's restaurant, but they never showed up." " I'll call the manager," the janitor said. " You don't have to worry about it." Mrs. Good walked away and the janitor followed her. " No!" Tim shouted. " You can't leave us! Don't leave, help us out of here! There's something wrong with this room! Please, don't leave!"
Tim punched the wall. " We're not geting out of here," he said, out of breath. " ..are we?" " We will," Eric said. " There has to be some way out of here." " There's the hole," I said. " Forget about the stupid hole!" Eric said. " All that's lead us to is horror and death." " Yeah, but we have no other choice," I said. " Look, the hole will be our last resort if we can't get out any other way. We can try the phone once more and the windows, but we'll use the hole if nothing else works out." I ran to the bathroom to check on the hole. It was even bigger now. A strange symbol was forming around it and the walls were cracking. It was like the evil was getting stronger or something. When I went out in the bedroom, Tim and Eric were sitting on the end of one of the beds. " The phone's dead and the windows won't open," Eric said sadly. " There's no other way out of here." " We even looked if the note was still under the door to room 217." Tim pitched in. " It's not there, it's like they didn't even notice." I sat in a chair near the bathroom door. " Tim," I said. " When you were tal;king about Silent Hill, can you tell me everything you know about it?"
Tim nodded. " Yeah. I was reading newspapers from about eleven years ago last month. There was an inncodent involving the small town of Silent Hill near a river. It's the basic town near a river and a forest. A man's wife was killed about a year after those inncodents. He went out to find out who killed her and he was never found. He disappeared not much later and there was even a girl who had reoccuring nightmares and ended up being followed by a detective wherever she went. On of the largest inncodents was with Henry Townshend. He was living in an apartment at South Ahfield Heights in the city of South Ashfield. He had reoccuring nightmares as well and he couldn't leave his apartment. Someone kept slipping notes under his front door and no matter what he did, he couldn't get out. The police weren't sure about it, but it was similar to the Walter Sullivan case ten years earlier. He was a man who murdered people, took their hearts out. He killed himself while in prison. He had been abandoned in the same apartment when he was born. The super found him in the bedroom and took him to an orphanage in Silent Hill forest. It ended up burning down. Henry Townshend was a witness. He and his neighbor, Eileen Galvin survived everything. That's about all I know, but as you can see, I think we're trapped in a Silent Hill inncodent as well."
Eric an I had listened to everything. We didn't know what to think. Here we were, trapped in a horrible bind of horror. I remembered hearing something about a man named Walter Sullivan, but I didn't know that he was a murder who killed himself while he was in prison for those murders. Also, South Ashfield was a city that I had visited once before. One day, the subways were closed down because a woman had been murdered down in the station. There was news about an orphanage burning down, but that was all I knew. " I guess we do have to go through that hole," Eric said. " I justdon't know where we'll be this time." The three of us went in the bathroom. Strange noises were coming from the hole. Things were getting scarier and stranger than ever now. " Well, I guess this is it," Tim said. Tim went in first. I went in second. Eric went in last.