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Chapter 4

I couldn't believe him- he was obviously just stalling. I pushed straight past him, down the stairway and into the hall where I could see that all of my friends were crowded round the door.

I was still upset and didn't want anyone here when I had to tell my parents, so I pushed past them and grabbed the door handle, expecting to pull it right open, but it didn't move. I turned to look at the hook where we kept the extra pair of keys and pulled the key off. I inserted the key into the lock and turned, I heard the door click. So I pulled the key out again and put it back on the hook, I turned to look at everyone and smiled a smile that said 'Didn't you bother to use the key?' Then pulled on the door, but it wouldn't budge, all I could hear the sighing of the gang behind me.

"We tried that already, but something must be stuck in the lock." Amy said to me, as she stood behind Greg. I looked back at her and sighed also. There was something wrong here, but I couldn't place it.

"Well have you tried any of the other doors?" I asked, looking around the group and seeing blank faces. "Well lets try then shall we?" I said and walked out of the hall, through the living room, through the kitchen and to the back door. I put my hand on the knob sure that the door would open as no one had been near this door all night.

I twisted the knob and started to pull when I heard a click and then a kind of crash coming from the hallway. I turned, startled towards the noise and noticed everyone follow my gaze.

"What was that?" Mina asked, turning to look at Andrew and then at me, as if I was meant to know.

"Why don't we go find out?" Chad asked, he seemed a little drunk; he was probably hyper from eating all of the chips from my cupboard. He turned happily around on the spot he was standing on, but turned a little too quickly and SPLAT! Straight on his face, I must admit it was a little bit of a breather for our nerves as we all ended up laughing. But another noise was heard coming from somewhere in the hall.

"Whoa, there it was again!" Said Raye, but Darien shook his head.

"No, that noise was different!" He said and looked over towards me. I didn't know what to tell him so I just kept quiet and walked towards the hallway. I didn't really know why I was going towards this spooky noise, first my sister gets kidnapped, then the doors mysteriously lock, it was like something out of a horror story.

"Serena be careful!" Amy said to me, I turned to smile back at her and fell flat on my face. I could see the whole group jump as I landed with a thud on the floor. I looked down at where my hands were; there on the floor was a picture. But that was not what I tripped over.

"Where did that come from?" I said to myself more than anyone, my foot had caught the side of my grandmother's coffee table, which we had placed upstairs in the loft away from any possible damage. I couldn't even remember anyone moving it.

"That wasn't here before." Lita said, clinging to Ken and looking sacredly at me.

"I know that, did any of you guys move it?" I asked, looking around the room, but everyone shook their heads. "Oh God, someone has got to be in my house." I figured out and looked behind me and tried to find any kind of clue of entry. But I could see nothing out of the ordinary accept this table.

"I think we should split up, we could maybe cover more ground and see if something is wrong." Mina said looking around the group to see if we thought her idea was good.

"Sure, well why don't we have Mina, Lita and Ken in one group, Amy, Greg and Darien in another, Raye, Chad and Andrew in another and I will go on my own as this is my house." I said and noticed everyone's worry as I said I would be alone.

"Serena, I don't think you should be on your own at this time." Darien said to me, I stifled a laugh, this is my house, who is going to hurt me in my own home?

"Fine, Andrew and I will go to the basement and you guys can decide between you where you want to go." I said to them and began to walk towards the kitchen where the basement door was.

I could hear Andrew's shoes as he caught up with me and began to walk along side me to the basement. We got to the door and I looked around for the keys, but they seemed to already be in the door, mother must have been down there earlier or something.

I turned the handle and peered down at the darkness, this was definitely going to be interesting. "Ready?" I asked Andrew. I looked back at him and noticed a frightened look on his face. "We'll be fine." I said and took hold of his hand as I began to walk down the steps.

The steps creaked beneath my feet making me stop for a while, fearing that there was someone down here and they would hear us coming. I thought about turning back often as well, I could just see the light from the top of the stairs but I didn't want to act cowardly and THERE WAS NOTHING TO BE AFRAID OF!

I began to wonder whether there was an end of these awful, old and creepy steps, when I finally felt something other than the wood of the steps. I had stood on what seemed like soil, it was soft yet solid beneath my feet.

I felt Andrew step to the side of me and gasp at the feeling I had only begun to know. "Why do you have soil in your basement Serena?" He asked me, but I didn't really know why myself so I just shrugged. But Andrew couldn't see me, there was no light and neither of us had any clue to where the light would be.

"Serena?" Andrew suddenly said quietly.

"Hmm?" I replied, a little worried at the sudden question.

"Did you see that?" He said and moved closer to my side. I honestly could say I hadn't seen a thing.

"Umm."

"There, right there, that black…thing." He said and I almost thought I could see something.

I couldn't see anything it was too dark for my eyes, but I could hear something… it was… it sounded like… breathing. I couldn't tell where it was coming from.

I turned around trying to place where it was, but every time I moved it seemed to move with me, staying in front of my senses every time.

"Andrew I think it would be best if we leave!" I whispered to him on my tip toes. I could just see Andrew nod his head in reply as I began to back towards the bottom step which we hadn't really moved far away from.

I felt myself bang into something hard and thanked God we hadn't wanted to move too far away from the steps.

I turned to look at the steps and said, "Right Andrew you go up… AAAARRRGGGGHHHHHHH!" I froze, a large black figure stood in front of me, its face covered but its hands were a ghostly white.

At that moment we ran. We ran into the darkness of the basement trying to avoid shelves and cases. Meanwhile I could hear pounding footsteps, thudding hard against the floor and matching our speed. He was right behind us and there was only one way out the basement and he was closer to it than us. I carried on running round a corner and then jumped over a box as I heard a crash and instantly knew what had happened.

I turned around and Andrew lay on the floor, he had not seen the box and had run straight into it. "Andrew! NO!" I screamed as I saw the large black figure getting closer and closer to my best friend.

"SERENA!"

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