A/N: Sorry it took a while… Enjoy!


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It was the end of the day and Victor was nervous. Richard was going to show up any second now to give his homework to him. He wanted to tell his parents or a teacher but when he tried to he thought of what Richard would do to him.

Victor stood in front of a lawn of gloomy-looking house. Well, it looked to be a mansion more than a house cause it was huge. It was painted in a gray color. The door was white yet it seemed to be gray as well. There were many windows but most of them were shattered and the rest were covered with wood preventing anyone to see inside. The mansion seemed to be three stories high. It looked gloomy and a bit scary yet it was a normal house through Victor's eyes.

Victor finally remembered this mansion. Everyone at school knew the story behind it. The story said that the owner of the mansion had killed his daughter because he claimed that a demon was inside of her. The owner went mad yet again after killing his daughter this time saying that every night he would hear the piano play one of the girl's beautiful melodies. Of course no one believed him. "A piano playing itself? That's absurd!" Was what they would say. Few years after the man and his wife died leaving everything they owned in the mansion but nobody dared to go into the mansion to steel their property because strange things kept happening in the mansion. People say that a girl sometimes peeks out on one of the windows with tear streaming down her little face and others say they hear someone play the piano.

Victor was truly scared of many things but for some strange reason the story of the so-called girl did not scare him at all. He didn't even think it was real. Victor's attention was suddenly focused on a window next to the door. A strange glowing figure had appeared. It was a girl. He wondered what a girl would be doing in an abandoned mansion. The girl was crying? Victor looked around cautiously. He then turned back to the window but the girl wasn't there anymore.

"Okay, m-maybe I do believe that story now…" Victor said to himself.

"Hey Vicor!" A familiar voice yelled.

'It's Victor!' Victor thought. He turned to his side and saw Richard walking with two of his friends.

"Here's my homework…" Richard said handing Victor a notebook and some paper with writing on it. "Oh and I got another writing assignment from Ms. Montalvo… Sorry but you'll have to write a paragraph twenty times!" He and his friends laughed.

Victor paid no attention to them, he just read what it said on the paper.

"You were chewing gum?" He asked not taking his eyes of the paper.

"I know right? Got in trouble for such a dumb thing!" Richard said when he finally stopped laughing.

Victor gave a small nod and kept reading.

"Rich, let's get out of here… It's that mansion." One of Richard's friends said.

Richard looked at his friend confused and then at the house they were standing in front of.

"You actually believe that story?" Victor asked.

Richard's two friends nodded. Victor just shook his head with a little giggle. Richard smirked. He was going to have some fun.

"So…" Richard said walking toward Victor. "You don't think that the story of the mansion is true?" He put his hand on Victor's left shoulder.

Victor shook his head a little and then said, "Well it just seems like someone might had just made it up to scare people I mean a piano playing a song by itself?"

"Whoa! I didn't know you were that brave!" Richard said sarcastically. Victor raised an eyebrow and Richard continued. "You know if you're not scared of that silly old mansion then you should go in it and check out what's inside."

"Loved to…" Victor said also sarcastically. "But can't, my parents a have a districted rule on me going into supposedly haunted houses." He stared at Richard who had an emotionless expression on his face.

"Say what?" Richard said.

"In other words my parents don't allow me to."

"Oh come one! Just don't tell your parents. What they don't know won't hurt them right?"

"I guess so…"

"Then it settled!" Richard said clapping his hands. "Tomorrow you will come here at exactly seven o'clock, go into the mansion, stay there for an hour and you will be considered my best friend, that means you won't have to do my homework nor will I bully you ever again!"

Both of Richard's friends were left with their jaws dropped on the ground.

"Are you serious?" Victor asked.

"Of course I am! Would I lie to you?" Richard stated trying to sound as innocent as he could.

Victor stared at Richard once more.

"Well…" Richard said walking toward his friends. "I understand if you're too scared."

"I-I'm not scared!" Victor almost yelled. "I'll go into this mansion and after an hour I will come out!"

"Okay… Then see ya tomorrow!" Richard and his friends walked away.

"Rich are you really going to become his friend?" One of Richard's friends asked.

"Of course not! I just want to see how long he can stay in that dumb old house before he runs out crying for his mom." Richard and his friends once again laughed.


Victor was left alone in front of the house staring at the window where he had seen the girl.

"What have I gotten myself into?" He asked himself.


When Victor got home he quickly ran toward his room and slammed the door shut. He lay in his bed staring up at the ceiling. He then sat up after a few minutes of just resting and walked toward his desk. He sat down on his chair and started doing his homework, not to forget Richard's. It wasn't long before Victor had finished his homework; he then started to do Richard's. He finished it quickly as well except for the writing assignment. Victor was about to start on it when someone knocked on his door.

"Victor, dinner time!" He heard his mom say.

"Okay mom, I'll be right out…" Victor replied.

Victor put his homework away in his backpack and set Richard's aside for now. He then walked out of his room and toward the kitchen.

It was a quiet dinner. Nobody at the table talked, especially Victor, not after what had happened after school. Unfortunately Victor's parents always asked him if anything new had happened. Victor hated to lie but he had to because Richard sacred him. Yes, any second now Victor's dad or mom would ask; "So, anything new happened at school today Victor?"

"So, anything new happened at school today Victor." William asked breaking the silence in the air and also trying to start a conversation.

"Um… Not really…" Victor said.

"Are you done with your homework honey?" Victor's mom asked.

"Almost… I'm just missing one more thing." Victor said looking down at his plate that was still full of spaghetti.

"Are you feeling okay sweetheart?"

"I'm okay mom… I'm not that hungry, may I please be excused?"

"But you haven't even touched your food…"

"I-I'm not hungry mom."

"Okay…" Nell said slowly in a very worried voice.

Victor got out of his seat and walked back to his room. His parents exchanged worried looks.

"Wonder what's going on with him. He's usually hungry at this late hour…" William stated. Nell nodded and continued eating.

Vincent, on the other hand, just stared at Victor's plate. He seemed gloomier than usual. Something was going on and Vincent was gonna find out!


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