Author not: sorry i havent posted for a while. im having some writers block as of where things are gonna go from here, so i might not be writing for a while. in the mean time, reviews would be nice. sorry my anonymous thing will be enabled soon. im still gettin the hang of this fanfiction site /. sorry for anydelays. ON WITH THE STORY!

Chapter 6

Julie stopped at the store to buy something to eat with the money she had left. This way, she would look like she was going that way if Chase or Emily saw her. She hoped to find someway to distract Chase into forgetting about the rest of the money. She grabbed herself a cappuccino from the cappuccino machine and a cookie. Not the best thing to eat, but she was in a hurry.

Back at the house

Emily was in her room playing with her dolls. From her window, she too could see the mysterious mansion. She remembered what she told her sister about how "her friend" saw her going. Emily didn't like lying, but she wondered why Julie was going to that haunted place; and if she was lying about it, it must be something good.

Emily crept down the stairs and peaked down at Chase. He was sleeping on the couch. "Good baby-sitting," she whispered to herself. But she was used to almost every adult around her being really stupid.

She grabbed a bag of things she might need at the mansion (including two or three dolls to keep her company) and snuck out of the back door. Obviously, Chase wasn't as smart as Julie made him out to be. Emily knew that if her mom found out she snuck out of the house, she'd be dead by morning. But Julie desperately wanted to know what was occupying almost every minute of Julie's time in that huge haunted house.

Emily arrived at the mansion and almost turned back twice. But she gathered all of the courage in her short, ten-year-old body and went through. With some difficulty, she stepped over the gate on the ground. She proceeded to the rest of the house…where no one would see her. The hill was very big and she got a little tired. Her face froze when she got to the garden. She was amazed with all of the sculptures she stumbled onto. Julie was right! Maybe there was someone living up here.

Julie was waiting in line of the busy store. This was ridiculous. It was almost 11:30 and she was stuck in line just to buy a cookie! She was irritated and hoped Chase and Emily were getting along well. Just then, she spotted a few of the kids from school; the ones who always made fun of her. She quickly ducked behind one of the carts next to the line. Luckily, they didn't see her. Once they were out of site, she came back up and got her spot back in line. She pulled out her cell phone and called her house.

"Hello," Chase said, sounding like he had been asleep. "Chase! Were you sleeping?" "No, no…I was watching TV." "Is Emily okay?" "You've been gone for a whole 10 minutes. I can handle it." "You were sleeping!" "How do you know?" "Just trust me on this one. Well, if you guys are okay, I'm gonna go now." "Yeah, bye," "See ya." She said and hung up the phone. The line was still moving slow, and she wanted to get out of there.

Emily felt like she wanted to get out of there. The mansion was dark and kind of scary. There were a bunch of robots and machines everywhere, along with cobwebs and spiders. She thought of going home, but she saw something by a bunch of stairs; it was a shadow. She debated whether or not to follow it. If it was here the whole time Julie was, it must have been safe…whatever it was. She pulled out one of her dolls and hugged it tight. "Let's go Cloe," she whispered and walked up the stairs.

She finally reached the top of the stairs when she saw something…it was sitting on a fire place! She slowly crept over to it. She stopped when she saw the light from a hole in the roof shine over by the fireplace. It was a tall, pale looking monster-type-thing! It probably wouldn't have scared of if it weren't for the huge razor blades it had on its arms. She let out a loud screech when it looked over at her.

Julie was now in garden and pulled out her camera. She started taking pictures of the sculptures and flowers in the garden. She caught them as they came out of the camera and placed them on a rather large, flat rock and let them develop. Luckily, it wasn't windy out.

Julie decided to take a few of herself along with the sculptured. She held out the camera, smiled and snapped a picture of her and the huge snake like creature. She repeated the process with some more sculptures. She now had a handful of pictures sitting in the rock. All of them were now developed. She flipped through them and headed up to the castle. One in particular was perfect. Not that she looked good in it, the lighting and position were just really good. As she entered the mansion she looked disappointingly at the rest of them. "Bad lighting," she said to herself.

"Who…what are you?" Emily screamed as it started to walk near her. It looked just like a person. She remembered what Julie said to her a while ago about the "man" that lived in that mansion. He was supposed to be nice. She calmed herself down as she saw him look at her. She smiled at him and he gave a little smile back. "Who are you?" she asked in her low, tiny voice. "Edward," he said back, obviously as scared as she was. "Edward…" Julie said. Maybe he just needed some company. She looked over at her backpack and smiled. "Yes," he asked. "Do you like dolls?"

Julie made her way up to the castle and was halfway up the stairs when she heard very faint voices coming from Edward's room. She ran up to the room. She almost laughed at what she saw when she arrived, but instead felt a mix of fright, anger, and trouble.