Ok, so the last part of chapter 8 got sloppy, because I totally ran out of ideas.
Also, just so you don't get confused, there are 7 girls and 6 guys.
Girls: Kelee (pronounced Kelly), Amanda, Jenny, Abby, Christi, Clair and Katey.
Guys: Kurt, Aaron, Brian, Brad, Zach, Ethan.
So there we go, just so you don't go, 'wait, who's THAT?'
And, I haven't seen any of the mentioned movies except Skeleton Key, so I'm just going to be making up little random parts.
So if you see something that isn't right, don't correct me because I know that I'm wrong.
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"Nice place. Definitely... what the Hell?" Brad swore loudly.
The group jumped.
"What?" Abby asked, as she was the nearest one.
"Katey, what's with the knife?" Brad said, pointing to the knife at my side.
Damn it. I hadn't any time to put it up before I had to get the door…
Everyone turned and looked at me.
"Clair started screaming her head off while I was down in the kitchen so I just grabbed this thing." I shrugged and went back to the kitchen to put the knife back, and found a huge mess on the floor.
In my panic I had thrown drawers across the room, scattering forks and spoons and whisks and whatever else all over the place.
I sighed, and bend over to pick everything up.
"Nice mess." I heard from the doorway, and my heart seemed to skip a beat.
I looked back up to find Ethan surveying the chaos on the floor.
"Tell me about it. I swear, the knives were in the last drawer I looked in." I said, resuming putting ladles back into their respective drawer. Or what I thought was their drawer.
"Maybe for her birthday they should get her a labeler." He said.
"That would help in emergencies. Wanna help?"
"Sure."
Ethan got down on his hands and knees beside me, gathering up the wares that were the most likely to go into the same drawer.
The room fell silent except for the sound of plastic and metal clanking against each other.
I stood up to put the Folgers Coffee can full of whisks back on the counter where I had accidentally knocked them off, but the next second I was flat on my back.
I had tried to stand on a measuring cut that slid out from under me, and it sent me slipping back into Ethan, where I fell over him, my limbs strewn at random.
"You just can't seem to stay coordinated can you?" Ethan laughed, helping me right my arms and legs and stand back up.
For a moment I debated blurting "hey, I was considered for lead dancer for 'Hannibal', but quickly stopped myself.
"Good thing I don't take ballet, or else I might wind up dead…" I smiled, while mentally barricading old memories.
Ethan looked like he wanted to say something, but we were interrupted by Christi.
"When you two stop flirting…" I blushed and looked down "We're ready to start the movies."
"So what are we watching first?" I asked as we went back up the stairs into the landing parlor.
"Skeleton Key, since it isn't that scary." She said, flopping down onto one of the delicately embroidered settees.
I felt like wincing at the sight of such delicate furniture being abused in such a way.
"Take a seat folks! We're starting!" Clair said from in front of the Television which was, in fact, one of the only new things in the whole house.
-After the Movie-
There was a weird silence as the credits started to role.
"Hang on…" Christi said, breaking the silence. "So… the evil people won? What kind of an ending is that?"
"Talk about sucky." Kurt added.
"Yeah, I thought that the good guys always won. Or is that just me?" Aaron said, sounding as confused as every one else.
"I thought that too… at least, that's how just about every movie I've seen ended; with the good dude winning." Zach said.
There was another silence.
"I'm gonna go get a coke, anyone want anything?" I said, starting to stand up.
Immediately everyone seemed to pounce, all asking for something different.
"Ack! One at a time people!" I said, waving for them to shut up. "Ok, so basically you're all saying that I'm going to wind up bringing everything I bought up here?"
"Pretty much." Amanda said seriously.
I laughed.
"Okay, okay. I'll bring it all up here." I shook my head, wishing that I didn't have to haul all that junk upstairs.
"Don't start the next movie without me!" I said as I descended.
"Don't worry, we will." Jenny shouted amongst laughter.
I felt my way along the walls downstairs. We had turned off all the lights to get more 'in the mood' and now the first floor was pitch black.
"Where the heck is the switch?" I asked myself softly.
I felt along the wall until I felt a door frame.
I ran my hand along the inside, leaning against it and trying to get my bearings.
"So I'm either at the kitchen, the bathroom, or any of the other million rooms down here. This just really narrows it all down." I thought sarcastically.
I started to move, but all of a sudden I felt a breeze go past me and then a sharp pain in my fingers.
I screamed and the chatter from the upstairs parlor stopped.
"Katey?" I heard from above.
I couldn't respond.
I felt like I'd had the wind knocked out of me. And not just because of pain, but because I'd just witnessed a ghost.
Or something that could shut a door on my hand.
There came sounds of people coming down the stairs and suddenly a light clicked on, momentarily blinding me.
"Oh my God! Katey! Are you okay? Holy shit, you're hand is shut in the door!" Clair yelled, running over to me.
I was so scared that I couldn't even speak, but suddenly a new thought came to me.
How can I be afraid of ghosts if I AM one?
"Woman, you need to tell people where light switches are! I'm just feeling my way in the dark and then what happens? I get my hand shut in a door!" I said, immediately comforted by that new thought.
"I thought you knew where they were! Good Lord!" Clair said, opening the door, freeing my hand.
I flexed it, and thankfully, nothing was broken.
"Well, looks like I've got full use of my Metacarpals and Phalanges." I said, remembering the last science test we had over labeling all the bones of the human body
"Oh God! Not science!" Kurt cried, sinking to his knees.
We all laughed.
"So are you getting us those cokes or what?" Brad asked, leaning against Abby, who was much shorter than him.
"Off. Of. Me." She said, pushing him off.
"Don't think of anyone but yourselves do you?" I teased, heading across the downstairs to the kitchen.
"Nope!" Christi said, now leaning against Brad to annoy him.
"Hey, someone want to help me with all this? I don't know where the bags went!" I called, pulling popcorn and junk food out of the pantry and cabinets.
"Sheesh, if you have to be so whiny about it…" Jenny said, dragging Aaron after her.
I handed off random boxes to everyone, and sent them upstairs.
"Good-ness, I feel like a mother. I'm too young to feel like a mother!" I said as I was leaning into the fridge, grabbing a coke for myself out.
"And how, pray tell, do you feel like a mother."
For a brief second I considered Hari Kari, but realized it was Clair talking, and not the accustomed Erik.
"Well I'm just giving everyone a box or something and then sending them on their way! And an awful lot like mother hen too, I'll tell you that much."
Clair giggled.
"You, mother hen? I should think not."
"Whatever. I feel like one, so there. So what's up next on the movie list?" I asked, not really interested.
Like I said, scary movies were idiotic, and Clair knew perfectly well my standpoint on this.
"Like you care." She laughed. "You don't even get scared!"
"No, I do. It's just knowing to look away at the right moment." I admitted.
"Yeah, but then the guys don't get their ego trip!"
"Their what?" I said blankly.
"Ego trip, you know, to make them feel good about themselves."
"Wait, how does that work by being scared of an image on T.V?"
Clair sighed.
"When you 'get scared' you're supposed to cuddle up to them to make them think like they'll protect you from the T.V"
"Ah." I said, thinking. "Who am I supposed to cuddle up with though? I sit next to you and Amanda."
"Exactly." Clair said, and she walked away, leaving me completely lost.
I stood there for a second before I realized why I had come down to the kitchen in the first place.
I grabbed my coke and headed back up the stairs, making sure I knew where the switched were before I turned the off.
When I got back up to the landing there was an ever so slight problem.
All the girls were mingled around the guys, making no room for me to sit by them. And the only available spot was right next to Ethan.
'Clair,' I thought as I sat down 'one of these days you are going to die by my hand.'
"Okay guys, now we're going to watch…" Kelee dug in the pile of movies for a good one. "The Haunting!"
She shoved it in the DVD player and hit play.
-A little way into the movie-
I had to admit, the movie was a little bit scary, and there were some parts when I just had to gasp aloud with the other girls.
I was having fun though, talking to Ethan and Clair, who was sitting on my other side, through the whole movie so far.
At one really freaky part we girls all screamed. I screamed along with them and grabbed Clair out of fright while she did the same the exact same thing.
When our heads were still close together Clair whispered so low that I could barely hear her, "Next movie I'm not sitting over here, so then you have to be with Ethan."
We let go, and I sure wished that the movie would never end.
-After the movie-
"Well that was definitely better than the last one." Kurt said, shrugging.
"Well, it was creepy, that's for sure." Kelee said.
"NEXT MOVIE!" Brad yelled, startling Abby who was sitting next to him.
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Oh boy, sleepover romances!
Ok, that sounds very wrong, but what the hey.
More of me trying to know what's in movies I've never seen coming soon!
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