Okay, so this chapter was originally supposed to be longer, but... It ended up like this. But hey, more fun for the next one! ;D It was also supposed to be published sooner, but school started last week, I fell ill with quite a bad head cold and this morning I face-planted from a horse (don't worry, it's sounds more dramatic than it was; though it's not something I would recommend ;))... So, yeah, life's been busy ;D

ENJOY! :D

Chapter 4:

Leo screamed as he covered his face with his hands and barely registered how the figure before him did the same. He continued to screech, his scream sounding more like the one of a eight-year-old girl than the teenage boy he was, but to his defense so did everyone's in a moment of pure terror. Then slowly the sound died down as he carefully glanced between his fingers and saw the man reflect his movements. Taking a closer look, Leo then let his hands drop.

It was a mirror... It was just a mirror.

He let out a embarrassed laugh as he ran a hand through his hair watching his reflection do the same as he tried to calm his racing heart. It was just a mirror.

"Okay..." Leo mumbled, trying to collect himself, but winced slightly at how loud the echo of his voice sounded in the deserted hallway. He quickly located his flashlight he not so discreetly had discarded when he saw "the man" around the corner.

Leo looked around as he suddenly remembered the fallen vase, but just like before discovered nothing. Despite the feeling of being watched now gone, Leo felt really hopeless. He was alone in a dark, smelly house known for its horror and had no idea where his siblings were or even if they were okay.

What had he done?

Trying to shake the depressed thoughts from his mind, Leo resisted the urged to collapse to the dusty floor and decided to continue down the hallway instead. So he tightened his hold on the flashlight and with a glare at the mirror started walking again.

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Breathe... One, two three... Breathe... One, two, three.

Taking a deep breath, Bree felt the dread rise inside her. She couldn't find Adam anywhere! He had been just beside here a minute ago...

Okay, just breathe! Everything will be okay...

Slowly Bree gave up her search in the room. Wherever her brother was it wasn't here. So she was just going to keep looking. She was going to find Adam and a way up from this stinky basement and then they would find Chase and Leo and get the hell out of this house.

Bree made her way into the next room, which appeared to be an old food storage or something. Though everything that was in there was rotten and filled with vermin.

"Okay Adam, if this is that yummy smell you mentioned, we seriously need to get your nose checked." Bree joked and the empty room taunted her with the echo of her own voice.

She had hoped for her brother to answer her because this was starting to really freak her out. People didn't just disappear! Though the horror movies she'd seen kind of proved that they rule didn't apply in horror houses.

Oh, don't be ridiculous Bree! Horror movies are fictional. They are fake!

Though fake or not, her fear was real. So she took a last look around the room before hurrying through the next door. The sight there caused her heart to skip a beat.

"Chase?" Bree exclaimed and rushed to her younger brother, who was leaning against the wall with his hands over his ears, pain gracing his features.

She almost expected him to vanish under her touch, but as she put her hand on his arm he flinched and looked up at her. His eyes were wide and she couldn't really say if he was more shocked or confused to see her.

"Bree?" he asked, his voice sounding lost, and she squeezed his arm gently.

"You okay?"

"Yeah, I'm just..." He rubbed his ears as he looked around, and Bree could tell he was trying to make sense of the situation. "What was that sound?"

"What sound?" Bree asked dumbfounded, she hadn't heard a thing except her own voice since Adam disappeared.

"Never mind..." Chase mumbled absent-minded and looked around the room again. Then his eyes suddenly widened and his gaze snapped back to Bree.

"Where's Adam?" he asked and Bree felt the worry clench at her heart again.

"I-... I don't know." She admitted and turned her gaze to the floor. "He said something about food and when I turned around he was gone..."

Her brother didn't say anything, so after a minute of silence she looked up at him again. Chase was watching her with a barely interpretable expression. It looked like a mixture of worry and contained fright.

"So how did you end up down here?" Bree asked, suddenly not really liking the attention. "I thought you and Leo were upstairs. Wait, is Leo alone up there?"

"Yeah, he is and we were, but..."

Chase shone his flashlight at the ceiling on what appeared to be a hatch.

"Is... that another trapdoor?"

"Yep, a not a pleasant one. It was quite a drop." Chase said as he met the light beam fall back to the floor. "And then there was this... I don't know, really loud and weird screeching sound."

"Hmm, I didn't hear I thing." Bree mumbled and Chase shrugged again.

"Don't worry about it, we should probably look for the others."

And so they went.

TO BE CONTINUED...

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Until next time! :) /Libra