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Chapter 5:

They slowly walked out of the room and through the next until they found themselves in a dark hallway, which was a bit too narrow for comfort. As they walked Bree tried to get her head around the whole... well, house.

It had its own local legend about its horrors. That alone was a warning sign in her book; why had she thought going here was a good idea again? Right, because it was just a house; there was no thing as real horror houses... Or so she'd thought.

So, what more? It was full of trap doors; in the walls and on the floor. People disappeared... She could feel the tears sting her eyes.

"Hey, you okay?" Chase suddenly asked, grabbing her hand. She was thankful for the contact, thankful she wasn't alone.

"Yeah" she said and a part of her hated how small she sounded. She just wanted to go home.

"Don't worry, we're just going to find the others and then we can get out of here." Chase said, as if reading her mind, and she squeezed his hand. He was right; with everything they had done in their lives, a little mansion in the forest was nothing. Right? It was nothing...

Chase slowed down beside her and she could see a door in front of them. Her brother glanced at her before he let go of her hand and opened the door.

The brightness of the light on the other side assaulted her with full force, causing her to shield her eyes and blink several times. When her eyes had adjusted themselves she saw a hallway much similar to the first one they'd entered. A chilly breeze from the right alerted her to the broken window.

"What the-?!" Bree spun around at her brother's loud exclamation and saw him staring wide-eyed out through the window.

"Chase, what's wrong?" she asked walking towards him; he simply pointed outside. As Bree looked out, she felt her own eyes widen.

"Wait, that's not-... Are we...?"

"On the third floor? Yeah, we are." Chase finished her sentence and Bree frowned in confusion, one question running through her mind,

"How?"

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Leo came to another crossroad of hallways and chose, once more, to continue straight ahead. He had decided to, with the exception of one left turn, to keep walking straight. Both stairs and door usually were located by the end of houses, right? Plus, it minimized the risk of getting lost.

"Man, this place is huge..." Leo muttered and shook his head before beginning to hum "Row, Row, Row Your Boat" again. If anyone asked he would definitely deny singing a nursing rhyme in a "horror house", but he had his reasons. Firstly, it was seriously stuck in his head, and secondly, it was sort of comforting and kept the fear that he could feel crawling at the back of his mind away.

As he came to yet another crossing hallway Leo leaned against the wall in defeat. This was hopeless! He was pretty sure he'd walked about twice the size of the house in a straight line, how now that was possible... Sighing Leo pushed himself of the wall and...

Jumped backwards with a yelp of surprise as he saw another person beside him. Though he didn't freak out -this time- because he recognized the confused look on his brother's face.

"Adam! What are you doing!" Leo shouted, but then he just stared at the boy with puzzled look. "Wait, how did you get up here? Where's Bree?"

The confusion deepened and Adam looked at him puzzled, "I-... I don't know."

"Okay..." Leo said, trying to ignore the bad feeling creeping up his back, and motioned for Adam to follow him as he started walking down the hallway again; standing still made him really restless. "So what happened?"

"Well..." Adam began and frowned as he tried to make sense of the events. "There was this smell."

"A smell?" Leo questioned, trying not to look at the boy condescending; but seriously, the whole place smelled!

"Yeah, this really yummy smell. Like from food, lots of food." Adam explained and Leo pretended like his stomach did not just rumble a little at the thought of delicious food instead of moldy walls.

"So, you know, I followed it." Adam continued. "And suddenly I was in this completely different and dark room, and Bree was nowhere to be seen! Then there was a light, so I followed it. I thought it was Bree, but it wasn't, and then there was a door and... ta-da, I'm here!"

Leo honestly didn't know what to say, this place was... cool, yet very terrifying. "Wow, that's just- WHOA!"

Leo jumped backwards, again, straight into Adam as he saw the light beam directed at them; then he stared incredulously at the source.

"Seriously?!" Leo shouted in annoyance. "Again with a mirror?!" Then another thing hit him, it wasn't just a mirror...

"That's-... That's the same mirror!" Leo said, gaping at the sight. "How can that be the same mirror?! I've walked straight ahead! Okay, I took one left turn, but one turn does not make a circle! How-?!"

He looked back at Adam, wishing for the older boy to explain this mystery, but Adam was staring at something behind them, a frightened look on his face. Leo slowly followed his gaze and felt the blood leave his face. Just a few feet from them stood a man. The thing was just, they could see through him!

"Adam," Leo said, his voice a bit shaky. "Please tell me I'm not the only one seeing that... And please tell me that isn't real."

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"Okay, that's it! This place is creepy, smelly, dark and with all likelihood dangerous, so let's just find our stupid brothers and get out of here!" Bree exclaimed frustrated and started walking down the hallway.

Though when she neither heard her brother follow nor got a response from him, she looked back.

"Chase?" Bree questioned worriedly as she saw her brother's stiff posture. "Is something wrong?"

That's when Chase collapsed to the ground, grasping his head in pain, as bone-chilling screams erupted from him.

TO BE CONTINUED...

Okay, that cliffhanger is kind of mean... Though I have no regrets! ;) We've finally come to the point in the story which is kind of the point of the story; the events that created the whole story (in my head)!

By the way, I couldn't help but put "Row, Row, Row Your Boat" in here; my sister was humming it yesterday and now it's stuck in my head... ;P

Anywho, until next time! :) /Libra