Chapter 2: Little mouse
"That's just creepy." I say
"Go to bed now girls." Father yelled from the study
We hopped up from the floor and went over to the study and father sat at his desk filling out paper forms.
"Good night father." We both said
"Yeah that's good…" father sighed, not even listening
We both looked at each other and shrugged. We wondered over to the kitchen to find mother sitting at the table going through her new stamp collection.
"Mother, father says its bedtime and we haven't even had supper yet." Sandra sighs
"Well there's…. Tinned beans and vegetables." Mother says, not looking up to see us, her eyes still fixed on her stamp collection.
"I think we'll skip dinner." I say, looking at Sandra
"But… I was going to have vegetables." Whispered Sandra
I rolled my eyes at her and then we said good night to mother and went upstairs to our room. We were sharing a room, but I was glad we were because the house would creep me out too much sleeping on my own.
"Goodnight." I said
"Goodnight." Sandra replied
Squeak, squeak. The sound awakened me and a small mouse looked at me and started heading out the room.
"Sandra!" I whisper
"Hmmm… Linda go to sleep." Sandra sighs
"Come quick!" I whisper trying not to shout
Sandra grunts and turns over. I forget about her and run down after the mouse, I follow it all the way down to the sitting room. The fireplace was not lit and the house was dark, so I assumed it was around midnight. The mouse ran over behind the couch that sat along the side of the wall, I push it out of the way to reveal a small door. I run back upstairs to tell Sandra, but she just shoo's me away, so it's going to be just me. I run down stairs and find the little mouse has a key sitting in front of it, its head nods towards the key. I pick it up and put the key in the hole and turn it, to reveal a long tunnel that ends at another door.
"Are you sure about this little mouse?" I ask the mouse
Although I knew it wouldn't answer, the mouse knew anyway and it ran into the tunnel to the end and slipped through the half open door. I slowly went down on my hands and knees and began to crawl ever so slowly. I got to the other end and slowly opened the door and crept out…