CHAPTER 5: Freddy's Party
The bell rung at Sara's house and Henry answered the door. There were the first 2 party guests, Maggie Sullivan and Sophie Forman.
"Hey guys! You're the first guests to arrive" Henry informed the girls, motioning for them to come in.
"Hey Henry, hey Sara" they said to Henry and Sara, Maggie and Sophie didn't know Karen or Anna.
Then a lot more people started to flock in, Adrian Bordello, Keenan Humsworth, Miranda Goldstein, Mike Faun and Kelly Faun (brother and sister). By then everyone had a beer in hand and Sara was attempting to start up the movie Halloween.
Karen slowly closed the door she held open for the guests but suddenly it was forced back inwards.
"Yo! Can I hear a Party?" Mike Duntres yelled out to the guests, his girlfriend Lola Smiths was close behind.
Everyone in the big lounge room yelled back, "Party!"
Mike Duntres was one of the most popular kids in school; nearly everyone was friends with him. He could make anyone laugh.
"Hey Mike!" Karen greeted him as he walked in the door.
"Hey, what's shaking?" Mike replied, looking over at Sara putting the DVD into the player.
"We're just about to start a movie" Karen informed him, and he went into the lounge room and sat down, Lola sitting next to him.
Lola had a bad reputation at school; she had gone out with 8 different guys in 5 days, so she was called some pretty nasty names. Mike saw past that, and Karen didn't blame him for going out with her, she was funny and fairly bright.
Just as Sara started the movie more guests arrived, 7 of them. Karen didn't know all of there names, but she did recognize Hillary Green. She had once been suspended for spray-painting the principal's office with the F word. She wasn't very smart, to say the least.
Once they were all in the door Sara pressed play on the DVD player. As the credits were rolling 3 more people arrived, and around 10 minutes into the movie there were over 30 people in the house.
Karen went over to the long table in the lounge room where the food and drink was and poured herself a glass of punch.
Sitting on the crowded couch was Josh Matthews, watching the movie with a big smile on his face. Anna was leaning against the wall next to the TV, a pillow behind her back, watching the movie.
Karen walked over and stood next to the couch, sipping her punch. Suddenly a hand wrapped around her waist and pulled her onto the couch, it was Josh.
"Sit down, enjoy the movie!" he said with a giant grin on his face.
Karen grinned back, sitting on Josh's lap, and looked at the screen. Out of the corner of her eye Karen saw Anna giving her a look that said, Lucky!
When the movie finally finished someone came running into the room, something clenched in his fist. His two friends were right behind him, the person with something in his fist was Cory Jenkins, and his friends were Brandon O'Dea and Eddy Ridley.
"Hey everyone, we've got a little dare for you. You've all heard of Freddy Krueger, the supposed Springwood Slasher, right?" Cory yelled to the crowd, someone turned the TV down while he was talking.
Nearly everyone murmured in agreement.
"Well he murdered children ages ago in sadistic ways, sometimes using a glove with knifes for fingers. The parents of Springwood, our town, got fed up, and they burned him alive. But he wasn't done with his murdering ways. He came back to life, and he haunted the children of Springwood where their parents couldn't protect them, in their dreams. He murdered them in gruesome ways, but he hasn't been around in a while. But tonight's Halloween, and anything could happen. That boy, Frank Esponade, he was murdered by Freddy. He's back you know, but if you don't believe me, then take the dare" as Cory finished he opened his hand and revealed a bottle of sleeping pills. You could tell they were sleeping pills by the big red letters on the bottle, which read 'SLEEP EASY'.
Several people stepped up, 5 of them. Among them were Josh Matthews and Mike Duntres. Mike's girlfriend had fallen back into the crowd somewhere.
A chorus of 'I'll do it' and 'sure' came from the people who stepped up.
"Come on people, there's only 5 here, are you guys scared?" Cory said, mocking the others.
"No, we just don't want to do it" Karen told Cory.
"And that's because you're scared, isn't it?" Cory asked her.
"No, I just don't want your face to haunt my nightmares" Karen said back, several people laughed and others said 'ooh!'
Cory suddenly grabbed her and forced her into the wall, he always had a short fuse. Karen felt her shoulders smack into the wall and knew she would have bruises there.
"No, I think your scared bitch, but you're going to do it, and if you won't take the pills then I'll force them down your throat" Cory threatened Karen, his facial features pulled up in a grimace of anger.
"Leave her alone! She doesn't have to do it if she doesn't want to!" Anna piped up.
Cory turned around and pulled his hands from Karen's shoulders and put them up in a surrendering pose.
"OK, I'll just give the pills to the brave ones here, not the little wimps" Corey answered Anna, glaring back at Karen.
Cory passed out a couple of sleeping pills to each of the people taking the dare, and they swallowed them down. They all started to get tired and each got a space to lye down. Everyone watched as they fell asleep and entered their dreams.
Cory whispered something into his friends' ears and they nodded. Karen looked down at the sleeping people when suddenly Cory's friends ran up behind her and grabbed an arm each. Cory put a hand over her mouth as she was pushed against the wall.
"See, I told you you'd take the dare, whether you wanted to or not!" Corey hissed and moved his hand. At the same time he pushed a couple of sleeping pills into her mouth and put his hand back over it.
Cory held her nose and said, "Swallow, or else!"
Karen waited as long as she could before she swallowed, she had no breath left. She was held for at least a minute more before she fell to the floor, asleep. Cory and his friends dragged her away and locked her in a bedroom where no one would find her. They went back to the party then, and no one knew she was gone.
It was then Karen slipped into her dream.
Karen was still in the house, but now she was in the bedroom. She rolled off the bed and walked cautiously to the partially closed door. She slowly pushed it open and looked around, when she was assured something wasn't going to jump out and attack her she walked forward. She didn't hear anything except for the floorboards creaking under her feet, none of that normal partying noise.
She looked down the staircase and saw no one. She looked at her watch to find it was only 10 o'clock. Karen carefully walked down the stairs, craning her neck to see around the corner.
In the lounge room were bodies, 5 of them in total. They lay on the ground, not moving.
Karen stifled a scream and walked closer, she was in the doorway when suddenly one of the bodies moved, and then the others started to stir. The others who had taken the dare got to their feet, looking around.
"Where did everybody go?" Mike asked.
The others started to ask the same questions when Karen piped up.
"We're in a dream."
Everyone was silenced with this sentence.
"And Freddy is coming" Karen continued.
"And how do you know?" A blonde haired boy asked.
"Because he's been after me for days, he wants us dead, he wants revenge" Karen went on.
Suddenly the walls started to ooze out a red liquid that looked suspiciously like blood. A cackling filled the room and everyone ran. They ran straight out of the room, but they didn't end up where they should have. They were in a hallway filled with doors. It seemed to go on forever, just a corridor with doors on either side.
Karen turned back the way she came, and saw that the hallway stretched both ways.
Over their heads was a sign, it read 'PICK A DOOR, CHOOSE YOUR FATE!'
"What do we do?" a girl pleaded.
"I guess we try a door" Karen said, walking towards the door to the left.
The others spread out and each chose a door. Mike somehow ended up way down the corridor. They each opened their door and stepped inside, and each of the doors slammed shut behind them.
Freddy's horrible cackle rang out through the corridor; he had them where he wanted them. They were in Freddy's world now.
And they had picked their rooms, so now they had to deal with their fate.