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Chapter Five

. Brandon's PoV .

"So can we get a lift?" I asked the couple who had found us.

"Well, Mr. Edwards and Mr. Turner," the woman said. "I suppose we could."

"Great!" I said, standing up.

"Thank you!" Will said.

I suddenly heard a loud series of thudding... or thunder... and screaming.

Why doesn't that surprise me/

I turned around with Will and we saw Ronie, Val, Julie, Clay, and Jack stampedeing up the front porch wih a huge horse behind them.

"MOVE!" Jack yelled.

"AHHH!"

Will and I ran upstairs freaking out, and they followed! Horse and all!

"Julie! What did you do!"

"Me?"

"Yes, you!" I yelled.

"Quick! Into the bedroom!" Clay said.

We slammed the door shut pantng like mad.

"That was-"

CRACK

"AHH!"

THUD

The horse had knocked the door in, and we slid to seperate sides of the room. Isaw Val jump up and kick the glass out of the window.

"Val?"

Then, she jumped out.

"Val!"

And Ronie went next with Will and Clay! Oh boy...

"Go!" I said, pushing Julie forward.

She stopped as the horse got on its hind legs and screamed. Jack died and pushed her out of the way. I went next and out the window I went.

"Hey1 I'ts a porch roof!" I said.

"Wonderful, Captain Obvious!" Ronie yelled. "Now jump!"

She pushed me, and I fell into a garden. Everyone else was there, too, and Ronie fell next to me.

"You ok?"

"Fine," she said angrily, getting up. "Go!"

. Ronie's PoV .

"Val! Where are you going?"" I yelled after finding my way out of the garden.

"Hurry! I found a way out!"

We ran over to the cart she was standing by, and I bent my brow.

"Those are cows!" I yelled.

"Better than nothing!" she retorted. "get in!"

Against my better instinct, I jumped into the cart, and Val followed.

"Hang on!"

We started rolling down the road really fast, and after an hour of travelling it was too dark to see, so I fell asleep.

. Midnight .

"Ronie! Get up!"

I rubbed my eyes and sat up. Everyone was getting out of the cart, and Clay was yelling about something or the other...

"What's wrong?" I asked.

"The door's locked!" he said, slamming himself against the door.

I got up and looked at the huge mansion in front of me.

"Geez you guys got it good!" I said. "Val, your mom is adopting me!"

"How? I'm dead, remember?"

"Oh yeah..."

After a few minutes, Will and Clay had opened the door. We turned on a light and looked around the ritzy living room.

"Race you, Jack!" Val yelled suddenly.

She and Jack ran across the living room and up this huge staircase and into the dark hallway.

"Is anybody even here, Clay?" Brandon asked.

"Let's go look around," clay said. "BJ, you and Julie can come with me. Ronie and Will, check the library."

"where's that?" Will asked.

"I don't know, but I remeber their being one..."

I rolled my eyes and took Will's hand to find the library.

. Val's PoV .

I ran back the hall with Jack hot on me, but I whipped into a guest room and fell onto the huge bed.

"Hey! Where'd ye go?" I heard him ask.

I giggled as he entered the room. He tripped over the armchair, though, and fell on top of mr.

"Well isn't this tempting..." he said.

"Get off," I laughed.

I pushed him and he rolled off the bed with a loud thud. I got up and went over to the dresser. I pulled out a long soft pink nightgown that came to my ankles. It was spaghetti strapped, but I loved it! It was pink!

"Be right back!" i said to Jack.

"Eh..."

I ran into the bathroom and changed, andI came out and put my jeans and tanktop on the chaise. Jack was dancing around the room with a bottle of wine in his hand.

"Yo ho, yo ho! A pirate's life for me!"

I smiled and took his arm.

"We kidnap and ravage and don't give a hoot!"

"Drink up me hearties, yo ho!"

. Brandon's PoV .

We were searching the parlor...

"Grandma?" Clay yelled. "Hello?"

"Wow! A suit of armor!"

"Julie! Don't touch that!" I snapped. She grabbed my arm and kept close.

"Pap?"

"Clay, nobody's here..."

"I-"

Julie gasped suddenly as a black figure rushed passed this open window.

"What was-"

A door slammed, and we jumped around.

"That wasn't Casper..." Clay whispered.

"Oh, cut it out," I said. "Let's go back downstairs... check the kitchen."

"Yeah, I'm starved..."

I rolled my eyes. God help him...

. Ronie's PoV .

We opened the library doors. It was dark, diry, and dusty...

"Whoa..." Will whispered.

I walked up to a statue and ripped the white sheet off it.

"Don't use it mush, do they?" I asked, coughing on the dust.

"It would seem that way..." he said, walking over to the bookcase above the empty fireplace.

"Anything good?" I asked, going over next to him.

"Um... how about 'Do Not Open?'"

"Huh?"

I took the book off the shelf. It was black with red letters that read 'do Not Open' on the cover. It was small...

"This is dumb," I said, opening it quickly.

Oh, that did it...

The floor was gone, and Will and I were falling.

"AHHH!"

"WILL! THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT!"

"ME?"

"YES!"

"AHHHH!"

THUD

"Ow..."

Will got up and helped me up.

"You ok?"

"No!"

I elbowed him in the gut.

"Oof... thanks for that."

"You and your stupid curiousity! Stupid book!"

I picked it up off the ground.

"Don't throw it!" Will said. "We might need it..."

I rolled my eyes and looked up. I didn't see any hole. Everything was dark. everything except the pool of light we were standing in. How is that possible?

"come on," I said, walking forward.

"But you don't know-"

"So? Maybe there's a way out..."

"Ronie, it's not a good idea..."

"Why? You afraid?"

"No!"

"So let's go! Don't fall behind..."

. Brandon's PoV .

"Are you done yet?"

"Yeah... too much Pepsi... I need Pringles!"

I rolled my eyes, and Julie and I went into the living room. She sat down next to me on the sofa.

"How did you talk me into this?" she asked quietly.

"I don't know..." I said.

We were about to kiss when we heard a loud crash from upstairs.

"I'm gonna kill them..." I growled, getting up.

Julie and I went for the staris when Clay came out of the kitchen carrying a can of Pringles.

"Hey! I found a note! They went to Egypt for a week!" he yelled. "We're forgotten!"

"Shh! Come on..."

He came upstairs with us, and we walked down the hallway to the door all that noise had come from.

"Open it," Clay mouthed.

I slowly grabbed the doorknob, nut I opened the door quickly. Jack was kissing Val and holding an almost empty wine bottle.

"Val!" I shouted.

She laughed and fell to the bed.

"Weeeeee..."

"You got her drunk?" Clay yelled.

"Nah... I consider this sober."

"You don't know the meaning of sober!" I bellowed.

"Aye, I do..."

"Shut up! Val! Y'ok?"

Clay and I sat her up, and she laughed.

"Val!"

"Weeeeee..."

"Great! Now ye broke 'er again!" Jack said.

"Oh, get lost!"

"Val! how many fingers do you see?" Clay asked.

"Weeeeee..."

"I can cure this!" Jack said

"No you can't..." Julie said.

WHACK

"Hey! Bring her back! I yelled.

Jack ran out the room with Val swinging on his shoulder, and we followed.

. Val's PoV .

"Ow..." I muttered.

"Lass! Wake up!"

"Why are we running?"

"Later!"

He ran into a dark room and put me down.

"Ye fixed now?"

"Huh?"

I stood up and looked around.

"Where - cough - are we?"

"Err... the library, it looks," Jack said.

"The WHAT?" I shrieked.

"Val!"

Fists started pounding on the doors, and BJ and Clay were yelling for me. I ran to the door trying to get out.

"BJ! Get me out!"

"Whoa! Lass! What's got ye all spooked?" Jack asked.

"Before my grandma and pap bought this place, a guy named Albert was murdered here! Now let me out!"

"Calm down, luv..."

"No! you may feel comfortable around dead guys, but I don't! Clay!"

I backed away from the door freaking out.

"It sounds like it was a while ago..." Jack said.

"Who cares!" I yelled.

Eww...

"BJ! Clay!"

I kept backing up until I tripped over a statue and fell down really far...

Then it was dark.

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