Previously:
Alice looked around the room, and then her breathing stopped in all. Yes, she was alive, but staring at something on the west side of the room. At last, I started walking towards her, and turned to where she was staring at. I gasped and my breath caught in my throat-what we saw, was the freakiest thing I have seen in my 17 years of living.
BPOV:
Hanging, on the west side of the wall, was a dead corpse of a young girl about our age. It was defiantly old, and two knifes were pierced through her shoulders to keep her on the wall, her eyes, were wide open and onyx black. Her throat was slit, dry blood cracked on the skin of her face and dried on her clothes. That wasn't it though; an old piece of paper was pinned to her stomach, droplets of dry blood on it. Alice, unthinkingly, walked over to the corpse and carefully unpinned the piece of paper. Her breathing became shaky and heavy, by now, everyone was in the room staring at the corpse and Alice, and Edward had his arms around my stomach from behind, his chin rested on my shoulder-though his eyes were as wide as saucers.
Alice put a shaking hand to her mouth and turned back to the girl. "Alice, what are you doing?" Jasper asked worriedly. Not wanting to touch it, Alice bent down to see her whole face, and looked behind to her ear. She moved a piece of molded hair back and pulled something out from behind the ear. It was a silver, clean-that looked brand new-key. Alice held it carefully with two fingers, but obviously disgusted that she actually was touching it.
"What's that…?" Rose asked slowly eyeing it carefully. My eyes turned to the girl; her head was in a different position this time. I gasped, and turned to Alice. She turned around just as one of the knives slowly dispersed itself from the girls shoulder, than the other did the same thing and they both fell to the floor. We were all frozen in place again-the body started to shuffle around now, her feet firmly planted on the floor. Alice-first out of the trance-slowly backed up, dropping the key to the floor in the process. "What the hell is happening here?" Rose asked, panicking. The body shifted more, and I started hyperventilating…again. I grabbed Edwards hand and went to the door, but stopped when I heard Alice reciting something.
"Listen up, listen here, a silver key behind the ear. Shuffle and scurry the dead they will, close and lock the door he will." She paused then started again. "This soul left me behind, payback now was mine, Maria Nash now rests in peace, who ever disturbs we shall meet. Tiberius Flank," She dropped the paper and grabbed the key to the door. Rose and Em exited with us followed by Jasper and Alice, the dead body right on their trail, holding a bloody knife high above her head. Alice turned around once outside of the room and slammed the door shut, it shook and she struggled to put the key in the lock. Emmett helped, and she was able to succeed.
"WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT ALL ABOUT! I AM GETTING OUT OF THIS FREAKING HOUSE I DON'T CARE IF WE LOSE THE FREAKING BET--" Rose screamed. Jasper shushed her by putting one of his hands on her mouth. Alice was still breathing heavy and I buried my head in Edwards shoulder.
EDPOV:
So, a dead body was about to kill us if we didn't get out of the room. But I kept reciting that little riddle in my head trying to see what the last part meant.
Maria Nash now rests in peace, who ever shall disturb we shall meet.
"What does that note mean?" I asked quietly, but Jasper shushed me as well, removing his hand from Rosalie's mouth. I held onto Bella, and curiously stared at Jasper who was trying to listen to something. Alice put a hand on his arm and stared up at him.
"Listen," he said. We all listened, holding on to our partners; screaming, it was definitely coming from outside the house, it sounded too far away to be coming from inside the house. "Where is it coming from? The barn?" he asked.
"Sounds like it," Bella added, clinging to me for dear life. "We should leave, now. Apparently the rumors here are true, and we could end up getting killed by that thing in there, or something else. I really want to finish my junior year, and die old-NOT 17 YEARS OLD AND IN A SCARY HOUSE!" Bella whined. But I knew she was true, I wanted to finish my junior year too, and I'm sure the rest would like to graduate as well.
"She's right," I agreed. Emmett gave me a look.
"Then leave, the rest of us will gladly stay and be brave." He told us. Rose stared at him, Alice understood, but I could tell she wanted to leave as well, but also wanted to stay. Jasper looked like he wanted to stay too, but wanted Alice to stay.
"Fine, we will camp out on the sidewalk then, so we're technically here." Bella said, shrugging her shoulders. Emmett raised his eyebrows, and Alice and Jasper let out a small chuckle. I kissed Bella's forehead and stepped away from her grip.
"Then if we leave, we hope to see you all coming out of that door in seven days." I announced. I made my way over to Jasper and shook his hand, hugged Alice and did the same to Emmett and Rosalie. Bella did the same-except hugged every one of them. I held her close as we made our way down the creaky stairs. Camping on the sidewalk of a haunted house wasn't how I planned this, but I would do it for my Bella anytime. Like she, I wanted to win this bet also, but if we see Newton anytime, I'm sure we would head back in…this was going to be harder than I thought…
APOV:
Edward and Bella just left, they told us that they would stay on the side walk for the seven nights. Hopefully, like Edward had said, we would come out on the seventh day in one piece-all of us. Truthfully, I was scared to death, but I wanted to be brave. As Jasper pointed out, the screaming was still there, louder than before. I looked out the window and saw Bella and Edward making out on the sidewalk on a blanket. I rolled my eyes and looked towards Emmett; he was deep in thought, probably thinking of what to do next. "Okay people, let's split up to find this screaming. I'll go with little Pixie, since she could fit in small places and I can't, and I could hear things better than her." I pouted, I wanted to go with Jazzy, and he called me deaf practically. "Jasper will go with Rosie because like me he could hear better, and she is very cunning." Jasper furrowed her brow.
"Why do I have to go with Rose? I mean, Rose can fit in places you can't either." Jasper asked. Emmett thought for a minute and Rose glared at Jasper.
"That does make sense Jasper, BUT let's mix things up a bit; I mean come on when am I ever with the little squirt?" He said frowning. Jazzy rolled his eyes, but gave in. He kissed me fiercely on the lips and went to Rosalie's side. Wait a minute…SQUIRT?! Emmett made his way over to me after he said goodbye to Rose, and I punched him in the gut. He looked at me confused, but then he understood and grinned.
Jasper and Rose agreed to travel up the third floor, and stupid Emmett decided that I and he should check out the basement. Of course, the basement was pitch black with no lights working. So he pulled out a small flashlight from his bag and shone it everywhere. I noticed a dark figure looking cloud in the back of the vast room and put a hand on Emmett's arm, he turned to the dark figure and pulled out a walk-y talk-y. "Guys?" he whispered, both of us staring at the figure in horror.
"Yeah?" Jasper's smooth voice replied.
"Do not come down in the basement…"he confirmed, there was no answer for a while.
"Why not, Emmett?" Rose's voice came through this time, it was filled with panic. The dark figure moved closer, a bloody pitch fork in its dark hand, a knife in his forehead and chest. To answer Rose's question, we both screamed, Emmett's hand still on the talk button.
"Don't you leave me you two. Not again Craig, Not again Maria…"
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