-Chapter two! Thanks to everyone who favourited, followed and reviewed the first chapter!—
"Hey Robyn, come look at these." Sam said when the staffroom was empty. Sam had the letters and photos laid out across the staffroom desktop.
"What's all this?" She asked, looking at everything there.
"Stuff." Sam said. "You know I went on that walk with Tom last night?"
"Yeah…?" Robyn said.
"Well he chased me through the woods and we came across this old house." Sam explained. "The door was open and there was no one there."
"You went in?"
"Yeah! It was like, abandoned? I don't know. No one has lived there for years by the looks of it." Sam said. "So I looked around and found all these. I'm going to take them back tonight though. I would have kept them longer but Tom doesn't want me to have them in the house."
"Why? They are just letters?" Robyn looked at Sam, confused.
"Exactly! But Tom's convinced there is someone in the house." Sam sighed. "I've photocopied them so I can still look at what's there."
"Ghosts?" Robyn laughed. "No such thing."
"Exactly." Sam said.
"Although, my granddad swore to me that he saw a ghost once." Robyn said. "I didn't believe him though."
"Right…" Sam said. "Okay then."
"Yep." Robyn said. "Right, I've got to get back to work."
"Okay." Sam said. "Oh wait."
"What?" Robyn turned round as she reached the doorway.
"Come with me tonight?" She asked. "I could explore more if you're there. You won't get scared like Tom would you?"
"Sounds fun, and no." She laughed.
"If Tom asked, we are going running, okay?"
"Okay, running. Got it." She said, turned around and bumped into Tom. "Sorry!"
"No problem." He said. "I hear you made plans?"
"Yeah, I'm going out running with Robyn later. Hope you don't mind?" Sam asked.
"Sure. Have fun." Tom said, not quite sure what they were up to.
"Cool." Sam cleared the desk, got up and walked past him.
Later, just after dinner, Sam was putting her trainers on just as Robyn reached her door.
"Hey Robyn."
"Hey, ready for our run?" Robyn winked.
"Sure." She laughed, as she put on her bag. "Let's go."
They got to the gate at the start of the woods, and walked up. Sam remembered where they had gone off the path and soon enough they had made it to the house. The door was open exactly how they had left it last night.
"Wow." Robyn said. "Big place."
"Wait until you see the inside!" Sam said as she pushed open the door. "Hello!?"
"Why are you shouting?" Robyn asked.
"Make sure there's no one in." Sam said. "You never know."
"Cool." Robyn said.
"Right, I'll go put these back and then we can go upstairs or something." Sam said, and left Robyn at the foot of the stairs.
She could hear Sam moving in the other room but she was starting to get anxious about the house. She could understand why Tom felt so uneasy, and wondered why Sam felt nothing.
She jumped as a marble started to bounce down the stairs to land at her feet. She just stared at it and picked it up. Sam peered round the corner and Robyn held the marble in her hand.
"What was that?" Sam asked. "That banging?"
"Oh, this came down the stairs." Robyn said. "Don't know how."
"Weird. It's pretty though." Sam said. "Keep it."
"I can't keep it." Robyn said. "No. I'll leave it here." She put it back on the floor where it landed.
"Okay…" Sam said, as she started walking up the stairs. "Seems safe enough."
They walked up step by step, and then a frame fell off the wall and smashed.
"Um, must have knocked it, I guess." Robyn said, trying to see how it fell off the wall.
"Well be more careful…because it's not our stuff…" Sam said, and reached the landing.
"Sorry." Robyn said. "I didn't think I'd knocked it."
"Well you must have done." Sam said, as she opened on of the bedroom doors.
This must have been the master bedroom. It was huge. The bed in the centre was king sized, with the faded lilac quilt still there. The bed was made, the pillows were laid out symmetrically, and the wind was blowing through it because the window was broken.
"Wow." Robyn said as she set foot in the room. Sam walked straight over to the dresser and opened one of the drawers to find a spider crawling around in it.
"Nothing in there." She said, and opened another, and finding a key.
"Anything?"
"Yeah, like a tiny key." Sam said. "Wonder what that's for."
"Probably this?" Robyn pointed to the jewellery box sitting on the dresser.
"Oh yeah, I never saw that." She said, putting the key into the lock. Surely enough, it fit perfectly. Robyn came over to join her as she lifted the lid up.
Inside was a necklace, a gold one. It was shiny and had an intricate design put into it.
"A necklace. This must be worth a fortune! Who would just leave this behind?" Robyn asked.
"That's no ordinary necklace." Sam said. "It's a locket."
"Open it!" Robyn urged.
"I'm trying." Sam said. She struggled.
"Let me try." Robyn said, trying to take it from her.
"No." Sam said, tugging it back. "I almost had it."
As they both tugged the chain of the necklace, the whole thing clattered to the floor and it sprung open, revealing two pictures inside. As is opened, a draught went through the room.
"Did you feel that?" Robyn shivered.
"It was just the wind Robyn." Sam said. "There's a window right there."
"It didn't feel like the wind." Robyn said. "It was cold."
"Well it has gotten cooler since we have been here." Sam said, as she bent down to pick up the necklace. "I have to get this seen too. It's beautiful."
"It's not yours to take." Robyn said.
"I'm only borrowing it." Sam sighed. "I will bring it back. Just like I did with those letters."
"Promise me you will." Robyn said.
"I promise." Sam sighed. "You're getting as paranoid as Tom."
"Well yeah. This house is, creepy." Robyn said. "I've never been good with horror films."
"This isn't a film." Sam said.
"Which makes it even worse." Robyn said.
"Remember what you said to me?" Sam asked. "No such thing as ghosts."
"But I'm starting to think my granddad was telling the truth." She sighed.
"Well it's getting late anyway." Sam said, looking at her watch. "We should probably go."
"Please lets." Robyn said, and they left the house.