"Robyn." Sam said, walking into the staffroom. Robyn sighed when she saw that Sam was holding the locket from last night.
"Yeah?"
"I'm going back to the house again tonight. You in?" Sam smiled.
"Um, no sorry." Robyn said, and tried to walk out.
"Why?" Sam asked.
"I didn't sleep last night." Robyn said. "Not even for a few minutes. I kept thinking about that house. Something isn't right."
"Robyn, I'm just going to take back this." Sam waved the locket in front of Robyn's face and she stepped back.
"Well, I don't really want to go back. It's really creepy." Robyn said.
"Please?" Robyn asked.
"Sorry Sam but no…" Robyn sighed and shrugged her shoulders.
"Fine, I'll go by myself then."
"Won't Zoe go with you?" Robyn asked. "Will you be alright by yourself?"
"I'll be fine alone, and no. Last year she had some problem with her house and her daughter got hurt badly, so I'm not even going to ask her."
"She did?" Robyn asked. "What happened?"
"They thought there were ghosts there, pushed Jess, her daughter, down the stairs. Broken arm and coma." Sam said.
"Is that not enough evidence that ghosts exist?" Robyn said. "Because I'm pretty convinced."
"I believed them at first but I don't know. I never experienced it." Sam said. "So, you are definitely not coming then?"
"No." Robyn said and looked at the clock. "I've got to get back to my patient."
"Okay fine." Sam sighed, and Robyn turned around.
"Please find someone to go with you!" Robyn pleaded, but Sam ignored and got back to work. Robyn watched her go and sighed. She was worried. What if something happened?
"I'm going for a run again tonight." Sam told Tom as they were just getting ready to leave.
"Again?" Tom asked.
"Yeah, I've been eating loads lately, need to work it off." She smiled, and walked out towards the door.
"I'm pretty sure you haven't eaten any more than you had normally." Tom raised an eyebrow. "But fine, you enjoy running."
"Thanks." Sam smiled.
"Wait." Tom stopped.
"What?" Sam asked.
"It's not just an excuse to go back to the house is it?" Tom asked.
"No." Sam shook her head. "I need to go for a run. And that's all I'm going to do. Okay?"
"Okay." Tom said. "I can trust you can't I?"
"Yeah, you…can." Sam said, and smiled a little. "Come on, let's go."
Sam was all ready to go. Trainers on, jacket on, locket in pocket.
"Tom I'm going." Sam said, as she opened the door. Tom came up to her and kissed her.
"Have fun." He said, and watched her go.
Sam walked through the wood and soon found the house. It was exactly how Robyn and herself left it. She stood at the bottom of the stairs and looked up, seeing a dusty glass chandelier that she had never noticed before. It was really pretty; a shame that it's been left in this abandoned house.
She began to walk up the stairs, with everything that Robyn had said on her mind. Ghosts didn't exist, she told herself repeatedly.
Suddenly one of the steps gave way beneath her foot and she screamed and grabbed hold of one of the other steps. She tried to pull herself up, and managed to do it. Her ankle hurt, but only because she had scratched it as it went through the wood. She sat on the step for a while as she got her breath back, and then began to limp slightly towards the master bedroom.
Her phone rang, and she noticed it was Robyn, so she answered it.
"Hi Robyn." She sighed.
"Are you at the house?" Robyn asked.
"Yes and-"
"Please get out." Robyn interrupted. "I've done some research."
"Robyn I'm-"
"It was an old children's home." Robyn explained. "But they all went missing after time."
"And?"
"They were all murdered." Robyn whispered.
"There's no such thing as ghosts." Sam said, annoyed.
"Has anything happened to you?"
"No! I put my foot though a step but that's all!"
"One of those sturdy steps just gave way?" Robyn asked. "I don't think so. Get out."
"No." Sam said, hanging up the phone and going over the to jewellery box.
She looked in the mirror on the dresser and noticed she had leaves in her hair from the walk there. She took them out, then found the Key to the jewellery box, and then looked back into the mirror.
Nothing prepared her for what she saw.
There was a woman dressed in a long white dirty dress, and she was staring right at Sam. Sam turned around and gasped, but she wasn't there. Sam looked back in the mirror and she was gone.
Now Sam was scared. She picked up her phone, and dialled Robyns number.
"ROBYN." She shouted down the phone as she picked up. The door that lead to Sams escape swung shut. "NO!" She ran over and tried to open it, but it wouldn't open.
"Sam?!" Robyn asked. "What's going on?!"
"LET ME OUT!" Sam screamed as she banged on the door. "You were right Robyn!"
"Calm down Sam!" Robyn said. "Whats going on?!"
"I SAW THE GHOST." Sam said. "IT LOCKED ME IN. I CAN'T EVEN BARGE THE DOOR DOWN!"
"Oh my god." Robyn said, grabbing her coat. "Can you get out the window?!"
"It's a massive drop!" Sam said, tiring a little and walking over to the other side of the room. She looked out the window but there was nothing she could climb down. "I can't get out Robyn."
"Try the door again! I'm getting help don't worry." Robyn said.
"No! I don't need-"
She screamed as she floor beneath her gave way, and she couldn't grab hold of anything to lessen her fall. She landed on the floor below, knocking her unconscious.
"Sam!" Robyn shouted. "SAM!"
She got no answer. She waited for a few minutes but got nothing. She took a risk and hung up the phone, and dialled Tom's number.
"Tom." Robyn panted as she ran down to the woods. "Tom you have to help me."
"Calm down Robyn." Tom said. "What's going on?"
"Something has happened to Sam!"