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Tory's PoV

"What is it Hi?"

He doesn't bother to reply but just steps back for our eyes to see what his just witnessed and, if I hadn't have planted it there myself, I would thoroughly be freaked out. I had asked Ella to arrange the candles to spell out the words "Get out". Not the scariest thing but not want you particularly want to find in a haunted house that nobody has been in for decades. I was hoping my actress skills were as good as I imagine they are. I stole a glance at Ben and saw nothing behind his startled gaze, he was really playing the part and a smile almost split my lips but I quickly stopped myself as I knew it would draw unwanted attention to me, not to mention the others would suspect something. Instead I just walked over, picked them up and set them around the room saying that it's probably something the owners did ages ago, then forcing a laugh to act the part. I should try out for the school play.

I filled that thought for later consideration.

"Yeah because that's a normal thing to leave behind when you abandon a house," Hi said sarcastically looking over to a confused Shelton, "what do you thing Shelly?"

"I'm not sure, seems a little off," slightly worried that Shelton would see the lie in my face I avoided eye contact, "Something fishy is going on here," he finishes looking around at Hi, Ben then landing on me.

God don't start laughing, I say to myself, you'll ruin it! I do my best to remain from spoiling everything. We start setting up in the room, setting set places for the sleeping bags, getting our snacks and other necessities ready. Eventually I get up and start to wonder round the room, it's pretty much bare except for the old crumbly shelves sticking out the walls. I run my hands over the lumpy wall paper that once had brightly coloured lines crisscrossing over a dark background, and I get the feeling that this room use to be a study but only a couch was left in it.

"I'm going to wonder round the house,"

"Don't get crushed by a slamming door," Shelton replies not looking to fond of coming with me, which is good considering I was going to see Ella.

I motioned subtly with my hands to Ben, I wanted him to come with me so us three could have a chat about what to do next. He sees me and I nod my head towards the hallway, "I'll go with you Tory," I sense Hi and Shelton sneak a glance to each other and I don't think it's because they're suspecting a prank for some reason.

Shake it off Brennan.

We walked around the house for a while looking at the architecture and pointing out the places that me and Ella had set stuff up before I walked us back to Ella's hide out where I knocked. Ella opened the door with a muffin in one hand, motioning us in with the other.

"Everything is going great, all the pranks are set and the cameras are working fine," she informs us.

I could sense a hitch in her voice," But?"

Ella sighs, "How did you know? I've just been confused by a few things, firstly that door that slammed. I didn't do it and there's no way the wind could have…" She trails off and the hair on my arms begin to rise.

She goes in to tell us how she swears that she leaves things in one place in the room and when she goes to look for it again, it's always in the same place; the corner of the room. What makes it more bizarre is the fact that she would have to get up and walk five paces over there and that's something you would tend to remember doing, "It's weird, that's all I'm saying. This house gives me the creeps."

"Let's just focus on getting the guys, have you got the box winded up?" I was referring to the old jewellery box that was under a floor board in the room we set up in. I wasn't expecting them to scream out of fright by it, just to help build up to the grand finale.

"Everything is hunky dory!" Ella replies more excitedly seemingly forgetting about the freaky things that were happening around us that we hadn't planned. We say a quick good by, leaving Ella the instructions to wait seven minutes after we return to activate the wind up box, cuing the creepy lullaby music. It's going to be so creepy, I think with a smile.

Shelton's PoV

It was official, they had been gone a full five minutes. I was slowly starting to flip the freak out and had already questioned Hi three times about their well being, his replies went like this:

"Dude, they have literally be gone for 30 seconds."

"Don't worry, Ben will protect her."

"Well do you want to go look for them? Now pass me Tory's double stuffed Oreos before she gets back!"

I was contemplating his last question when I heard the creak of the old door open and Ben and Tory spill into the room. They gave us a quick summary of what they saw, what used to be an old kitchen with dusty tabletops and some very questionable meat left in the fridge, an extremely overgrown garden and some dingy bedrooms each 'fully furnitured' she said for lack of a better explanation.

"Did someone eat my Oreos? Hi?"

"What, why do you immediate assume it was me?" Hi says in a pitch slightly too high for what he said to be accounted for as the truth.

"Oh I don't know, maybe it's because you've done something like this before, or because Shelton doesn't particular like Oreos," she says walking over to me, "Or maybe it's because there is still some on your face," she concludes, eyebrow raised, pointing to the incriminating evidence left smeared across his face.

Doofus.

"Okay, I give in it was me, please don't hurt me I have a wife, a family!" Hi yells dramatically, that boy loves the drama.

"Umm, guys, what the hell is that noise?" i suddenly pipe up, worried.

"What noise?" Ben asks.

"Listen."

Everyone goes quiet straining to her what I'm talking about, at first I heard nothing (literally nothing, which I found weird because this house is so creaky) and the the faint noise of old creepy music came back into my hearing.

Everyone's eyes seem to widen at the same time but no one seems to know what to say until I utter, "it sounds like it's coming from over there," pointing to the far left corner and getting up to go over, "yep it's uh, definitely louder here," I finish a bit reluctant to search more.

Luckily Ben comes to my rescue and starts looking around until concluding the following, "it sounds as if it's coming from under the floor boards." He gets down on his knees and presses his ear to the floor, every so often moving over a different part. After what seems like half my life Ben points to a slightly more splintered floorboard that was now producing a louder version than before. The sort of shit you hear in horror movies when something creepy happens but no one other than the viewers are aware of it. I quickly look around suspecting to see an axe murderer in the room sneaking up on us. All clear.

Ben struggles with the board and Tory quickly comes to his side to help, they end up breaking nails to get the board off which makes the fact that there is something down there that much creepier. Before they can get it off, they music seems to come to its finale and then stops altogether. They finally manage to pry it open and they both step back and gasp, Hi and I hurry over expecting to find a creepy old box filled with maggots or something else horrifying but was shocked to see what was actually there.

Nothing.

Ella's PoV

Something is wrong, I keep thinking, it's not supposed to be empty! I look back at the screen to see four truly terrified teenagers.

Where's the damn box?

Out of no where I start to hear the music play again and it strikes me that it's probably still there they just chose the wrong board. But the sound continues and the figures don't do anything to acknowledge its presence.

Then it hits me.

These cameras don't submit sounds! It's coming from inside this room.

I quickly jump up, knocking my chair over and frantically trying to look everywhere at once, my heart beating so hard that I fear it may burst out my chest and my breathing is coming so quickly I'm becoming light headed but I can't calm down and the island continues.

Louder and louder. Louder and louder.

I'm searching all around my small room over and over again, I can't think straight I end up tripping over my chair and the sound suddenly stops. I sit for a minute steadying my breaths when I start to hear the music again, very quietly and slowly.

Is it behind me? I wonder turning around, no. I turn back.

The box is placed in front of me.

And I scream.