Happy Halloween. Just a fun chapter, try not to get too scared
"I thought we agreed to stay home and have a movie marathon?" Jack complained as him and Selena waited at the end of the stairs to see their kids costumes for Halloween.
The plan for the night was to take the kids out for an hour or two then come back home and watch horror movies then that was it, but Selena had other things in mind.
"Jack, you always fall asleep during movies so what's the point? I think the party would be fun." Selena said, propping her elbow on the railing of the stairs, combing her fingers through her hair.
"I don't wanna go though." Jack then walked down the hallway, turning into the living room before coming back with movie cases. "Look, I got your favorite movies."
Selena sighed as Jack began to list the horror movies in his hands. "Halloween, The Strangers, Haunting in Connecticut, Poltergeist, and..." His eyebrows rose at the last movie. "Heathers?"
Shrugging, she defended herself. "It's a dark movie about a couple who kills off the popular kids. Sounds like a horror to me."
Jack furrowed his brows and cocked his head to the side. "Sel, it's a comedy."
"A dark comedy." She corrected.
"It's corny."
"It's meant to be corny. But what do you know, you haven't even seen Forrest Gump."
Jack rolled his eyes. "And what does that have to do with Heathers?"
"You don't know good movies." She stated simply.
Jack stared at her dully before giving up on their conversation. "If you say so...anyways I'm not going to the party and neither are you."
"You can't tell me what I can and can not do."
"I beg to differ."
"Why do I have to stay home cause you are?"
"Cause what if something happens to you and I won't be there? I'm not going down that road again, sorry, but no. We don't have to stay home, but I'm not going to a party with a whole lot of fake and prissy ass people."
Selena huffed. "What then?"
Jack shrugged loosely. "Ashton has this cabin up not to far from the city where he and Tessa go to get away. We haven't had any alone time really, you wanna go up there?"
"Tonight? On Halloween?"
Jack nodded. "Yeah. He gave me a key not to long ago and said we could go up there anytime we want, so why not? It'll be just me and you."
Tsk'ing, Selena disagreed. "It's never just a 'me and you' on Halloween. There's always a someone or something."
Jack snorted. "Yeah, right."
The sound of pattering footsteps reached the stairs, drawing Jack's and Selena's attention to their kids who was dressed as Lilo Pelekai and a dead football player.
"Wow, you guys look amazing." Jack smiled up at them as they came down the stairs.
Selena tapped Jack's arm as she stared at their kids. "Go get my camera."
Jack left the room and came back with Selena's old fashioned polaroid camera. She waved them down the stairs and pointed towards the wall. With a smile, she held up the camera and said, "Say hi to grandma and grandpa."
In unison, they sang,"Hi grandma and grandpa." As they finished off with a grin, Selena snapped a the picture then grabbed the photo that slid out.
She gazed down at it with a smirk, Jack looking down at it as well. "It'd be a good photo for our Christmas card." He joked.
Selena let out a small laugh, hitting his chest with the back of her hand. In return, he gave her a simple kiss on her temple.
"Alright, let's go." Selena opened the front door that was wrapped in orange lights that looked like miniature pumpkins, the kids grabbing their plastic pumpkins then walking out.
The Halloween sun isn't yet fully set, but it still seemed eerie with the sky being orange. Candy wrappers already blew over the street that was filled with autumn leaves.
In the middle of their dead end street, gravestones were plotted into the grass and a ghost hung from the tree above one of the neighbors, who dressed as a witch, stirred whatever was in her big black pot.
Just as they started to walk around the circle of their cul-de-sac, she felt the breeze hit her skin through the fabric of her clothes.
Even in California, October still made the evening chilly. "Jack, can you get my - "
"Already got it." Jack's feet stood aside two lit jack-o-laterns as he locked the door then handed her the blue cropped cotton jacket.
"Thank you." Selena slipped into the jacket, buttoning it over her black bodysuit that was still visible around her stomach.
They walked past the first few vacant but decorated houses. Superheroes, princesses, and monsters, moved in candy-yearning groups going door to door.
Garages had become dungeons, front yards turned into graveyards with limbs and bones poking out of the houses, and corpses hung from the trees.
As Jack and Selena stood back, they watched their kids run to their first door. Selena looked over at Jack who was picking something off of his black hoodie.
"You ever went trick or treating?" Selena asked.
"Yeah." He muttered. "Didn't like it very much though."
Selena almost laughed. "Really? You seem like you would like everything about Halloween. I mean, you did murder a few people."
"Only two." He corrected, folding his arms, watching the kids run to the next house. "And I never said I didn't like it, just not like you do. You act like it's fucking Christmas."
Selena ignored him. "There should be extra days of Halloween. Like, thirty more days. How cool would that be?" She smiled, staring at the winking street light.
"Stupid. That would probably convince more crazy and psychotic people to come out and do shit that they aren't supposed to be doing. I bet you the murder rate would increase."
"Okay, what's your favorite holiday then?"
"Valentines Day."
"That's not even a real holiday."
"I consider it a holiday. I buy you stuff, make you feel good, take you out, and what do I get in return? The best sex ever." He smirked, chuckling.
Selena laughed. "Why did I marry you?"
Jack shrugged. "Sick, I guess." As she laughed, Jack kissed her lips, pulling apart when the kids returned.
"What did you guys get?" Selena asked.
Dylan groaned and furiously extended out his plastic pumpkin. "Apples and stupid juice."
"Mama, I don't want apples or juice. I want chocolate and stuff." Naomi complained.
"Okay." Selena began. "Let's walk down to another couple of houses. I know this neighborhood like the back of my hand and I know where they sell the king sized candy bars." She winked, making them grin and bounce joyfully.
Stopping at the next house, Naomi and Dylan ran up to the porch then once their annoying neighbor, Stacey, put something in their bags, they turned around with a glare.
Jack stifled a laugh and arched a brow at her. "You know where the king sized candy bars are, huh?" He sarcastically made fun of her.
"Try the next house guys!" She shouted to them, then spoke normally to Jack. "Boy, do I hate these neighbors. Especially Stacey."
The kids went back into the house with loads of junk candy filling their pumpkins. Jack and Selena checked each wrapper, making sure nothing was inside them.
After a few minutes of eating their candy, Selena took their bags and Jack went to lay on the couch and turn on the tv.
The kids whined as they seen Selena set their bags on top of the fridge. "But mommmm..." They whined.
"You guys have to go to bed. You guys can have some more tomorrow, I promise. Go get ready for bed."
Groaning and stomping, they marched upstairs. Selena waited until they were gone to grab the pumpkins.
Walking over to the couch, Selena dropped Dylan's pumpkin on Jack's stomach as she took a seat, her back against the arm of the couch.
They dug through their kids candy, searching for goodies.
Jack pulled out a Reese's cup and scrunched up his face. "I'll give you a Reese's for a Baby Ruth." He bargained.
Selena took a long look at the candy he held before rummaging through the junk, then pulling out a Baby Ruth.
"You talk to Cherry?" Jack asked, taking the Baby Ruth.
"She said she'd be here in a minute."
In the next ten minutes, Jack and Selena picked out some clothes for the next day, said goodnight to their children, and left the house.
"So where exactly is this cabin? Crystal lake?"
Jack chuckled. "It's somewhere by Lucas Creek. It's nothing to worry about. I promise you there is no masked dude with a machete or anything like that trying to hurt you...Unless you're into that kind of thing." He smirked, sending her a wink once they hit a red light.
Selena giggled. "Disgusting." She leaned back in her chair and seen an upcoming coffee shop. "Do you love me?"
Jack noticed the coffee shop too. "Do I have to go inside?" He asked, pulling into the parking lot.
"Would it kill you?"
"It just might. I honestly don't feel like stopping to sign autographs or anything right now."
Selena sat up and tried to get a full look inside the shop, seeing it was decorated with a few ghost and bats hanging from the ceiling and nearly empty. "There's no one in there."
Jack huffed and unbuckled his seatbelt.
"I don't want coffee, I wa-"
"Hot chocolate, I know." Jack shut the door and walked into the shop. After getting their drinks, he was stopped by two young girls and took a picture with them.
Not that he didn't like interacting with fans, he loved his fans, but sometimes he'd just rather seem normal, but if it was the other way around, he'd do the same - that's what he always told himself.
"See, it was only two people." Selena smiled, taking the hot chocolate out of his hand then sipping it.
Jack then continued down the road, coming close to the cabin's location, he began flipping through radio stations, but Selena turned the dial down.
"Can I tell you a scary story?"
"No." He muttered, turning the volume back up.
Selena then turned it back down. "Why? Are you scared?" She teased.
"Hell no."
"Mhm." Selena curled her legs up and rested her head on the seat, closing her eyes.
Jack seen on the navigation screen that they were less than five minutes away from the cabin when the car began to sputter and shake.
"What the fuck?" He spat as he steered towards the side of the road, the car coming to a stop. "Fuck!" He hit the steering wheel, causing Selena to jump out of her seat.
"What happened?" She asked, confused as to why they stopped.
Jack slouched back, massaging his temples. "The damn car broke down." He tried to start it up again, but there was no sign of life.
Selena immediately began to panic. They were in the middle of nowhere, surrounded by the woods, on Halloween night. Nothing sounded good, about this.
"Try calling someone." Jack told her, getting out of the car and walking over to lift up the hood.
Selena's phone couldn't find any signal, she got out of the car, searching for a signal, but still no luck. "There's no signal, babe."
Jack looked up from the engine and met Selena's eyes. "Are you serious?"
Selena nodded. "Yeah, I'm serious."
"Fantastic." He groused, shutting the hood of the car. "I guess we gotta walk and call someone in the morning."
They grabbed their suitcase then walked down the black road that was dimly lit by the full moon, luckily the woods on either side didn't block the only light they had.
"Can I tell you a scary story, now?" Selena asked, rolling the suitcase behind her.
"Not out here. No."
Selena chuckled. "Oh, so you are scared." She teasingly smiles at him.
"No. We're only three or five minutes away."
"It's a three or five minute story."
Jack surrendered with a hefty sigh. "Go ahead."
"A young boy is sleeping in his bed on a usual night. He hears footsteps outside his door, and peeks out of his eyes to see what is happening. His door swings open quietly to reveal a murderer carrying the corpses of his parents. After silently propping them up on a chair, he writes something on the wall in the blood of the dead bodies. He then hides under the childs bed. The child is scared beyond belief. He can't read the writing on the wall and he knows the man is under his bed. Like any child, he pretends that he slept through the whole thing and hasn't awoken yet. He lays still as the bodies, quietly hearing the breathes from under his bed."
An hour passes, and his eyes are adjusting more and more to the darkness. He tries to make out the words, but it's a struggle. He gasps when he finally makes out the sentence.
"I know you're awake". He feels something shift underneath his bed.
"That was scary." Jack agreed once they approached the cabin. "Thank God we made it here alive." He inserted the key into the lock then pushed the door open, letting Selena walk in first.
It was small and cold, but it seemed nice. There was a small fireplace off to the side and a couch in front of it. The bedroom and bathroom was around the corner.
It seemed like the typical cabin, nothing weird or odd about it at all.
"This is nice." Selena spoke as Jack closed the door. "It's a little cold, but nice."
Selena began to walk towards the room, but Jack grabbed her by her wrist, pulling her chest to his. "I've been wanting to taste you all night."
"Oh, really?"
"Really."
Selena drew her hand down his chest, stopping at the bottom of his abdomen, seductively gazing up at him. "Then light a fire and let's get to it then."
A smile fell across Jack's lips before giving her a small but slow kiss. After pulling away, Selena grabbed his suitcase and hers. "I'm gonna go put these up, I'll be back."
Jack walked over to the fireplace. "Don't take to long." He flashed her a smirk over his shoulder then grabbed a match that was next to the fireplace.
Selena walked into the bedroom that was colder than the rest of the house, but she paid no mind to it. She opened the suitcase and pulled out the clothes that they were gonna wear for the next two days.
She spun around with the clothes in her hands to find the top two drawers pulled out. She could've sworn they were shut, but maybe she just thought wrong.
Brushing it off, she continued to put the clothes in the drawers then walked out to see Jack drinking a beer. He smiled at her. "You like it?"
"Mhm." Selena sat on the floor, the warmth from the fire finally bringing heat to her body.
Jack set the beer on the counter by the fridge then stood in front of Selena's feet. He pulled off his shirt then tossed to side, lowering down to her level, he began to undress her.
After catching her breath, Selena got off of Jack and stood up. "I'm gonna go put some pajamas on."
"Lame." Jack groaned, pulling on his boxers as she made her way down the hall. As patiently waited for her to return, he heard three taps on the window.
He got up and walked over to the window, looking outside, but seen nothing. Being distracted by the tapping, his heart nearly fell out of his chest when Selena tapped him on his shoulder.
"Oh shit." He said almost breathless, trailing off into a laugh.
Selena looked at suspiciously, but with a sly smile. "Are you okay?"
"Yeah, I'm fine"
They went back over in front of the fireplace and sat across from each other on the floor. Selena rested her chin on her knees and smiled at him.
"What?"
Selena shrugged, the smile still existent. "You're just so handsome."
"I'm handsome?" Jack chuckled, leaning back on his arms, his palms cold from the wooden floor. "You got fucked on the floor next to the fireplace and now you're all lovey dovey and shit."
She rolled her eyes. "Maybe cause I love you." Her head turned to the side, her cheek resting on her knee.
Jack gave her a long look with a small and sweet smile. "I love you too, baby."
Blush stained her face as she tried to hide the wide smile, her forehead on her knees where Jack couldn't see the grin he already knew was on her face.
Then an echoing scream came about, making the both them alert, their heads snapping up. The scream couldn't have came from inside, they were alone.
But it still left them confused. It was the kind of scream that made a persons blood go cold and put every thought on hold. The scream had hysteria and a wild panic to it, bordering on horror.
Selena's eyes were wide, her hairs on the back of her neck standing up, her heart thudding against her chest. "You heard that too, right?"
Shoulders tensed, his eyes were staring off nowhere in particular, the scream making his mind go blank. "How couldn't I?"
"What do you think it was?" Selena asked, crawling over to Jack, her arms tightly wrapping around his forearm.
Ironically, Jack was the one who loosened up and calmed once he felt the of warmth of Selena, relaxing under her touch.
"Probably those kids from that bonfire." Jack assumed, his voice holding no fear whatsoever just like his face that didn't betray any sign of panic. "Nothing to get scared over."
"You're kidding, right?" Selena cocked her head out, her mouth slightly parting as her eyes narrowed.
Jack looked at her, his face serious as could be. "Uh, no?"
"This place is haunted, Jack." She whispered.
Jack rolled his eyes and let out a sigh. "No it's not. There's no such thing as ghost."
"What? You said you seen your mom during thanksgiving dinner when you came back to Detroit and then you said you seen her that day during the shooting."
Jack shrugged. "Well, I don't know anymore. Maybe I was just really upset and my mind was in a different place."
"I hate skeptics." She muttered under her breath.
"Whatever." Rolling his eyes, he stood up then grabbed his jeans and shirt off the floor. "You wore me out, so I'm heading to bed. You coming?"
"Yeah." Selena stood up and followed Jack into the bedroom that was freezing. She snuggled next to Jack's warm body and attempted to fall asleep, but she couldn't.
The sounds of the floorboard creaking kept her up. The chills in the air made the hairs on her neck stand up. And every few seconds, something made her check over her shoulder, but it was always nothing.
After falling asleep for only a few minutes, the sound of glass shattering rang throughout the cabin, causing the both of them to jump out of their sleep.
Jack instantly looked to Selena, making sure Selena was where she was supposed to be and okay. He then reached for the drawer of the nightstand and pulled out his gun.
"Is someone out there?" She asked, clutching onto the bedsheets, her body stiffening.
Jack shrugged and stood up. "I'm about to find out...And please don't be hardheaded and stay here." He told her, walking towards the door.
Selena sat still for a minute, but she couldn't stay in the room by herself any longer, something wasn't right. She stepped off the bed, and slinked her way out the room and into the dark hallway.
She was afraid to call out Jack's name because he was nowhere in sight and who knows who was in the cabin with them.
Beginning to open the front door, it flew open and revealed Jack who seemed terrified but was quickly covered up with anger. "It never fucking fails, does it? I told you to stay in the room."
Selena ignored him and used her shoulder to push him aside, sticking her head out the door to check the surroundings. "Was anyone outside?"
Jack put four of his fingers on her forehead, pushing her back inside the cabin. "No, and no one is inside either. It just happened, that's all."
"Oh, sure." Selena sarcastically agreed, her rolling eyes saying otherwise.
"Anyways, I'm gonna try to go back to bed."
Selena let out a groan. "I can't sleep. I tried for an hour and only got a few minutes in." She shrugged. "I'm gonna take a bath and maybe it'll help."
Jack walked into the small kitchen and set his pistol on the counter. "I'll be in there in a second." He said, grabbing beer from the fridge.
Selena strolled into the wooden bathroom and ran the hot water into the classical tub. Walking across the light brown floor, she stopped in front of the mirror and began to undress.
Her fingers lifted the up the him of her silk top and pulled it over her head, and for a split second, she seen a masculine figure in the mirror, standing in the dark bedroom across the hall.
Almost snapping her neck, she checked over her shoulder and looked into the bedroom, but no one was there. The door was cracked and it was dark, so maybe her eyes were just playing tricks on her.
Goosebumps rose on her arms as she finished undressing and sat her clothes on top of the counter before walking over to the tub to turn off the water.
She slid down into the warm water and let her head rest back, her hair falling over the edge of the tub. Closing her eyes, she seeked for relaxation and hoped to grow tired.
Selena hummed a gentle laugh when she felt Jack's fingers massaging her scalp, every now and then combing his fingers down her loose curls. "Are you gonna join me or what?" She smiled.
A small chuckle came from him as he continued to wrap her curls around his finger, almost sending her to sleep.
"C'mon babe." She urged, sitting up then turning around to see nothing, but Jack just walking into the bathroom as he began to take off his shirt.
Adrenaline coursed through Selena's body, her wide eyes focused on Jack. "Were you out there the whole ti- time?" She stammered.
Jack suspiciously eyed her. "Yeah." He confirmed slowly. "Are you okay?"
Selena didn't hesitate to stand up and reach for a towel then wrap it around her body. "I'm not staying here anymore, we have to go."
She stepped out the tub and attempted to leave, but Jack put his hands on her shoulders, holding her still.
"Selena, what's going on? Do you feel okay?" He brought the back of his hand to her forehead that was quickly swatted away.
"I'm feeling okay, but no, I am not okay. It felt like someone was running their fingers through my hair and I could've sworn it was you and I don't know, but I can't stay here."
"Well where are you gonna go? The car broke down and there's no signal and it's dark out. You're gonna have to wait until morning."
Selena forward and whispered. "There's something wrong here and I promise you it's haunted. Once it hits six in the morning,
I'm leaving whether you're with me or not."
With that, she grabbed her clothes off the counter then pulled on Jack's hand and dragged him into the bedroom, not wanting to be alone.
Jack huffed. "Do I have to stay up with you?" He asked.
"Yeah, you do." She told him, putting her pajamas back on. "Can't believe you even thought this was a good idea."
"Obviously you did too. You're here aren't you?"
Selena ignored him and flopped down onto the bed. "I swear I seen someone in here and the floorboard was creaking earlier and the scream...Jack, something happened here."
Jack ran his fingers through his hair. "If something did then it did. What do you wanna do? Take a walk on Halloween night and hope no one murders us on the way to a gas station?"
It was obvious Jack was being sarcastic even though he was serious at the same time, but there was a vibe that someone didn't think it was funny.
The door flew open and slammed against the wall making the both of them jump. Their eyes flickered over to the hallway where they seen something that made their heart drop.
A masculine shadow crept upon the corner of the wall, the sound of boots meeting the floor filled the air that was soon covered by the record player in the living room that began to play an old sixties song.
"Go shut the door." Selena whispered, terrified for whatever was out there to know that she was aware of it.
Jack shook his head. "Hell no." He mumbled, his eyes wide, not moving from the hallway where the shadow stood still. "You do it."
"You're the one who pissed it off and you're the one who wanted to stay here, so you go do it." She elbowed him in his rib.
Jack pushed her away and slowly stood up. His blood grew colder with each step he took towards the door. Then the shadow began to grow larger and footsteps started again, so Jack rushed to the door and slammed it shut.
He locked it then rushed over to the dresser that held their belongings. Opening the drawers, he began to pick out their clothes and throw them into the suitcase that Selena had just pulled out.
After packing their things, Jack nodded towards the window. "Go."
Just as Selena opened the window, the knob on the door began to rattle as the door shook violently before opening like it did last time.
Their attention was soon grasped by a tall man with the smile of a predator stood in the doorway, staring at them, not moving a muscle. His dark eyes burned them, enjoying the fear and shattering chill that he sent through their bodies.
This man was pure evil and the both of them drowned in the darkness, everything around them disappearing. They were paralyzed. All of their focus was strictly on this man.
Everything was silent besides the faint sound of the record playing continuing in the background. They stood for another split second until Jack snapped out of the trance and gently pushed Selena forward. "Go!"
Selena quickly climbed out the window with Jack following behind her with the suitcase. They left the cabin and the booming laugh behind them.
They made it to the gas station about a mile away from the cabin. Jack contacted someone to come fix their car.
"They said he'll be here in about an hour." Jack said, shoving his phone back into his pocket. "You okay, babe?" He asked Selena who was still shaking.
She shrugged and avoided eye contact. He pulled her in close and kissed her forehead. "Nothing's is gonna happen anymore. It's all good."
Selena pulled away. "Go call Ashton and see what's up with that cabin."
Jack furrowed his brows. "Do you really wanna know, Sel?"
Selena nodded firmly and pushed him. "Go call him."
Jack rolled his eyes and pulled out his phone and left Selena alone.
After a few minutes Jack came back with a nervous look, his hand on the back of his neck. "So, look, this is what happened..."
Selena's muscles tightened, preparing herself for the story.
"A family lived in there...Well, they'd vacation there and it was a husband and his wife and his kid. He was going insane and shit and when his wife and kid were asleep, he got a double barrel shotgun and shot his son then he killed his wife and then himself. After that, the police found out that he was guilty of eleven other murders in the area and that they weren't vacationing there, he was hiding and he planned to kill his family. They found one of his journals. It said, voices told him to do it and he kept a piece of hair of each one of his victims and he claimed that they were demons and he had to get rid of them."
Sorry for any mistakes, I was taking my cousins to get candy and I couldn't get much done and I wanted this out a bit earlier. But Happy Halloween ?. Stay safe y'all.