Farm House

The Old Farm House

The rain was still coming down heavy, the car's window wipers moved side to side and Ellie couldn't help but make a weird swishing sound with each movement the wipers made. The country lane was bumpy and worn down which caused Ellie to sway side to side with ever bump or hole the car drove over. The road ahead of them was dark and eerie, they could hardly see anything because of the rain. The trees that lined the road were tall and old, their branches loomed over the car like witches fingers. 

Joel was focused on the road ahead of them, he dared not turn the car's headlights on in case it drew attention to them. Ellie peered out of the car's window and saw flashes of lightning through the gaps in the trees, there was a storm coming. Ellie wasn't a fan of storms, the lightning in the sky was pretty but the rumbles of thunder always made her feel uneasy. Her best friend Riley once told her that thunder was the noise that the Bogeyman's stomach made when he'd had his fill of children for the night, she knew it was bullshit but it use to frighten her when she was a kid.

" Do you see anything yet?" Ellie asked.

" Not yet, this country road could go on for miles." Joel replied.

" I hope it ends soon, this road is so fucking creepy!" Ellie said while she turned her full attention towards Joel. " It's like something out of one of those stories you read about in books, you know horror novels."

" Those are just made up stories." Joel said.

" I know that, but still..." Ellie said.

" I won't let anything happen to you, I promise." Joel said.

" I'm going to hold you to that..." Ellie said.

Joel smiled at Ellie for a moment before his attention was drawn back to the road ahead of them, the car continued to jerk now and again due to the bumpy road. Ellie squinted her eyes when she saw something ahead of them, a flash of lightning had outline a building for a brief moment. Ellie pointed straight ahead and told Joel about what she had just seen with excitement in her voice, he told her calm down and keep her eyes peeled in case they weren't alone.

The building Ellie had seen was becoming more clearer to them, they could see it much better now. Joel drove the car up the old driveway and stopped it outside of the garage, he told Ellie to take the wheel. Joel got out of the car and Ellie climbed into the driver's seat, he signaled to her to turn the car's headlights on before he opened the garage's door. She turned the car's headlights on and they lit up the empty garage, she then slowly drove the car forward into the used garage.  

Ellie stopped the car and turned the headlights off, she then pulled the handbrake up. Joel closed the garage's door while Ellie turned the engine off, she took the keys from ignition and opened the car's door. Joel was soaked through due to the rain, Ellie handed him the car keys before she grabbed her backpack from the floor. She got out of the car and walked over to the wall of the room, she put her backpack on while she sniffed.

" Nice driving there Ellie, you've improved." Joel said. 

" What can I say? I learnt from the best." Ellie said, she turned around face him. " I'm talking about you when I say the best, now if only you'd teach me how to swim and play the guitar."

" One thing at a time, kiddo." Joel replied.

Joel closed the car's door and opened the trunk, he took his backpack from it. Ellie lingered around the front of the car, she turned her torch on and shone it around the garage. The garage was empty, there was nothing in the room besides a poster of a kitty hanging from a washing line on the wall and some empty wooden shelves. She shone her torch on the ceiling and saw a light bulb still in it's fixture, it was rare that you saw light bulbs these days.