Haloseville

𝑻𝒊𝒎𝒆𝒍𝒆𝒔𝒔: 𝑷𝒂𝒓𝒕 𝑰

When the five teenagers had finally arrived back at Haloseville, Mr Jones stood beside the gates of the village patiently waiting for them. The sun had already set among the horizon behind the hills and the sky was getting darker and darker. The drowsy teenagers stepped off the bus one by one.

"Alright kids, let's go." Mr Jones said, his black eyes gleaming under the moonlight as he stared upon the tired faces of the five.

Jase hadn't told the other three about Haloseville but he was planning to during sleep hours. Rocky made eye signals to Jase as they marched towards the inn. They were handed their masks again in which they wore and breathed in for most of the days.

As they entered the inn, they saw Miss Bienne standing at the front desk as if hoping for someone else to come live at the inn. Mr Jones had dropped them off and left, leaving the five with creepy Miss Bienne.

"Time for bed. Go on." She directed, gesturing them to go to their rooms.

They split up and separated to their bedrooms.

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Jase shut the door and immediately went to lie on his comfortable bed.

"Where were both of you?" Rocky questioned, glancing at them.

"What do you mean?" Lee responded, pulling off his shirt and then lying on the bed.

"Back at the library?"

"Oh, we were in the Archives room. We found the file of this place."

"You guys went to the Archives?"

"Yes." Jase returned, "The things that were in the file was disturbing and I will tell the girls tomorrow."

"Okay, so what is so disturbing?" Inquired Rocky.

"Basically, Haloseville is basically a cult and the man who owns this place is Mr Jones."

"Right, but how is that disturbing?"

"Here's the disturbing part: Mr Jones's full name is William Archibald Jones As we had heard Miss Bienne call him William, it was obvious it was Mr Jones. He isn't just the owner but he is creator of this place. William Archibald Jones created this place in 1880, which is like, almost 100 years ago.

That was all in the file. However, we decided to search the name William Archibald Jones in the Archives and we found his file. I don't know why they have this guy's file in the Archives but I think they have all the files of the citizens of Foxwood there. Anyways, in the file, is something we did not expect. This archive, it dates back to 1857. He was apparently 14 then and there were small notes with diary entries on them that were clipped into his file.

We read a few of these diary entries and it was honestly like every other diary but we decided to read one from the later dates and it started talking about some kind of ghost and hell thing. We didn't understand it because there were so many dates missing from the diary entries so whatever we read, didn't make that much sense."

Rocky blinked, trying to process the information that Jase just told him.

"So you're saying Mr Jones is a ghost?" Rocky raised an eyebrow and crossed his arms.

"No. We didn't get to finish reading the others. There was one in 2012, which was like last year and another which was in the 1900s. We didn't get to read those so we can't conclude anything yet." Jase responded, taking a deep breath to regain his breath from explaining so many things.

"Right, you need to tell the girls and you have to tell Valerie."

Jase nodded, "We can do it tomorrow night. We can ask Valerie if we could go to her house. That would work." He took a glimpse at Lee, who was already sound asleep.