The Dead Boy (Ziall)

Extra chapter ~ Theo

Extra chapter ~ Theo

"Are you sure about this, Tom?" Gwen asks not sure that this is the right idea. 

They are with four: Tom, Gwen, Jake and Becky, even though this was all Tom's idea. 

The three 18-years old sneaked out of their houses at 11 pm to gather up in front of the bakery at the edge of town. Tom picked them with his car and drove them to the old haunted house where the Horan's were murdered. 

You see, they have seen the ghost of the son. They heard him scream. 

It was a drunken night when Tom suggested to perform a spirit exorcism. Of course was Jake the first one to agree and after a bit of convincing Gwen and Becky had agreed too, thinking it was just some drunk talking. 

But now here they are. In front of the old house with a creaking sign, dangling in the wind. It reads: 'For Sale'.

"Of course it is. We are saving the next owner of a life filled with fear." Jake says, carrying the cage with the cat they caught somewhere in the streets.

"And what if that ghost kills us?" Becky asks, pulling her lip ring between her teeth.

Tom laughs. "A ghosts can't hurt living people." He says and gives her a push forward. 

Gwen takes Becky's hand. She is scared too.

"What's the matter ladies? Scared?" Jake laughs and high fives Tom.

Becky huffs. "Of course not. Let's get this over with." She walks forwards towards the house and opens the front door. "Hello?" 

"Oh yes, Becky. Call for the ghost so he will surely know we are in his house now." Jake nods his head and pats her shoulder. "Good of ya."

"Oh shut up." Tom says and flicks on his flashlight. He walks in and looks around. "Where should we do this?" He asks and mentions to the plastic bag he is carrying with him.

"I don't know. I thought you did the research?" Jake says and looks at his friend.

"Uh, no. I thought you would do that." Tom answers.

"No way! I never said that!" 

"Shut up!" Gwen yells. "We will just do it in the basement. In most films that's where they do it anyway." 

She points to an open door with stairs disappearing into the darkness under the house.

Becky looks at it wary, but Jake and Tom seem to agree as they both point their flashlights at the basement door and walk down the stairs. 

"Let's follow them." Becky says and pulls Gwen with her down the stairs, following the boys.

The four of them walk a bit around in the basement before Tom places down the bag on the floor. He takes out the chalk and draws over the star in the circle he printed off from his computer. He read about these stars. They are used in most exorcisms so it should do fine.

Meanwhile Gwen is lighting up the candles they brought with them and places them around the star. Five of them in total. 

Jake looks at his watch. "It's almost midnight. It's time." 

The four know what to do now. They sit around the circle and join hands. Exactly on twelve o'clock they start reading the Latin text they found on an exorcism site and close their eyes when it's done.

"We ask you to take this sacrifice and remove the evil spirit from this house." Jake says and takes the cat.

The poor thing is scared and tries to escape, but is held down in the middle of the chalk-made star.

Jake takes the knife and then kills the cat. 

A strong wind blows through the basement and extinguishes the candles. The girls scream and hug each other as the boys just sit their with big eyes. 

Tom grabs his flashlight and turns it on. 

"Did it work?" Jake asks him, looking around in the room filled with boxes. 

"I don't know, but according to that wind, I think so." Tom says.

Gwen nods. "Let's take our stuff and leave then. I wanna go home." Becky nods in agreement and tries to stand up.

But the four teenagers freeze as they hear slow footsteps come down the stairs. Tom's flashlight starts to flicker and dies then. 

All that is heard now is the raged breathing of the four teenagers. 

"Jake?" Gwen whispers scared and tries to feel around for someone to clutch onto. 

Suddenly Becky screams and falls on the ground. 

"Becky! Are you okay?" Tom yells.

The girl starts crying and whining. "I felt something on my leg, it pulled me down. I wanna go home." 

Some faint shuffling sounds are heard and soon Jake flicks on his flashlight. He picks up their stuff and stands up. "Okay, time to go." He says and turns around. 

Only to come face to face with a face with burned out eyes and a bleeding mouth. 

He screams, but the ghost is already gone. 

Everyone turns to look at him. Their eyes widen. Behind the scared lad is a box opening on its own. slowly a plate raises and floats in the air. "Duck!" Tom screams and the all let themselves fall on the ground right as the plate flies to them at high speed. It shatters against the opposite wall.

When they look up they see all of the cutlery has risen from the box and is pointed at them. 

"Run!" Gwen screams and hurries up the stairs. The rest following her closely. 

The knives and forks just fall down in the box again when the kids run out of the house. 

And Niall is watching them through the window, smirking evilly. 

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That's it people. The extra chapter about how Theo died I promised you.

The dead boy is officually finished now. 

I would like to thank you for reading, voting and commenting if you did :) 

Thank you guys. Really. 

:') 

xx Lisa xx