The Wammy House Memories

Run!

Chapter 13!

It was just after 11:30pm and Elizabeth couldn't sleep, she couldn't stop thinking about what Backup had said to them this morning in the kitchen. A had chased him out of the kitchen not long after what he said to them, she hadn't seen any of them since breakfast. She was hoping Backup was playing one of his creepy games with them, he enjoyed playing tricks and tormenting the other children of the orphanage. But it wasn't funny what he had said during breakfast with what was going on right now with The Midnight Slasher, it was scary.

Elizabeth sighed to herself and rolled onto her side, she just wanted to go to sleep. She would be going home tomorrow, she couldn't wait to sleep in her own room. She switched the beside table's  lamp on and sat up in the bed, she then took her reading book from the side table. She turned to the page she had bookmarked and placed the book on her lap, she was hoping the book would make her fall asleep. Her Aunt Thora had given her a book to take with her in case she got bored, she had told her that she use to read it with her Grandmother when she was a child. It was called The Call of the Wild, the story was set in the Yukon during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush. It had sledging dogs in it and snowy mountains, it was kind of boring. But it was a classic so her Aunt told her, it had been one of her favorite books from her childhood.

Elizabeth glanced at the bedside table's lamp when it flickered, she thought it could be a loose plug or something. But the building was old, there could be issues with the electrical wires for all she knew. She snuggled down into the pillows of the bed and turned the page in her book before she yawned. she could feel her eyelids getting heavy. She closed the book and placed it on the bedside cabinet, she could continue reading some more of the book in the morning.

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A Few Hours Later 

Elizabeth jumped up in the bed when she heard screams coming from the corridor, she kicked the blanket of herself and scrambled out of the bed. She had no idea what was going on, she hurried over to the door and unlocked it before she opened it wide. There was a group of children running down the corridor, she stepped out of the room and quickly followed after them. She felt someone grab hold of her arm, she stumbled over her own two feet before she was led along the corridor by an unknown person. She got a quick glance at the person, it turned out to be Backup.

" Backup!" Elizabeth said with panic in her voice. " What's going on?! Where are we going?!"

" Don't ask any questions, just run!" Backup replied while he led her into another corridor. " We've got to get to the dinner hall, that's where Watari is with the other orphans!"

" Where's A?!" Elizabeth asked.

" I don't know, he told me to get you before he went to find Watari!" Backup replied. " He'll be waiting for us in the dinner hall with everyone else, we've got hide from him!"

" Hide from who?!" Elizabeth asked.

" The Midnight Slasher, he's somewhere in The Wammy House!" Backup replied, his grip tightened around her arm." He's already attacked one boy, he maybe after you or Alternative next!"

" No, he can't be here..." Elizabeth muttered.

Elizabeth looked over her shoulder while they made their way down the two flights of stairs which led them the ground floor, they then ran passed Watari's office. They continued to hurry down the hallway, they weren't that far away from the dinner hall. Glancing back over her shoulder Elizabeth stumbled and fell onto her knees, she hadn't noticed Backup stopping dead in front of her. He pulled her to her feet and led her back along the corridor.