The Torture Room

Meeting the Doctor

After school, when I got home, I saw a note from my mom on the counter:

Dear Maddie,

I hope you have gotten home safely and are reading this note. I have gone to the store, and I have taken Hunter with me. I'll be home soon.

-Mom

"Ah yeah! I have the house all to myself!" I think. I decide to blast my music and sing along, I mean, why not? I put on my favorite song, "I Am Machine" by Three Days Grace. I dance around my house and sing at the top of my lungs. After the song is over, I plop down on my couch, worn out. "Well, that's my exercise for the day! Haha." I say to myself. I continue to blast my music and sing along, and I don't even notice my mom and Hunter walk in the door. "Maddie! Turn off this garbage!" My mom screams over the very loud My Chemical Romance music.

"It is not garbage, you old people just have no taste in music," I retort as I turn off the song.

"God Maddie, you need to get out of this emo phase"

"Just because I am a Killjoy and wear things like this, doesn't mean I am emo." I shot back.

"See what I mean? You're a Killjoy, whatever that means."

"Ugh.. Mom, just let me live my life alright, just get off of my back!" I scream.

"You know what Maddie? Go to your room. You can come out when you decide to be the normal you."

"THIS IS THE NORMAL ME!" I scream back at her as I go upstairs into my room, crying.

I plop down on my bed, crying my eyes out. "Maybe this isn't the real me," I say to myself, "but I've been like this for 3 years, ever since I was 13." I then get a text from Tyler, (He gave me his number earlier today):

Heyo Madster, thanks for agreeing to be my fake girlfriend for a while, and since we're a "couple" now, I wanna get to know you better! How about I come pick you up in 10, and we can go explore the city?

I silently laugh to myself and text back:

Haha, sure. I'll see you then! :)

10 minutes later I'm waiting outside for Tyler. He pulls up in his red Mustang convertible. 

"Wow man, you must be rich." I say to him. 

"Heh, yeah, if you say so, but are you okay, have you been crying?" 

"Yeah, I was, but it's nothing. Don't worry."

"Maddie, I can tell you're lying. Just tell me what happened."

"I just had a fight with my mom, but really, it's nothing." 

"Aw, I'm sorry,"  

"So, where to?"

"How about the ice cream place?" 

"Sounds good."

As we drive to the ice cream shop, I see an old, broken down house. "Woah woah, look at that!" I exclaim, "I wonder if anyone lives there." "Hmm.. I don't know," Tyler says, "Wanna go check it out?" I squirm in my seat. This place looked really creepy, and dangerous. "I don't know, this place looks kinda sketchy.."

"Aw, don't worry, I'll keep ya safe." Tyler says as he puts his arm around me and laughs.

"Oh whatever." I reply as I punch him playfully in the arm. We drive up to the front of the house and I get out of the car slowly. There are no cars in the driveway, which is cracked and being covered with weeds. We walk slowly up the door which is boarded up, but rotting. "I don't like this.." I say nervously. As we approach the door, I get a shiver down my spine. Tyler knocks loudly on the door. "No Tyler, don't.." I say shakily. 

"Aw come on, you really think someone lives in this dump?"

"I guess not.." 

He knocks on the door again, and yells "TRICK OR TREAT!" I laugh. "You're such a child," I say to him. He sticks his tongue out at me. All of a sudden the door creaks open.

An old man with a doctor's coat steps out. "What? What do you two want?" He says. Tyler and I just look at each other with terrified looks on our faces. "Well? What is it?" He asks. "Oh.. Uh.. Well.." Tyler stutters as all of the color drains from his face. "Sorry to bother you, sir," I say, "but we just wanted to introduce ourselves. I'm Maddie, and this is Tyler."

"Ah. Well, I'm working in my lab, want to come in and see?" He says with a creepy grin on his face.

"Uh.. No thanks, we gotta go." I say as I drag the paralyzed Tyler from the doorstep. I glance back one last time to see the elderly man close the rotting door behind him as he walks back inside his broken-down house.

Tyler finally snaps from his trance when we get back to his car. "I..I.. Uh..." Tyler stammers as we get into the car. 

"Wow, that guy must have creeped you out, huh?" I ask.

"Ehm, yeah. Did you not notice the blood on his coat?"

"What?! He had blood on his coat?!"

"Yeah. He sure did."

"Well, now that's over, want to still go to the ice cream place?"

"Yeah, I guess."

. . . .

That night, when I get back home, I'm exhausted. I walk in the house and Hunter runs up to me with a paper duck mask he made. 

"Lookie!" He says happily.

"Aw, did you make this yourself?"

"Yah!"

"Did you show mommy?"

"Nopie."

"Well, you go show her, I'm gonna go night-night, okay?"

"Okie! Night night sis!"

He then runs off into the kitchen and I hear a faint "Lookie!" I walk upstairs, grab a towel and take a nice warm shower. I then put on a tank top and some shorts, and I crash out on my bed. "That was a long day.." I think to myself as I drift off into a deep sleep.

A/N: Yayyyy!!! Chapter 2! I'm really happy with this one, and I hope you guys are too! :D. I think Hunter is super adorable and Maddie is a really good sister. Tell me your thoughts in the comments! Well, hope you enjoyed, and I hope to get chapter 3 out really soon! Thanks for reading! ~Wolfie <3

P.S. This chapter is half-edited. I was super tired when I published it and I was too lazy to edit some. Make sure to comment any errors you see! Thanks! <3