The Mummy Maker

Chapter 2

I looked at my brother and rolled my eyes, he smirked at my attitude. He began to do a little dance bumping into me purposely as he does causing me to laugh. The twins were sound asleep, but Arlo was watching me and Enzo as he cooed and giggled. I leant forwards an began playing with his little hands when Enzo calmed down and watched me.

It felt no longer than a minute when the car stopped again, looking out the window we had parted outside what looked to be a old decrepit house about to fall down. I looked at Enzo who in turned looked at me before we piled out of the 8-seater car like a bunch of clowns.

"Creepy." I was the first to comet as my elder brother wrapped and arm around my shoulders. I tucked in nicely being moderately smaller than him.

"What do you think shrimp? Haunted or just abandoned?" Enzo looked over at me with a naughty smirk on his face. I smirked back at him before looking at the house and back.

"You know the rules, only none way to find out!" I smirked to him as we grabbed a box each, we practically ran into he houses placing our boxed into a large room on the left. Our farther stood in the doorway laughing at us lightly, watched us slowly inspect the house.

"Definably looks like somewhere ghost and demons would live." Enzo's voice echoed. I nodded in agreement as Dad entered the room looking around with us with a look I had never seen on his face before. Longing.

The house looked like it was rotting and have been for centuries, it creaked and I'm sure t swayed with the winds. The house was a death trap and the was no way in hell we would be staying here for long. This isn't the first time they told us this was a forever home. As soon as something bad happened they run away never looking back.

"Come on guys, I know she's a bit of a fixer-upper but just think. This is a great way for the family to bond and make this house and official Moore family home!" I raised an eyebrow at my dads goofy grinning face as Enzo sighed loudly at him, obviously not buying this crap either.

Suddenly a horn was heard coming from outside, looking through the dory window we noticed a large hauling van turn up outside and two younger men jump out. Dad stood up and headed outside with a smile for business.

"Good morning, folks!" A large man with a long white beard and a bold head popped out of the van as two younger boys began unloading supplies on you our front garden.

"Good morning, Gregory!" my farther chimed making his way up to the man. The man looked at him and let out a belly laugh

"My! Well, if it isn't little Leo! My you have grown! Your brave aren't you coming back here... why I remember" My farther pulling a nervous face while looking over to me laughed louder than the man talking and ushered him away form us.

Curios I headed inside with another box, dropping it in the front room I spotted my mother in the hallway as she just entered and coughed to get her attention. She looked at me from the corner of her eye and carried on walking.

I looked over to my mother who was humming away pretending to be occupied with a sleeping baby, pretending she heard nothing. "What does he mean mom?" I questioned looking at her with an eyebrow raised, she looked up from my brother and looked me in the eyes, she looked behind me as Enzo walked up.

"Mom?" he questions obviously hearing the same ting as me, she looked back down at Arlo and tsked at us muttering something under her breath.

"Nothing Bella, you know town folk. Little village boring lives. Right dramatic gossipers." She wrinkled her nose at me as she brushed my concerns off with no thought, she cooed at baby Arlo as she heads into the kitchen where the twins were currently bickering about what colour it should be painted.

With a tsk I rolled my eyes at my mother and made my way back through the rotting hallways and outside to pick up another box to bring inside. The sun was beginning to set and its harsh rays shown into my delicate eyes.

The worker van ad gone now, left over was my dad with a bunch of building supplies as she stood there smiling at the old decrepit house. He stopped me looking at hi as I picked up another box to bring inside, with a smile he waved me over.

I debated for a moment not going over but rolled my eyes and walked over to him with a heavy box marked books. Mother and her obsessions. I thought as I made the short distance.

"So little one, what do you think of our forever home?" he grinned as I waked over to him, I stood beside him placing my box down and looked up at the grey rotting two story building with a little attic. I knew it had a little attach from the stained-glass window.

"Looks spooky, old and like it about to fall down." I muttered as he slung an arm around my shoulders with a large grin.

"Yeah, don't you worry she won't look like that for long. We're going to fix her up. You excited?" he nudged me in the side lightly with his elbow, I shrugged my shoulders not looking at him.

"I guess we cannot have a home without a house, and this is a massive starter house if I ever did see one." I commented, I grabbed the box and began my descent up the path to the creaking house. I didn't say anything as I walked past my brother and away from my farther, Enzo looked at me before looking at me dad.

Our official forever home huh? This should be good.