Who was Dr. Brenner?

Chapter 003

SAME DAY

Tim's POV :

Peter Pan was halfway through when I suggested to stop it. It was about 6:45 now and I thought it'd be cool to go on a walk through the snow with everyone.

"Why'd I pause it, Tim?" Oh right! Still needed to tell everyone else my idea! Haha, how could I forget?

"TIM! TELL US WHY YOU HAD BARB PAUSE IT!" Jeez calm down Anger Issues, seriously I don't know why my sister is always mad at me.

"Come on, let's go on a walk in the snow," I said that, then got up. I assumed they'd follow me as usual and they did, except for Ell. Barbara had to grab her arm and force her to follow us. I don't know why we call her Ell instead of Lola or something, but Papa insisted her nickname on being Ell.

We all walked upstairs and told our grandparents we were going on a walk and that we might take the bikes so we can race home. Papa looked concerned when I said that, but didn't say anything. After that, I walked over to the door and opened it.

"AH- COLD AIR-!" Barbara, Sam, and I immediately grabbed coats and put them on after Barb said that. We all didn't really notice Ell was missing until we went outside and she was standing in the snow with no jacket.

"YOU PSYCHO, HOW CAN YOU STAND OUT THERE IT'S FREEZING!!" I almost screamed at her.

"I like it cold. I hate the heat." She was so difficult sometimes. Barbara had the look of, 'are we sure she's related to us?'

All three of us started, slightly yelling at her to come back and put a coat on, which must've got Papa's attention.

"Ell, sweetheart, please put on a jacket." As soon as Papa said that, Nana rushed to her, having her put on a jacket. She looked annoyed, but we ignored it and started walking as we planned.

We started talking about the creepiest or strangest things that have ever happened to us.

Barbara spoke first. "When we first moved here, I found a creepy doll in the thrift store and that night I thought I saw it walking around both inside and outside our house!" Sam laughed nervously and I just said "that reminds me of that creepy doll we found in the abandoned part of our old church. You remember when we shoved Ell forewards and she fell on it? Then we kept joking that we had to cut off her left hand because rumor had it the doll was possessed." Everyone laughed after that, except Ell of course.

Next was Sam with his creepy thing. "When we got here the barn was full of bats, they swarmed me and then-" he got cut off by Ell. She was always so annoying and rude.

"Did you hear that?" She was looking behind us.

"Hear what? We're in the middle of the woods. Did you hear a squirrel?" Barbara said that while laughing a little.

"I thought I heard someone say my name.." Ell sounded worried for the first time in a long time.

"That's impossible, there are no houses nearby and none of us said your-" Sam ran behind me before I could finish, which caused Ell to turn towards us.

"What is it? What's wrong?" Barb was trying to calm her brother down, but he has his eyes locked on something.

"Big monster!" We all looked in the direction he was looking and didn't see anything. That is until I saw it. It was camouflaged in the trees, it was huge.

"Holy-" Ell covered Barb's mouth before she could finish.

This thing was way taller than us and even though we couldn't see its face, we knew it was staring at us. None of us knew what to do or why it was here. Why was it staying still? Was it waiting for something to happen? Why us? What'd we do? Was it looking for someone? Did it want something?  We were all frozen in fear when suddenly Ell's ego came back.

"HEY, FREAK!" We all looked at each other confused when suddenly Ell grabbed a stick and set it on fire. "BACK OFF!" She threw the stick at it and it let out a loud screech, then ran off.

"Have you seen that thing before?" Barbara looked at her.

"No."

"So how'd you know how to get rid of it?" I was just as confused as Barb and I don't think Sam cared. He just wanted to go home.

"An instinct." Before we could reply to her, she walked off. It was probably the best idea to go home.

When we got home there was someone there talking to Papa in another room. They were wearing what looked like a lab coated , but before I could see anything else. Papa shut the door so we couldn't see or hear them. We grabbed some cookies from the kitchen, then went back downstairs to continue watching Peter Pan.

A/N :

I wrote this at school in a lockdown due to dangerous activity nearby, also chapter 4 hopefully coming soon. I usually write the book at school since I have so much free time.