Haunted House

Chapter 2

After dinner, I went to bed early thinking about what happened earlier. When I was laying down in my bed, I thought about what that thing could have been going down the hill as I shivered in my bed. I fell asleep.

I woke the next morning to the smell of chocolate chip pancakes. I put my slippers on and headed down stairs.

After breakfast, I decided to go into my dads office and look through his things to see if I find anything that made him feel that way before he went missing. I walked over to his desk and saw a book hiding under some papers. I looked at the cover of the book and it said '*#{%<+£' .

What?!? What does that mean? I thought. I took the book and sat on the chair next to the window.

"Page one" I read to myself. It was blank pages, all of them! I hear my mom walking towards the office. I shut the book quickly.

"Hey Amy..your sister and I are going to the grocery store. Would you like to come?" my mom said.

"Sure mom..I just have to take a quick shower first." I said.

"Ok...we are leaving at 12" said my mom as she walked back into the kitchen. It was already 10:50.

I ran up the stairs and grabbed my clothes to take a shower. But then I stopped while passing my sisters bedroom. She was talking to something. Does she have a friend over? Wait...but it's not even 11 yet! Who is she talking to??

I opened the door to her room. She was sitting in the middle of her room, rocking back and forth. She looked possessed or something.

I kneeled down

"Emma are you ok?" I asked

"Yeah I'm fine." she answered

"Who were you just talking to?" I said

"I wasn't talking to anybody..I was talking to myself. I just miss Dad. She started to cry.

"Oh well we all miss him Emma. Its hard for all of us. The police are looking for him." I felt a tear roll down my cheek. I hugged her tightly. Then she got up and went down stairs.

I went into the bathroom and started to take a shower. I took a long shower thinking about my life and about how my dad is missing.

When I was done, I straightened my hair and applied some mascara and eyeliner. Then I began to brush my teeth. While doing that I quickly remembered about the book. So I ran down stairs and grabbed the book from my dads office. I took a piece of paper and wrote down those strange symbols on the book. I put the piece of paper and shoved it in my pocket.

I spit out the toothpaste and brushed my hair a little bit more in the mirror. I grabbed my phone and headed down stairs. It was 11:45. My mom said we can go a little bit early since everybody was all ready.

We got into the car and I sat up front, like usual.

I plugged my earphones in and stared out the window. When suddenly I noticed that one of the signs on the highway said '*= W'. At first I thought it was normal and then I began to remember that symbol on the book. I quickly pulled out the paper and wrote down exactly what the sign says.

I made sure my mom couldn't see what I was writing, because she is like one of those nosy parents.

We arrived at the grocery store. As we walked in, everybody seemed to stare at us, like we were some kind of celeberty. I don't think my mom and Emma noticed at all. I continued to follow my mom around the store.

Then I noticed another sign next to the vegetable sign saying '#=A'. Right when I say that I began to write that down too. So all that I had on my paper was 'wa_ _ _ _ _ _'.

I began to think this was some kind of message.