Chapter 17

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We start walking, I'm staying close to Nancy. I would never admit this, but this is scaring the crap out of me. I don't like the dark, but I have to keep my badass appearance up so I'm not showing any fear, "Oh, that's the longest hallway ever" Bess groans

"It must run behind every room" George says

Nancy starts walking so we follow her, "All that's missing are the pervy peepholes and this hotel is officially my worse nightmare" George says

We keep walking, "Did you hear that?" Nancy asks

We look up and the light bulb blows, "Ooh" George says

"Awesome" Nancy whispers

We keep walking, "That's a piece of Jennifer's shirt. Isabel sent me a picture of her from last night" Nancy says

We walk over to what I think is a dumbwaiter. I walk over and open the doors, "Whoa" Bess says

Nancy shines her flashlight down and we see the rope broken and stuff broken at the bottom, "What's at the bottom of the shaft?" Nancy asks

"Dumbwaiter. Looks very broken" I say

"What if Jennifer was running, scared, and then she jumped into the dumbwaiter to hide, and the whole thing crashed into the basement?" Nancy asks

"And nobody heard?" George asks

"Oh, well, maybe whatever she was running from did. Uh, or she's still down there, trapped, hurt. Either way, we need to get to the basement now" Nancy says

We quickly make our way down to the basement, "Jennifer?" Nancy asks

"Perfect. The lights are broken" George says

We walk down the steps and over to the dumbwaiter. It's just a bunch of wood. Bess, George, and I look around, "She was here" Nancy says

"She couldn't have gotten out from over here. It's locked from the outside in" George says

"Just like the door we came through. She couldn't have gotten out that way, either" I say

Bess opens a cabinet door and gasps, "Blood" She says

"Blood? Where?" Nancy asks

We walk over to Bess, "Yeah" Bess says

We look in and see mason jars of blood and syringes. Nancy goes to grab a jar, "What if this doesn't have anything to do with ghosts? What is someone is using the hotel's history as a way to—" Nancy asks

"Mm, kidnap and murder people?" I ask

"Secret access to rooms. Old legends of-of missing guests written off as ghost stories?" Nancy asks

"Wait. Tapes, of victims screaming?" Bess asks

Then all of the sudden, "Hey!" We hear

We all scream and jump, "You shouldn't be in here" A man at the top of the stairs says

He flicks the lights which don't turn on then grumbles and walks out, "He caught us" Bess whispers

Bess closes the cabinet, "That is the hotel owner" Nancy whispers

"You mean hotel murderer" George whispers

He walks back in and flicks on the lights, "Hi! Oh, God, I'm so glad you're here. Thank God. We...we got so lost" Bess says walking over

We follow her, "Lost?" He asks

"We were so lost, because it was so dark" Bess says

"Stop overselling it" George whispers

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