The Escape

There's Something In The Basement

We look inside the room to see a stair case spiraling off into the darkness. The voice is finally revieled to be coming from the bottom of the stairs. It sounded like some one begging to be set free.  I could here another voice laughing maybe even taunting the other. Despite my groups crazy looks I make my first step on to the wooden stair case. The voices all stop at once. Silence takes over as I continue walking. "Are you insane?" I herd one of the guys say behind me. "Your breaking horror movie code 101." Despite there mocking and telling me this was a bad idea I continued to walk down the steps. My body tembled as I held on to my flash light to lead my down the antic terrain. I finally make it to the end of the stair case and into a fully lit room. Infront of me stood a boy almost as tall as Luke his hair was a bright blond and his eyes although blood shot where baby blue. He was filthy, dirt and stains covering his body and shredded clothes.

"What are you doing here?" he says with a deep yes whisper of a voice. He looked scared yet intimidating at the same time.

"Why are you here?" My voice was calm and soft. The boy looked fragile and the last thing I want to do was scared him.

"I got locked down here, are you real?" He asked his tone starting to become more normal but his guard was still very much up.

"Yes, why wouldn't I be? How did you get locked down here?" I picked the questions on top of each other hoping to not overwhelm the boy.

"I....its just......I was looking around, exploring and....I got to the basement and I was locked in." He mumbled. He refrained his sentence multiple time as if forming words proved to be difficult.
  
"Lacey are you ok?" I herd Haylie yell from the top of the stair case.

"That's my friends" I informed him.

"I found someone!" I yelled followed by he sound of there feet coming down the stairway.
  
"Why are you here?" Freddy asked looking him up and down.

"He was doing what we where, and he got locked down here." I informant them.
 
"Maybe we should take you home" Jenn said walking towards him.

"You guys don't have to do that....i Actually need to find some people before I can leave." He looks down at the dusty ground.

"I can with a group and I know there still here, I can't leave them." He mumbled.

"Well we arnt done looking around the asylum, you could join us?" Andrea says, the boys give her a 'what the fuck' while concern fills the girls faces.

"Maybe you should go to a hospital and we can call the police while we're there?" I suggested.

"No, we will get in huge trouble for sneaking in here!" Freddy exclaims.

"Yes, bit his well being is much more important, and there have been alote of red flags so far." I tell my group.

"He doesn't look hurt, just dirty, and the guy said he wants to look around with us." Andrea protested.

"I don't want to leave until I find them." He says in his low whisper of a voice.

"Can we at least know who you are looking for, and who you are?" Haylie asked.

"My name is Fletcher, and my three friends." He said continuing to look down.

"How did you even get locked in here?" Micheal asked.

"I don't know, maybe a malfunction with the door?" He said in an unsure tone.

"Well what..."

"Guys let him breath" I said. Fletcher gives me a small smile which I take as a thanks for stopping there current session of questions.

We all introduce our selves to Fletcher spreading the plans for the next couple of days out on a near by table. The basement was just filled with tables and chairs to create some kind of office space.

After about 3 hour Freddy asks a question we all had on are mind since we walked down to the basement.

"I know I we were supposed to be done with questions for the night but I have to know. why were you screaming those things at us?"

"What do you mean?" He asked as confusion covered his face.

"As we were looking in the doorway walking down the steps....?" Fred pressed on.

"Oh, that wasnt me" Fletcher mumbled as his confused face went pale.

We look at each other in terror, this situation became more and more like an old horror move as each second ticked by.

"Maybe we should leave?" I said "I mean its not very smart to just ignore all these red flags."

" Don't be a wuss, Laney" Andrea laughs.

"I'm not being a wuss, I just don't want to die" My sister groans.

"Your over reacting" Freddy laughs.

"One of you is totally gonna die first" Michael says rolling his eyes.

" Maybe we should go upstairs" suggests obviously frightened.

We all agree and make our way up the stairs before setting up our sleeping bags in one random room. Fletcher of course didn't have one and refused to share one with any one else. The night was uncomfterble and spent on edge but eventually sleep finally took over.