Took the Dare

Chapter 4

Miles begins his explanation, 'Riley, am so sorry I thought you were still climbing stairs so I went with Jess because I wanted......to ask her something. And Jess, I did follow you but before I could enter the room it closed and somebody hit my head and I fell unconscious', he ruffles his short hairs above his right ear.
'Woah man', Rohan says. Who would do that? So there's another person among us.
'And when I woke up I saw you losing your consciousness', his eyes do hold the guilt for not waiting up for me, blaming himself for what happened with me when he looks at me intensely. That intensity is so strong that makes me question if he has feelings for me like I do. But no he just said he wanted to ask Jess something without having me around. Am going crazy, no not crazy. I got a reason now to move on. Why am I angry? I don't even talk to him that much, so how the hell is he supposed to know that I like him.

How can I be so pathetic? The guy I think about most of the time in a day is right here in front of me but I can't get myself to take a step forward, all I do is back off whenever I see him with another girl.
Somebody hit him and you're thinking those things. My subconsciousness scolds.
'Somebody might be planning something', I blurt out.
'And why would they do that', Jess's question is valid but I don't know the answer for that. None of us does.
Why are things getting complicated here?

Rohan's POV
After looking inside the room with the flashlight, me and Sarah enter inside, the door of course closed by itself. We both think that Jess or Riley maybe playing prank on us but it couldn't be them when we heard someone knocking on the wardrobe door from inside it.
'Who is it?', I yell. Sarah holds the flashlight as I go near the wardrobe door to open it. It's a sliding door, and the minute I slid the door terror sweeps through my each and every bones because there's blood dripping even though it is empty. I guess it is empty. I look at Sarah and she's staring at the blood.

She hands me the flashlight before I could stop her she pushes her head inside the wardrobe to check. My god, she had the nerve to do that.
'Do you see anybody?', I ask. And I hope there is no one, both yes and no will freak me out anyway.
She doesn't answer but as she turns, she points at the room door which is now open.
I am sweating, I don't know what is happening here. I take Sarah's hand and pull her out of that goddamn room and I lock it.
'Do you want to tell everyone about this, it might freak them out', I ask her.
'You're right. We won't tell them and if Jess gets to know about this she would definitely kill me', she says and I hold her hand in mine to let her know we're going to get out.
She smiles and suddenly it turns into an ecstatic grin. As I follow her eyes I see Miles who is holding Riley in his arms. Did they witness something like we did too?

'Blood?', Jess yells as Rohan mentions the word. He finishes his narration.
'Who would do this?', I wonder.
'And fuckin' why?', Jess grits. 'Well what happened to me was creepy as hell'.

Jess's POV
I reach for the door handle in front of me. As I open and step inside I look around the room, the light from the flash suddenly disappears and the door shuts.
'Miles open the damn door, you'll regret later am telling you. Just..please open', I bang on the door.
It's not so dark in here due to moonlight but that doesn't put me in a better mood. The cupboard behind the door is half opened but I ignore it, anyway it's dark in there.
'Miles', I yell again and somebody shushes me. I turn around, not a single body is present terrified expression is evident on my face.
'I just have to ignore the shush and find something to break the freaking door', I look for some tool but the big mirror in the middle catches my eye. It is so mesmerising, the way I look in the moonlight. The dark wooden border is perfect for the mirror. As I go closer to take a look at the designs, a portrait on the wall catches my eye, it's me in that portrait. WHAT?
As if a camera recorded me and that is being displayed on that frame. I turn around, it's black. I turn back moving closer to look at the portrait in the mirror, the 'Jess' in the mirror looks scared as if there's someone behind her staring, the more she feared, the bigger it got and filled the frame with nothing but darkness, the same I saw when I turn around.
I don't know what to do, am scared. I want to get out. The oxygen is going down and am sweating. As I turn again towards the mirror, I see someone standing far behind me covered in black dress. I scream and run towards the door, it opens.

'You said the cupboard was open, maybe someone was in there', I deduce.
'Maybe', she shrugs.
'See Sarah, the Mansion is not haunted at all, we're having a blast', Jess lets out an indifferent laugh.
'What if those were hallucinations', Rohan speaks up.
'You and Sarah both wouldn't have the same one', I say.
'Right'.
We hear footsteps downstairs.
'What is up with this ghost making us use the stairs ', Jessica groans.
'You can wait here till we come back', Rohan raises his eyebrows.
Me and Jess both groan. We both look at each other faces.
Rohan opens his mouth to say something but Sarah puts her hand on his mouth stopping him.
We head downstairs and where that sound came from. Miles leads us, he turns the knob the door opens and it has stairs too,  we enter and stand on the stairs I think this is a store room. Miles sways the flashlight around, and it indeed is a store room cause all the useless things lie around here, some corrugated boxes too. Me and Jessica notice someone.
'Stop', we both yell.
'I saw some man', she says.
'Hello', Miles yells as he looks around.
'Move the flashlight slowly', I whisper.
He nods and does what I said. This time we all see a man holding an axe. Then the flashlight falls to the ground.
'Shit', Miles swears.
Why the hell did me and Rohan turn off our flashlights. Oh yeah, to save the battery.
I get my flashlight from my fanny pack.
'Riley, Rohan turn on your flashlight idiots', Jess shouts.
'Found it', Miles says.
As he gets up I turn it on my flashlight, the axe-man is standing right in front of Miles face. That man's face is creepy, like a dead guy who was eating flesh and we disturbed his precious time.
'Run', Miles says.