𝓟𝓱𝓪𝓷𝓽𝓸𝓶 𝓟𝓪𝓲𝓷𝓽𝓮𝓻 [FEM!READER]

⌗﹗﹐➜Chapter 3

"Sorrel Weed House"

The women in front of us... she seemed familiar to me... like someone my mother had possibly introduced me to in the past because I was with her at work one time, but it was a long time ago, my memories are blurred. Whatever... everyone seemed pretty psyched to go so I guess it's worth a shot... when we all agreed the woman brought us to the house, where I saw the hallucination, I kind of regret my decision all of a sudden...

As much as I love creepy shit, this was pretty boring... well, not taking in account that creepy ass shadow looking thing that was looking at me from afar it's as if it anticipated for me, weird... anyways... since I'm not really the type to take notes, I turned on my phone and set it to record, recording the woman's voice so we could at least gather more information for the project...

"Welcome to the Sorrel Weed House! So, this is the foyer. Most everything in the house is original with the exception of the furniture and the paint of the walls" The woman started to speak... you know you could have just said 'the architecture is original' make your life easier ma'am... she then brought us into a library, I could see that damn thing in the corner of my eye, it's following me.

"This is the Francis Sorrel library, and the man you see in this portrait is Robert E. Lee." She gestured to a the painting above the fireplace. "Lee was a dear friend of Francis who visited the Sorrel house quite often." sheesh... I'm already pretty worn, wonder how much she'll actually show us... I wonder if there are restricted areas... "In the winter of 61-62, just before the Great War, General Lee used this room as his office. As far as spooky activity goes, this room seems to be the most calm. Not to say there isn't any ghostly activity in here, but out of the entire house, I'd say it's milder---"

RIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIING RIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIING

That annoying ass ring tone... "Ah... I'm sorry this is my emergency phone." suspicious in all honesty... but an emergency is an emergency... "I have to get this, I'll be right back. Continue looking around if you want but don't touch anything" Eh...? usually staff would make people wait outside and continue later, a call wouldn't take super long, and if it was a really bad emergency why not get another person to fill in, usually there should be multiple tour guides just in these types of cases... That's really unprofessional in my book...

The others seem to want to look around, I guess I should just stay with them, plus, I spaced out too much, I don't remember the routes to get back fully to the class meet up spot to head to the hotel... we all walked around the house for a bit, eventually finding ourselves in the basements, I hate basements, not cause they're creepy but like I hate the smell and insects that could be there, but the difference here is that this place is a tourist spot so they clean it... To a certain degree and not every day but oh well...

As we all walked, I saw Ashlyn looking oddly tense, I wanted to check on her, I also didn't want to make her uncomfortable since I kind of noticed she wasn't really a people person, I can tell she prefers to be alone because well, the first weeks of school, she constantly avoided all of us, or was forced into a one-sided conversation by Aiden. I was already walking next to Taylor but fell back to checking on Ashlyn, gesturing to her to catch her attention, she looked at me, that look she had on her face, it basically was filled with the feeling of unease and the feeling of being uncomfortable. "Hey, are you okay? Is this place making you uncomfortable, do you want* to go back up?"

"No... I'm fine" she said, she obviously isn't fine but oh well, I don't want to push her to tell me, I'll just keep an eye on her for now, after a bit more of walking, Tyler randomly spoke "Why is she wearing ear plugs?" and then Aiden being Aiden spoke loudly "Ah! I thought they were wireless earbuds?!" I noticed how she flinched, so I gently patted her shoulder and gestured for Aiden to quiet down, Ashlyn did move away from my hand not out of annoyance, I'm guessing it's a habit since well, again she just isn't a people person. "They're earplugs. I wear them because of my sensitivity to..." Ashlyn trailed off, I saw her looking something, her eyes widening a bit, so I followed her gaze and... What the fuck.

It was there, I didn't realize it until now, but why is Ashlyn reacting to it??? Could she see it??? IS IT ACTUALLY THERE??? WHAT THE FUCK. The others aren't reacting to it, it's just me and her, but these things are normal for me... It isn't as scary but it's shocking to see Ashlyn react to it... Maybe it's just a coincidence, maybe her eyes tricked her, NO WAY ITS ACTUAL THERE. It's all an illusion for her and it's my hallucination, IT ISN'T THERE. Breathe [Reader] count, it'll be gone before you know it...

I shook my head as I heard Taylor call out to me and Ashlyn, both of us just simultaneously exhaling. "Yeah, I'm fine..." "I'm fine." we both said 'I'm fine' at the same time, causing me to just chuckle a bit out of nervousness and just to also cover up the shakiness of my hands, even if I've seen it over and over and over again, it still is frightening. I continued walking beside Ashlyn for a while until I paused after feeling a sharp pain on my side, causing me to groan "Ack-...." I looked up to see everyone else's horrified expressions. "Reader... A-Ashlyn..." Logan spoke with a shaky voice. "...Behind you"

Ashlyn had turned to look at whatever was behind us and due to the sharp pain at my side and also due to the fear, my legs gave out beneath me, falling down, using my right arm, I propped myself up on my elbow, my left arm clutching at my right side, I thought I heard the sound of my clothes ripping a bit and a wet feeling, and everything around us felt so dark and tense for a split second before returning to normal, I saw Ashlyn was sitting on the floor, facing the direction everyone else was looked at...

And it was gone, but why did it feel so real??? I sat up, looking over at everyone, though something felt really off, the place where I felt the pain is so fucking painful... My mind's blanking a bit, I...

"[READER] !!"

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

My sight went dark, and somehow, I found myself on the bus again, though what's different was the atmosphere, everyone seemed tense, especially Mr. Thomas, I carefully sat up to realize I obviously fainted "Uhm...?" I sat up, hearing Taylor speak "Mr. Thomas! She's awake!" Immediately hearing poor Mr. Thomas's panicked voice "[Reader]! Are you alright now? do you know what happened??"  I shrugged in replied, also realizing that my whole group looked pretty damn stressed. "I'm not sure..." I sighed, what in the hell happened...

"Well, your whole group seemed pretty stress, they had called me over to your guy's location, Ben here had carried you up from the basement..." As I turned to Ben about to thank him, suddenly the pain from my side returned, I flinched and clutched at my side. "Oh my, Are you okay??? Maybe we should get you to your room in the hotel so you can rest..." and with that, after a while and a lot of assistance from Ashlyn and Taylor, and a nice lukewarm shower when I got to my room, I found myself lying in bed, it's still pretty painful... but I guess it's a tad bit better...

I can hear Taylor and a few other girls playing a card game and then the bedroom door on the other side opening in and closing, must be Ashlyn... I sighed, not much that I can do while I'm here to rest, Taylor suggested it noticing how much pain I was in at the bus, speaking of the bus ride to the hotel... I had to sit closer to the front so Sir Thomas and the other staff could check on me, and Logan decided to move to the back and sit along, while Ben sat in front next to me since he is the only person capable of carrying someone, meanwhile Tyler and Taylor sat where Ben and Logan were originally sitting, Ben even let me lean against him the whole ride, how sweet of him.

But back to the current time, it was around 9:15pm... no one was chatting in the group chat so might as well get some shut eye... after a few hours gone by, I woke up, I checked the time on my phone... 12am... hm... I sat up, the sharp pain at my side worse now. and the bed...

"Is that...BLOOD!?"
----------------------------------------End-------------------------------------------