Chapter 8
Sallymae ran screaming as she ran thru the door, but discovered that she was in a bathroom, with no other way out. The snapping of the father’s belt was louder and closer with each second. Sallymae fell to her knees, sobbing, as the snapping sound was at the door.
She shut her eyes, expecting the worst. The snapping continued inside the bathroom, but nothing else happened. Timidly Sallymae looked up and saw the family standing there with a tape recorder, from which the snapping sounds came.
“We were just fooling,” said the little girl sweetly.
“Yeah, we like to have fun when people get lost in the temple, and end up in our living room,” said the little boy with a smile.
“If you are ready to leave, there’s a tunnel under the sink that you came in thru,” said the mother warmly.
Sallymae stooped down to crawl into the tunnel, as the father pulled his belt from his pants again, and hit her with it as he yelled, “Now git out of here! We’re sick and tired of you temple people invading our privacy!”
Sallymae crawled thru the tunnel into the darkness. Suddenly the same flame lit up again. A voice came from the flame saying, “Have a nice time?” and then started laughing. The laughing continued on and on, and Sallymae covered her ears to deaden it. But the laughter was inside her head too. Just as she was about to go insane, she woke up, and was back on the raft made of corn cobs tied together.
