House Of Secrets [#cghalloweenart]

Chapter 1

October 31st 8:30 PM

It was a typical Halloween night, children were walking around the streets trick or treating from door to door, while others were getting drunk off their asses since it was halloween night and every halloween night people act like they could do anything freely as if it were The Purge.

While the people were enjoying their time outside, I was staying inside the safety of my home, surfing the net until a text came popping out of my screen. It frightened me a little though, considering I was the only one left in my house.

Anyways, I checked out the person who messaged me and it revealed to be, my friend from school, Amber. We were best friends since 6th Grade along with my other buddies Frank, Amy, Jake and Dexter. We would always meet up at lunch and would sit together in an individual table, apart from the other students. Some students even say were the weirdo group, because we try our best to isolate ourselves from them.

As I opened the text message it read:

"Hey Megan, do you have any plans for tonight?"

I then typed on my phone to reply to her and I said:

"None, why?"

As I placed my phone back down the phone rang again, indicating that I had received 1 new message, as I opened the message it read:

"Well, you should come with us, were going to a haunted mansion you know just for fun and there's no reason to be scared, Frank, Amy, Dexter and Jake are coming with us."

I was kinda scared of the message she sent me though because, you know, haunted mansions isn't that the place where most horror movies start? Like a couple goes into a haunted mansion to build a family, but ends up having a ghost attached to them and will haunt them forever? It's just that i'm scared of these kinds of things.

But then again, I thought to myself. If I declined their request then I would probably die of boredom here whereas if I come with them, I might have an experience that I will surely remember. I quickly searched for my phone and replied:

"Sure! You going to pick me up?"

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"Okay, we'll be there in 5 minutes."

As she sent me that message I quickly changed into my casual attire, I made sure I wasn't wearing heavy clothing or heels and any accessories like earrings or jewelry. I just wore jeans and a blue shirt which was my favorite clothing combination, because it was simple.

5 MINUTES LATER

*Honk Honk*

"Megan! We're here." I heard Amber yell out to me.

"Alright!" I shouted." I'll be there, just a sec."

I then walked outside of the house and I made sure I locked the door, because my parents told me that if I ever feel like going out tonight, I should lock the house since they won't be there for the night. I twisted the key and pulled the door knob to test it if it was really locked. When I confirmed it to be locked I quickly ran towards the car.

I opened the car door and quickly stepped inside, I was greeted by Amy, Dexter and Jake sitting at the back seat, Amber in the front seat and Frank on the driver's seat. As soon as they saw me step inside the car they gave way for me to sit. I then sat down and positioned myself.

"Wow Frank!" I told him." Where'd you get this car?" I asked.

"I borrowed it from my dad, he said I could use it if and only if I don't drive recklessly."

Frank continued driving towards our destination as the 4 of us chatted, we were talking about the house we were visiting and Amber, who was the one who planned this trip for us told stories about the mansion, she said that it was filled with so many secrets, she also said that there was a girl that died in that house. During a specific time, day and month the girl roams the halls of the house instead of staying put in a form of a doll.

After a few minutes we finally arrived at the haunted house, it was kinda creepy though if you ask me, it creeped me out so much it made me question myself for coming with them. But I had to suck it up and go with the flow and besides I don't want to be a killjoy here.

When we arrived at the front door of the house we looked at it first, we looked at its size and admired the exterior of it. Finally after looking at the exterior of the house we just stared at each other, no one wanted to go inside the house first, because of this we voted.

After voting, Amber got the highest votes, which means, she will go inside the house first and the rest of us will just follow her. She was kinda hesitant at first but I reminded her that this was all her idea and because this was all her idea she needed to come in first. After she heard what I told her she finally accepted the challenge of being the leader.

After a few seconds Amber finally took up the courage to step closer towards the front door and open it. She grabbed the door handle and swung the door open slowly, her face looked very frightened as she was opening the door and I could see her whole body shaking as she stepped inside.

As we saw her step inside the house we walked towards the front door and followed her inside. When we got inside the house it was very dark, eerie and silent it looked very creepy too. The living room was filled with cobwebs and spiders were crawling on the walls of the house. What really creeped me out though was the sight of a doll holding a cleaver and sitting on a table.

We continued walking around the house, exploring it, and trying to find anything that might interest us. It was fine until we heard some kind of laughter.

"Hihihi!"

We were all silent when we heard that sound. It sounded like it came from a little girl's voice, we stopped for a sec and waited for another laugh. We all agreed that if we heard another laugh we would leave the place now.

"Come play with me!"

We were all frightened by the voice and decided to run out of the door, what surprised me though was that the door was opened and it wasn't locked like what you would see in horror movies.

We all huddled up and did a count off when we counted there were only 5 of us! There should be 6 of us here! There was Me, Amber, Amy, Jake and Frank but no sign of Dexter! We all panicked but tried staying calm. Jake was about to go to the front door to look for Dexter but as he got there the door swung open and scared all of us shitless!

As the door opened it revealed to be Dexter, he looked fine but he was holding something, something very unlikely. It looked like it came from a sword's handle. Oh wait, it was a sword's handle.

"What were you doing there?!" I asked him." And what are you holding?"

"I just needed an artifact okay, to prove that I went inside a haunted mansion."

"You know what.... forget it! Let's just go home and meetup tomorrow okay?"

"I second that." Amber told me.

We then got inside the car and drove home, I still don't understand why Dexter took a piece of something from a haunted house, though, what did he see in that thing that was so interesting.