Scream | Shawn Mendes

Chapter Five: Enter If You Dare

Cam and Dan stared at the door for awhile, I'm guessing trying to figure out how the hell we're gonna get in there. The girls looked thoughtful too, just staring at the door pretty much contemplating on the subject.

"Someone go look for another entrance" Dan says, looking at all of us like one of us are gonna do it.

"You go look" I say, trying to hide the fact that I'm terrified.He rolls his eyes and pulls Ash with him to go and look for another entrance.  We all sit there at the door, staring at each other. "So how do you think it's gonna look in there?" I ask, chewing on my cheek. "Like a hospital, Duh" Andrea says.

I roll my eyes and Andrea scoffs like I actually did something to irritate her.

"Lighten up" she said to me, her hard expression becoming softer.

"I am lightened up." I said, though i know I'm not.

I can't help but to be tense. I can't help but to feel fear, I'm trying not to; for Kat. I guess i've always felt scared to do stuff like this. Maybe because I'm a sissy. My girlfriend probably thinks i'm a loser. I reach for her hand but she rips it away. Ouch.

What did i do? I hope she isn't too mad. I hear daniel and ashley laughing from wherever they are.

It saddens me more to hear the laughing because i can't hear Kats. It's like she's distant from me.Like she isn't even there. Do i even know her anymore?

Soon Dan and Ash come back from where they went, and announced they found a way in,so we all filed one by one behind them, watching our steps a long the way. The grass was brown and dead, it crunched like fall leaves as we stepped. The ground was lined with rocks and glass, sometimes needles and hand restraints came into view, but we passed them with no issue.

As we walked to the back, i realized that we were heading into the woods. Dan told us to turn on our head lights so we did. Our lights illuminated the way as we walked. As we walked further into the woods the air began to smell foul; almost like the smell of decomposition.

We all made "yuck" noises as the awful air filled our nostrils. Cam gaged a little when his hand slipped from his nose.

"Sorry guys this was the only way we could find" Ashley said apologetically.

"It's alright. just as long as the smell goes away" Andrea said with a smile.

"Almost there!"Dan announced,looking back at us.

It was too dark to see what was making the smell, our lights weren't doing us justice. The smell got worse the further we went into the woods.

It's almost like the smell was coming from the entrance we are looking for. My foot stepped down slowly, something squished and bubbled under my foot. My mind went crazy with what it could be, b ut i pushed it to the back of my mind and told myself that it was mud. All of our lights illuminated a metal door, with a brick tunnel on the outside. "Did you actually see if it opened, or are you just assuming it?" Kat asked, her voice sounded funny with her fingers plugging her nose. "It opens?" Dan replied, he grabbed the knob and pulled the door open.

a loud creek sounded, and the insides of the tunnel came into view. The smell just smacked our noses when the air brushed across our faces. It was a mixture of death and staleness, mostly what i actually thought a mental asylum in the 50's smelled like. But this death wasn't the death we were used to, it was more of the unwanted kind; murder.

Though it sounded ridiculous, that's the only way i could describe it. We all entered the tunnel, trying  not to breathe at all. The stench was almost unbearable. I looked everywhere, on the floor, the walls, the ceiling, everywhere. We were walking on something that resembled a train track, i think it was just like a mine shaft. As we walked we ran into so many different things, like hospital stretchers, and other hospital-y stuff. There was a barrel on the ground, it looked old, and smelled awful.

We all stopped walking and gathered around it. All of us were sure that it was the source of that awful smell.

"Shawn open it." Kat whispered.

She was probably testing me. I'm not willing to lose this test. I reach out a shaky hand, slowly. I swallowed hard.  Who wouldn't be terrified seeing this?

I reached another shaky hand out and put it on the lid with the other hand. I mentally counted to three.

My fingers and hand bent to get leverage on it.

And then i lifted it up...

The smell was an even harder smack to the face when the lid came up.

The metal was heavy and rusted, it matched the barrel itself.

Everyone screamed in horror, as the lid hit the ground. The sight in the barrel was awful and was definitely the source of the smell.

Cam bent over and blew chunks unable to stand the smell.

All three girls coward away behind me and Dan. They all were crying. I felt my stomach turn as I took another look. The barrel was halfway full of human organs. They were mostly decomposed and rotten, made into red brown sludge. Some of the organs were new, pink and gross.

Dan was next to puke as the seconds ticked by. It was the most horrifying thing that we've ever seen. I held the contents in my stomach. The blood rushed to my head making me extremely dizzy. The girls cried out that they wanted to go home.

I felt like I should say I told you so, but I didn't. I just agreed with them and pulled Kat closer to me.

American horror story is happening all over again.

Cam and Dan composed themselves and shook their heads yes.

We all a started back down to the door, single filed.

"I'm sorry" Kat said. She sounded hurt and scared, I waved the apology off and focused on getting out of this place.

The door was getting closer and closer. I could smell the fresh air. Though the air smelled the same, it was almost less stale.

We finally reached the door.

Dan reached out to open the door, but it wouldn't budge at all.

Kat and Ashley began crying harder.

"It's locked" Dan cried out, kicking the door. "What are we going to do?" I said searching all of their faces.

This time I really felt like I was going to puke.

Andrea started freaking out completely. She had deep fast breaths, she wheezed and cried. "She's having a panic attack!" Kat said running over to her. She kept repeating "take deep slow breaths, count to three, and do it again"

Everyone was freaking out at this point. Ashley was crying in Daniels chest, Andrea was panicking, Kat was panicking but helping her. Cam and I looked like we could upchuck. Cam again.

"What are we going to do??" I repeated, looking at Dan as he softly ran his hand through Ashley's hair.

"We've gotta go through. We've gotta find the front door." He said. His voice laced with fear.

"No! Let's try to open the door again! I don't want to go through there! What if whoever or whatever killed those people are in there?! I don't want to be next!" Ashley cried out. Clawing at his shirt.

This time all three of us boys tried to open the door, ramming it with our shoulders, kicking it, all three of us trying to open it at once. It wasn't working.

"We're gonna have to go through it..." Dan sighed.