The Parmon Mansion (BOOK 1)

Chapter 4 : Trapped

Me, Charoline and Edric went upstairs and into the first bedroom. When we entered it I first scanned the room for anything out of place. It looked like it was perfectly normal so I went to the bathroom to check if there was any soap.

"We're in luck here is an old dried up bar of soap we can use it to was ourselfs but...the shampoo is not here." I said and looked over at Charoline but she just nodded and she was shivering of fear.

"I don't want us to split up or be alone. There is a shower and a bath we can take turns waiting in the shower. I'm guessing there won't be any hot water so we will use the bed sheets as towels." I looked over at Charoline whose whole face had turned red. "Why..." before I could finish she pointed over to Edric who had no cloths on. "Edric cover your privates and go into the bathroom." He followed my command and I was at a loss of words. I looked over at Charoline who was still blushing. I walked over to an oil lamp and lit it up. I then went over to the bed pulling of the dusty cover so that I could pull of the clean sheet. It was not cold but after a cold bath I think it will be a bit chilly.

"Looks like Edric is first I'll clean his shorts and then him. But we have a problem with our clothes." Charoline seemed to be deep in thought but she nodded at my remark.

"I have it. You and your brother can take a shower while I wash both of your cloths in the bathtub. And then hang them to dry and as soon as you have putted on your clothes I will do the same with mine. But we only have one clean sheet." She blushed at her own words.

"We should probably go get another in the next room." Then I pulled my shirt of and stepped into the bathroom to give it to Edric. I told him to put it on and it just about covered everything.

"Ok lets quickly go while we wait for the water to fill the tub." Charoline looked at my half naked body and she was still blushing and then she looked over at Edric and chuckled.

We went to the room next to the one we were in and got another sheet and some more soap.

"We will be cold afterwards so let's check the closets for blankets." I suggested but we only found one blanket that was not full of holes. So we decided to check the rooms opposite, because we didnt want to go near the swiming pool, and came into a girly room and when we opened the closet there were only dresses.

"Looks like I won't be washing my clothes." She picked out the most eliquint one and we made our way back to our room. The dress she took was a old brown dress very old fashioned.

"Ok we will go first while you do the clothes." She nodded and I took Edric into the bathroom and into the shower.

About half an hour later we were all clean and wearing dry clothes. We were sitting on the bed cuddling the blanket with Charoline in her new dress on my left and Edric on my right.

"We are warm enough now let's go and see if the others have opened the door yet." I tried to keep my voice soft and enjoy the last of this because I had a feeling it was my last.

We stood up and made our way out of the room taking the blanket as a souvenir and made our way to the staircase with the feeling we are being watched. I looked around but saw nothing out of place.

By now they had to have made some progress. We slowly walked down stairs and by the sight of things they haven't made any progress. This made me worry.

"Any luck yet." I yelled from the top of the staircase as we made our way down the swirling stairs.

"It has been a little over an hour but still nothing. We have some power tools but they are all flat and there is no electricity in this stupid old house." Damien replied and shaked his head sideways and you could see he was out of idees. "Why don't we burn our way out." Everyone's eyes turned to Charoline. It was the first time they heard her talk other then scream.

"That is an excellent idee. We could make a fire at the door and it would burn. Let's try it." Luke gave him a lighter and he poured some lighter fluid onto the door and then he lighted it up. But it burned out really fast.

Damiens face was lost he had no expression. Then it lit up with an idee.

"We have some chain cutters. We can try and cut the chain's on the kitchen door." He was determined to get out of this mansion as quickly as humanly possible. We all grabbed our stuff and headed trough the ballroom and into the kitchen and Damien headed straight for the door. He placed the chain cutter on the chain of the door and when he pressed down the chain cutter into pieces. His face was lost he was stunned on how he couldn't break out of an old house with so much tools. But after a while in deep thought his face lid up with another idee.

"I have one last resort." Damien said it with a sinister voice and with a evil grin on his face. He turned to Antonio who knew exactly what he was talking about. Antonio nodded and they started to make their way to the front door again in a fast paced walk. We all just followed their action hoping what ever they had in mind would work.

Antonio started to take out four blocks of grey clay. "Andrew do you like action movies?" Antonio asked with a broad smile on his face. I just nodded yes in response as he continued. "Do you know what C4 is?" He was still smiling broadly. "No way, awesome so your going to blow up the door?" I was so excited I loved explosions and now I get to see one up close. Antonio nodded as he placed the grey clay into the door in four places and a fifth at the lock he didn't use it all only 2 bricks and made little balls and stuck it onto the door. He then stocked some wire into it and told us to go hide in the ballroom under a table. We did as he said and a short while later he joined us with a trigger like thing in his hands attached to the wire.

"Kaboom" and he pressed down on the trigger and we heard a big bang sound. We were all deaf we could not hear a thing but we all knew what to do. When we came around the corner and into the enryhall we could not see anything. There was a lot of dust in the air. After about a minute the dust cleared a little and we started to make our way to the door. But bumped into it. When the dust finally cleared enough to see we all had shocked expressions on our faces. The door was still intact not even a burn mark or a scratch...nothing.

"That is a fucking hollow wooden door...a fucking wooden door." Johnny yelled while pointing at the door. Everyone was too frightened to say anything we were all just gazing at the door and it was like it was mocking our efforts.

"Looks like we will be spending the night." Michael said in a sarcastic voice. The only one who was the least spooked by what happened was Charoline. It was like she knew this was what was going to happen.

Damien also realized it and he snapped out of his shocked trance and he started to look at Charoline.

"Charoline do you know something that we should know or maybe don't know?" Charoline nodded before responding.

"Only stories." She said with her head down.