100 HAUNTINGS

Two: Hide And Seek

Me and my friends decided to play hide and seek in an abandoned house near our subdivision. Me, Louise, Will, Tick, and Meadow.

We were walking on the sidewalk, as we found this abandoned and ancient house, beside mordern ones. We all agreed it would be good to play hide and seek there. We went inside, every thing we saw was from the 50's. Why didn't they bring the house down? This was the creepiest among the others.

So, Meadow was the seeker, and she counted in the living room.

"1, 2, 3, 4, 5----"

As we hid in different parts of the house. We even hid in the attic, I mean I hid in the attic.

"17, 18, 19, 20! Ready or not, here I come!!!"

I heard her yell. I covered my mouth, preventing myself from laughing. I heard footsteps approaching, but not in the attic, but on the second floor. The attic door was on the ceiling of the second floor, and has a ladder for you to climb up.

I heard Meadow yell, "Found you Tick!!!"

I guessed he found Tick hiding on the second floor. Then there was a door, opening, cracking. Then Meadow screamed. I didn't know why, so I went down the attic. I went to the room where the noise was coming from, and it stopped as I got in. Meadow was standing it front, and I was scared. Is she playing me?

"Meadow?" I said, as I stretched out my hand to grab her shoulder, but someone pushed me from behind.

"Found you Alice!!!" She yelled, and as I turned around, it was Meadow! I saw Meadow in front of me then I'm seeing another Meadow behind me! But as I turned around, the other Meadow was gone. Was that a ghost? Or is it just my vision?

"How----??" I was shocked.

"What?" Meadow asked, smiling.

I was completely confused, so I just forgot about it and went to the living room where Tick was. After Meadow found them all, we met up in the living room.

Tick was the seeker now, and we hid in different rooms of the house. Now, I hid in the room where I saw Meadow. Well, not the real one. I hid under the bed, and waited for Tick to find me. It was quiet, though. There were no footsteps. Then it began to be dark. I was scared, I crawled out of the bed, and stood up. I went outside, and it was dark and quiet. I didn't know what was happening.

Then, someone pushed me down on the ground, and banged my head. Everything turned black. I woke up, tied. I was tied up in the living room, and I couldn't talk. There was something that was preventing me from talking. Then I just realized---my mouth was sewed! Around me, was Meadow, Tick, Louise and Will. Then a man walked in the middle. He was pale, wearing a black top and pants.

"Trespassers. Did no one tell you to not enter this place?" He asked.

We couldn't talk, because our mouths was sewed, it was painful. Meadow was crying, like the others.

"Right. Your mouths are sewed up. You can't talk. Because you entered this house, you won't able to get out. Unless," he stopped, and snapped his finger. A woman walked in, holding a box, full of weapons. "You do this challenge."

"Only two of you will get out. Each of you will be untied, given a weapon, and walk around the house. But first, you will pick one small piece of paper, and one of those papers, there will be one word written, and it is murderer. The murderer is the seeker. But more different. Once you're the murderer, you walk around the house, find a person, and kill it. If you don't kill it in five seconds, you die. It's your choice if you hide the body, or let someone find it. If one of you founds a dead body, you shout a dead body. And plus, cheating will kill you. It's just a simple game like hide and seek. Good luck." He explained.

We were untied, and we picked a weapon. I got a knife. I can't do this. If I wanna live, I need to. They gave the small piece of paper. And guess what, I wasn't murderer. The lights turned off, and we ran around. I hid in the washroom, in a corner. Footsteps passed the room. Good thing she or he didn't see me.

Finally, someone shouted. "Dead body!" It was a girl's voice. It was either Meadow or Louise.

The lights turned on, and we met up in the living room. As soon as I saw the dead body, I was surprised. It was Will. His head got sliced. The murderer was Louise. Then they passed the papers again, I was the murderer. The lights turned off. I walked around, and walked upstairs to the second floor. I heard something move. I ran to it, and saw someone under a table. It was Tick. I had no choice. Goodbye, Tick. I slashed Tick's neck, and yelled out. "Dead body!!!"

I was crying, as we went to the living room. They all guessed I was the murderer, and they were right. Meadow kept glancing at me. As they passed papers, I got blank. So it's either Louise or Meadow. I hid in the attic, and sat quietly. Someone went in the attic. My heart was beating very fast. I stood up, and went to a direction where she can't see me.

As I walked to a corner, she almost hit my head with an axe. I accidentally stabbed her in the stomach, and her body grumped, on the floor. She died quickly, and I quickly knew it was Louise. I killed Louise. I cried, "DEAD---DEAD BODY!!!"

The lights were on, and I saw her face. Then everything went black. I felt I was being carried, and I saw a police man carrying me out of the house and into the ambulance. Beside me in the ambulance was Meadow. We both had wounds on the face, and had oxygen masks.