Beware of the House (The unedited version)

Chapter 22 - Mums and Mischeif

A/N This chapter is all in Serenah's POV and it's all a flash back/fill in on what she's been doing lately. Btw sorry this is a bit late but it took forever to write.

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Right now I am just sitting in my room, alone, in the dark; all that shit. I'm so bored. Is there anything to do in this house other than listening to dumb old fashioned music and talking to weirdos? Time to make some trouble.

I stood up and smoothed out my devil dress thingy, classic right? Hmm, Cleo's always fun to annoy...

I walked out of my black room and out into the open. I headed up stairs to Cleo's apartment thingy and was about to knock when the door swung open. I ran around the corner and watched as she hurried up the stairs the attic, what the? Oh well, that means I can prank her, hmm... what does she hate? Maybe I'll hide in one of the cupboards and jump out and scare her when she comes back? Peeerrrrfect. Wait, she left the door wide open for me? Cool, no picking locks today. I walked in and shut the door behind me. I heard voices... must just be next door, down stairs or something. Hmm, which room... Her bedroom, perfect, she'll never expect me to be there and then I can be sure that she'll come in. I walked into what I know is her bedroom from last time I pranked Cleo and hid in her wardrobe. Hmm, strange, all her clothes look exactly the same... at least she has more than one pair of clothes, unlike everyone else here.

It's been over an hour and I've had enough, I'm coming out, haha, coming out of the closet. Outside I heard doors opening and closing, are they back? I walked out of Cleo's room and saw that it was the bathroom door and some other random door opening and closing, I have to admit, that's pretty creepy. I thought we were the haunters, not hauntees. I walked into the unknown room to see all the draws and cupboards wide open.

"Serenah? What are you doing in here?" I heard a familiar voice ask. I turned around and saw Lucy.

"None of your beeswax, why aren't you in the dungeon anyway?" I said. I saw a tiny little bottle on the chest of drawers. I wonder what it is... HA, I'm drinking it! There was quite a bit left, all of which I shall be consuming today.

"Uh, yeh it is my business, and they let me out yesterday. For all I know you could be stealing something of Cleo's so you can escape this hell hole," Lucy murdered, rolling her eyes. She's pretty good. I just shrugged and guzzled down the thick, sparkly green liquid and felt nothing... strange. Then I began turning human! What the...? Lucy screamed, then yelled, "You're going invisible!"

"Invisible? It's not invisible, it's human..." I said, looking at my now human legs. I noticed my clothes also began disappearing as the 'humanness' began spreading up me like a disease... ohhh shit. Clothes began appearing on the floor and I took a black poofy dress covered in lace, and chucked it on over my disappearing clothes. Not the best dress I could've chosen out of all the dresses there but it's better than the pink ones which look like marshmallows, and this dress also looks relatively new.

"Human?!?" Lucy exclaimed and before I could say 'duh, are you blind?' she'd skulled the rest of the green potion. Since she already looks like a human, the only way you could tell that she was becoming human is that her shoes had disappeared. As Lucy transformed, she grabbed a dull brown dress off the floor which was covered in frills of all sort and looked like something some sort of pauper would wear on a special occasion. Now... shoes... I looked around the floor for some normal shoes but there were only extra tall heals. Wait; is this the kinda thing Cleo wore before she lived in this house? She must be really old. I opened up one of the draws and it was full of money... wow, so much money. I grabbed a handful, stuff shoes, I'll just go barefoot. "Me too," Lucy said.

"Did I say that out loud?" I asked Lucy, but she was just staring at me in my human form. "Stop staring, it's creeping me out..."

"What's your name again?" She asked.