Phantoms

|| Five || Jackson

"Any day can be your last now..."
"Shut up and get up. We have to cover something in blood at some point now."

I slowly started to open my eyes and stared up at the ceiling not realizing what had happened yesterday.
Once I had fully woken up I slowly got up and noticed everyone was gone, but I could hear them downstairs talking.
I got out of the sleeping bag and went to wash my disastrous face.
Once I was done I walked over to the window and looked outside and saw nothing but the blue sky and the white puffy clouds.
I slowly regained control of myself and walked down the stairs and ended up tripping on the last step and fell.
No one heard cause they were all in the garage trying to fix something they had broken probably.
I found something small to eat and once I was done I went and peaked into the garage and saw they were trying to fix a broken cabinet.
I just shoke my head and went back inside and laid on the couch and wondered what else there was to do...
I ended up going into the garage and they all stopped to see me and then Alex broke the silence by saying, "Good morning sleepyhead!"
"You really are a heavy sleeper, you were knocked out cold."
I just looked at them and walked closer and Eric kept working on the cabinet and just focused on that while everyone else was now opening to garage to get some sunlight.
Once they opened it they went inside and grabbed some water and came back and everyone drank some water while Eric worked on the cabinet.
"So how did it break?"
He just looked at me and pointed towards Alex and then kept working on the cabinet.
"Hey, it was just an accident!"
"So you call punching a little innocent cabinet and calling it a 'Monster' an accident?"
"Shut up John, you've done things that are more dumb."
"Point taken."
"So what are we gonna do now that this thing is gone?"
"How should I know, just hang out I guess considering we're all here already."
"Alright, so what are we gonna do then?"
"First we gotta fix this cabinet, shouldn't really be long."
"Well lets fix this and then get going I guess."
It was a good solid thirty minutes before we got the giant hole fixed.
Once we were done Eric just put it back in place and took off the surgical mask he'd been wearing to protect his mouth from dust and things like that and walked to the backyard to sit down with "Grim" the dog of the house.
He was there for about twenty minutes before he came back and sat down with us.
"Anyways, what are we gonna do?"
"We could just go mess around, maybe walk around the town. I don't know..."
"I guess we could walk around town cause there isn't much else to do, and who knows what we can find."
"Walking around town it is then I guess."
"Alright then, get changed and get ready cause we all stink."
"I call shower first."
We all changed and it was about two and a half hours once we were all done and then we all went outside and started walking into town we saw a whole bunch of cool places and we went inside and it was like we our own personal Disneyland.
We had a blast going into all the random places cause the people were so nice and we would just mess around with whatever they had or just admire it.
After a while we all ended up walking around neighborhoods until we found one full of creepy houses, at first we thought nothing of it cause there are tons of creepy houses out in the world but they were abandoned and we didn't know at the time, we thought people still lived in them but apparently not.
We had all ended up getting lost and so we were all on our own, I knew this cause I could hear one of us shouting out each others name every 2 minutes but no one would respond cause it was kind of muffled.
That and we didn't really hear cause we were all starting to get tired cause it was getting late.
I walked into one of the houses without expecting anything but that was a huge mistake.
I looked around and saw some old photos and just a bunch of old things that looks like they hasn't been touched in years.
I kept looking around the second floor when all the sudden I heard something fall somewhere upstairs.
Now I know what you're thinking, I'm stupid for checking it out, but you have to understand we are still teenagers and some what early adults.
You can't really expect us to be fully responsible...
Continuing, I checked the second floor to find a lamp had fallen but it was in a secure place which would mean someone would have to push it.
I kept checking to only find nothing so I just thought it was one of the others messing with me.
I was really stupid at that point because once I got onto the first step to go back downstairs another bang made me jump back up but I realized that it wasn't coming from the second floor, but it was in the attic now.
I instantly thought it was an animal but I had to make sure.
I taped my flashlight onto my pistol so I didn't have to hold both of them.
I slowly made my way up the attic and then looked around and walked all over the place but I didn't find anything until I started to leave and I heard another crash behind me, I turned around faster than I ever had and saw a black cat standing there staring at me.
I took a deep breath of relief and pet the little guy.
He seemed calm and actually followed me around.
I went back downstairs and then left the house.
I kept wondering what I was gonna do with the cat cause I didn't want to leave her.
I eventually found the others and told them what happened and they all agreed to keep the cat for a while and eventually take it somewhere where it would actually be in safer hands than ours cause we were all a bit clumsy, others were worse though.
We all went home and gave the cat a little bath which was all of us having to wear nothing but shorts because we kept falling into the tub trying to clean her, she kept refusing but we eventually did it.
We had to get a couple bruises but we did it.
The next morning we would take it to the vet.
We all threw our clothes into the laundry room to wash once we were out of clothes and then we all fell asleep in random places of the house.
I was on the couch with Eric and then I passed out cold.