Star Pupil

Chapter sixteen

Peering in through the crack of the door, I can see a kitchen oven, a sink and a table and chair set. On the table, it looks like tools or something. Looks really dark in there, but there may be splatters of blood or something. If so, then I assume this guy is committing one Toolbox Murder too many (!)

Quietly pushing the door open, Zara and I sneaked into the small kitchen. "Where is he?" Zara asked me. "I dunno, listen!" I replied back, sneaking up to the living room door and putting my ear next to it.

I can hear footsteps from behind the door and wood creaking. Is he going up the stairs or what? Wait...Yep, he is! Good, we can check out what's behind this green door...

Jake, be really quiet when opening the door...Nothing there except stairs to my right. But what's in this living room? I got my phone out and started to video tape the bloody toolbox table back in the kitchen before we moved on into the living room.

As we looked around this part of the house, seeing most of the "family home" furniture and a vase of roses by the long family dinner table to our left, we thought "some bird's nest here". But what got our attention is the main highlight of this haunted mansion:

A devil's fireplace lit up like the Wicker Man, above it, the heads of none other than Mr. Harris, Seville, Pauley, Dixon and...I can't believe what I'm about to say this but last in line is Mr. Keith!

"Oh...my God!" Zara said, quietly. I felt like saying that too, but the sight of decapitated heads above the fireplace left me with no words to describe the horror I'm seeing. "What the hell is this?" she said. "It's like Texas Chainsaw Massacre all over again!" I exclaimed, taping the heads above the fire with my iPhone.

I was starting to wonder why there would be that much blood on the table with tools, now I finally know the answer. The next question is, if he's done with the heads, where does he put the frickin' bodies?! I can imagine his room upstairs would be like Frank Cotton's room from Hellraiser.

I need to find his room so that I can videotape it too, but we can't be spotted!!! How am I gonna do this? Just as I was about to think of a plan, I heard a door from upstairs being opened and footsteps moving about in the hallway.

"Shit, hide over there!" I said, holding her hand as we ran to the dinner table and hid underneath it. With my iPhone on my hand still taping, I managed to look at him; he's only got his school shirt, trousers and shoes on.

But it's so dark in there; I can't get a look on his face! He's got something on his hand...What is it? Is it a hand or something? I need to zoom in...Yep, it's a hand. Is he about to throw it in the fire?! Oh, God, he did! Now he's just sitting down, in front of the fire just acting naturally!

I don't think I'll film upstairs, I know what the horror is all about, all Zara and I need to do now is to get out of this nightmare-ish place!

"Zara, are you thinking what I'm thinking?" I asked her, whispery. "No, what?" she replied. "We need to get the fuck outta here, NOW!" I whispered to her, while trying to keep our heavy breathing as quiet as possible.

"Jake, I'm scared!" Zara whispered to me, I can tell by the look on her shaken face that she's more scared than I am. I turned my head to her and said "Look, we're gonna be alright. It's alright." before we exchanged a kiss.

"On the count to 3, we're gonna sneak outta here through the kitchen to the back and we're gonna run back to the car, OK?" I whispered to Zara, while holding her hand. "One...two...three!" Up we go, but very quietly and moving slowly just like ninjas! As we're about to open the green door, I heard a vibrating noise going off on my phone. Crap! I forgot to turn my phone!