When two worlds collide

The Deal

Rose squeezes her eyes together. 'What kind of deal?' Peter laughs. 'We figured you would be interested.' Alison interrupted him.' We don't have all night peter. Here's the deal. Just a few 100 meters in the forest you will find an old house. They say it's hunted. If you spend the entire night there, we will make sure you get your status back.' Rose knows which house Alison is talking about. She has often inside, spending the night there will be nothing. Before she could accept the deal, she remembers her promise to her mom. She can't break that. Pablo would really harm her mom. She hesitates. Rose really wants to do this. She doesn't really care about her status, she just wants to be away from home. But she can't let her mom down. She needs a plan. ' I can't stay right now. So what if i'm back here at midnight and spend the rest of the night here?' She asks. Amber speaks first. ' That's not how the deal works. But i think we it will be fine too.' 'Be here at midnight and not a second later.' Catherin adds before they turn around  and leave, laughing. Rose looks at the time and hurries to the pharmacy. She buys a few sleeping pills and set off to home. She is barely inside when Pablo arrives. After dinner Rose helps her mom with the dishes. When the dishes are done, Patricia goes to read a book while Pablo works a bit more. Around acht, he stops to watch tv Patricia joins him. They ask Rose to bring a beer and wine. Rose goes into the kitchen to get the drinks and sneaks in the sleeping pills. She gives the drinks to her mom and Pablo. Then she goes upstairs to get her sleeping bag, a torch, a warm sweater, and a pillow. She suddenly hears a boink downstairs. This makes Rose curious so she went to see what it is. Pablo has fallen of the couch. Asleep. Rose checks her phone to see the time. 11pm. She goes back upstairs to get her stuff and to make sure it looks like she is in bed. She locks her room. When she is back downstairs, she grabs some food and something to drink and sets off to the abandoned house.

Once again Rose is early. She waits a little on her so called friends but when it's midnight they still aren't there. 'They're probably inside, waiting to scare me. i'll show them.' she thinks. Rose goes inside and walks towards the living room, or better said, what she thinks that used to be the living room. She puts her stuff down, takes her torch and continues to look around in the house. She knows the way pretty good, even in the dark.  The torch doesn't give much light, but enough for her not to fall of the emerging stairs. She never went down before, but she has always been curious of what is down there. The reason why she never did that, is because there is an awful smell coming from downstairs. This time however, her curiosity wins and she decides to go see what is in the lower levels of this house. As she walks down the stairs, she notice that there are claw marks on the walls and on the steps. The smell is getting stronger too. It's almost like someone was attacked by a wild animal and left to rot below. Rose finally reaches the last step of the stair and finds herself in a dusty old basement, that is, unlike the rest of the house, still in a very good state. The basement is field with objects of which Rose is unable to see what they all are. There is even less light here then upstairs. She walks around in the room, trying not to push things over, or step on something. Her heart is beating inside her chest. What if the wild animal actually hides here, waiting for a next meal? As careful as she can, she continues her investigation. Her eyes fall on a white veil hanging on the wall. She walks towards it, stretching her arm. When she reaches the veil, she hesitates. The animal might be hiding there, she thinks. Rose wonders why she is so drawn to take away the veil and to see what is behind it. Without her realizing, she already removed the veil. Rose is stunned with confusion. Behind the veil is an ordinary mirror. She looks at the mirror and her reflection, when all of a sudden an image appears. The image of a woman. The woman of her dreams.