Scars Cant Heal

25

I felt something move beside me and quickly sat up to find bella, remembering last night.
I looked at the far end window and saw the sun gleaming through the window, it must be time to get up I guess.

I grab my phone from under my pillow and it reads 10:57am, I groan and put the phone into my pocket pulling the key out straight after. Holding it in my hands I can definitely tell its for the door in the piano room, I guess we could try it out? One things for sure though I do not want to set foot into that abandoned room or the tunnels beneath it.

I feel movement on the bed as bella stirs and sits up rubbing her eyes with the palm of her hands, then sits there just looking around the room trying to wake up. I slip the key back in my pocket.

"Did you sleep last night?" She asks looking like she would fall asleep at any moment.

"No, don't think so, at least not much anyway."

"That scared the shit out of me last night and every time I heard a little creak or something it just woke me up again, making me lay there terrified!"

"Yeah... I was aswell. Do you want coffee?!"

"Do you have to ask?!"

We both get up and walk down stairs to the kitchen, running up to the coffee machine and starting it up.
Bella was on her phone, probably on snapchat or something, so I sat down on the other side of the table and pulled out my phone to talk to my best mate back in the city. His name was bandit and we promised that when I came up again for school we would see each other right away, we've been best mates sins primary school. Only 24 days till I go back. Thats way to long.

A bubbling sound comes from the coffee machine so I run up and switch it off, grab two cups and fill them nearly to the top.

"How many sugars?"

"Oh uh two please" she says not letting her eyes off her phone.

I put two in hers and one in mine, put milk in and set them on the table.

"Hey check this out" she says sliding the phone over to me and grabbing her coffee, the phone was on some sort of weird document about something that made no sense to my brain.

"What is it?"

"Its all the documents of the house when the last owner was living in here, it says that it wasn't just the man living in here, there was also a wife and a kid. They had disappeared a while back, wife 47, kid 5. But there was no trace of anything about where they had gone, so in other words they never left the house"

"So... there is still a wife and a child in here somewhere?"

"Well yes and no, the father died at an old age so the mother could have aswell but the child if still here could be around its teen years, because as a child I remember the dad was really old, the mum was around 50 at the time and the little kid was around the same age I was, 7."

"But how could it live in here if the window was closed off until now, it wouldn't have any food?"

This all makes no sense you can't live more than ten years of your life alone in a room with no food, actually no you can't live more than a week like that??!!

"Do you still have that key?"

"Yeah" I pulled it out of my pocket and placed it on the table.

She picked it up in her hands and examined it closely.

"Do you wanna... try it on the door?"

"Only the one in the piano room, no matter what I am not going back down into those tunnels!" I say crossing my arms.

"Ok, lets go then" she jumps up from her chair and makes her way out of the kitchen. I take one last sip of my drink before following her up the stairs.

We walked into the piano room and stopped in the door way for a second, then headed for the little door. Bella put the key up to the old lock and pushed it in, looking at me when we both knew the key fit.

"Wait... what happens if theres a body or something behind here?!"

"Well.. be ready then" I say getting ready for the worst thing in my mind to be behind that door.

She slowly turned the key around until it made a small click sound, she then pulled slowly on the door, opening it with a loud creaking sound.

"What?! Its another tunnel!" Bella whispers.

"No, wait, pull back the door more"

She did and I could tell where this tunnel was, it was the one that led from that room all the way to this door. It makes perfect sense now, the kid must have dug this to get to the food in the house, but why would a door be placed there? Wouldnt the father notice it?

I immediately shut the door and pushed my back against it in case anything tried to get through, I remember there was one more tunnel that dug down into the dirt but it looked scary as fuck! Maybe thats where the kid hides...
I push the door closed as fast as I could I grab the key in the lock and twist it until its locked and step away from the door with the key in my hand.

"Hunter we need to go down there"

"No we can't, did you see what happened last night and did you see the tunnel leading into the ground before!? It was fucking terrifying!!!"

"Yeah but what if the kid needs help, they would be about our age now and it wouldn't know what to think!"
She looked at me pleadingly. "Please, it needs our help"

I take a deep breath and look at the small door, thinking about if I was living in there, I'd fucking hate it that's for sure!!!

I turn towards the door and start making my way towards the kitchen.
Bella following close behind.