Halloween Night

Chapter 24

In one swift movement, Dallas pulled the curtain back and walked forward. They were in a hallway with strobe lights. They walked slowly through the room, all holding on to one another.

When they came face to face with the man with the chainsaw he teased them with it. Dallas looked at him, glared at him, and then looked up at the chainsaw to see if it had a chain. It didn't. It didn't! It was a miracle.

"We're good." Dallas whispered into Cassidy's ear.

"What's your name?" The man with the chainsaw growled.

Cassidy shook at the sudden noise coming from the slit in the man's mask. "C-A-Aubrey."

"And you?" He pointed to Dallas.

"N-Noah."

"What about you, shorty?" He asked, referring to Trish.

"Raini."

"And you two?" He pointed in between Ally and Austin.

"I'm Ross." Austin spit. "And that's Laura."

The man tilted his head, obviously not buying it but they began to walk and he let them. "Run." he instructed with an evil laugh. And they did.

When they got out of the haunted house they were bombarded with the visual of groups of laughing teenagers. Why hadn't they seen any of them inside?

Trish's eyes searched the crowd, looking for Dez. Instead she spotted Mindy.

"Mindy!" She shouted. "Have you seen Dez?"

"Dezycakes? He's over by the port-a-potty's." she mentioned. "Oh and Austin? When you see him ask him if he got me ma flowers." She said, walking off.

They began to walk, no, run towards the port-a-potty's. Ally heard someone say something along the lines of 'did she just call that guy 'Austin'?' And she gripped Austin's arm tighter.

They had to lie to the chainsaw guys, how they new their real names, Ally could only guess was from them calling them back and forth. When they got there, Dez was sitting curled up in a ball.

"Dez!" Trish yelled, running towards him. At the sound of her voice he looked up and wrapped her in his arms.

"I thought you were-" Dez started.

"Shh!" Trish interrupted. "I know, I know. I'm not, I'm good. Why haven't you called the police?"

Ally felt along for her phone, but couldn't find it.

"I tried, I couldn't get through." Dez cried. "We need to get out of here. If they find us..."

"Dez is right." Austin says. He walked over to Dez and gave him a bro hug, glad that he was alive.

It was then that Trish noticed Dez had a huge gash in his leg. She gasped. "Dez!" She yelled, crouching in front of his leg. The wound was the size of a chainsaw. Ally cringed and turned around into Austin's chest.

"We need to get you to a hospital, buddy. And you too, Dallas." Austin said. "And don't forgot about your hand." Ally said, looking up at him.

"What happened to you guys?" Dez asked, confused.

"Long story. We'll explain later." Austin said.

Cassidy helped Dallas over to his car, and she hopped in beside him.

"We'll be right behind you in the other car." Austin promised.

Austin fished in his pocket for the keys to his own car. "Shit...no way." He growled.

Ally was breathing heavy, looking around like crazy. "What? What's wrong?"

"My keys...I must have dropped them back there." He said, pointing to the exit of the haunted house.

"Are you sure they aren't inside?" Dez gulped.

Austin nodded. "I felt them in my pocket when we saw Mindy. Speaking of which, did you get her her flowers?" He asked.

"AUSTIN!" Trish fumed. "So not the time!"

"Right, sorry. Kind of forgot we're still in danger." He said, bitting his lip and grabbing Ally's hand, not wanting to be apart from her.

"Listen," Dez stated. "We'll wait here."

"Can we stick together?" Ally pleaded. "Splitting up equals people dying."

"Or getting cut or slashed in some way." Trish added.

"But, we're out of the house." Dez noted.

Ally shook her head. "Someone heard Mindy call Austin's name and I heard them say something about it." Ally told Dez in a quiet voice. "They know are names, that's pretty clear. They're still after us."

"You woulda thought we killed all of them." Trish snarls.

Ally bites her lip nervously. "No because someone is in charge of all of this. So whoever that is..." Ally trailed off.

"He's not the one getting his hands dirty." Austin finished for her.

Dez gasped. "You don't think they recorded us in that room...do you?"

"I wouldn't put it past them. They knew what they were doing." Austin said.

Ally began to whimper. Austin pulled her to his side. "Shh, baby. It's okay. We're getting out of here. Let's just follow our tracks and-"