CONFUSIONS :P

visiting sam's new house

"hey Kelly." I said as soon as i heard her awkward "is that alexa?" hello..

"hey. alexa!"

"what are you doing for summer?"

"well.. am going to spain.. but after a week in summer camp."

"summer camp?"

"yep. Carla is going too.. wanna join?"

"well.. i will think bout it!."

"ask sam too.."

"nah.. she  is busy.. new house and settling in and other buisness.."

"yep..  i know how it is just ask her.. maybe she wants to come along."

"sure. will do.. temme wassup?" i opened the fridge.

"alexa call you later. i need to get ready for some dinner party thingy. ugh!"

"oh. kk. bye kels! have a great dinne-" she hung up.

i went on the school website and searched the summer camp kelly was talking bout. munching on a hotdog, I looked up all the summer camps and finally found "RECOGNIZING ME." uhm.. this is my new gonna be summer camps name. when i read the description.. i could not wait to go.. just then i got a call from sam.

"sammm!!!! new house... am coming tomorrow!"

"hey alexa.. the new house sucks.. i mean it is really big and and i just dont like it."

"why! i mean if it were me i would have LOVED  a big house! whats wrong with you."

"dude it has an attic and it is just bad :(((("

"all houses with an attic are NOT bad..i mean it is pretty cool you know!"

"dude it is haunted... remember on the first day of summer i told you i had a dream that my house is haunted. god was trying to save me from moving in that time. but ...ALEXA!"

"am on the line sam. okay! i have a solution to end this haunted house drama of yours.. i am sleeping over tomorrow.. your house :) okay!?"

"yep. glad youre coming!"

"okay bye now! gotta do some chores.. "

"i need to go for ballet lessons too. bye."

even though me and sam have been bff's since ever, i think Sam needs the mental hospital support sometimes. i mean, she gets too motivated and encouraged by something so small.. i mean anyone can lie to her. maybe that is why she needs me all the time. you know am smart :) not to showoff much :))

next morning, after breakfast at 10:33 am to be detailed, me and my dad were sitting in the car and tying to figure out where sam's new house was. it ended up being near the countryside. "36 Orchard Path, it is honey!" dad said relieved. i huged him and said bye and ran towards sam's place. the place looked old and sad. the house was made out of grey stones and had a cheerful small door painted red with a white bow kinda thing on the top. it was a two storey house and it did not seem very inviting. it seemed dull, even though i could see how much Ms. Jones had worked on it. i rang the doorbell. Mr. Jones saw me. he was in his formals ready to go to office. "morning.." i said. "Going to office?" he did not reply.. just looked at me stunned. "um.. i am having a sleepover! heheh" i said fake laughing. he pushed me aside and walked away. why is he walking to office.. there is a cark parked there? i thought. when i saw that Mr. Jones left the door open, I walked in.  the house seemed dark. it was day time but still the lights were on. they had furnished the house well, but there seemed an emptiness. there was something missing. I climed the weird stairs carefully. i heard someone humming a tune from behind. i thought it must be Mrs. Jones, or maybe even sam. I reached upstairs and saw a room with Sam written on the door with cool, funky letters. "Sam's room i thought. I knocked. Sam said"come in!!!" I pushed open the door and found nothing. it was like a store.  I heard the same humming tune from behind and looked back. there was nothing. i rushed downstairs and towards the main gate and as soon as i opened the door I found Mrs. Jones and sam across me. I panicked dont know why. took a deep breath and said "hey sam!, Mrs. Jones, i did not know you were outside." i smiled with relief. "oh.. sorry! we had gone shopping together. who let you in, alexa?" Mrs. Jones said. "um.. Mr. Jones let me in, he was going to office i guess. at that time" i said smiling still. Sam looked at her mother and her mother looked at Sam. Sam then shouted "told you! IT IS HAUNTED! Alexa! dont tell me my dad let you in!" Sam looked very much concerned and scared. "what is the matter with your dad opening the door?" I said. I was confused. Mrs. Jones too looked puzzled. Mrs. Jones took a deep breath and said, "Alexa, Mr. Jones has gone on a official trip for a week. he is not in boston. he has gone to Paris. He left day before yesterday!" it took me a moment to understand what they were saying. "no. i am pretty sure it was HE who opened the door." I said confidently. but then i remembered the awkward face he had. and the humming person, and also the way the humming person had let me in the store.

 I was instantly stunned. weird thoughts like the house was haunted started coming in my mind. there was no way am sleeping over in that house. and i could not let the Jones family live there too... but then i realized that meanwhile i was thinking that sam and her mom had already walked in. i walked after them. i was still pretty confused about if  i should call dad to pick me up or just sleepover. 

Mrs. Jones diverted my mind by saying "have you had breakfast, honey?"   i replied to her quickly.."yes. um.. thanks though!" and i put on a fake smile. 

"MOOOOMMM!!" i heard sam's voice.  Mrs. Jeffries put on a frown. "Samantha Jones. how many ties have i said not to scream so loud. now whats the matter?"

after 5 seconds we saw sam on the staircase. she was holding an old looking binder. some of the pages were roughly put in and we could see that. it was green in color and looked dusty.  "mom.. i found this in my room.. on my desk. is it ours?"

Mrs. Jones climbed a few stairs and snatched the folder from sam's hand.  as soon as she snatched it.. almost all the papers fell down. i helped sam and her mom pick up the papers.  Mrs. Jones then replied. "well samantha.. i dont think it belongs to us. maybe it is the owners binder. i will call him and give to him right away. and um.. take Alexa to your room."

Sam lead me to her room. it looked nice and funky. but there was something about the walls that creeped me out.  Sam was looking upset. "Alexa! please tell me who lead you in! this is no time for jokes."  Sam said with a stern face. she was dead serious. 

"i dont know. someone who looked like your dad. He did not speak to me. he did not take the car. he went near that tree. I blinked and he vanished." I said pointing to a tree from Sam's window. 

"but that is not possible, Alexa." Sam said in a very loud voice, "my dad is NOT in town. it is really not possile that he vanished. huh.. we need to move. you know there is something about this house."

"this house is so creep-" 

when sam screamed. I looked around and sam was staring at her desk. the green colored binder was sitting at her desk. "b-b-but we l-left it downstairs!" sam stammered. "yes! i remember you putting it on the dining table. 

we looked at it closely.  I muttered to sam "are you sure that this is the same one?"  sam took a step towards it and looked  at it closely.. "yes, i guess." 

"Sam! Alexa! kelly has called! come downstairs right now." We heard Mrs. Jones shout to us. We both sighed with relief.  Sam rushed downstairs. I on the other hand walked slowly.. so that I dont fall from the steap staircase. 

"kelly!" sam said putting on a fake happy voice. "nothing much! you tell me!.. you are going to a summer camp? hey you told alexa and not me!.... oh! um.. alexa is here only. she is sleeping over.... yeah we will think bout it!.. carla is going too! Awesommeee!!.. oh.. kk.. see ya later! b-bye!" 

by the end of her call i was standing next to sam.. trying to figure out what kelly was saying.. 

"kelly and carla are going to a summer camp..." sam said.  "yeah.. i almost forgot about it! hehe.. wanna join them?"

"maybe. but then they are going on Saturday! Today is Wednesday! how are we gonna make it! we need to collect the forms too.." sam said

"yeah. that is the point too.." i looked around. "and are you sure that you are going to leave your mom alone in this house?" I said

"that depends." Sam said."my mom hand i had to go to my aunts place on friday with my mom. i was going there for a week. my mom can go alone.' 

"yeah.. i think we should go."

We spent the rest of the evening just chilling and talking. we watched a movie together and had fun. At night, we just skyped with carla. and i dont know when we fell asleep, skyping.

next morning  my dad was there. i quickly hugged sam, said thank you to mrs. Jones and rushed out. I dont know why but the house was suffocating. when i came out, i took a deep breath. I also realized that when i was in the house, i didn't breath.