Mystery House

The Walk

_Smokey's POV_

A long hallway stood in front of us. I put of everyone decided to step in more, "Smokey what are you doing?!" Scape whispered yelled from where she was. "Would you rather stay in this room this entire time?" I signaled to the room we were in, "Or go for a small adventure! C'mon it can't be that bad!" The group looked at one another and slowly stared stepping out of the comfort zone. Kate wad the last one to come out and as soon as she did a large slam was heard. "What was that!" Kit yelled nervously, "Calm down it's just the door to our only safety shutting down on us. And now our only way is possibly to death and murder", Jill responded a bit to calmly and slightly sarcastically. I noticed a few confused glares and looks were made at her, "What? Too far?".

"Yeah a bit maybe", Fluffy spoke. We continued walking down the seemingly never ending hallway. It was as if it only stretched further out. Until an end was finally found, but it only led to more walking. Stairs. One leading downwards and one leading upstairs, "Geez this place is bigger on the inside than out", Kat commented. "Agreed", Kit said. "Maybe we should go up?" Helena hesitantly spoke up, "Or maybe downstairs?", I countered. I was always up for anything but something about there being an upstairs that lit up seems suspicious. Too promising to me. "You would rather go down into the basement of all things?" Scape asked me, "Maybe", I looked up at the staircase leading upwards and then turned back to the group, "Wouldn't most people go upstairs?" I asked them. "True", Jill joined in on the conversation. I looked around the hallway behind us, noticing some nightstands and bedroom cabinets. Why they're here I won't ask honestly. I walked up to one hoping to find something useful. "A bottle?" Kate asked, she looked at me confused, I simply shrugged. Going into more we found more items, a doll, a few flashlights, more bottles some empty some not, and a weapon or two. Jill, Scape, Kat, Kit and myself held them. Helena was against the idea but we took them anyways...just in case.

"Sooo are we going downstairs or upstairs?" Jill asked messing around with the wall's paint, "Yes", I decided. As we went down I felt as if someone grabbed my hand, I looked down to see who, "Sorry", Helena said pulling her hand away. I grabbed her hand, "No it's alright." I saw her smile as if she was more confident now. We were greeted to the sight of the same hallway design, but this time it had multiple doors and many separate hallways. "Should we look in them?" Fluffy asked going near one. "Sure, I guess", Scape said.

_Kate's POV_

We walked into one of the rooms, it slammed shut as soon as we were all in. "They really got to stop doing that. It's annoying", Jill spoke. Kat hummed trying to make her way in this dark room. The lights lit up showing multiple paintings on the walls, really really weird ones. I saw Smokey looking around kind of panicked and in a frenzy. "Ew", Kit said, she looked at Smokey, "Are you okay Smokey?" She asked. "N-no not really", she looked at the us, "Please let's go I hate this room so much right now", she pleaded. I walked over to the door trying to open it, I turned to them speaking, "It's locked." "Oh God", Smokey let out a worried sigh, she started pacing around the room looking down at the floor. The way she was acting was weird to me. I've never known her until we formed our groups but out of most of us, well besides Jill, Smokey seemed pretty brave to me. It scared me to see how scared she looked around these paintings, not my favorite type of art and they were definitely creepy. Everyone has a big fear I guess...can't blame her. "Try looking behind the paintings. That's a scary movie trope", Jill said looking behind one of them. We all looked behind besides Smokey and Helena, she was helping her calm down. "Is this something!" Fluffy exclaimed pointing to a lever, "Pull it!" Kat said and Fluffy did so. A new door opened up revealing the same similar hallway. "I hate already", Kit said walking through first surprisingly, "Same here", Smokey got up from the ground pulling Helena up with her. "So do you think we'll be alright?" I felt a tug on my crop-toped sweater, "Huh?" I asked. It was Scape, she was messing around with her hair, "I just didn't know it would be this harsh for her" her voice seemed to trail off. "Don't worry about it Scape, it'll be fine! She's a tough girl", I did a small finger gun at her and she laughed, "Yeah, me too."