Fear

The Five Friends

The five terrified teens started to approach the tall worn down, three story high building with a basement and a roof top you can easily balance on. There were no lights on and the very third floor you can see what was in there because in the front was completely torn off. Nothing else could be seen so far except the front of the building and the five shaking kids about to approach it.
"Who's idea was it again to come here anyways?"
"If I remember correctly it was Noah."
"Hey, you guys I said this place is cool. I've been here thousands of times before and I'm still here right?"
"Who says you won't be tomorrow? No one knows when death comes. It just hits you as quickly as a snap of a finger. You won't even realize 'till the last second."
They all turned to see 'Weird Zeke' as they called him. He usually has this sense of talking the plain old truth when no one else wants to say it aloud. Noah invited him spite of the fact he scares everyone and usually doesn't have contact with anyone and just sits around and do work all day at school.
Everyone was silent. The color on one of the girls face was completely gone. No movement came from her and you couldn't hear her breathe.
"Oh my god. We're all gonna die!"
"Geez Zeke, look what you did to Amara!"
Amara started continuously pacing around in circles mumbling to herself knowing she had to go back. Noah and the rest except for Zeke go and try to calm her down before she decides to walk all the way back home knowing that was even more risky than staying at the house all together.
"We are all gonna stay at this house weather anyone likes it or not. It's already dark enough so no one can go home. Everyone grab your bags and let's head inside."
Amara calmed down, picked up her bag, and walked towards the house with everyone else following. Amara always is insecure about the outside and how there are dangers. Sure she still walks to school but she always has her safe routes. She really didn't like the whole deal of the haunted house so she went and asked her parents if she should even go. They just sat on the couch and told her to go for it without them even slightly showing any interest of the topic so she decided she would do it. So you could say she is a complete introverte. But she wanted to stay to prove she could even take a dangerous path sometimes too.
Inside the house was a giant hall to the right of the opening was stairs leading to the next floor that were run down and most of the steps were broken through. The wall paper was an old pink shade with flowers over it and most of it was peeling off. It was extremely cold, so cold you could see everyone's breath as they moved towards the kitchen. It was a big kitchen with marbled floor and fine decorative things hanging on the walls. Noah walked in front of Amara and quickly ran to the cupboards.
"Yup! Here's our supply for the rest of the night." He said grabbing a can of food and showing it off to everyone else. They all stepped back and started to gag as they saw the words 'SPAM' on the can. Noah cracked open the lid and scooped a chunk of it and left the soggy thing in his hand.
"What is wrong with you? You're so disgusting! How can we just live on that for the rest of the night?"
"I don't know. Here, why don't you have some Emma!" He threw the chunk from his hand straight to Emma. She froze up before getting a chance to even realize that it was already dripping down her chest.
"Oh my god! I'm gonna throw up! Get it off of me now!"
"Sorry no can do. But if you want, the bathroom is back down the hall and to the right. I'm pretty sure the water still works here."
She screamed shouting out how much she hated him as she marched off to the bathroom. Emma is a complete diva who would scream like she did if she didn't get what she needed. She is also a complete neat freak and when things like that happen she well, screams. She really only came along to prove that she could stay in a disgusting house for a whole night without getting too scared and leave. Everyone else really doesn't like her for the fact she would be straight up rude. But of course she never cares.
"Are we actually gonna eat that stuff if we get hungry tonight?" Asked Amara.
"Of course not! I'm not that mean. There's better cans of food in the other cupboard like chilli and spaghettios. Oh, and before you ask, yes we can use the pot I fixed it a while ago."
"What do you mean a while ago?"
"It's none of your concern." He said sternly as he put down the spam and grabbed the other soups and stuffed them in his bag. He quickly walked past the other three telling them to follow him all the way down to the hallway and into the living room. It was a large room with another table in there to eat with a large flat screen TV and old withered white couches.
"As you all can tell this is the incredibly large living room they have."
The last girl went over and wiped the remaining dust there was and sat down on the couch slumping low and giving a large sigh. "I wouldn't sit there if I was you Jane."
"Why not?"
"'Cause there's a really huge spider right next you!"
Without a second to lose, Jane jumped up screaming while shaking around looking all over her body for signs of the spider. Noah laughed and Amara giggled when Jane realized what was going on.
"That wasn't funny at all! If there was a real spider it could have bitten me and it might have been poisonous and the venom would have went up to my brain and before the police would arrive I would be dead and they would just wonder why a dead body was on the floor and why, the heck, were we in, this freaking place anyways!"
"Wow, you can really talk for a long time without breathing."
"That's not the point Amara!"
"Yeah I guess you're right. But it sure was really funny seeing you jump around everywhere just to find one spider!"
"I got it on tape." Said Zeke.
"No way dude! Let's check it out!"
Jane rolled her eyes as she grabbed her bag and went to a corner of the wall and leaned back on it with another large sigh. Jane is really kind and accepting and always would try and help people. Even if it did mean risking her own life. But nothing that crazy has ever happened so she just tells herself that all the time. To her family she's just a normal perfect average girl who loves to go over to her friends house and do her homework. Well all of that is true. But what they don't know is that she is scared. She's scared all the time she's scared of the deep ends of pools or rivers and oceans. She's afraid of any building that is two stories or higher. And most importantly she has the fear of bugs. She lied to her parents saying that she went to go spend the night at her new friend Lisa's house. Lisa doesn't even exist. Zeke asked her to go after Noah asked him and she only agreed because he promised to help her with her bug problem which is one less fear to worry about. But seen as he just got her screaming on tape, she believes he was lying the whole time.
After Zeke finished showing the tape and Noah was cracking up he went over to Jane and showed the screen to the beginning of the video.
"Do you wanna see yourself scream and throw yourself around the place?"
"Who do you think I am to just see me humiliate myself once again? You said that you were gonna help me and obviously you're not."
"Last I checked I wasn't the one who said there was a bug in the first place now did I? Noah is my best friend and we gotta keep doing humiliating things to other people to keep our friendship going. It's how we communicate."
Jane looked at him like he was nuts and took a large breath.
"Why is it that you only ever talk to me fully but to everyone else it's always one tiny sentence that comes out like every five minutes?"
"You were the first person I have met and will be the last person I will talk to." The look on Jane's face stayed the same as he walked away and sat down on the couch. She finally decided to let go of everything for once and just relax.
Until there was a scream.