Housekeeper And Other Short Stories

louise

Okay so mark was an explorer. He would always find himself exploring abandoned houses, hospitals, mansions, asylums etc.

So on one random day he probably had absolutely nothing to do so he ventured into this abandoned, tarnished burial place. This placed was used centuries ago to store dead bodies and coffins in vaults.

When he entered the first section of the building he was amused by the rotting walls and muck on the floors. There was nothing downstairs so he headed upstairs. He wandered and wandered until he found an entrance with a broken sign that was barely readable but he somehow made out the word lock.

He entered the room and he felt a tingle down his spine when he saw all the broken vaults, that he knew had coffins with dead bodies inside. Mark slowly walked and examined as much as he can even seeing coffins that slid out of their vaults . He used his camera to check into the creases of some of the coffins but all he could see was darkness or sometimes a redish colour.

When mark tried to open one of the coffins he heard a sound that sounded like a creaking. When he looked out of the entrance there was an old chair rocking . Mark just thought it was the wind but he was still scared. He went upstairs again to find another set of vaults but this time there was only one coffin lying horizontally across the floor that seemed to look brand new. He crept closer to examined the structure and saw the name louise Spaniard. He wasn't at all creeped out and thought of it as just another normal dead girl in a coffin. But when mark tried to open it , tables turned immediately. There was a sweet voice singing that could be heard from many areas of the building. Mark was about to faint from fear. He walked slowly out the room ,went downstairs, then he saw the chair facing the room that said lock. In the chair was a note that had directions but what scared him the most was that behind the note had the word "louise" signed .

The directions were , go upstairs , find the key but first find the lock , go upstairs and restore my peace.

So mark was officially freaked out. He had to find a lock and a key then restore someone's peace. He knew he had to do it or he was dead like all the rest of people in the building. So he began the search for the lock. He had no idea what he was doing. So then it hit him ,that it was right there..the word "lock" ..like the sign. There was a lock right on the sign that said lock . He grabbed it and went upstairs now he had to find a key . He went back into the room where the coffin was and began to search. Without any fatigue or sweat the key was right on top of the coffin almost like it was waiting for him because it wasn't there before . He picked it up and then soon after he heard singing coming from inside the coffin. He didn't even dare to open it . The voice was singing "restore my peace". Then it was clear to mark. He had to lock the coffin of a girl named Louise with a lock and key because explorers just like him tampered with it. Then maybe in doing that he will restore her peace. So he did just that. The singing stopped and mark was almost out the building. The chair was back to its original position and mark was still gonna continue exploring but learned his lesson to never tamper with ancient stuff.