house

the start and end

He was panting slowly trying to make no sound at all. It’s dark in here, he thought to himself. Jacob leaned forward slowly as he uncovered a small hole in the crate he was crouching in. he peered through the small hole but he couldn’t see anything other than a large table. Jacob listened to see if anyone was coming but all he heard where the muffled sounds of children laughing and screaming. He covered the hole back up and leaned back a little. His breathing began to get heavy at the air started to thicken. I should try to get out of here soon but he might find me Jacob thought. He stayed crouched fo a little longer listening for the right time to leave. Jacob got up a small bit and threw the box from him and ran for the door. He did not get far before he felt a hand on his shoulder.

    Jacob gets tackled from behind and screams not knowing whats going on. As he hits the floor he hears a laugh coming from behind him.

¨ What was that for!¨ jacob said as he recognized the laugh as his best friend Rene. He got up and dusted himself off and helped up Rene.

¨ I was just trying to surprise you but you wanna be all dramatic and fall to the floor. Now look at us, were both dirty.¨  Rene said as he smirked and dusted himself off.

Jacob punches him in the arm and yells ¨ How do you expect me not to fall when you sneak up and tackle me.¨

    ¨why did you punch me!¨ Rene said as he held his arm where he had gotten hit.

    Jacob turned and walked away “ you tackled me so you deserved that. By the way do you wanna come hang out with me and the guys at the skatepark later?”

“Yeah sure i’ll be there later though, i have to go home and change out if this stupid uniform.” Rene said as he started walking home.

“Same i’ll see you there.” Jacob yelled as he started walking home. As he walked he stopped by an old abandoned house that used to belong to a butcher. Just being near the house gave off a strange feeling. The smell around it was like it was when the butcher lived there. “Why does it still smell like rotting meat after all these years.” he covered his nose and started to walk away as the smell began to get stronger the longer he stayed. Jacob had finally gotten home and he changed out of his blue and black school uniform into some shots and a plain white shirt. He finished getting dressed and went into the kitchen and made him some food. As he was waiting for his food to finish he started thinking about the house. Just thinking about the house made the smell come back to him. His food finished but he couldn’t eat it because just the thought of the house made his stomach turn. He left the food on the table and left to the skatepark.

    Jacob got to the skatepark and met up with his friends. They hung out there for a few hours skating and practicing tricks. They all decided to just walk around town and talk. As they were walking they passed by the old house and they all stopped.

    “ have yall heard of the things that happened here?” rene looked up at the house as the smell started to kick in.

    “ no i havent heard of anything” Jacob looked over at Rene as he coverd his nose again.

    From behind, Jacobs friend Noah said “ there where a lot of missing kids around here a few years ago and the butcher was arested for kidnapping and murdering over 30 kids.”

    As Noah said that it sent chills down jacobs back. “ what would he do with the bodies?”

    “He would feed them to his pigs that he had then he would butcher them and sell it to people.” Noah said

    Rene looked over at jacob and could see that he was scared “hey jocob i dare you to break into the house. Its not like theres anyone i there.” Rene said with a evilish grin across his face.

    “No way man im not doing that its against the law.” Jacob looked over at Rene and Noah.

    “I think your just too scared to go in” Rene smirked as he turned his back to jacob. “I guess you’ll just be known as a chicken for now on”

    “Im not scared its against the law” jacob said as he looked back to the house. “ Fine ill do it.”

    Rene looked back at jacob “ you don’t have to go if your scare i don’t want you to die or anything.’’ Rene laughed as he watched Jacob headed to the broken window of the house. “Oh by the way tell me if you find that little boy that went missing yesterday” Rene said jokingly.  

    Jacob ignored his comment and proceeded to go inside the house. He went through one of the windows that wasn’t locked. He turned and looked at his friends before walking farther into the house. The smell inside was way worse than what it was when i was outside, jacob thought as he looked around the house. Everything in the house was covered in thick layers of dust. It looks like nobody has been in the house for years. Jacob walked up the stairs and down one of the halls and he noticed a picture frame at the end of it. He walked up to it and removed some of the dust that was covering the glass. In the frame there was a picture of a little boy wearing a white shirt and a pear of blue jean overalls. He looked in the rooms upstairs and then walked back down the stairs. He looked over at the window that he came in from and saw that it was closed. He rolled his eyes, they really think that’s going to scare me, he thought as he continued to look around. He opened door after door not seeing anything catching his eye. He went to the final door and opened it expecting to see nothing like in all the other rooms but instead he saw a staircase.

    Jacob looked down the stairs no sure if he wanted to go down there. He saw that there was light at the bottom so he took a deep breath and went down. As he went farther  the air started to get thick with the same horrible smell. When he got to the bottom there was a small window letting in light and it was shining right on a switch. He flipped the switch and the lights turned on. There was a table in the middle of the room covered with a blue tarp. There was something small bulging from under the tarp. He avoided the tarp for a little bit to look around more. There where tools hanging on the walls and a cleaver laying on a smaller table that was connected to the wall. There where crates and boxes close to the back of the room. Jacob opened the boxed but there was nothing in them. He looked behind the boxes because there was a space between them and the wall and there was nothing back there. Jacob turned around and looked back at the table with the tarp. He walked closer and closer and with each step he felt his heart sink deeper and deeper into his chest. He reached and grabbed a part of the tarp and threw it off of the table. As he did so he backed up and hit the table behind him knocking off some of the tools from the wall. When the tools hi the ground it makes lots of noise. His face frozen with terror as he stares at the lifeless body on the table. There was limbs missing and scars all over what was left of the body. He got closet and saw that it was a young boy. He couldn’t take his eyes off of the body even though he wanted to. As he stares at the body he hears the sound of heavy footsteps going down the stairs. He broke his trance like state and panicked at the steps got louder. He ran to the crates that he saw earlier and hid inside one of them. He crouched down and closed the top of the crate and stayed silent. He noticed a small hole in the box and covered it with a piece of wood he found in the crate.

    He was panting slowly trying to make no sound at all. It’s dark in here, he thought to himself. Jacob leaned forward slowly as he uncovered a small hole in the crate he was crouching in. he peered through the small hole but he couldn’t see anything other than a large table. Jacob listened to see if anyone was coming but all he heard where the muffled sounds of children laughing and screaming. He covered the hole back up and leaned back a little. His breathing began to get heavy at the air started to thicken. I should try to get out of here soon but he might find me Jacob thought. He stayed crouched fo a little longer listening for the right time to leave. Jacob got up a small bit and threw the box from him and ran for the door. He did not get far before he felt a hand on his shoulder. He tried to run but the hand held him back. He turned and saw a man wearing a dingy bloody shirt and an apron with what looked like fresh blood. Jacob tryed to push the man off “let me go” jacob shouted. The man pulled jacob closer and wrapped his arm around jacob restraining him and put a rag over his mouth and nose. Then everything went black.