Doll House [On Hold]

Chapter 12: Strange Place

Crashes and noises are normal in this house.  Each with its significant purpose of scaring people. I'll find the reason behind all this, and I promise.

"What the hell?" I say, looking at the issue. 

"Looks like Mr. Snuggles broke a vase." Henry answers,

"But you're the one holding a hammer," 

Henry begins to reply but Ethan meets his gaze. They both look at each other in the eye with disgust and say,

"What's he doing here?"

I rolled my eyes and leave them be. They eventually started arguing and mimicking one another like little children. Oh wait... my mistake, they ARE little children. I stop their fight and explain what's going on. 

The time is 5:30 pm. I didn't expect it to take this long to explain something. Henry and Ethan share dirty looks at one another, I remain annoyed. 

"I'll help you with this mission, Lacey," Henry stands up and walks towards me,

"No, I will, I'm her boyfriend, " Ethan blocks him,

"cough, cough, Ex*,"

"Shut up!"

"You two can continue fighting like six-year-olds, OR you can help me. If you both don't stop, I'll do it myself." I argue. They both stop fighting. We grab our backpacks and follow to the white door. 

"I'll break the door because I'm th-"

*SMASH* I break the door with my leg. It creates a hole big enough for us to go through.

"I'm sorry, you were saying?" I respond. Ethan tries to continue but I scared him too much.

"N-nothing" He replies. 

We all head through the door and into the mystery hall. 

"Woa," The boys say as they walk behind me. We stop at the staircase.

"Okay, now listen. We're going even though we don't know what's down there. Henry, Ethan, grab your weapons. Henry pulls out a machete, I wanted to ask him why he has that but it's probably better not asking. Ethan brought out his multi-blade swiss army knife and I went with my bat, but I added nails to it. We prepare ourselves and go down together. 

I began to have this strange feeling like my mom was watching us. I looked around as I was going down the stairs and didn't realize I missed a step so I tripped.

"And here I thought you'd be the watchful eye in the team," A voice says. I walk past them both and give them the finger.

"Did you say that?" Henry asks Ethan,

"No, you?"

I stop. If it wasn't them then there's someone else down here. I looked at the dirt place. It's an underground tunnel leading to different areas. Yet they all looked the same. Dark and disgusting. Strange and smelly. Blue and Black. I turn on my flashlight and so do the boys. We decided to walk straight because that path seemed to be the cleanest of the three paths. Even though it was the cleanest, it began to get darker and darker, until we encountered another three paths. 

"Which way should we go?" I asked,

"Back," They both answered. I rolled my eyes and hit them both. I could see Ethan feeling scared enough that he's holding Henry's hand. Henry didn't mind surprisingly. I decided to take a little break and sit on the dirt ground. We open our bags and eat a snack until a stench came. 

"Ew, what is that?" Ethan asked.

"Let's follow it," Henry replied. We pack up and follow the path to the right. "This is disgusting," Henry says,

"Here, I have some bandana's we can use to cover our noses from the smell," Ethan brings out and hands them to us. I am beginning to see he's nicer than before. Maybe it's because he's sorry? Maybe not. We follow the stench leading us to something. Just not what we wanted to see.

"Is... is that what I think it is?" Ethan asks ready to puke,

"Yes... it's half of a body."

"Oh god, oh-" Henry pukes in the corner. I look closer and notice a trail and a circle of blood. Surrounding us and the body.

"G-guys, look," I point to the blood. We follow the trail for a few seconds before we begin to feel chills. As if someone is behind us. We turn around and find a woman with her hair covering her face. 

"Who...who are you?"

"Your worst nightmare!" She knocks us all out.