Count To Ten (Louis Tomlinson Fanfic)

Chapter 21

Louis' P.O.V.

"There's no one upstairs." Lucus said while stumbling down the staircase and we all put a finger against our lips to get him to quite down. Was he thinking that we were tip toeing around just for the fun of it? There were a total of eight of us roaming through the house that included me, Rose, Lucus, the boys, and Ethan. I had to call Ethan cause I thought he might know something about these things better than we do.

"We searched everywhere. Where could they-" Rose closed in next to me and we both jumped as a scream echoed through the house. That was actually the second scream we heard for the past 15minutes.

"Mum!" Rose screamed as we all tried to listen. We had to find out where the screams were coming from. Walking around the place I closed on to the wall as I tried to guide myself to it. If only I could hear it one more time...

"HELP ME!!" There it was again.

"Where is it coming from?" Zayn yelled as I backed away from the wall in horror.

"From the wall?" I whispered. For sure I heard and felt the wall lightly vibrating with the sound. But there was no way in hell one could easily fit through these walls right?

"The basement" Lucus added before walking past me, through the hall and opening a door. I've never been to the basement before. The door was always closed and locked when I was around and I never bothered to look anyway. What could be so exciting about a basement. It all just ends up being a bunch of useless stuff. We all followed Lucus to the basement.

The place was dark and dusty. Not a single piece of furniture has been used for ages. Just walking through the stairs and you feel like there are a ton of spider webs wrapped around your face.

"Where are they?" Rose sounded breathless as she hugged herself while looking at everything around. Just the thought of having someone in here in the dark was fearful. A second later we heard another scream. A lot louder which means we're a lot closer.

"It's coming from the walls" Harry said and I was quick to walk over to him pressing my ear against the dusty wood.

"The walls?" Ethan asked closing in on us.

"Listen." Harry said and we all leaned closer. Inside the wall, we heard a sniffling. Like someone crying in there.

"Alright. Stand back" Lucus said while grabbing an old metal bar lying against the piano that stood at the other end of the room. We all stepped away as he banged it against the wall. The wall cracked slightly and we all joined hands ripping the old pieces of wood from our fingers. It was hard but possible. Halfway through we felt the crying getting louder and within seconds the wall broke outwards as Mrs. Andrews came crushing out of it, petrified to her very soul. Her walk was fast and she fell down to the floor with the first step. Niall who was the closest quickly grabbed her from behind as she fell on to his arms.

"Mrs. Andrews are you alright?" We all circled around her as Niall asked. She wrapped her hand around Niall still terrified.

"No- no. No. She's coming. She's gonna kill us all" She mumbled through her tears.

"Sshh... mum it's okay. You're okay" Rose said soothing her hand up and down her back.

"Mum did you see dad?" Lucus asked and with a sudden reflex she stood up. "Richard! No, no. She took him. Dragged him into the walls." She said pointing at the very wall that we just broke open. We popped our head in through what was left. There was wooden web going through the walls. One could actually move around in there. It won't be much spacious. But one could do it.

"The walls...the walls..." She kept repeating. Lucus wrapped his arm around her as she cried on to his shoulder.

"Think he could even fit in here?" Zayn murmured while standing next to me and looking into the walls.