House of Monsters

Chapter 3: Run

Warning! This chapter contains profanities! I warned you!

"WhattheduckisTHAT!?!?" I said loudly, while others gawked. 

  "Shut up Hanako!" Amber said, her eyes still locked on the creature. I wished it was just a dream, that this entire trip to the abandoned house was just a really bad dream, and that I'd wake up soon in my room, safe and sound. But it wasn't. It was still there, on the outskirts of the woods. The vague, far away shape, somehow lumbering around, even with no visible legs, like it was waiting for someone. Or something. 

  "Guys, we have to hide." Anika whispered, breaking the horrified silence. We all ran out the door and scattered around the second floor like the rats in the movie 'Ratatouille' when the inspector comes in, looking for a place to hide, a place to stay, until the night was over.

   I dashed into one of the bedrooms, almost knocking down the door completely. It appeared to be the child's room from the diary. There was a simple bed, a nightstand with some books, a small hand mirror, and a dried-out cup of water, and an old wooden closet. There's no space under the bed, I noted as a ran towards the closet. I quickly yet carefully opened the doors to the closet, but then realized that the space was too small. As I ran out of the bedroom, Sahithi ran by me.

  "No space," I quickly said to her and ran towards the closed door, which ended up being a small bathroom. I once again ran out, faster than ever, frantically looking for a place to hide.  My friends were one by one running down the stairs, so I assumed that there was no place to hide in the second floor and ran after them.

  "F*$# it!" Evey said and ran towards the windows near the front door, being the first to lead the charge downstairs. None of us bothered to correct her language, for we were too busy focused on how to survive. All of a sudden, there was sound of a window shattering in the office, and Sahithi stopped in her tracks with a horrified look on her face. 

  "ADELINE IS STILL IN THE OFFICE!!!" She screamed.

  "Wait! SAHITHI!" I turn around and called after her as she ran up the stairs. There was no point in going to save her, Adeline would've already been taken, I just knew. "SAHITHI!!!" I screamed. I'm sorry, I thought as I took a last look at the second floor, and ran down the stairs to find the remaining four people (not including me) gathered around the front door.

  "What the hell is happening?!?!" I asked as I rushed over to see. No one answered, and I didn't need an explanation.

   All the windows were missing their openings, like they'd somehow healed up and put on extra layers in the worst possible time. The only flaws on the windows were small cracks and little bits of blood, which I assumed were from my remaining friends banging on them. My friends were currently banging on the now perfect front door with bloodied fists, some screaming and crying to be let out. A grandfather clock near us struck 3:00 A.M., and instead of a bell or a cuckoo to sound the change of the hour, there was a chorus of voices which seemed to be coming from every direction, 

  "It's three in the morning, hour of monsters," said six times in monotonius, yet sad voices, before subsiding.

  My mind felt as if it were to explode, repeatedly thinking, This can't be happening... Over and over again. Two of my best friends had just died. My remaining friends were starting to lose their minds to fear, I couldn't think clearly about anything, other than the fact that two of my longest friends had been killed, and worst of all, we were trapped in this hellhole, with no way out. 

  Thud, thud, thud... There was something coming down the stairs, too slow, heavy, and relaxed to be Adeline or Sahithi.

  "Guys! The basement!" I suddenly said without thinking. "There might be an exit in the basement!" I finished as my shaking hands took out my flashlight, and ran down the stairs not really being able to focus my flashlight clearly on anything ahead. The air was getting cooler and damper the further I went down, the steps more and more shaky. I tripped on something unknown, sending my flashlight flying out of my grip. I felt my head hit on something metal, and tumbled the rest of the steps down.