The Eccedentesiast

Chapter Eight

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Chapter Eight
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Emma slowly walked down to the basement as her friends followed behind. She kept her eyes wide open as she tried to find the light switch.

"Found it!" Gabriel whispered loudly and the lights went on the next second.

"Wow," Connor said.

"Check this out." Brian waved his friends over and they all joined him around an open barrel with swords inside. "Why the hell is this in your basement?" He glanced at Daniel before reaching down to pull one out.

"Awesome." Connor stared at the sword in Brian's hands in awe as the silver looked stainless—a mirror.

"Is Emiliano a ninja or some shit?" Daniel chuckled.

Emma rolled her eyes and walked away to keep searching for what they were looking for. "Come on," she spoke to them.

"Alright, alright." Brian put the sword back in its place and went to another part of the large basement that contained stacked up boxes.

"Now, if I were a ghost costume, where would I be?" Daniel asked himself as he unstacked a few boxes.

"Do you think they're in here?" Emma called out to them as she started lifting a large suitcase towards the middle of the basement floor.

They all went to the suitcase and helped her brush the dust off of it. Connor grabbed onto the zipper and began pulling the suitcase open. Once it was open, they lifted the top and Emma started looking inside it.

"They're old tapes." She sighed, leaning back on her knees.

"What's in the tapes?" Gabriel asked Daniel.

Daniel shrugged. "Beats me. Probably sex tapes."

"What if the costumes are in your closet?" Emma asked him.

Daniel rubbed his chin for a while before his face glowed. "Maybe they're in the treehouse!" He stood up off the floor and ran for the stairs.

"Wait for us!" Emma and the rest of her friends shot up, too, and ran behind Daniel.

They all stepped out of the basement and closed the door behind them, locking it.

"Hurry!" Daniel whisper-yelled as the sound of their naked feet hitting the floor as they ran was the only thing that resonated in the mansion.

They made it to the other side of the mansion where the glass sliding doors were. Daniel unlocked one and slid it open before they all ran on the wet cement and towards the tree at the center of the large yard.

The tree was in the center of a large cement circle around it. It was the largest and tallest tree out of them all.

The sprinklers were on which meant they had to run faster before they faced them again.

They finally made it to the rope ladder and one by one, they started climbing up. Emma was the first one inside.

"I'm wet!" Connor groaned as he flipped his hair to the side when it fell on his forehead.

"Woah there, Justin Bieber." Daniel fixed his hair.

"Look inside that closet." Gabriel pointed towards the closet that was on the far right and Emma walked to it, opening it, and was greeted with random clothes they had shoved inside there when Emiliano made them clean the treehouse.

"Oh!" Brian exclaimed as he ran towards the closet when he spotted his old failed attempt at a diary. "We haven't been in here in months and I finally find this." He lifts his diary and then starts looking through it.