Chap. 6

"Ella, you need to try out this haunted house I went to over the weekend! It's awesome!" exclaimed Clara, when they were back in school again.

"It's going to one of those lame ones, like last time, right? They are soooo boring and fake, I want to try a more realistic one!" replied Ella.

"I'm not joking! Just try it, it's on Cherry Road, past by a few house until you come across a yellow house, it's the only yellow one, so you can spot it easily" shouted Clara.

Finally agreeing, she decided to bring her brother along with her. They got on and their mother started the car. Their car was a dark shade of blue, and had 6 seats. The siblings raced each other to the car, though her brother managed to get the front sat again. Sighing, Ella slowly climbed over to the back seat and got onto the car.

"Ella, what are the directions?" asked her mother. "Cherry Street or whatever" replied Ella, lazily.

Her mother turned silent and tapped the name onto her phone, and directions to that house came up. As her mother started driving, she fell asleep.

"Ella, Ellaaa! Wake up, we're here!" yelled her brother.

Groggily, she woke up and found that they were parked in front of a worn down yellow house. But there was something wrong with it, she just couldn't think of it though. Shrugging, she walked down and ran to the front door. She knocked, but no one answered, so Ella and her brother pushed the door open and walked in. On the floor, she saw a bunch of people.

"Ella, you will see a lot of people on the floor, they are actors, if you walk slowly, they will start moving, but if you run quickly, they won't move a lot" Ella thought as she entered, remembering what her friend had said. "Then there will be a really fun but scary part. You will walk through a bunch of doors, go for the red one, it leads to the storage. The lights will turn off, and there will be someone holding a knife. That's all I'm going to tell you though"

Ella's train of thoughts ended when they had walked fully through the door. She saw a really chubby man on the floor, as she walked slowly, the man threw up. He had a lot of knife cuts too, with blood oozing onto the floor.

"Wow, this is so realistic!" thought Ella as she sped up, disgusted by the sight. Soon she could see a lot of rooms, just as her friend told her. As she walked past a green door, she could hear someone saying "Who's next?" in a raspy tone. The doors were also painted with blood, though Ella couldn't tell if it was real or not because of the dim lights.

She reached a door that was painted in red, and Ella and her brother slowly walked inside, just as the door slammed shut behind them. She pulled, but it wouldn't open. Thinking it was part of the haunted house tour, she calmed her frantically beating heart, when the door slammed shut and it startling her. The lights were out and she had waited a while, but no one came. Standing in the silence, she grew more and more nervous as time passed.

"Ummm, Ella? I think you should text your friend to see if this was supposed to happen" whispered her brother, who was starting to get impatient.

Ella pulled out her phone and started texting.

"Hey, Sarah, where is the person you said would arrive? We have been waiting for a few minutes already." texted Ella.

"???, they were supposed to arrive as soon as the lights went out... Ella, were did you go?" texted Clara.

"I'm on Cherry Street??? Didn't you tell me to go there?" texted back Ella.

"Ella! I told you it was Cherry Road. You NEED to get out of there Ella" Clara frantically texted.

Ella started to think. So, if she was in the wrong place, then all of the things that happened were real!? She gasped in horror and started to pull and tug on the door, though the door wouldn't budge. She sat on the floor breathless, and started whimpering, giving up. Picking up her phone, she tried calling the police just as her phone shut off, leaving her in total darkness. Her brother sat down next to her comfort her, just as the door opened.

She closed her eyes, as a man walked in holding a knife, still dripping with blood.

"Who's next?" asked the man in a quiet whisper.

Ella closed her eyes and held her brother's hand as she waited her demise...