IT ALL STARTS TO GO WRONG FROM HERE

ANNE

Claire and I walked into the hotel and it wasn't anything we expected .

" Wow , look at this place " I gasped

" Yeah, tell me about it "

It was so beautiful .

"You changing your mind about leaving?" Claire asked

" I'm having second thoughts alright "

We walked to the front desk where we saw a man scrolling through a book .

" Good evening "

He looked up " ah, good evening, I'm Arnold , the owner "

"You did a nice job with the place "

" Thank you , so how long are you two planning on staying ?"

" Ermmm..."I looked at Anne .Anne gave me a puppy face but nah , I ain't falling for that " 1 night please "

" Same room or separate rooms?"

" Separate please" .

" Alright, follow me up , please"

We walked up the spiral staircase that and finally got the the third floor.

" Room 36 for you and 37 for your friend" he said handing over their keys " enjoy "and he left.

Claire screamed "can you believe this ??"

" You scream as if we are in paradise"

" We are. Look at this place. It's so amazing"

"Yeah, I wonder why it's in the middle of nowhere though"

"Well I'll tell you why . So that people like us who get stranded on the road can come here. Anyways hand me my keys , I can't wait to check out the room "

I handed Claire her key and walked into mine . The room was beautiful and the bed was huge .

Thump!

I shaked at that sound, " geez, I almost had an heart attack " I mumbled .

I went towards the window to open it , but the window was stuck. It couldn't open .

" You need help ?" A voice said from behind and I screamed as I turned around" oh my gosh, it's just you ". It was Arnold .

" I'll go call someone to fix it right away " Arnold said and walked away . Why was I so giddy? Nothing bad could possibly happen here . I needed to rest and stop thinking I'm in some sort of horror movie or some shit .

The only thing that could calm me down now is some site seeing. " That's right,let's just go somewhere stupid with Claire so that we can relax more " I told myself.

I walked out of my room and headed to Claire's room .

I knocked on her door .no response.

"Claire , open up " could she be bathing? That was so like her.

I pressed lightly on her door knob but it opened....okay now that was weird as hell.

" Claire ?" I called as I walked in .

I screamed as I saw Claire on the floor bathed in a pool of blood.

" Oh my gosh , Claire !!!" I ran to her body , how could this have happened? Help , we needed help .I ran out of the room and went to the front door , but what the hell ? It was locked ....what ? Why ? .

I pushed my shoulder against the door but it didn't open.

I ran back to the third floor and then I saw something, clothed in black . I couldn't pin out what it was but all I was certain of was that it smiled at me .....and I passed out .

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ANNE 

When I woke up my head hurt alot. 

I looked around me . Where was I ? And most especially..where was Claire ? 

" You are  awake" I heard a voice say. The owner of the voice came to sight and I saw a nurse  

" Where am I?" I asked

" you don't remember what happened? " The nursed asked " you are in the hospital ?"

" How did I get here ?"

" Some man brought you in "

Some man ? Could it have been Arnold ? In that case was Claire here too ? 

I hurriedly got up and removed all those stuffs attached to my body.

" Miss, you aren't well yet !" The nurse shouted 

" That's not important right now. Was a patient called Claire brought in here ?" Nevermind I'll find her myself" I ran out of the room and searched every hospital room. 

I finally got to room 302 and saw Claire . Her head was bandaged and her cheeks were swollen. Tears strolled down my cheeks. 

" Stop crying. You look so ugly" Claire said 

I ran to hug her.  

I thought I had lost her when I saw her lying down on the ground.I don't think I've ever been that scared before.

" Hey, what happened back there? " I asked crying" who did this to you?"

" Hey, aren't you supposed to be resting too ? "She asked " I heard you fainted. Are you really okay ?"

" You idiot.i'm not the one with bandage on my head. " 

" I took a picture with it and Jason told me I looked cute "

Jason was her boyfriend.

" Really?then breakup with him right now " .

Claire laughed " don't be worried about it . I'm sure I just fell down and hit my head somewhere. I can't even remember what happened" 

" I still can't believe the front door was locked "

" What?"

" When I found you out, I ran to get help but the front door was locked so I couldn't go out...do you think it was intention?"

Claire laughed " you watch way too much horror movies, sister. I'm sure you saw a ghost too clothed in black "

My eyes widened " I did "

Claire smiled " yes yes, then I'm sure you would want to leave there first thing tomorrow but what can we do ? I'm being hospitalized for two weeks so we have to stay longer "

Shit! With Claire being hospitalized , we can't move anywhere and I can't leave her too. 

" Then" we heard a voice say and we both jumped up. It was Arnold. why don't we ever hear this man when he moves ?!

" Sorry to interrupt but does that mean you will be elongating your stay?" He asked trying to hide his smile .

" Yes " 

Maybe I should stop having these weird ideas. He was the one that brought us to the hospital afterall.

" Thank you for bringing us to the hospital"

" No problem" he replied and turned around to leave when Claire said 

" And uh...hey , we are sorry about insulting the hotel name earlier " 

I turned to face Claire . Did he hear us then ? Even if he did , why was she suddenly apologizing? " Why are you suddenly apologiz-"I was cut off as Claire squeezed my hands tighter. 

Arnold looked back and smiled and said " no problem" .he turned back and walked away.

And then it was clear to me...Claire knewsomething.

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