Flashback
Dave is in the living room with his friends.
They are having the time of their lives, watching their favorite series with pizza and drinks.
"Dave can we do something else, you know something different", Emily says to Dave
"Ya", Mark agrees.
"Maybe we should just take a trip round your house", Ken chips in
"Yh that's a great idea, let's start from inside", Emily says to Dave with a bright smile.
"Alright guys, let's begin with our current location, the living room", Dave says with a deep voice which makes Emily giggle and others smile and shake their heads.
" So this is the place we chill as friends and as a family" Dave continues still using his deep voice.
"Awwnn", Ken says.
Mark scoffs at his remark.
"Then we move to the kitchen, now this is where the magic happens", Dave says and almost laughs at the his statement.
"Magic really" Emily says and rolls her eyes
"Yep, this is where I screw your mama", Mark says with a smirk.
"Dude wtf eww", Ken says irritated.
"What about that door?", Emily asks out of the blue
"Door ?, what door ?", surprised Dave asks.
"The black door upstairs", Emily answers.
"Oh that door, well I don't really know", Dave tells Emily.
"Mrs. Wong warned me not to go open that door", Dave continues.
"Really you are such a sissy Dave, the number one rule of being a teenager, always do what you are told not to do", Ken tells Dave in an authoritative manner.
"Exactly",Miley says and crosses her arms.
"Let's go in", Mark shouts and they all begin to chant collectively trying to pressure Dave to agree.
"Come on Dave, let's go in" Emily pleads and touches his shoulder.
Daves looks at the his shoulder where Emily's hand lay.
"Fine, ok let's go", Dave says in defeat.
They all go upstairs, the door is just after Mrs. Wong room.
"Wait, what about the key", Ken says
"Oh no the key, oh well, l guess we can't go", Dave says and sighs.
He turns to leave.
"Wait", Emily says Dave pauses at the sound of her voice.
Dave turns to look at her.
"It's opened", Emily continues as she turned the door knob.
"Really, it's opened, this door literally screams open me please" Mark says whilst gesticulating comically.
They all laugh at Mark's tease.
Dave opens the door and they all walk in.
Strange things they see, strange things.
Artifacts, weird collectibles that should not be seen. It looked liked a museum of really strange things.
There was a table with three legs, a monkey with three heads which seemed alive but was actually dead. The list continues, as all these strange items occupied the whole room.
But there was one which stood out, pretty unique.
It sat on the floor in the middle of a room nicely.
It was a box in a glass casing.
On the glass casing, it read, 'Do not open!'
On the box, it read, 'Do not touch!'
The room was really quiet and their fear intensified at the sight of the box.
"Come on guys what's the worst that could happen", Dave says trying to break the obvious silence that had occured.
"Mrs Wong is a good woman, I know whatever is in that box is not gonna harm anyone," Dave continues trying to somehow convince them that it was safe.
Meanwhile Dave was really scared as well.
"I think we shouldn't touch it guys let's just go", Emily says as her fear starts overwhelm her.
"Really Emily are you going to chicken out now", Ken says still a bit scared.
"Yh, Emily are you afraidd, Mark teases her and sticks his tongue out.
The boys start to laugh
"Stop it guys, I'm serious, we have to go", Emily warns the guys.
Suddenly a doorbell is heard.
"Oh no, Mrs. Wong is home, let's all leave", Emily says in relief.
They all agree in defeat and head out.
Dave doesn't move.
"Em, you know what guys I just need to tidy up some certain things, you know just make everywhere neat, then I would meet you downstairs", Dave says to his friends.
They leave and Dave shuts the door.
He turns and just stares at the box, the elephant in the room apparently.
"I really want to know what lies inside that box, why shouldn't we touch it ,what is so special?", Dave questions himself as he rubs his beardless chin.
He leans forward and opens the glass case, he then gently takes the box out of the glass case.
He stares at the box a little more and touches the inscription that reads, 'Do not touch'.
"Ok here goes nothing",Dave tells himself
He slowly opens the box.
An old cassette was seen inside.
"This is old school, where would I play it", he says to himself
Something suddenly falls down by his left.
He looks to his left and sees a DVD player.
He comes close to it.
He then puts the Casette in and just when he's about to play it...
"Dave!!!",Mrs Wong who's still downstairs calls him.
"Ma, I'll be down soon", Dave answers to her call.
"Uff I have to go", he says with disappointment.
He immediately trys to get up but unfortunately gets bruised by the shelf behind him on his arm.
"Oww",he says and does not bother to look at the scratch as he finally gets up and leaves the room.
He closes the door gently and runs down the stairs.
He gets to the living room, and sees them all at the dining room.
Dave stands there for a while and says nothing until Emily sees him.
"Dave", she says with worry.
Mrs Wong, Luke and Mark turn their heads to the direction of Emily's.
"Dave where have you been", Mrs Wong asks Dave with a straight face.
"Well I have, I mean the I...",Dave stutters in fear having no good excuse.
"Wow Dave, so you really didn't see that book", Emily says in an attempt to save him.
"Em", confused Dave says.
"Yh, Dave you sure you searched everywhere and you really didn't see that book", Ken asks Dave as he tries to play along.
"Oh I wanted to, I got, no...", Dave stutters.
"Just shut up Dave, you owe me a new book",Emily interrupts Dave's hopeless attempt to join in the lie.
"Come to the table moron", she made us pancakes, Mark tells Dave.
Dave walks to the table still trying to protect his broken pride.
Mrs Wong says nothing but smiles to Dave, using her eyes to follow him to the table.
Dave's notices he stares and looks at her, she grins and maintains a weird eye contact for up to 10 seconds.
She then turns and walks into the kitchen.
She comes back with the pancakes and shares them.
She watches them eat.
"This pancakes are delicious ma, thank you", Emily compliments Mrs Wong's cooking.
"yes", "ya", "true", they boys say in agreement with Emily's claim.
Mrs Wong is pleased, she then turns her face to Dave's, she examines him, it's like time moves slowly as she watches him whilst closely inspecting every detail.
Dave notices and looks at her but she is still smiling.
"Ma, why are you looking at me like that", Dave asks.
She says nothing, but keeps examining him.
Dave returns his eyes to his food and keeps eating but this time slowly.
His thoughts are overwhelmed by the mysterious door and the forbidden box.
"Dave, what are your thoughts occupied with?", Mrs Wong asks
"What",Dave says and is pulled out of his thoughts and back to reality.
"Dude stop acting strange, cool off", Ken says already annoyed by Dave's suspicious behavior.
"Sorry", Dave apologizes.
He then stretches is hand across the table to get the glass of water.
"Dave, you hurt yourself, where did you get that injury?", Mrs. Wong asks showing no emotion.
"It's actually a small scratch", Dave replies but is disproved when he looks at it and discovers it is more than a scratch.
It looked like his skin had peeled, although it was small, it was almost circular, having a somewhat irregular shape like an amoeba.
"I'll treat it ma", Dave says immediately and gets up.
He walks quickly to the staircase.
"Wait Dave",Emily calls out.
"Yeah", Dave stops just before the stairs and answers at the sound of her voice.
"Don't forget to read, we have a test tomorrow", Emily tells him.
"Test nice, I'm expecting something better than a C this time," Mrs Wong tells him.
"Alright ma, thanks Emily" , Dave says and walks quickly up the stairs.
He enters his room and sits on his bed whilst panting like he ran a 400m race.
He picks up his book to read but cannot seem to concentrate. 45 minutes passes and he is still on one section of the book.
He is still too occupied with the door and the box.
"Dave", Mrs Wong says as she knocks on his door.
"It's open ma, you can come in", Dave says and Mrs. Wong opens the door but does not come in.
She sees Dave with his book.
"Wow you've been reading, good boy, you should rest now it's getting late", she says to him in a very sweet way.
"Alright ma, I'll go to bed soon", Dave says to her and then drops his book on his bedside table.
He gets up and then turns off his light.
He then lays on his bed, leaving just the lamp on.
"I must know what is in that casette, I have to play it and nothing will stop me", Dave says to himself with confidence.
He creeps out of his room and walks to the door, the Black door.
"What's the worst that could happen", he says just before he opens the door and enters into the room.
He walks straight to the DVD player and presses ' play '.
It looked somewhat like a documentary, Dave is intrigued.
It was a man on a what looked like a hospital bed.
'Please just get it off me', the man said to the doctor.
'Please', he kept begging.
Then the man and the doctor turned to look at Dave in a way that made Dave shiver a bit.
Suddenly the screen goes blank like someone had turned it off.
"Really is that it", Dave says and laughs.
"I was almost scared, what was that about", Dave says and laughs again feeling quite relieved.
The screen comes back on...
But this time he sees his reflection. It looked like the screen turned to a clear mirror.
"What is your name?", he hears a deep voice call out.
he turns his head quickly to his left and then to the right but sees no one.
"What is your name", the strange voice says again but this time louder.
Dave is confused, says nothing and stands still.
"This is stupid guys", Dave says and bursts out with laughter.
"I mean is this a prank, you could do better....", Dave continues but is immediately silenced.
"Quiet!", the voice shouts already getting irritated by Dave's foolishness.
"Dave, my name is Dave", Dave answers the voice while trembling in fear.
Laughter bursts out, people were laughing but no one was there.
Dave immediately removed the casette, put it in the box and ran as fast as he legs could carry him.
He ran into his room and locked the door.
His eyes immediately moves to his walk clock.
"5 o'clock, I could have sworn that I spent just 45 minutes there", Dave says in a confused manner.
"Whatever I'll get enough sleep in one hour",Dave says to himself in a convincing way.
But Dave forgot something, he did not return the box to the glass casing and he left the box open...
So yes something else left the room with him. It opened the door and walked to Dave's room like a shadow
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Help me complete this; Curiosity killed ______
So I guess Dave has a partner now, what do you think about this shadowy guy.