Chapter 3

Chapter 3

"That was close"I mumbled, while my eyes are closed and I was picking up my breath.

When I'm sure that I'm okay. I opened my eyes and straighten up.

I was entirely shock when I open my eyes, only to see the door of the house. The door in the porch. And beside me is the rocking chair.

No doubt. I'm in the front of the house.

My forehead creased because of confusion. It made me rethink what I did a while ago.

"I'm sure I enter this house"I said then pointed at the door. "Did I just... imagined it?", I try to remember what are the things that I've done.

I also take a peek in the hallway that you'll first see when you enter from where I am standing. Like earlier, it's dark and I can't see what's inside.

Will I enter this house again?, Or I'll just stay and wait here?.

I'm thinking two things at a time. If I will enter again and if ever what I did earlier was true.

"Niña this is not the time to daydream, and I can't believe it self that you really imagine that"I talked to myself. I was the only one whose here and I needed to sort things out.

My belief that I entered the house that was infront of me is slowly fading as the time passes by.

I was walking sideways while thinking. Same thought to what I was thinking a while ago. Same place, same analysation.

Haist.

I sigh and think deeper of what are the pros and cons if I decided to enter again.

But wait.

"If I really enter that house. The last thing that I've did is entering that door. So, it was wrong to chose that door. So it means that the right door is the door that I need to open. But how would I know right?."I mumbled while still walking.

I just hope that the sun rises up for me to see the whole place, and check every sides. It's hard inspecting the house in this shade of darkness.

The moon light is now less bright. Maybe the clouds are coming to be a companion to the moon.

"If I enter the house again and choose the other door and if, only if I find myself in another room, does that mean the door in the right side is a correct choice. Or what if, I try again the left door and if I will be back again at this porch, then I'm correct"I snap my finger and decided to choose the left door again to prove my hunch.

I started to walk towards the door. It's not like what I've passed a while ago. I can able to see the floor which doesn't happen when I tried it seconds ago.

Did I just really imagined it?. Entering the house?.

It's a hallway and I need to turn right because there's a wall ahead. There's a high table with a frame placed on it.

I stopped when I can fully see the frame. The frame has a picture of two girls. They both have a black hair, and chinky eyes. They look like siblings. The taller one has her smiling face while hugging the smaller one. The smaller one has a two buns and a dimple showed with her perfect white teeth. The background of the picture is just white.

I turn left and continue walking. Like earlier, and I really believe that I enter here a while ago. There is three door on the left side and one door in the right side.

The only difference is that the second door is opened and light from it is coming out.

I walked through the door on the right. I don't need to check the three doors because there was nothing in there because I'm sure that I really entered here a while ago, it's just that there was something in the last door that I choose that's why I'm back the porch near the rocking chair.

That's why I'm sure that I will not see anything in that three rooms that was placed in the left side of the hallway.

Before I faced the door on the right, I saw a glimpse of the second door that was now open, there's still that bed in the room but a thing was now placed in the middle of the bed.

I opened the only door on the right and enter immediately.

Stage, chairs and two doors. Same to what I see earlier but now there are people sitting on the chairs.

I counted them and there are 15 people excluded myself.

Seven girls and eight boys. Most are adults.

I sit on the chair near me and observe the people around me.

It's just so quiet and even the crickets are silent. No one's moving, and it makes me felt obligated not to move too.

I can see their backs, and the only assurance that I have is that I can hear their breathing. The place is so quiet, that even their breathing is heard inside of the room.

Few minutes past, and I hear it again, the rapid walking towards here.

My goal now is to enter the same door. I need to enter the left door to be sure that entering it means going back to the front door.

But before I can stand up from my seat. The people around me, that was sitting in the chairs started to move.

They are stretching and some started to talk with the person beside them. The room was now filled with noise, a different scene to what I've witnessed when I enter this room a while ago.

"Let's go"a man infront said then walk towards the right door. People are following him and entering the right door too.

A girl infront of me suddenly turn her head to face me. I immediately closed my eyes, I'm afraid to things I might see on her face.

"Hey"she said that made me open my eyes.

Her eyes is in color of brown, long hair and a must said, a pretty face.

I can't answer her. It's hard for me to digest what is happening especially that I was alone here a while ago. How's that possible?. That when I came back in this same room, there was other people inside of it, unlike earlier where I didn't see anyone, and I'm just alone.

"Let's go, make your movements faster. We can't be calm there's a possibility of them finding and getting one of us"the man infront said again and start to walked towards the right door.

What did I miss?, Is there something that I forgot?. Is there some places that I didn't see when in fact it's just the same to the place that I enter a while ago.

The porch, the hallway then turn left, a hallway again which has door. I checked every door then enter the right door then hallway--

Hallway!

There's a hallway, but why the hallway isn't there anymore.

"Hey, what are you waiting there, make it fast. You'll be dead if you're just standing and waiting for your saliva to fall", she said that made me moved.

I can't bet anything on the left door, I'm afraid that some changes happen and if that door will transfer me again to the front of the house, and just me. I don't want to be alone.

"I don't want to be left here", I mumbled then I felt a pain in my chest, I felt de ja vu

I immediately walked towards the right door.

Before I can enter, from the dark corner of the room, a pair of eyes caught my glimpse. She's staring back at me from the corner near the left door.

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