Only two allowed

"Looks just like Grandma's house," Max said. His voice was so tight Tom couldn't tell if he was joking.

"I bet whoever lives here has never heard of Aoki sugar," Hana said.

Tom was about to respond but stumbled on his first word. They were close enough for him to notice something creepy about the door. The red paint he'd seen wasn't the remnants of an age-old decorating scheme after all. They were words, scrawled across the entire face of the wooden door from top to bottom.

"Look!" he shouted, already sprinting ahead to see what it said.

"What?" Hana yelled from behind him. Tom ignored them, and soon they ran to catch up.