Chapter 9 - PARADISE

(THE HOUSE FROM 24TH STREET)

[There is a famous tale about this town. Although most members of this town believe the town to be a fairly quiet and boring town, it could not be any more different from a fantasy. The town has been in existence for the longest of time and most residents that lived in the town about sixty years ago all have a different tale to talk about how different the town has become from what used to be in the past. There was something which lived with the town folk, and for some reason most people had never, not even once saw or even knew about its existence.

Fifty years ago in this town, there was a young man who had moved to this town, he was an ordinary man who had a different kind of charm about him, and although he was new to the town, he used to get along with the town folk very pleasantly. He always had plans of building himself his own resident in one of the slots right outside town, He called it a 'warmly paradise'. And when he did build himself the house, the town folk were not sure how to respond to it. It seemed that the new resident had interesting taste.

The house looked more like a cottage, with a fairly adequate scenery, they could not understand what the big fuss that he made about building a house was about, considering how miniscule the house looked compared to the houses which were built in the town which looked the same.

The man invited the town folk into his house, boasting about the decor, while the town folk seemed rather astonished by how he kept running about all excited.

He then opened a door which was inside the cottage like house.

When the town folk entered the room, they found that the house had an amazing place inside, a huge tree was present in the middle of the entire room covering most of the ground, with differently coloured flowers in each corner of the room, they were very different kind of flowers, 'Heart shaped flowers'. And right when one of the town folks walked towards the flowers, the man interrupted him with, "I found this room yesterday while I was cleaning the house, I had no idea it existed, the people who were in-charge of building the house do not remember adding this room either. It miraculously appeared here I guess."

Most members of the town never spoke of what they had witnessed inside the man's house. Living together as if nothing strange was going on with the house in the first place. But things changed one day, after months of residing in his new resident peacefully, there was a sudden fire which destroyed the house completely, unfortunately the man was also present in that house as well. Nobody knew what had caused the fire, or if the man could have been saved if they had gotten there in time. All that they knew was the sadness the man's death brought to the whole town, as a cheery man he was, he would really be missed for a long time.

Things started to get worse with town a few days after his death, there were a lot of people who went missing suddenly, the oddest part was that those people were seen heading past his house last. A few days after the people went missing, a house appeared in town, it was a very well-built house which looked high-end. but the weird part was its sudden appearance out of nowhere, not to mention the figure of a man who was seen standing in front of the house at night. He looked like a well taken care of man from afar, but no person ever set foot, or even got any closer to the house's front gate. Since then, the town folk have believed that it was the return of the man who had died mysteriously and never spoke about it since then.]