Authors note:
before you read i have a little information first to share, everyone who are familiar with my stories are most likely expecting this to be a cute innocent one as usual.
well, it’s not.
since halloween is just around the corner i decided to try something different for once, and this has a much darker theme to it, though some of my typical sense of humor will appear at certain points, it’s still nothing like my typical cute stories.
now of course, i don’t wanna spoil too much before you even read it, but i feel like i should at least put a certain warning for everyone what you are about to read:
1.
there is violence, but not in a sexual way, during the story you will find yourself reading some rather brutal things, so this is not for the person with a weak stomach. now, since i have avoided anything sex oriented, i didn’t feel like this belonged in the PG 17 section.
2.
like i already mentioned, i tried to stay away from anything sexually, however, there will be some sensual suggestions at some points, so even though there are no nudity or sex in the actual story, you will find suggestions about how some of the characters have certain plans and how they constantly do some sensual things that most people would consider okay to do in public. there will also be references to alcohol and drugs.
3.
there is a lot of cursing in this story, and i have decided to write everything completely UNCENSORED. so if you are an religious extremist who believes that certain words might send you to the place down below, and i am obviously not talking about Australia or New Zealand, then you probably shouldn’t be reading this story.
4.
it will be dramatic, but it also has my typical sense of humor spread around. i have only been serious when i felt like i had to, but that’s about it, so if you don’t like my terrible sense of humor, then please keep in mind that we are talking monkeys on an organic spaceship floating in a circle around a huge ball of plasma.
if you still decide to read this story even though you don’t like the kind of things that has been mentioned, and i repeat; blood and gore, alcohol and drugs, some sensual things like kissing, cursing and a terrible sense of humor, then all i can say is:
you have been warned!!!
see that, i am so serious about it that i even used three exclamation marks and bigger letters.
so this is your last chance, turn around, right now, don’t look back at this, go watch my little pony or something instead.
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are you still reading? alright then, because if you actually like the kinds of things i just mentioned (or decided to completely ignore my warning) then i hope you will enjoy this attempt i had to come up with a good old fashioned ghost story for halloween.
now, i should also mention that i wrote the story in about two days, and then i spent about a week to take a deep breath, and have a look at the things i actually had written, you know, see if there was anything where i took it too far, and in that case, edit those things.
after all, i don’t want to share a story that might go against any policy or rules of the forum…
ah, who am i kidding, FUCK THE POLICE!
MOHAHAHAHA!!!
okay, so now i assume you started seeing what i mean by my terrible sense of humor.
but seriously though, i really don’t wanna do anything that goes against the rules, so i really hope i haven’t gone too far with this, AND IF I HAVE, then i hope the admins will be super cool about it, as you know that i don’t usually do these kinds of stories, and just let me off with a warning. then i’ll promise i will go back to my usual cute stories about monkeys, trolls, teddybears, stupid burglars, preteen vikings and pigs…
oh right, i haven’t made that story about the pig yet, sorry, i will stop this nonsense now and gag myself before i spoil anything else.
not that a gag would stop me from typing on a computer.
anyway, i hope you guys will enjoy the story about:
(imagine a very creepy voice as you read the title now)
Alice Hafford’s Mansion.
it was a dark night in late October, kids all over town had dressed up in costumes and was running from door to door demanding sweets from strangers, or else all hell would break loose.
‘welcome to moon lake town’ said a sign by the main street not to far away from where a few teenagers was wrapping duct tape around a red Chevrolet pick up truck, well, not that you could tell it was red any longer as they had wrapped the silver grey tape all around it.
“now it truly looks like a Silverado” one of them laughed.
“hehehe, hashtag pun intended” another responded.
from the other side of the street some kids where witnessing the teenaged bullies as they gave each other a high five and walked away from the crime scene.
“our brother and his friends can be such idiots sometimes” Ruby said while she adjusted her western hat.
“well, you are the one wearing the sheriff costume Ruby” Paul said “maybe you should throw your lasso at them and put them in jail”.
Ruby looked back at Paul who was wearing a zombie costume.
“no way, i have tried that before and the result was Jack tying me up instead, like it always does when he wants to prank us. why don’t you just chase them down and eat their brains? oh wait, Jack doesn’t have a brain”
the kids laughed until Madeline said “enough, shall we continue trick or treating or not?” while pointing her witch rod toward the house behind them.
Madeline, Paul and Ruby walked up to the front door of the blue house they had chosen in the neighborhood and pressed the doorbell.
‘DING DONG’
as the door opened the 11 year old kids held out their pumpkin shaped buckets and said “Trick or tr…”
that’s how far they got before the fat man in his forties interrupted them by screaming in fear “AAAAHH! HELP!” and then slammed the door.
the kids just stood there silent for a few seconds, so silent you could almost hear the short grass moving by the wind from the door slam.
“uh, what the heck did just happen?” Madeline said shocked.
“should we… you know… prank him?” Paul whispered.
“i don’t know” Madeline responded “do you really think he got that scared for real or was he just pranking us?”
Ruby couldn’t hold back her laughter any longer, and before the other two knew it, they started laughing as well while they walked back to the street.
moon lake town had a reason for it’s name, and tonight was one of those nights when you could tell the obvious reason why as the moonlight reflected strong enough in the lake next to the town that you barely needed any street light.
“isn’t it beautiful?” Madeline said while staring at the lake, Ruby nodded in agreement and looked over at her twin brother.
“i guess” Paul answered, but something else seemed to have caught his attention.
while his twin sister and their best friend gazed at the lake, Paul paid attention to a garage in front of them that played some really loud music, and outside it seemed to be an enormous party.
“isn’t that Jack?”
the girls looked over at where Paul pointed, and sure it was their older brother Jack and his friends. they didn’t seem to be that busy wrapping up any cars with duct tape this time around, but they were most likely up to something stupid again.
“let’s spy on them” Ruby said with a grin.
they sneaked up behind the bushes and tried to find out what was going on.
“hey get me a drink” Jack said while inhaling something that seemed like a really fat cigarette, even from the bushes Ruby and the others could smell the disgusting but sweet stench.
“what kind of drink do you want?”
“my drink of course, the one with my name on it!”
somebody mixed a liquid from a square shaped bottle and coca-cola in a glass and gave it to Jack.
“thanks you filthy bastard” he said and moved toward a girl with short blond hair, lots of make up, a black scarf around her neck and a black leather jacket with matching leather pants.
Jack himself had dyed his hair black and had it long enough to cover up his forehead, he was wearing a red skater sweater and jeans.
“what is he doing?” Paul whispered while watching as his older brother sat in down and had the girl in his lap while drinking and smoking between the kisses.
“shhhh, be quiet” Ruby responded.
the girl was kissing him around his ear and then seemed to be whispering something to Jack.
Jack suddenly started speaking again “hey, how many here want’s to try something REALLY scary?”
somebody turned down the music in the garage.
“it’s halloween, right, so who is up for a challenge? i’m thinking about going to Hafford’s mansion” he continued while he and the girl raised up from where they had been sitting.
everyone got quiet, Hafford’s mansion was down by the lake, about 15 minutes away to walk and had a big rumor for it’s paranormal activity. everyone in town knew the story about 12 year old Alice Hafford who had been found dead by the lake with several deep cuts all over her body, as if somebody had stabbed her several times, the assumed date of her death was August 31. 1945.
it was suspected that her father had something to do with it, but it had never been proven, however, Mr. Hafford who was well known for his jazz musician career, had been mysteriously killed two months later. they found his dead body with a broken neck, outside of the mansion, after he had gone through the window from Alice’s bedroom in the second floor.
the window had been fixed later, but nobody was interested in living there because of the stories.
“so who’s with me? how many of you are not pussies?”
the girl who Jack was holding around raised her arm up and said “count me in” before she giggled and then started sucking on Jack’s neck.
“sure, i’ll come along” another guy said quickly followed by 2 more.
“anyone else?”
it was silent.
“fine, then it will just be the five of us”.
while Jack and his mates walked away, Paul, Ruby and Madeline decided to sneak off too before anyone noticed them.
“what should we do?” Madeline said.
“i think we should follow them, it could be fun!” Paul said.
“yeah, we could prank Jack and the others big time, finally get our revenge for all those times he pranked us” Ruby said.
and so it was decided. the kids followed without knowing at all what was expecting them.
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as they reached Hafford’s mansion they noticed soon the five teenagers by the front door.
“what now?” Paul asked.
“i haven’t thought that far” Ruby said.
“what if we wait for them to get indoor and then we start knocking on the windows” Madeline suggested
“yes, that should scare them”
meanwhile they could hear one of Jack’s buddies shout “come on, open that fucking door already!”
it took another 30 seconds before they could see them enter.
“alright, they are inside” Ruby said and started running up to the old mansion from where they had hidden behind some old trees.
Madeline and Paul followed and sat down on their knees next to the window.
“can you see them?” Madeline asked.
“yes” Ruby responded “they are right there” she started knocking all she could on the window and bent down as soon as she heard somebody scream inside.
“what the hell was that?” they could hear the girl shout inside.
Ruby and Madeline Giggled while Paul tried to stay focused.
“seems like there’s a ghost in here after all”
that was definitely Jack’s voice.
“it worked, we scared them” Ruby giggled.
suddenly they heard the door open again and just around the corner popped up Jack and his buddies.
“3 ghosts to be specific” he said and grabbed Paul while his friends grabbed Ruby and Madeline.
“i saw you in the window even before you started pecking” Jack said while looking over at his little sister.
“so, what should we do with them?” the girl said.
Jack look at the rope Ruby carried as a part of her sheriff costume and said “hey Pete, how much duct tape do we have left?”
“i think i still get like 5 rolls that haven’t even been opened” a guy with a red mohawk said.
Pete was wearing a tight pair of jeans, and a black shirt with a skull motive that he’d cut off the sleeves from.
“i say we should tie em up and leave them for the ghosts tonight” Jack said with a huge grin over his face.
the kids were pulled inside the mansion, they protested, but for no use at all.
“i’m gonna teach the three of you a fucking lesson that you will never forget, that is if you’ll survive the night of course”.
they all got wrestled down to the floor in the main hall and laid on their stomach.
“AUCH! that hurts!” Paul shouted.
“oh i’m sorry, i thought since you were a zombie you wouldn’t feel anything if i tore of your limbs”.
Jack started wrapping duct tape around his little brothers wrists while Pete did the same to Madeline.
another one was about to do the same with Ruby but Jack stopped him “i have something else planned for her”.
“not fair, you guys are 17, and we are only 11” Ruby stated out as they continued wrapping duct tape around the other two’s feet.
Paul was wearing a pair of jeans with some cuts around and covered with fake blood, same thing for the white shirt he wore, Jack decided to pull off the zombie mask Paul was wearing so his freckled face and short brown hair was shown.
Madeline on the other hand was wearing red tights under her knee length black dress, she also had long sleeves, her witch hat had fallen off when she got captured so her long curly blond hair hanged by her shoulders.
“Jack, you will get in serious trouble for this!” Paul shouted.
“not if you don’t tell anyone” Jack said and started wrapping the duct tape around his little brothers head several times so he got gagged.
“gag the witch as well” Jack said.
“no! please don’t! MPHH!” Madeline pleaded before Pete followed with the same procedure on her, wrapping the tape around her head, gagging her and pinning her blond hair down.
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“now sis” Jack said as he stood up and grabbed the rope she had carried “i think it would be only suitable for you if you were tied up with your own ropes”.
the rope was made of hemp and was about as thick as Jack’s pinky finger, the length was about 10 meters long. he started with crossing Ruby’s arms behind her back and tied them with a square lash, then he stretched the rope out and started tying it around Ruby’s stomach so her arms got pinned down. it was wrapped around her body seven times before he tied the edge to the lashing around her wrists again and knotted it.
“Dammit Jack, that is really tight!” Ruby shouted.
“of course, i don’t wan’t you to escape” Jack said “now how can i gag in a cowgirl style, i don’t think mom would like it if she heard you say such filthy words”.
he studied Ruby’s costume closer.
she was wearing a ranger hat on top of her long brown haired head, a brown skirt and boots was the only thing covering her legs and thighs, on her upper body underneath the rope that had been wrapped around her she was wearing a red blouse and a black vest, around her neck was handkerchief with a pattern representing the US flag.
Jack looked at the blond girl that he had been all over the whole evening and the black scarf she was wearing.
“hey Emma, could i borrow your scarf?”
Emma looked down at her scarf while giggling, she gave her scarf to Jack who quickly pulled off the handkerchief Ruby was wearing and stuffed it in her mouth.
“NO! MPHH!” she protested, but it was only followed with Emma’s scarf that was knotted in the middle and tied over her mouth.
“now, what should we do with our captives?” Pete asked.
the teenagers grouped up and started whispering.
Ruby looked over at her friends who was tied up next to her, was there anyway at all that they could free each other now that Jack and the others were looking away.
Madeline managed to sit up on her knees and looked at Ruby’s feet, then suddenly she started muffling through her gag “wun, eff ouff”.
Ruby looked confused at her friend who started pointing with her back tied hands at her own feet that was wrapped up in duct tape before she started pointing at Ruby’s feet while she repeated as much as she could from her gagged mouth “wun!”
Ruby looked down at her own feet, her still free feet as Jack had forgotten to tie them together like the others.
“WUN!”
wun? RUN!
Ruby carefully managed to sit up on her knees, then stood up and started running toward the front door.
this tall and fat guy turned around and noticed as he said “Jack, your sister is running away”.
“WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR? GET HER!” Jack shouted.
Pete, the fat guy and another one of the teens, started chasing Ruby who had managed to get outside.
only Jack and Emma was left with the remaining captives.
“we should make sure that they aren’t getting away as well” Emma said.
outside Ruby was running, still with her arms bound behind and pinned down, and still gagged.
she laid down behind some bushes, hoping that Pete and the other two didn’t see her.
“FUCK!”
that was Pete who was shouting, he sounded angry.
“now what?”
“i don’t know Steve” Pete continued “she couldn’t have gotten that far. Marcus, i want you to guard the road, either she’s still around and in that case we don’t want her to head back to town, and if she’s already gotten back to town then you send us a message on our phones if she has sent anyone back for help”
“alright Pete” Marcus said. Marcus was the big guy, you could tell that he spent way too much of his money on junk food, his weight was probably the same number as his height, he had short black hair, wore jeans and a white t-shirt with some rapper motive.
Steve on the other hand was a short guy with shaved head, you could see the reflection of the moon in his scalp, he was wearing jeans that sagged down a bit, a black jacket that was open and revealing the white singlet underneath.
“so where do we start looking” Steve asked.
“i don’t know…”
Ruby was shaking of fear, what if they walked over and found her behind the bushes? and if she moved a muscle then they would definitely notice.
“uh, Steve?” Pete said, but he sounded like he was a bit nervous now “i just saw something in the window of Hafford’s mansion”.
“huh?” Steve said and looked over at the mansion as well.
“right there, in the window on the top floor, i swear i just saw a face”.
“what do you mean?” Steve kept starring up at the window.
Ruby could see their feet right in front of her, ‘please, just keep going’ she kept thinking.
“i swear Steve, i just saw the face of Emma when Jack was kissing her neck” Pete suddenly said and started laughing.
Steve was furious and punched Pete in the shoulder “that is not funny” he grumbled “you know damn well that i wanted Emma, but then Jack had to steal her from me, and i guarantee you, i’ll have him hanged for that”.
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meanwhile back inside the mansion, Emma and Jack had decided to lift Paul and Madeline up and carried them downstairs to the basement.
there was no electricity functioning in the resident, so Emma pulled out her phone and used it for a flashlight. the basement was only one huge room that most likely had been used as a storage at some point. there was a few small windows placed around the walls letting in some moon light.
“aha, that support pole over there would be perfect” Jack said and forced Madeline to sit up against it, then he took one of the duct tape rolls and started wrapping it around Madeline and the pole so her back was stuck up up against it and her arms pinned between the pole and her own body.
Jack wrapped the duct tape all around Madeline’s chest and stomach, and he didn’t stop until the roll was empty.
“what about the boy?” Emma asked.
“oh, him? don’t worry, i got plans for my little brother” Jack said then started laughing “i need a weed”.
While Jack was lightning up a joint Emma’s flash suddenly turned off.
“hey, what did you do that for?”
“i didn’t do anything, my phone just suddenly died out…” Emma said nervous.
“did you forget to charge it?” Jack said while blowing out some smoke.
“no, i charged it this morning, the battery was still at 70% when i turned the flash light on”.
“huh, weird”
Emma looked over at Madeline who was sitting all taped up against the pole, the moonlight was shining through the window and reflecting in her face were a tear was shredding down.
“oh poor little girl” Emma said sarcastic and did a catwalk toward her “i hope you aren’t afraid of being alone in the dark little witch, because you are going to be sitting right here, all night”.
Emma lighted up a joint as well and blew in Madeline’s face, she shrugged by the disgusting smell.
Madeline let out more tears while Emma laughed at her.
suddenly Emma stopped laughing, her eyes widened and she dropped the joint she was smoking.
“Jack, please tell me that it’s your hand on my shoulder”.
“what are you talking about, i’m way over here”.
Emma quickly turned over to see that nobody else was in the room and both Jack and Paul was all the way over by the stairs leading back up.
“Let’s get out of here” Emma said and stood up again as fast as she could.
“what?” Jack said halfway laughing.
“i swear i just felt an arm on my shoulder, and it was the coldest fucking arm i have ever felt” Emma said while carefully walking up stairs again.
“hey hold on, what are you talking about“ Jack said while dragging his little brother up stairs with him.
meanwhile Madeline sat all alone in the dark basement, wrapped up in duct tape and unable to get anywhere. she felt the cold floor through her tights and even more tears came out of her eyes.
she was cold, hungry, thirsty and scared that she might end up sitting here for the rest of her life.
when they got back up in the main hall Jack laughed and said “now what do we do with you Paul”.
“Jack” Emma said “i think we should leave this place, right now”.
“oh, come on now, we still have to have some fun with Paul as well right, and when the other’s comes back with my sister we have to find something really cruel we can do toward her”
“no, this place is starting to freak me out”
Jack let go of his tied up brother and walked toward Emma “hey, come on now, let’s place Paul somewhere else, then we can find ourselves an old bedroom and i’ll warm you up for a bit”.
he held his arms around her and started kissing her neck “what do you say”.
Emma took her time before she finally answered “fine… let’s get it over with”.
they grabbed Paul and dragged him up stairs to the second floor of the mansion, the first door they found went to the bathroom, inside was a bath tub, filled with dust, standing at the right side of the room. to the left was a wash basin with a mirror, and a toilet was right in front of them with a window between the toilet and the bathtub. the curtains that once had been hanging in front of the window had fallen down on the floor.
“i wonder if there is still water running in here” Jack said while twisting the faucets on by the tub.
a blurpy sound was heard and soon some rusty brown cold water came out.
“alright, time for a bath stinky” Jack said and lifted his brother up and into the tub. Paul did all he could to avoid being pushed down in the tub while the water was running by, but not much he could do about it.
soon Paul was laying on his stomach with his arms still tied behind him and feeling the cold water running by him and slowly into the drain.
to make sure that he wouldn’t escape Jack took another one of the duct tape rolls they had remaining and started attaching Paul’s ankles up behind the faucet were he wrapped tape around to make sure they stayed there, also making the water flow right on to Paul’s feet.
“alright Paul, enjoy the cold bath, meanwhile i will go and warm up Emma in one of the rooms next door” Jack laughed and turned around.
suddenly he saw something weird in the mirror, it was filled with dust, so it was unclear, but still it seemed like someone was standing right behind him.
Jack quickly turned around, but the only person to see was Paul laying in the bath tub.
“huh, that’s weird…” Jack said and left the bathroom with Emma.
Paul was also alone now, just like Madeline, also scared Paul reacted differently than his friend in the basement, he was angry, and started to struggle all he could in hope of getting the duct tape off his arms.
in a different room next to the bathroom, what appeared to be the old master bedroom, Jack and Emma had started making out, they had found an old bed and started getting comfortable.
“that thing you did in the basement” Jack said between the kisses “pretending that you felt an cold arm to scare the shit out of the kids, that was just epic, and that face you made, even i started believing you were for real” he kept saying while kissing Emma’s ear.
“i was not acting” she responded.
Jack stopped kissing her and looked down at her face.
“haha, funny” he said sarcastic.
“no, i really did feel something, and what was that thing you did when you looked in the mirror?”
“uh, i don’t know, probably just my imagination” Jack said “continue?”
“sure” Emma responded.
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back outside again, Pete and Steve was still looking for Ruby, who still laid behind the same bushes tied up in the exact same way, waiting for her chance to get away and find someway to get untied and help the others.
“so, do you belive in those stories?” Steve said.
“what do you mean?”
“you know, about Alice, brutally being killed by her father, and later her ghost has been spotted inside the mansion, and how that’s how Mr Hafford ended up dead in the end, he got scared by the ghost of his own murdered daughter and felled out of the window and broke his neck, they also claim that his ghost is haunting this place as well”.
“i don’t know Steve” Pete answered “all i know is that…”
“what? why are you so silent?” Steve asked.
“this time i really did see something in one of the windows”
“yeah, fool me once shame on you, fool me twice…”
“no, i mean it. i just saw a dark figure of some kind, i think that’s the kitchen window, right there on the first floor”
suddenly a noise came from the bushes.
“AH!” Pete screamed in fear “what the hell was that?”
‘oh no, don’t come over here and look’ Ruby thought as both Steve and Pete looked scared over at the bushes.
once again they could hear a sound and something seemed to be moving in there.
“AAAH! do you think it’s the ghost of Alice?” Pete said scared.
“no i don’t” Steve answered and pulled out his phone and tried to use it as a flashlight toward the bushes.
“AHA! SO IT WAS YOU!” Steve shouted out “there you have it Pete, the ghost that just scared the shit out of you”.
Pete looked shocked over at the bushes and quickly his face turned red as he got angry when he realized who made the scary noise in the first place.
“GET LOST YOU LITTLE CUNT!” Pete shouted as he picked up a stone and threw after the Squirrel that had popped out of the bushes.
“Jesus Bloody Christ” Pete said when he managed to calm down, then looked over at Steve who just looked up at him in a funny way “what?”
“you got scared!” Steve said and gave a big disgusting smile.
“yeah, well at least i don’t have to fear my crush spending time in the bed with somebody else” Pete said and punched Steve in the shoulder.
“oh, now you have done it” Steve said angry and jumped up at Pete.
they quickly felled over and Steve was sitting on top of Pete with his back facing Ruby’s hiding spot.
while Steve tried to strangle Pete, Ruby saw the opportunity to get away, she quickly stood up and started running.
“Steve” Pete said with the little voice he had “there she is”.
“I’ll teach you to fuck around with me!” Steve shouted as he continued strangling Pete.
“Steve, for fuck sake, the girl is right over there, she’s running away” Pete sounded like he was chewing on helium pastilles as he spoke, but Steve turned his head around and noticed that Pete was telling the truth.
“oh holy hell” Steve said and quickly stood up as he started running after Ruby.
Steve was short for a 17 year old, but still fast, it didn’t take long before he managed to catch up with Ruby, jumped forward and managed to grab her boots.
“MPHH” was all Rudy managed to say through her gag as she felled forward and landed on her face in the grass.
“finally” Steve said and grabbed her by the shoulders, then pulled her back up on her feet.
it was over, Ruby had been caught and there was no escape.
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it didn’t take long before Marcus got the message and came back to the mansion to meet the others.
Pete and Steve had already gone inside the main hall with Ruby when Marcus entered, but something different was happening now, somebody was playing music.
it sounded like some jazz orchestra from the ‘40s was playing somewhere in the house.
“what is that music?” Marcus asked.
“i don’t know, maybe Jack and Emma is up to something” Pete said.
“shut up” Steve said frustrated.
“but it sounds like it’s coming from over there” Marcus said and pointed at a door.
Steve walked over and tried to open it, but as soon as the door opened the music stopped.
Emma and Jack came down from the stairs while Jack was pulling his sweater back on.
“where anyone of you guys playing music?” Jack said.
Steve gave him an angry look as he had a feeling about what they had been up to.
“no” Pete said “we thought it were you guys”.
“why would we play that kind of music?” Emma said.
“just forget about it, where are the other two?” Pete asked.
“the witch is tied up in the dark basement, she won’t be getting anywhere” Jack said while lighting up a joint once more.
“oh, can i have one?” Pete asked.
“hm, yeah, sure” Jack said and gave one to Pete as well “anyway, the other brat is taking a bath”.
“sweet, now what do we do with her?” Pete said and pointed at Ruby.
“hehe, i got plans for my little sister. i’ll say we tie her up in what appears to be Alice’s bedroom”.
Ruby was pulled up the stairs, when they walked by the bathroom she saw something that looked like a person standing next by the bath tub, but they went too fast by for Ruby to identify, nobody else seemed to notice.
she got pulled in to a dark room that was covered up in dust, it had a huge window, if you looked out then you could see the bushes Ruby had been hiding earlier.
inside the room was a bed clearly designed for a young girl, and a straight back chair by a desk next to the window.
as soon as everyone entered, they got this cold feeling running down their backs and this weird smell stroke up everyones noses, it was a terrible feeling itself to just stand in that room, almost as if something terrible had happened in here.
“ugh, what’s up with this room?” Emma said.
“hey, what happened to my phone?” Marcus said “it died”.
“so did mine!” Pete said.
“just like my phone did back in the basement” Emma whispered.
“oh for crying out loud, don’t any of you guys ever charge your phones?” Jack said while stomping his joint on the floor.
“well how about your phone? Steve said.
“hold on” Jack said and pulled out his iPhone and showed everyone “see”.
“dude, it’s dead” Marcus said.
“huh?”
“your phone is also dead, just look at it”
Jack looked at his own phone and then laughed “well, i guess that means Alice doesn’t like our phones then… oh well, let’s tie sheriff Ruby up to something”.
they loosened up her bounds and pushed her up against the chair.
Marcus grabbed Ruby’s arms and took out a roll of duct tape that he used to tie her wrists together in front.
meanwhile Pete was wrapping the rope around Ruby’s chest and the chair so her arms got pinned down to her body again and her back up against the chair.
“don’t worry sis, i’m sure Alice will appreciate your company” Jack laughed.
Emma was busy wrapping Ruby’s ankles together while she said ”i hate to spoil anything for you, but you are going to spend a lot of time in this chair”.
Ruby didn’t know what to do any longer, she started crying behind her gag and just wished she’d never come here in the first place. why didn’t they just continue trick or treating instead?
“oh look, she’s crying too, just like her witch friend in the basement did” Emma laughed.
“well, let’s go and check on the one who’s washing up” Jack said as he slapped his little sister in the back of her head “that was for running away”.
as they all entered the bathroom Jack suddenly noticed something.
“what happened to the water?”
somehow the faucets had been turned off again, and there was no possible way that Paul could have done it himself, not the way he was tied down in the bathtub.
“i swear, i left that thing on! did any of you turn it off?” Jack said confused.
everyone was just standing there silent.
“well answer me dammit!”
suddenly they heard a heavy noise coming from downstairs, it sounded like something crashed.
everyone else but Jack stormed out to find out what it was.
Jack looked over at his little brother and said “i’m not done with you yet” then he followed the others.
downstairs it appeared that the door to the room where the music came before from had slammed open.
“did you lock that door properly?” Jack asked Steve.
“i don’t remember”.
“okay, so it was just the wind, there is nothing to worry about, i think we should split up and torture or captives a little bit” Jack suggested while he slammed the door shut.
“hey Emma, do you wanna go down in the dark and scary basement with me?” Steve said.
“i’m not going anywhere near that basement again” Emma said.
“good, then you and i can go and wash the zombie some more” Jack said.
“i’ll join you in the basement Steve” Marcus said.
“nah, i think i’ll rather have the Sheriff” Steve responded “you can go with Pete, he’s so easily scared that it’s probably better for him to have your company”.
“shut up” Pete said.
“then it’s all set, let’s torment those brats so hard that they’ll never try messing with us again” Jack said and lighted up a new joint “i’ll be enjoying this”.
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while the others went upstairs, Pete and Marcus was about to enter the basement.
“wait” Pete said “how about if we go outside instead and start scratching the windows, that would scare the shit out of her”.
Marcus laughed in agreement as they walked out again where they split up and found a window each for the basement.
back in the second floor Jack and Emma went into the bathroom and started torturing Paul again by letting the water flow once more. at the same time Steve entered the room where Ruby had been tied up.
“well, well, well, well, well… how can i have some fun with the sheriff” he said as he slowly walked up to her. Ruby was scared even more than ever before, Steve had quite a rumor for doing some crazy shit, and he had been in trouble with the police several times already.
“you know what” he said as he walked closer to Ruby and started playing with her hair “your older brother has been busy taking care of the woman of my dreams, and i think i know exactly how to get my revenge”.
suddenly Steve started removing the duct tape around Ruby’s feet.
what was he up to? was he going to let her go free?
as soon as he was done freeing Ruby’s feet from the chair he started untying the rope holding her back against it, then suddenly while untying it he did something very unexpected.
“maybe i should thank him for taking care of my bae by taking care of his little sister the same way” he said and licked Ruby’s ear.
Ruby tried screaming all she could through her gag as she got lifted up and pushed in the bed.
Steve was licking around his own lips as he forced Ruby’s tied hands above her head, she tried kicking him but Steve was too strong.
all of a sudden a loud screech was heard all over the room, Steve let his grip go of Ruby who quickly rolled of the bed and crawled in fear up against the corner of the room.
“NO DADDY! PLEASE! LET ME GO! I DON’T WANT TO! IT HURTS!” the voice of a girl screamed as a flashing light appeared in front of them, Steve backed up a bit holding his arms up to avoid getting blinded by the flashing light.
“what the fuck!” he shouted as something took form in the bright light, it had the shape of a girl wearing a blue dress, she was crying “NO DADDY! PLEASE! IT HURTS WHEN YOU DO THAT TO ME!” then followed by a loud scream.
meanwhile in the bathroom Jack and Emma stopped what they were doing.
“what the hell is that noise?” Jack said.
outside Pete was sitting on his knees in front of one of the basement windows, rubbing his fingers against it to make a creepy noise, when he heard the screaming from upstairs he looked up and noticed the shining light from the window in the second floor while the crows sitting on the roof flied away.
“shit… what’s going on?”
back in the bedroom Ruby was frightened, she didn’t want to see this, but at the same time it was hard to avoid looking into the eyes of Steve that stood in shock.
the light of whoever it was that was standing in front of them forced itself toward him.
now another scream was heard, this time it was coming from Steve, it was like someone was pushing their fingers into his eyes as Ruby could clearly see his eyeballs being forced into his skull, the girl scream continued while Steve growled in pain, blood started dripping out of his nose, he seemed to be crying, but the tears was also made of blood, then suddenly whatever was pushing him forced him to fly back and through the window.
below, Pete was standing, watching as broken glass spread around and something that was hard to identify came flying out. Pete screamed like a little girl as Steve suddenly landed on top of him, in panic Pete started struggling as he pushed Steve off.
Marcus came running around the corner and shouted “what’s going on?!” he was stunned, as he looked at Pete sitting on the ground screaming, Marcus witnessed Steve laying right in front of him and said “what the fuck happened here?”
Pete had trouble with speaking at first, but he eventually managed to say “he… he just came flying out of the window…”
Marcus looked up at the broken window in the second floor and then back at Pete “is he alright?”
Pete gasped as he looked at Steve who was laying there lifeless, face covered up in blood and it seemed that he had broken his neck.
“Does he look alright to you?!” Pete shouted while he stood up again.
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back in the bedroom Jack and Emma came running in, only to find a broken window and a scared Ruby, sitting in the corner with her arms taped in front of her.
Jack walked up to the window and looked down “what are you guys doing down there?”
“it’s kinda hard to explain!” Marcus yelled back.
“Why is Steve taking a nap?” Jack asked.
“because he’s dead” Marcus answered.
“what?” Jack said confused and turned around.
“you heard me” Marcus said “he’s dead”
Emma walked up to Ruby and removed her gag “what happened here?” she asked scared.
Ruby was even more frightened, after what she had just been through she were nothing but speechless.
“answer me you little bitch! what happened to Steve?” Emma started crying so her mascara poured down her face “Jack, let’s just leave” Emma said crying “let’s just get the hell out of here, just leave the damn kids alone and get out while we still can”.
“oh come on” Jack said “there has to be an explanation to all this”.
“yes, there is!” Emma cried out loud while she stood up and walked toward Jack “and the explanation is that this place is really haunted, now can we please get out?”
Pete came running back up the stairs and shouted as he entered the bed room “what the hell is going on in here?!”
“we are leaving, that’s what’s happening” Emma said and went for the stairs.
“what about Steve who just flew out of the window like a rag doll? and what about the kids?” Pete said.
“who cares, just leave them for the ghost” Emma continued as she walked out and downstairs.
Jack and Pete followed.
“you can’t be serious” Pete said “one thing to just prank the kids, but this has gone to far, Steve is fucking dead, his dead body landed on top of me”.
Ruby was now left in the room, still, she didn’t quite feel like she was alone in there.
but by now she started getting a grip again, she was not gagged any more, and only her wrists were tied in front of her with duct tape.
Ruby tried to get back on her feet and carefully walked toward the door, when she looked down the stairs she could see Jack holding back Emma from leaving the mansion.
“come on, you can’t seriously tell me that you belive this place is haunted?” Jack said.
“you have seen it yourself Jack! you saw something in the bathroom when we left Paul there!” Emma shouted back at him while trying to loosen his grip around her.
Pete interrupted them and said “look, i agree some strange shit is happening here, and we should get out and probably tell the police or something, but we should at least get the kids out as well”.
“who cares about those stupid brats, i wanna get out, RIGHT NOW!” Emma shouted back, then suddenly they all froze as they heard the music again coming from the same room as before.
the door where the music came from slightly opened by itself.
“what’s in that room anyway?” Jack said, walked to the door and tried to peek in “looks like a kitchen”.
as Jack looked in he saw something that looked like the shadow of a man standing by the bench, then suddenly he saw something flashing coming toward him “oh shit!” he yelled and took cover by the side of the door as several kitchen knifes came flying through the room.
Ruby who witnessed everything from upstairs started screaming, as Emma felled forward and landed on her face, forcing the knives that hit her further into her body as the blood floated over the floor. she had one huge knife in her chest, one in her throat, one in her right shoulder and one in her left eye.
Pete who was standing right next to Emma was shocked, he tried to scream, but could only make a squeaking noise as he breathed in and wet his pants.
Jack walked over to them and looked down at the bloody floor and his girl laying there “Emma…” was all he could say as he felled down on his knees.
Pete started running upstairs toward Ruby.
“seems like your older brother is out of function by the moment, let’s get you and the others out of here” Pete said, sounding scared himself as he started cutting through the duct tape around Ruby’s wrists with a swiss army knife he had carried in his pocket.
“come on” he said and dragged her to the bathroom.
Ruby was still in shock, but managed to follow Pete as she stared down at her older brother who was holding his arms around Emma.
when they got into the bathroom Pete quickly cut off the duct tape holding Paul’s wrists behind his back and started working on his feet that were taped to the faucet.
Paul managed to tear off the tape around his head so he could speak again “i am going to kill each and everyone of you” Paul said in anger, but judging by the shaking tone in his voice, he was clearly freezing.
“well, the ghosts in this mansion seems to be busy doing that already, now let’s get out of here, you can kill me when we are back in town” Pete answered and helped Paul out of the bath tub.
cold, wet and freezing, Paul did all he could to follow his sister and Pete out of the bathroom.
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when they got downstairs they found Jack still sitting by a dead Emma.
“Jack, where is the other girl?” Pete said.
Paul screamed in fear as he saw the dead body of Emma who had just recently participated in torturing him.
“JACK!” Pete screamed “the other girl? where is she?”
Jack said nothing at all, but Ruby seemed to have gotten slightly out of her shock by now as she said “i think she’s in the basement”.
“how do you know that?” Pete asked surprised, he then bent down in front of her and grabbed Ruby’s shoulders as he asked one more time “Ruby? how do you know that?”
Ruby looked scared at Pete and eventually answered “…because that’s what they said.”
“who said it? the ghosts?” Pete asked terrified.
“no…” Ruby said “Jack and Emma, they mentioned it right after you and the others had captured me again and brought me back inside, remember?”
“oh, right” Pete said and stood up “Jack, you can sit here like the retard that you are, or you can help me get the other girl so we can get out of here and call the police… what the hell am i saying? since when did i start relying on the police?”
Jack stayed mute as he kept staring at Emma.
“fine then” Pete said and brought the kids to the basement.
as they got downstairs they could see the reflection of the silver colored duct tape from the moonlight shining through the windows.
“Madeline!” Paul shouted as he and Ruby ran toward her and started by removing her gag.
“i never thought i would see any of you guys again” Madeline cried as Pete started cutting her free from the pole, she continued crying “i thought i would die down here”.
when Pete had managed to cut off the duct tape that held Madeline back against the pole he started as quick as he could with her back tied wrists.
“ah, thank god, i started loosing my feelings in my arms” she said as she managed to wipe of her tears when the duct tape loosened up.
while Pete was working on freeing Madeline’s feet they suddenly heard from upstairs “Pete! we are not leaving this place yet!”
it was Jack, what was he up to now?
“i will get that bloody ghost, if it’s the last thing that i do!”
“Jack, stop being retarded!” Pete shouted back “i have freed the girl, now we are all leaving before anyone else dies!”
“what? what do you mean by that? who’s died?” Madeline said scared.
BUMP!
“what was that noise?” Pete said and dropped the knife as he walked back up the stairs “that idiot locked the door! we can’t get out!”
Pete tried knocking his fist on the door all he could “Jack! for fuck sake, let us out!”
“no, nobody is leaving until i have gotten rid of that damn ghost” Jack said from the other side of the door.
“JACK! SERIOUSLY!” Pete shouted as he kept knocking on the door “dammit, how do we get out of here?” Pete said as he came back downstairs and picked up his knife again.
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meanwhile, outside, Marcus was sitting and poking a stick in Steve’s dead body.
“i wonder what is taking Pete so long, he was just going to check what was going on and i haven’t heard anything from him ever since”.
Marcus looked up at the beautiful moon shining down from the sky, studying the stars, then looked back at Steve and said “i guess you are somewhere among them now”.
suddenly he heard some knocking on the window behind him. DANG! DANG! DANG!
“WOAH! what the hell?” Marcus screamed frightened and looked back at the face staring at him from the basement “Pete? what are you doing down there?”
“Marcus! Jack has gone ape-shit-bananas and locked me down here with the kids, you have to get us out!” Pete shouted from behind the glass.
“what? why did he do that? and how do i get you out?” Marcus asked while lifting his shoulders confused.
“i don’t know, find something to break the window with!” Pete screamed while shaking his arms.
Marcus looked around and stared at Steve as he thought for a few seconds.
in the basement, Pete was trying to calm down the kids saying “Marcus will get us out of here, just wait, he’ll find someway to get us out, and we are absolutely not going to see any more dead people tonight”.
as Pete turned around and tried to look out of the window again to check on Marcus, the glass suddenly broke as the face of Steve came crashing though.
Pete felled back terrified as he screamed even brighter than ever before, while the kids got startled and stepped back a little.
behind Steve’s face was Marcus who said “i figured Steve’s thick skull would work” then pulled his dead body away.
Pete sat on the cold sement floor and shouted back “Dick!” then he quickly got up and started helping the kids up to the window while Marcus dragged them up from the outside.
Madeline was first, followed by Ruby and finally Paul before Marcus helped Pete getting out.
“dude” Marcus said as soon as he had dragged Pete out and the moon lighted up the wet spot on Pete’s pants “did Jack put you through the same bathtub torture as the kid?”
Pete looked down on his pants and said “yeah, bathtub torture… now let’s get the hell out of here”.
“what about Jack?” Paul said.
“sorry to bring this to you kid, but your brother has gone nuts, now let’s get away from this place”.
Pete had one last look at Steve’s dead body as they started running away, he could also see through the window how Jack was standing with his fists up in the air, punching and screaming at absolutely nothing.
“coward! show yourself you motherfucker! come on! i’m not afraid of you!” they heard him yell, but the sounds of Jack faded more away, just like the sight of Hafford’s mansion as they ran back to town.
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some couple of hours later when the sun was raising, the police was already on place. they found Steve’s dead body at the exact same place as Marcus had left him after crushing the window before, and Emma was still laying in her own blood with the knives in her body.
Jack however… the Police found him as well, they found his dead body hanging from the ceiling by the rope Ruby had been tied up with before.