The following day, Enith was determined to get inside the locked room. She looked around the entire house to see if there was a key, but she had no luck. Finally, she went to the local hardware store to ask around if anyone knew how to open the lock but she still had no luck.
On her way home, Enith remembered Drew from the corner store. He grew up there, he must know something! Enith made her way to the store but just as luck would have it, he was not there for the day. After hearing this, Enith was about to walk away and accept defeat but she then realized that she had the whole house to herself to explore and look for clues.
Once she came back into the house she could tell that someone had been there. The house looked and smelled like it had been cleaned, but who? Enith made her way to the old woman’s room, but this time she did not hear a thing, not even the cool air blowing in from an open window, or a mouse squeaking in the distance, nothing. At her own risk Enith made the bold decision to enter the room.
Before actually opening the door, she took a deep long breath. Without thinking about what should happen if she got caught, she opened the door. The smell was unbearable, it smells as though someone had died in there. As she looked into the room she saw that there was only one object inside: a single, worn-out, pink, arm chair with black stains all over it. There were no curtains on the windows, yet it was dark in the room. There was so much dirt build up on the windows that the sun wasn't shining in.
As Enith began to approach the chair, the smell got stronger, but before she could get any closer there was a knock at the front door. She tried to ignore the knock, but this person would not stop. So she ran to open the door, but before she opened it she looked through the peephole, there was a man wearing all black and his back was toward the door. Enith waited till he turned around again to knock, and sure enough he did. It was Drew! She was never so relieved to see anyone in her entire life. She opened the door to let him in.
“Hey, I heard you were looking for me. I thought that I would just pop on over and make sure everything is ok.” Drew said in a cool, calm, and collected voice, but he kept looking over his shoulders as though he did not want to be spotted. He pushed his way in.
“I don’t want to inconvenience you in anyway but ...” Enith said quickly noticing that he was a bit distracted.
“No, no, not an inconvenience at all! How can I help?” Drew said cutting her off.
“Well I have been noticing some odd stuff happening in this house, I just wanted to find out what you know about the old woman who lives here. I actually just went into the her room and you are not going to believe what I saw.”
Drew was confused, he did not know what Enith was talking about. “This house has been empty for as long as I can remember. When we were kids we used to joke about how this house was haunted. As teenagers we would dare people to spend the night here, but no one came close to completely following through. I am shocked that you have been here for as long as you have. ”
Enith was taken aback … no old lady? … empty for years? .. what in the world was going on?
“Come with me!” she then lead Drew up the stairs and on the way she told him all of the odd stuff that has been happening. Once they got to the “old lady’s” room the door was shut, “That’s odd, I know I left this open!” When she reached to open the door, she could not open it, it was locked. But how?!
Drew had a confused look on his face. Enith then realized that he was fiddling with his phone an awful lot. She realized that she had said too much. It was clear that Drew did not believe her, a simple glance at his face said it all.
Still hoping to win Drew over she took him down to the kitchen to show him the cookies, but the cookies to had disappeared. The pantry was also empty, except for one item, a bag of flour. At this point Enith knew that she had lost Drew … there was no point in trying to convince him any longer.
Enith turned away in embarrassment, as she did so she glanced out of the window. She saw a woman wearing black from head to toe, and this woman was loading a truck with huge garbage bags. “Who is that!?” she exclaimed as she made her way to the door. Before she could get there, Drew grabbed her, and shouted to the woman, “It’s over! She saw you!”
The woman then came running over to the house, Enith then saw the woman’s face. It was ME, her “best friend.”
TO BE CONTINUED …
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