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Short story
In a cold winter night three boys decided to make a courage test, the test was simple they would enter to a supposed haunted house. The one who stayed the longer inside the house would be the winner.
The children names were Sam 12 year, Trevor Sam’s youngest brother and Willy the smallest one in the group. The boys reunited by midnight at willy´s treehouse, the all brought a flashlight for each one, in addition Sam brought some garlic in case they found a vampire, Trevor brought a silver spoon, in case they encounter a werewolf, willy only had his rosary which her grandmother have given it as a gift. The tree boys gather their flashlights and “talismans” and with their eyes full of excitement they started their way to the haunted house at the end of the street.
When they finally arrive they take a look at the house in was and old house with a Victorian style, the old people of the town said that it had being the summer house of some duke or duchess but it was abandoned for some reason, some even said that It was older than the town itself. However the once glory mansion was now in ruins the windows were broken, the garden was dry and death, and the roof was full of dead leaves and dirt. The door was closed by wooden planks .but there was an old tree next to the house and some of its branches reached the broken windows.
The boys started to climb the tree .When they enter the house they saw that the house interior was in a worse state than the exterior, all the furniture was cover by dust and there was a colony of moss growing in the walls. Some insects fled inside the walls at the sight of humans.
“You are not going to chicken out right?- Sam said as he looked at Trevor and willy, Trevor only nod his head slowly while willy was so scared that dint move a muscle he was sweating even though the night was so cold that he could feel the cold leaking trough his sweater.
“Let’s move”- Sam said. As he switch on his flashlight. The other boys imitate him and switched on their flash light and started to walk very close to Sam, they were so close to each other that it looked like they were a being with six legs more than three boys.
When they were close to the stairway a big and black rat got out of a hole in the wall and passed through the boy’s legs. They boys were so close that Trevor and Willy flashlights slip of their hands and fall to the first floor. Sam said “don’t worry I will go and get them”, before anyone could said anything we led his flashlight to his brother and made his way to the ground floor .After some minutes they started hearing Sam’s steps again, Trevor and Willy were released to see the two point of light than meant that Sam had founded the flashlight. But then the flashlights suddenly turn off and they could hear the loud scream of Sam from downstairs.
Trevor couldn’t handle it anymore and he started running back to the window where they had enter, Willy followed him but Trevor was faster than him he also had the only flashlight and quickly it was lost of willy eyesight, it was dark and he was afraid he couldn’t remember where was the window where he entered some minutes ago.
The next morning some police cars were stationed in front of the house , there was a call at 4 of the morning of some neighbors who reported that they had heard screams at the abandoned house apparently some kids enter the old house at night one of them who was identified as Sam Smith was found death at the ground floor apparently we was in the stairs when one of the tables broke, the poor creature broke his neck during the fall and die instantly, the next body was found in the garden apparently he jumped out of the window and tried to grab at a tree branch unfortunately the branch broke and the kid identified as Trevor Smith broke his head during the fall. The only survivor was William Patterson he was found crying inside the house with a rosemary in his hound he was taken home but will be interrogated when he calms down.
