"We should get ready to go now..." I said as I looked at the clock. It was already 9:30, and we were planning to walk to our haunted house that was a good hour walk down the road.
Fee looked at me with a wicked smile spread across her face. She was so excited that it was actually going to be the two of us alone in a haunted place. We could be free, and wander about taking in as much as we could. We've been waiting for this. Fee and I alone are one crazy pair.
"Yea, you're right." She said as she stood up. She walked across the room and grabbed her black jansport back pack and began to throw in the flash lights and notebook. I handed her our precious white candle and the tape recorders. We were ready to go within five minutes. Who says girls take forever?
Suddenly, Chris walked in the room, a stern, yet concerned look upon his face.
"What are you doing?" He asked as he folded his arms, and curiously looked at the bag.
"You not going to go to that house still, are you?"
"Of course we are," Fee replied. "Why wouldn't we?"
"Well, maybe because its pouring like hell outside?" He said with a chuckle of disbelief. He didn't think we'd go walking in the rain...
Fee raced over to the window. I gently set down my beloved guitar and joined her. We poked our heads around, looking through the fogged up glass like we were five year olds waiting patiently for the icecream man on a hot summer day.
"Its not raining!" Fee said.
"Like hell it aint!" Chris retorted takeing a few steps toward the windowsil.
"Oh... It is..." Fee realized.
"I thought it wasn't going to rain tonight!" I said as I heaved a sigh of disappointment. Fee looked at me, her soft brown eyes staring with concern. She was looking forward to it too. I leaned back onto the bed, and she slipped down to the floor. I picked my guitar back up and positioned it comfortably between my leg and arm, getting ready to continue our practice.
"Tonight would be perfect." She said soflty as she looked up at me and gave me the very same smile as before.
"What do you mean?" I asked, raising an eyebrow. It was raining, you don't want to walk in...
"Tonight would be perfect. Its raining, no one would think we'd go on a rainy night." She explained.
She was right. After all, the place does have 'No Tresspassing' signs all over it.
"What do you think?" She asked me as she looked back and forth between me and Chris. She was serious. She never jokes around when it comes to stuff like this, I should know this by now. I wasn't exactly sure what I was getting into, but I said what the hell.
"I'm all for it, but its up to you." I said.
"No way. You're not going." Chris poked in with a stern tone. "Its not a good idea to go in the rain. I'm not gonna let you go in the rain."
"She'll go if she wants to." Troy entered the room out of no where. He's real good at being sneaky like that. "No one can stop her when she sets her mind on things."
Chris wrinkled his nose at Troy. He didn't like to admit that he knows how Fee is, because he always thought the worst when she went off on her own. He obviously cared for her very much.
Fee smiled pretty at Troy and stared him down with those big, beautiful brown eyes and asked, "Troy could you give us a ride?"
"I can give you a ride, but I can't pick you up."
Fee almost jumped out of her skin.
"Okay! That works! We'll just walk back." She said as she stood up and hoisted her back pack over her left shoulder. She looked at me and wiggled her eye brows in anticipation. I then grabbed my tape recorder and shoved it into my pocket, then put on my gardening gloves that had the finger tips cut off. I felt all professional whenever I wore them.
It was really coming down out there. We could barely see the street it was raining so hard. We could see just slightly better whenever the lightning flashed, and that was very frequent. The lightning was extreamly active that night. It was rather beautiful, you could actually see the cracks in the sky, and on your eye lids after you closed your eyes. I couldn't wait until we got there, but at the same time I didn't want to go. The house was amazing, I got so many weird feelings whenever I was in there, but tonight seemed kind of creepy with all the thunder and rain and all that stuff.
I was trailing off in thought, and the next thing I know, we're parking and throwing our shit together. We both gave Troy a hug and a thanks, and told him to just wait until he couldn't see us anymore to leave. We didn't want to be walking into straight into a void leading to hell, yanno.
"Are you scared?" I asked timidly.
"No, I'm fine." She said to me as we slowly but surely got closer to the house.
"Are you sure?" I nagged as I looked around, checking for deadlights and those damn shadow people.
"Yep, I'm sure. Are you going to be okay?" She asked with a concerned tone.
"Sure. You're strength gives me strength." I said as I looked up into the windows of the old broken down house. I tried to imagine what the house looked like before it fell apart... But it was difficult. I have a wild imagination, but not wild enough to picture that house intact and beautiful.
We walked around the house, heading for the open window, when Fee suddenly stopped, and stratled me a great deal. She stared at the small feild that was about 50 yards ahead of us. It was very dark, but at the same time it was bright. I kept seeing things jumping back and forth, but it was most likely my mind playing tricks on me. I started to panic slightly, I could feel my fear starting to build. I wanted to go home already, I'm such a pussy.
"Whats wrong, what do you see?" I asked her as I grabbed onto her arm. She latched her hand over mine comfortingly and glanced at me, then back to the feild.
"I saw this in my dream." She said.
"You still want to go in?" I asked her, hoping she would say no and want to go back to Mark's house and dry off while eating chicken soup.
Soup. Ahh... Food. I was so hungry...
"Yeah. Come on, follow me." She held onto my hand and led me through the shrubs and bushes to the window open window. I followed, taking big steps so I wouldn't trip because I had my eyes shut tight, I was trying to calm myself down. All of my emotions started to explode as I got closer and closer.
We made it to the window, it seemed to take forever. I couldn't get the thought of having bugs crawling all over me out of my head. The thunder rumbled and I jumped slightly, and just stared at the back of Fee's head. If there was anything next to me, above me, or behind me, I'd rather not look at it.
"You wanna go in first?" She asked as she turned to me and stared into my eyes.
"HELL NO."
"Then hold the window open for me."
She crawled in, and I soon followed after she got a good grip on that huge set of wood. I found that it was much easier for me to boost myself up this time. I think I lost a few more pounds. Yay for me.
I stood up inside and turned on my tape recorder, following the light that beamed from my flashlight with my eyes. I took a few deep breaths.
"Oookay... Oookay... Its okay... I'm good. I'm calm."
Fee chuckled at me and turned her recorder on.
"You okay, Woman?" She asked me as she picked up her bag.
"Yea... I'm fine... Just don't wonder anywhere without me. Ha, everyones gonna laugh at me when we play the tape back for them. Where do you want to go first?"
"Lets just take our time."
"You're right. We can actually explore now that its just me and you."
I looked into the second room that was on the left. The floor was rotten and eaten away and boards were broken and sticking up out of the basement.
"No wonder everything is messed up in here. Its from the weather, not beacuse of some monster." Fee said as she waved her flashlight around.
"Yea."
We soon made our way down to the first basement. I love the basement. Its so peaceful down there. The steps were extreamly steep though, thats the only thing I didn't like about it. We slowly but surely got down there and looked around. It seemed undisturbed from the last time we came here, which was very comforting to me.
"I feel so calm down here. I hate any other part of the house, it just gives me the hibby jibbies." I said.
"The what?"
"The Hibby Jibbies!"
She laughed, "Oh I see."
She set down her tape recorder.
"The tape recorder is now on the ground... and I'm taking out my camera."
"Yay, pictures."
I pointed my flashlight up towards the ceiling so she could focus her very expensive camera on the place she wanted to snap the photo. Bright light! That camera's flash is so strong that it slightly burned my hand one time.