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"The Thing" From The Chiarki Mansion. (Part Two)
"We should go to the Mansion"
Are you crazy? Did you not hear what she said?” “Come on Charlotte you wanted this. We didn't come this far to only come this far. We can't just pretend none of this happened.” Chloe said. “What if the evil gets us too?” Abigail said quietly. “Why would our mothers name us Chiarki if they didn't want us to go there?” Layla said, “Does anything about any of this make sense to you? Maybe they were possessed? that would explain everything.” Evelyn said, and the whole table got quiet. “So are we going or not?” They all agreed to go, Abigail and Charlotte were hesitant but they decided to go.
The next day they skipped school and got on the bus to the next town over, Mosos. “So I brought these just in case.” Abigail said, pulling out knives, they all stared at her. “What?” “Where did you get these from? these are like actual knives.” “I'm paranoid, okay.” She gave each of them a knife and the people on the bus stared at them. After about 20 minutes on the bus it was finally their stop. “Why do you think our mums drove 20 minutes here?” “Maybe they like to travel?” Charlotte said.
When they finally got to the mansion they started to rethink what they were doing. It was surrounded by a fence and part of the roof was caved in. All the plants surrounding the mansion were dead. “All in favour of not going in there?” “We have too.” “What kind of satanic bullshit were our mothers into?” Evelyn said looking around. The fence wasn't very high so it didn't take long for them to jump over it. “Did anyone research this place before we came?” “Should we have?” Chloe said.
Abigail pulled out her phone and began researching. They stepped over all the dead plants and animals and stood at the door. Charlotte knocked on the door, “What are you doing no one lives here.” Layla said opening the door, “It's rude to go in a house without knocking.” Evelyn rolled her eyes. It was still day outside so the sun shined brightly through the windows, and the hole in the roof. It wasn't as dirty inside as you would expect an abandoned building to be. All the furniture that had previously been there was still there. There was a grand piano in the corner of the room that had looked brand new. “Guys...” Abigail said looking at her phone. They all turned around and looked at her. “There's a reason The Chiarki Mansion is abandoned… The family that owned the mansion all those years ago. They were murdered-” “-by who?” “It doesn't really say but i think they killed each other” “Hey guys!” Evelyn yelled from the other room, on the wall was a giant portrait of a family. A mother, father and their 3 children. “Thats them!” Abigail said looking at the painting. “Can we go, I'm starting to feel scared.” Charlotte said looking around.
The lowest key on the piano echoed and they all turned around, but no one was there. “Yeah we should go.” Layla said, grabbing the knife. They all quickly picked up their things and slammed the door behind them.
Inside the mansion it felt like you were being watched, like someone was breathing down your neck, but as soon as you left the feeling was gone.
Chapter 5
There were so many questions left unanswered. Why were they named after the mansion? Why were the mums there in the first place. What were they looking for? Was it just curiosity or was there more.
As soon as Charlotte got home she took a shower to get the scared feeling away. After getting out the shower she got dressed. When she looked under the cabinet to get the hair dryer she saw something from the hallway. She jumped and dropped the hair dryer. She got the scissors out the drawer in the bathroom and held them up. She walked out of the bathroom and quietly looked around. She heard noise coming from her dad's room. She quickly swung open the door and yelled. “What the hell are you doing Charlotte?!” Her dad yelled looking at her confused, “oh, haha nothing.” He took the scissors out of her hands. “Sorry dad.” She said and went back to the bathroom.
When Abigail got home she put in her favourite CD into the radio and started to clean up her room. She picked up all the binders and papers from off of the floor and shoved them on her desk. She reached under her bed to get the newspaper that was stuffed under there, when something from under the bed grabbed her arm. She screamed as loud as she ever had in her life. She didn't care about her hand at the time she kicked at her hand as hard as she could before the thing let go. She continued to scream as she scooted away from the bed. Her dad ran in “What?! What's wrong?!” She tried to explain but she couldn't really talk. Her dad looked at her hand that was dangling off her wrist. “Christ Abigail, what did you do to your hand?” He wrapped her hand in the scarf that was hanging next to him. She was still shaking the whole way to the hospital. She got to the hospital and the doctor said she would have to get surgery immediately. “Dad, can i call my friends?” “Now?” “It's important.” “Okay sure.” He handed her the phone and she called Layla, “Hello?” “Layla listen to me.” “Are you okay?” “No… Something just tried to hurt me or kill me or both I don't know. I'm going into surgery now-” “What?! Surgery?” “The mansion was a big mistake, I don't know what we did but we pissed something off, and i don't know if it's the medicine the doctors gave me. But I have a feeling the same thing that's happening to me happened to our mothers. Think about it, Mrs. Patterson said they were murdered in their own home. We have to figure this out before it kills us all.” “Okay, were going to take you up to surgery now.” “No, I'm not done with my call.” “Abigail?” “I gotta go.”
Layla looked down at her phone as the call disconnected. She texted the group chat, “Everyone, my house now! Shits going down.” Not long after that Charlette, Chloe and Evelyn showed up. “What happened?” “I'll tell you inside.”
They all walked upstairs to her room, and she closed the door behind her. “Abigails in the hospital, I don't know what happened. She was talking really fast. But she said something about the thing trying to kill her.” “What thing?” “Whatever it was that killed our mums, she thinks that whatever killed them came from the mansion. So when we went-” “They followed us home.” Evelyn said. “I think i saw the thing...” Charlotte said quietly. “What?” Chloe said looking at her. “I didn't actually see it but i got a feeling like at the mansion, then i saw something run past my door.” “Shit.” Evelyn said. “So what now, we just wait to die?” “This is all Charlotte's fault.” “Excuse me?” “You're the one that figured out all our names! Youre the one that wanted to go on a fucking quest youre the one-” “I said we shouldnt have gone in the mansion-” “Stop it!” Layla yelled. “We are all going to die unless we do something to stop it, and we can't do that if youre all arguing. So sit down and shut up unless you have something useful to say.” It all went quiet and we all sat down.
“I just wanted an adventure… I just wanted some friends, I didn't mean to get us all killed...” Charlotte said crying. “We know love.” Layla said, hugging her. “We need to figure out our mothers mistakes then figure out what they were trying to do.” Chloe said. “When the thing got to them they were all alone.” “Yeah… Wait where were we? If the thing was after them don't you think it would have killed everyone else in the house as well?” They all went downstairs to the living room and stood in front of the TV. “Excuse me.” Laylas dad said, trying to see the TV. “Where were you when mum was killed?” “Do you want to discuss this in private?” “Where were you?” “Layla your mum wasn't killed remember? She drowned.” “Can you just answer the damn question.” Evelyn said. “That night uhh. Your mum wasn't feeling well so she wanted me to get you out of the house since you were little she didn't want you getting sick.” “Hmm.” She said and they all followed her upstairs. “Did she know the thing was coming? Did they all know?” “Why would you stay by yourself if they all knew the thing was coming?” “Somethings not adding up.” Chloe said.
“Do the details matter? All we have to do is stay together.” “For our entire life? Every second of every day?” Evelyn argued.
They all played on the floor and stared at the ceiling wondering what to do.
Chapter 6
The rest of the night Evelyn, Chloe and Charlotte fell asleep, but Lyla stayed awake to make sure nothing bad happened. The next morning Layla woke them all up, “Guys…” she said quietly, shaking them. “Yeah?” “Shh.” She said getting up with her bat. The rest of them stood up, “Do you hear that?” Layla said, putting her ear to the door. The others listened to “Hear what?” “The giggling.” The rest of them picked up something as a weapon. Layla opened the door and stepped out into the hallway. She and the others followed the giggling downstairs and stopped at the bottom of the stairs. “Dad?” Nobody answered which scared her more. They walked into the living room and Layla opened the curtains. She heard the click of the TV turning on then static came onto the tv. Slowly words appeared within the static, “You'll have to be alone at some point and when you do, i'll get to you.”
“Are you seeing this?” Charlotte said with a shaky voice. Then suddenly the TV flickered and turned off. “Wait, Abigail is alone...” “Oh shit.” Evelyn said. “Get in the car, I'll get the keys.” They all got into the car and Layla runs and gets her keys. As she goes to grab her keys and they fly off of the dresser. She picks them up off of the floor and quickly runs down the stairs. As she opens the front door she hears something quickly running down the stairs. She slams the door quickly and it begins to shake. She takes her bat and throws it in the back of the car and starts to drive. She drove quickly to the hospital.
She got to the hospital and went up to the front desk, “Hi can you tell me what room Abigail Keesh is in?” “Are you family?” “No” she said with sass, “Then i'm afraid i can't tell you her room number.” “Charlotte?” Abigail's dad said walking by, “It's okay nurse they are with me.” They followed Abigail's dad to the room upstairs. They looked at her monitor to see if she was still alive. “Thank God.” Chloe said. “Just out of curiosity Layla why do you have a bat?” Lyla looked down at the bat she was holding “That's a long story. Do you know when Abigail will wake up?” “I'm not sure maybe come back in the afternoon?” “Can you have her call us when she's awake?” “Of course” He said with a smile.
They left the hospital, “What now?” “We do what Abigail would do, research.” They went to the library and searched for every book and website that would have the answers they needed. They looked through it all. “I think i got something!” Chloe said from the computers. They all sat around the computer and read what it said. “How to get rid of your haunting. First thing you want to do is find whoever or whatever is haunting you favourite object. Hint: Most spirits hold onto a prize possession. Once you find that object, set it in a controlled environment pour salt on it then light it! Then when it is completely disintegrated, you are ghost free. Goodluck!”
“Do you think it will work?” “Do we have any other option?” Evelyn said with an attitude. “Okay, now we need to figure out the Chiarki Mansions favourite objects.”
The four girls stayed at the library for almost 4 ½ hours before finally unveiling the last object. “So all we have to do is go to the mansion, find these objects and burn them right?” Charlotte said looking at the list. “With salt.” Chloe reassured. Layla's phone went off and she answered, “Hello?” “Hey layla, it's Abigail.” “Hi, how are you feeling?” “My wrist hurts but i'll live.” “Did you think about what i said?” “Yeah, we're at the library now and apparently all we have to do to make this all stop is to burn the family's favourite objects.” “You guys did research without me?” She laughed. Layla hung up the phone and when she turned around Mrs. Patterson was standing right infront of her. “Christ Mrs. Patterson what are you doing here?” “I told you not to go to the mansion.” She said angrily, “I-” “You came to me for help and I gave you specific instructions not to go to the mansion.” “Wait Mrs. Patterson, how do you even know we went?” “They told me.” “Who told you?” “The Thing.” She said and we all stared at her in shock. “You should have listened to me Charlotte.” She said and walked away. “How did she know about the thing?” Chloe said “How did she know my name?” Charlotte said.
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Are you crazy? Did you not hear what she said?” “Come on Charlotte you wanted this. We didn't come this far to only come this far. We can't just pretend none of this happened.” Chloe said. “What if the evil gets us too?” Abigail said quietly. “Why would our mothers name us Chiarki if they didn't want us to go there?” Layla said, “Does anything about any of this make sense to you? Maybe they were possessed? that would explain everything.” Evelyn said, and the whole table got quiet. “So are we going or not?” They all agreed to go, Abigail and Charlotte were hesitant but they decided to go.
The next day they skipped school and got on the bus to the next town over, Mosos. “So I brought these just in case.” Abigail said, pulling out knives, they all stared at her. “What?” “Where did you get these from? these are like actual knives.” “I'm paranoid, okay.” She gave each of them a knife and the people on the bus stared at them. After about 20 minutes on the bus it was finally their stop. “Why do you think our mums drove 20 minutes here?” “Maybe they like to travel?” Charlotte said.
When they finally got to the mansion they started to rethink what they were doing. It was surrounded by a fence and part of the roof was caved in. All the plants surrounding the mansion were dead. “All in favour of not going in there?” “We have too.” “What kind of satanic bullshit were our mothers into?” Evelyn said looking around. The fence wasn't very high so it didn't take long for them to jump over it. “Did anyone research this place before we came?” “Should we have?” Chloe said.
Abigail pulled out her phone and began researching. They stepped over all the dead plants and animals and stood at the door. Charlotte knocked on the door, “What are you doing no one lives here.” Layla said opening the door, “It's rude to go in a house without knocking.” Evelyn rolled her eyes. It was still day outside so the sun shined brightly through the windows, and the hole in the roof. It wasn't as dirty inside as you would expect an abandoned building to be. All the furniture that had previously been there was still there. There was a grand piano in the corner of the room that had looked brand new. “Guys...” Abigail said looking at her phone. They all turned around and looked at her. “There's a reason The Chiarki Mansion is abandoned… The family that owned the mansion all those years ago. They were murdered-” “-by who?” “It doesn't really say but i think they killed each other” “Hey guys!” Evelyn yelled from the other room, on the wall was a giant portrait of a family. A mother, father and their 3 children. “Thats them!” Abigail said looking at the painting. “Can we go, I'm starting to feel scared.” Charlotte said looking around.
The lowest key on the piano echoed and they all turned around, but no one was there. “Yeah we should go.” Layla said, grabbing the knife. They all quickly picked up their things and slammed the door behind them.
Inside the mansion it felt like you were being watched, like someone was breathing down your neck, but as soon as you left the feeling was gone.
Chapter 5
There were so many questions left unanswered. Why were they named after the mansion? Why were the mums there in the first place. What were they looking for? Was it just curiosity or was there more.
As soon as Charlotte got home she took a shower to get the scared feeling away. After getting out the shower she got dressed. When she looked under the cabinet to get the hair dryer she saw something from the hallway. She jumped and dropped the hair dryer. She got the scissors out the drawer in the bathroom and held them up. She walked out of the bathroom and quietly looked around. She heard noise coming from her dad's room. She quickly swung open the door and yelled. “What the hell are you doing Charlotte?!” Her dad yelled looking at her confused, “oh, haha nothing.” He took the scissors out of her hands. “Sorry dad.” She said and went back to the bathroom.
When Abigail got home she put in her favourite CD into the radio and started to clean up her room. She picked up all the binders and papers from off of the floor and shoved them on her desk. She reached under her bed to get the newspaper that was stuffed under there, when something from under the bed grabbed her arm. She screamed as loud as she ever had in her life. She didn't care about her hand at the time she kicked at her hand as hard as she could before the thing let go. She continued to scream as she scooted away from the bed. Her dad ran in “What?! What's wrong?!” She tried to explain but she couldn't really talk. Her dad looked at her hand that was dangling off her wrist. “Christ Abigail, what did you do to your hand?” He wrapped her hand in the scarf that was hanging next to him. She was still shaking the whole way to the hospital. She got to the hospital and the doctor said she would have to get surgery immediately. “Dad, can i call my friends?” “Now?” “It's important.” “Okay sure.” He handed her the phone and she called Layla, “Hello?” “Layla listen to me.” “Are you okay?” “No… Something just tried to hurt me or kill me or both I don't know. I'm going into surgery now-” “What?! Surgery?” “The mansion was a big mistake, I don't know what we did but we pissed something off, and i don't know if it's the medicine the doctors gave me. But I have a feeling the same thing that's happening to me happened to our mothers. Think about it, Mrs. Patterson said they were murdered in their own home. We have to figure this out before it kills us all.” “Okay, were going to take you up to surgery now.” “No, I'm not done with my call.” “Abigail?” “I gotta go.”
Layla looked down at her phone as the call disconnected. She texted the group chat, “Everyone, my house now! Shits going down.” Not long after that Charlette, Chloe and Evelyn showed up. “What happened?” “I'll tell you inside.”
They all walked upstairs to her room, and she closed the door behind her. “Abigails in the hospital, I don't know what happened. She was talking really fast. But she said something about the thing trying to kill her.” “What thing?” “Whatever it was that killed our mums, she thinks that whatever killed them came from the mansion. So when we went-” “They followed us home.” Evelyn said. “I think i saw the thing...” Charlotte said quietly. “What?” Chloe said looking at her. “I didn't actually see it but i got a feeling like at the mansion, then i saw something run past my door.” “Shit.” Evelyn said. “So what now, we just wait to die?” “This is all Charlotte's fault.” “Excuse me?” “You're the one that figured out all our names! Youre the one that wanted to go on a fucking quest youre the one-” “I said we shouldnt have gone in the mansion-” “Stop it!” Layla yelled. “We are all going to die unless we do something to stop it, and we can't do that if youre all arguing. So sit down and shut up unless you have something useful to say.” It all went quiet and we all sat down.
“I just wanted an adventure… I just wanted some friends, I didn't mean to get us all killed...” Charlotte said crying. “We know love.” Layla said, hugging her. “We need to figure out our mothers mistakes then figure out what they were trying to do.” Chloe said. “When the thing got to them they were all alone.” “Yeah… Wait where were we? If the thing was after them don't you think it would have killed everyone else in the house as well?” They all went downstairs to the living room and stood in front of the TV. “Excuse me.” Laylas dad said, trying to see the TV. “Where were you when mum was killed?” “Do you want to discuss this in private?” “Where were you?” “Layla your mum wasn't killed remember? She drowned.” “Can you just answer the damn question.” Evelyn said. “That night uhh. Your mum wasn't feeling well so she wanted me to get you out of the house since you were little she didn't want you getting sick.” “Hmm.” She said and they all followed her upstairs. “Did she know the thing was coming? Did they all know?” “Why would you stay by yourself if they all knew the thing was coming?” “Somethings not adding up.” Chloe said.
“Do the details matter? All we have to do is stay together.” “For our entire life? Every second of every day?” Evelyn argued.
They all played on the floor and stared at the ceiling wondering what to do.
Chapter 6
The rest of the night Evelyn, Chloe and Charlotte fell asleep, but Lyla stayed awake to make sure nothing bad happened. The next morning Layla woke them all up, “Guys…” she said quietly, shaking them. “Yeah?” “Shh.” She said getting up with her bat. The rest of them stood up, “Do you hear that?” Layla said, putting her ear to the door. The others listened to “Hear what?” “The giggling.” The rest of them picked up something as a weapon. Layla opened the door and stepped out into the hallway. She and the others followed the giggling downstairs and stopped at the bottom of the stairs. “Dad?” Nobody answered which scared her more. They walked into the living room and Layla opened the curtains. She heard the click of the TV turning on then static came onto the tv. Slowly words appeared within the static, “You'll have to be alone at some point and when you do, i'll get to you.”
“Are you seeing this?” Charlotte said with a shaky voice. Then suddenly the TV flickered and turned off. “Wait, Abigail is alone...” “Oh shit.” Evelyn said. “Get in the car, I'll get the keys.” They all got into the car and Layla runs and gets her keys. As she goes to grab her keys and they fly off of the dresser. She picks them up off of the floor and quickly runs down the stairs. As she opens the front door she hears something quickly running down the stairs. She slams the door quickly and it begins to shake. She takes her bat and throws it in the back of the car and starts to drive. She drove quickly to the hospital.
She got to the hospital and went up to the front desk, “Hi can you tell me what room Abigail Keesh is in?” “Are you family?” “No” she said with sass, “Then i'm afraid i can't tell you her room number.” “Charlotte?” Abigail's dad said walking by, “It's okay nurse they are with me.” They followed Abigail's dad to the room upstairs. They looked at her monitor to see if she was still alive. “Thank God.” Chloe said. “Just out of curiosity Layla why do you have a bat?” Lyla looked down at the bat she was holding “That's a long story. Do you know when Abigail will wake up?” “I'm not sure maybe come back in the afternoon?” “Can you have her call us when she's awake?” “Of course” He said with a smile.
They left the hospital, “What now?” “We do what Abigail would do, research.” They went to the library and searched for every book and website that would have the answers they needed. They looked through it all. “I think i got something!” Chloe said from the computers. They all sat around the computer and read what it said. “How to get rid of your haunting. First thing you want to do is find whoever or whatever is haunting you favourite object. Hint: Most spirits hold onto a prize possession. Once you find that object, set it in a controlled environment pour salt on it then light it! Then when it is completely disintegrated, you are ghost free. Goodluck!”
“Do you think it will work?” “Do we have any other option?” Evelyn said with an attitude. “Okay, now we need to figure out the Chiarki Mansions favourite objects.”
The four girls stayed at the library for almost 4 ½ hours before finally unveiling the last object. “So all we have to do is go to the mansion, find these objects and burn them right?” Charlotte said looking at the list. “With salt.” Chloe reassured. Layla's phone went off and she answered, “Hello?” “Hey layla, it's Abigail.” “Hi, how are you feeling?” “My wrist hurts but i'll live.” “Did you think about what i said?” “Yeah, we're at the library now and apparently all we have to do to make this all stop is to burn the family's favourite objects.” “You guys did research without me?” She laughed. Layla hung up the phone and when she turned around Mrs. Patterson was standing right infront of her. “Christ Mrs. Patterson what are you doing here?” “I told you not to go to the mansion.” She said angrily, “I-” “You came to me for help and I gave you specific instructions not to go to the mansion.” “Wait Mrs. Patterson, how do you even know we went?” “They told me.” “Who told you?” “The Thing.” She said and we all stared at her in shock. “You should have listened to me Charlotte.” She said and walked away. “How did she know about the thing?” Chloe said “How did she know my name?” Charlotte said.
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© Miele Ann
