Me and my friends were playing a game when Sofia got up to use the bathroom, minutes passed and we started to worry, maybe she was not feeling well or something but that suddenly turned into hours she was missing. The rest of my friends and I got up to check the bathroom and the door was wide open and no one was in there. This is pretty weird but maybe she went to use the downstairs bathroom. So we walk down the stairs carefully trying not to wake up the rest of my family as though it is 3 in the morning. The downstairs bathroom was empty too, I was starting to get concerned so we walked back upstairs and talked about how weird that was.
“Where could she have gone?” Brook says.
“Yeah, there was no way her mom came to pick her up Sofia would have told us or we would have seen her mom's car outside,” Joey mentions
“Wait where did Isabelle go,” I say.
“What the heck…ISABE…” Monica Yells.
“Shhhhhhhhhhh my parents are sleeping,” I tell Monica.
“Okay, this time only one person will go look for her because we don't want anything to happen,” Brook adds.
“No, I think two people should go because then there is less chance of losing each other when you are together,” Brinn suggests
“Oh wait that is a good idea, I think Brook and Brinn should go,” Ava says
“Okay Ava since you have such a gut to suggest people why don't you go,” Brook says in an angry tone
“Whoah, there is no need to..” I try to say
“Fine, I will go, and I'll go all by myself,” Ava says interrupting me
“Ava you aren't going alone, I’ll go with you,” I say trying to stop her.
“Okay then let's go,” she said harshly. As we slowly walked down the stairs with much caution fairly close to each other, it was silent and the only thing I could hear was the wind moving fast and hard rustling the trees outside. It was dark and we couldn’t see anything. Even though this was my own house I felt as if it was an unfamiliar place, as if I didn't know my way around. Taking each step slowly inching toward the bathroom. The bathroom was to the left of the bottom of the staircase. Once we reached the bottom of the stairs we slowly creaked open the door and turned on the light. We made it and we could finally breathe without getting caught, who knows what was out there? I acted as if there was a zombie apocalypse trying to eat us all but in reality, this is where I lived. It couldn't be that scary.
“Okay we have to come up with a plan, It is dark, and neither of us can see so we have to try our best to look around for clues about where Sofia and Isabelle are hiding. Do you by any chance have a flashlight around her somewhere?” Ava says, trying to formulate something. She knows our friends couldn’t have just disappeared.
“There is one in the kitchen…” I reply
“Okay well let's go and get the flashlight and then look around.”
“Sounds like a plan,” I say, not ready at all to enter the darkness of doom. We slowly creaked the door open when we heard a scream. It sounded like the deep scream you only hear in movies. But this was not a movie… we were in reality. We continue to walk at a slow pace down the hall to the left of the stairs so we don't lose each other.
“Okay now start looking in every drawer, we can’t tell where it is in the dark,” she whispers
“Well I think we should stick together otherwise we will lose each other.”
“Okay then I'll hold your hand while you look in the drawers, you know your kitchen better than I do,” Ava mumbles. Ava takes hold of my left hand and I lead her around the island looking through the drawers and cabinets the flashlight may be in. I stubble across the junk drawer but there is no flashlight in there. I thought of a different idea, so I grabbed the lighter and slowly walked toward the kitchen table while Ava was still grasping my hand. I lit the lighter and reached it toward the candle we kept on the table.
“What are you doing?” Ava whispers
“I couldn't find the flashlight, maybe we didn't have one but… we could maybe use this candle as light,” I reply in a soft voice
“Okay but we need to hurry, they probably think we got captured too,” Ava speaks in a low voice. “Well where do you think we should look to find them, they have to be hiding or something.”
“Well let's check in the coat closet first, it is in the hallway,” I murmur
“Are you sure, i think there are plenty of other hiding spots in this house,” Ava says
“Okay well let me get another candle so we can split up,” I say handing her the handle I was holding. I walk around the kitchen table and grab the other candle on the window ledge. I glance back to see if Ava is still standing there but I can only see the light of the candle, it is as if it was floating. I quickly lit the other candle and headed over to where she was standing. “Ava?” I say
“Juuliiaa?” Ava says to me in a slightly creepy way
“Okay now let's split up and look around here for a little bit and meet back in this exact spot in about 5 min,” I reply.
“Ookaaay,” she says in that same creepy tone as before. I thought that was weird, maybe I was the one who lost my mind, maybe she was hiding with them too and a ghost just took her spot so they could steal me too. I began searching and searching under the coffee table in the back closet, behind the couch, and even in the garage…the garage scared me the most I never knew what was going to pop out. I slowly opened the door standing still. I reached for the step in front of me and slowly entered the garage. I always heard weird noises and I always figured they were from the garage but I was never sure. I looked under my dad's car but still nothing. I was walking around until I heard a noise, it sounded like the revving of an engine. This noise slowly got closer and closer, it got louder and louder. If I were to guess this noise had to be coming from right outside my garage, so I ran inside and slammed the door. I heard Ava moving things and looking around, or that is what I assumed so I began searching until I realized me and Ava had been searching for 8 min already. I was standing in the kitchen in the spot we agreed to wait. I was standing there unable to see anything but the light of my candle. I was just enjoying the smell when I recognized the sound of footsteps slowly walking down the stairs. I got scared so I hid in the closet in the hall. I felt something touch me…I screamed a very loud scream that could have women my whole house but it felt silent as though nothing was there. I began to run out of the closet and back up to my room where my friends were supposed to be waiting for us, except they were gone and it wasn't us, it was only me. “This was an awful idea..” I said, beginning to cry. I was leaning against the back of my door slowly sliding to the ground. “Why did I even have this sleepover?” I never realized I was saying the words out loud until I heard someone talking back to me. It sounded like it was coming from the other side of the door, I wiped my tears, stood up, and backed away from the door. “Hello,” I began to say. The door slowly opened and a shadow appeared. I was backing away too quickly, I ended up tripping on my bed stand. I was now on the ground slowly crawling backward staring at this shadow that appeared to be looking at me. It was walking closer and closer to the light. The mysterious shadow got into the light of the bedroom and it wasn't just a shadow anymore, it was my dad. “DAD…” I began to speak running up to hug him but I was standing on the other side of where he was standing. I was confused, I turned around and stared at what I thought was a ghost, I was seeing a ghost. I closed my eyes for a second to take in this awful night but when I opened them I wasn't in my house anymore, quite frankly I didn’t know where I was. It was dark and silent, the voice of the wind was all I could hear. I couldn't see where I was and I didn't hear any voices and it appeared I was by myself. I started running as fast as I could to see where this path would take me but to be honest, there was no path I was running nowhere. It's not like I could see anything in the dark of the night anyway, I was hearing these other voices beside me when I started seeing things. I began running again to escape this reality, but it wasn't working. The voices were only getting louder and the images were only getting clearer. I stopped. I sat there right on the ground. The ground was wet and felt like grass. I held my knees to my chest and rested my head on my knees and I sat there and cried, I cried to myself. I could hear the voices but I didn't understand what they were saying. I tried to remember how I got here but I don’t, I don't remember. I began trying to think of what happened before I got here but I can't, I can't remember.