Sshh, Be Quiet

As morning passed, the house became more lively. Some watching the TV which was now working just fine. Others were playing cards, or just talking. Lisa was talking to Steph and Jenna, having a random conversation about hobbies and such. It was working to get her mind off the house. She just didn't want to think about anything that had been going on.

“So what are we talking about?” Jimmy butted into the girls’ conversation, shoving his way between Lisa and Stephanie and sitting.

“Nothing, just girl talk,” Stephanie said.

“Interesting.”

“I guess, if you like listening to talk about periods, and PMS,” Lisa said, trying to stifle a giggle.

“Okay, not so interesting.” Jimmy stood up and went back to the dining room table, butting in on the card game that was going on.

“These guys aren’t so bad,” Jenna said.

“They’re really amusing is what,” Lisa said with a chuckle.

“It’s only cause you want Syn, or Ryan, whatever his name is,” Stephanie said, wiggling her eyebrows and nudging her friend in the ribs.

“It’s ‘Brian’ you dork.” Lisa rolled her eyes, gently shoving her friend.

The three girls laughed about it until Matt interrupted everything. “Truth or dare time!” he shouted.

Lisa rolled her eyes. “I swear, you’d think they just wanted to hang out with fans and play games for a week,” she said.

“Well, at least it’s not like, naked twister, or something,” Jenna said.

“I have a feeling that one is coming soon.”

The group of ten gathered in the living room, sitting on couches, chairs, and the floor. Matt went around the circle making everyone draw straws to see who would go first. Johnny ended up with the short one, but had to endure about a full minute of being made fun of before he could speak.

“Jimmy, truth or dare?”

“Dare, like you gotta ask me.”

“I dare you to go the rest of the day without any alcohol.”

“And if I don’t?”

“You owe me a hundred bucks.”

Jimmy laughed as he pulled out his wallet, and like it was nothing, he pulled out a hundred dollar bill and threw it at Johnny. After throwing the money, he grabbed his beer and took a large drink out of it. “Lisa, truth or dare?”

“Truth,” said, suddenly regretting it when she saw Jimmy’s grin as he eyed her up.

“Are those real?” he asked, nodding his head in a downward motion towards her chest.

Lisa smacked her forehead before laughing. “Yes, they are, for all you pervs, and no, you can’t see them.”
A mass of disappointed groans flooded the rooms as Lisa just laughed.

“You mean, even Brian hasn’t seen them yet?” Jimmy asked. “And you two are sharing a room?”

Lisa glanced at Brian who cleared his throat and grabbed a drink to hide the fact that his cheeks were turning red. Then she turned back to Jimmy, trying to hide her own embarrassment. “No, nobody has seen them, besides me. Can we end the discussion about boobs now? Zacky, truth or dare?”

“Truth.”

“Weirdest place you had sex?”

“Public restroom,” he said, acting quite proud of it too.

Laughter rang out at Zack’s display of confidence with his answer. Mixed in were voices commenting, ‘eww nasty,’ and ‘so disgusting.’ Zack just glared at the group for laughing at him, until a crash from upstairs broke it up.

“What the hell was that?” Korynn asked, looking at the ceiling.

“I’ll go check it out,” Matt said.

“Says the guy who doesn’t believe in this haunted house bullshit,” Lisa fired at him.

Matt turned and looked at Lisa. “It’s probably a wild animal. And maybe it’s in your room, hiding in your bed.” He sneered.

“Whatever.”

“What? If you’re so brave, come with me then.”

Lisa rolled her eyes and went upstairs with Matt. They walked down the hall looking in each of the rooms. Nothing seemed out of the ordinary, and as they were about to go back downstairs, there was another crash, followed by the sound of something breaking. The two exchanged glances then went to the room where they thought the noise came from.

“Look, someone’s laptop,” Lisa pointed.

Matt went and picked up the laptop that was bent the other way, nearly snapped in two. There was a long crack across the screen, as well as across the bottom. “This is Jimmy’s computer. Well, was.”

“What the hell did that though? We were all downstairs.”

“Maybe it fell.”

“Twice? How does a laptop fall twice and nearly snap in two?”

“I don’t know. Look, there’s no such thing as ghosts, so there has to be a logical explanation for this.”

“I never said anything about ghosts,” Lisa said, glaring at him.

Matt tried to close it up as best as he could, but a flash caught his eye. He opened it to look. Lisa suddenly grew wary of the glow from the screen on his face. How the hell is that thing on? she thought. Matt said nothing as he just dropped it on the bed and walked out.

“Matt?”

Lisa got no response and she went to look at it herself. She read the message that was across the cracked screen.

Must’ve stabbed him fifty fucking times. Ripped his heart out right before his eyes…There’s no backing out.

Lisa gasped and quickly slammed the top shut, cracking it even more in the process, and ran out of the room. Matt was sitting against the wall, head in his hands.

“Something seriously fucked up is going on here. And I think it would be our best interest to just leave,” he said.

“So you believe it then?” Lisa asked.

He looked up at her, that once intimidating facial expression was now full of worry.

Notes

Sorry guys for not updating sooner. On top of being super busy at work, I've also been sick. Had a cold that turned into an upper respiratory infection so I've just been miserable for the last two weeks about. Work is continuing to be busy for me through the end of this month, so don't be mad if it's a while before the next update.