As night fell, the group in the living room slowly began to drift away into a cautious state of sleep. Stephanie, Jenna, Korynn, and Johnny were all asleep by midnight while the remaining four were trying to relax. While Lisa was laying with her eyes closed, she heard shuffling and footsteps walking away. She opened her eyes and watched Matt, Brian, and Zack go into the kitchen. Assuming they wanted to talk about themselves, Lisa didn’t want to disturb them, but curiosity got the best of her. She went and stood around the corner within earshot.

“The band?” Zack asked.

“I don’t know, Zack. I mean, we’ll never find another drummer as great as him,” Matt said.
“But we can’t just up and quit. What about our fans?”

“I think we should just wait until we get out of here, right?” Brian asked, his voice seeming shaky. “I'm just a bit more concerned about what's going on in here.”

Matt sighed as the images from the attic returned. Seeing a blood soaked Emily stumbling at him, falling dead into his arms. “I am too, believe me, but do we have any ideas who or what killed Jimmy and Emily? We don't. All we know is that two out of the ten people here are dead.”

“Dude, that's a little cold,” Zack said quietly. “I never pegged you to say something about a fan of ours dying, but Jimmy too?”

“I don't-” Matt nearly shouted before realizing that everybody else was sleeping. “I don't know what is going on here. Two people are dead, what the fuck am I supposed to say?”

“Matt-” Zack was close to shouting himself, but was interrupted.

“You guys, just stop, please?” Brian cut in quietly. “As much as I'm upset about losing Jimmy, and even Emily, we need to figure out what's going on in this house. We'll fight when we get out of here.”

“Okay, genius, so what is it?” Matt shot at Brian.

“Someone or something that doesn't want us here.”

“Then wouldn’t they just let us out?” Zack asked.

“Maybe they don't want us alive,” Matt said. “Maybe by walking in here, we disturbed something and now they want us dead.”

“We just have to figure out who or what,” Brian said. “Maybe by us sticking together as a group, we'll figure it out. Regardless, one of the main priorities is protecting ourselves, and protecting the girls.”

“Definitely, but for now, we should get some sleep, and see what we can do tomorrow. And remember, anyone needs to use the bathroom, wake me,” Matt said.

Assuming they were heading back in, Lisa quickly went back to her spot and laid down. She listened to the guys reenter the room, shuffle around, and the room soon became quiet again. Still unable to fall asleep, she sat up about a half hour later and sighed. She looked around at the group which looked relaxed and very asleep. The restlessness was too much, and she just wanted someone to talk to right now, even if it was nearly one in the morning. Another sigh slipped through her lips, louder than the first.

“Can’t sleep?” someone whispered.

She looked around and saw Brian sitting up, illuminated by the glow of his cell phone.

“No,” she whispered. “What are you doing on your phone?” She got up to move and sit next to him on the floor.

“Praying that I can make an outgoing call,” he said. A moment later he sighed and closed it. “No luck.”

“Figures.”

“We gotta get out of here, now. This is insane. I have business to take care of.” He rubbed his face.

“I think we all do. Like, living our lives without worrying about dying. We’ll get out of here though.”

“Then again, thinking about the last few days makes me not want to get out of here. Cause now we’ll be facing a lawsuit for bringing you guys here. We have a family to go to and tell them that their daughter was brutally murdered and we don’t know how it happened. Not to mention we have to go to Jimmy’s family and do the same thing. It’s all adding on, and I have other personal stuff to deal with. Finalize a divorce and shit.”

“Hey, hey…” Lisa tried to be as reassuring to him as she could. “Everything will be okay. Don’t they always say things get worse before they get better?”

“Yeah, true. I just hope it all blows over really soon.”

“It will.” Lisa looked down at her hands.

“Also hoping that you guys aren’t pissed that this happened. We had no idea it would turn out like this. We just wanted to have some fun. Meet some fans, chill out, show people that we’re normal humans, and look for ghosts.”

Lisa chuckled. “Well, I think we found ghosts, but hey, you guys are normal, and I’ll say for sure that I’m not mad. I mean I am at the shit that’s happening, but it’s just something unexpected that suddenly came up. Nobody knew it would turn out like this.”

Without thinking, as she began to get tired, she leaned against him just a bit. Brian didn’t say anything as he himself began to relax a bit, and instinctively put his arm over Lisa's shoulders as she leaned against him.

“Getting tired?” Brian asked.

“A little.”

“Well, try to sleep if you can. I’m starting to get tired myself.”

“Thanks, Brian. For talking, for helping me relax, for this whole opportunity, given the circumstances. If we don’t get out of here alive, I think I will die happy.”

“You’re welcome? But don’t say that. We’re gonna get out of here, alive.”

Lisa leaned against him more comfortably as she began to doze off, thinking about the other night when she and Brian were alone in their room. A smile crept across her face as she fell asleep.

Brian wrapped his arm tighter around Lisa as she fell asleep, and proceeded to doze off himself. As he was drifting, he caught the faint sound of something vibrating quickly, but was too far out of it to react. For a few hours, all eight managed to get relaxed, solid sleep, knowing that they were safe being in a large group together. Not being left alone, feeling protected by each other, praying for Sunday to hurry up and arrive so they would know if they would successfully get out of the house in one piece. Praying that this mess would be forgotten, with the exception of the two lives that were lost…so far.

Notes

• To anybody that I didn't get in the comments section: I'm alive! I just haven't been around. 2 weeks ago I moved out of my parents house and into my own place, to which I have no internet yet, so I have to go drive and find free Wifi.
  
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