I really feel it will come in handy. Especially after seeing the infamous 'pit' over at the girls new place. Anna was not exaggerating when she described it as a deadly pit capable of serious injury. As you step out of their back door to your immediate right there is a cavernous hole well I think it was once a set of stone steps leading down into the serial killers now abandoned secret slaughter room where he would fillet his victims like cod. Now it's just boarded up, you can't access it from the pit, the falling apart doors seem to be boarded up and the only other way in is.....
The only other way into the killer's old haunt is just beside the girls sole bathroom, which did i mention is in the basement! All by itself. Now I am a weed at the best of times but even nerves of steel anna admitted it's a little freaky down there at night. Not that you would know if it's night or not down there since it is pitch dark 24 hours a day. The locked up storage room has a window in the door but does not appear to have any windows. So picture the scene, it might be a little familiar, i.e. every horror film you have ever seen....
A group of girls are 'partying' well a few bottles of corona and lime watching CSI on their first night in the new palce and one of them stands up, 'be back in a second'. She walks down the hallway, opens a door into another hallway, then opens a little wooden door and stares down into the black abyss at the bottom of the creaky wooden stairs. She flicks the old light switch and descends. The door creaks shut behind her, she can't see around the corner at the foot of the stairs so she walks slowly, but quickly too if that's possible, because she wants to get this over with.
As she turns the corner she sees an old dusty door. She can just about see through the window pane, the large room is filled with boxes and dark looking shapes that are probably old furniture pieces covered in drapes. She feels a jitter pass through her but continues along the low ceilinged narrow corridor with stark flurorescent light strips. She reaches the safety of the dunny. Her chest tight with fear she flicks on the bathroom light. But wait there are 2 switches. One for the bathroom, the other to turn off the basement light. Guess which one she picked? Complete and utter darkness. Complete and utter terror. She grapsed around in the black and managed to locate the right one and threw herself into the low cramped wash room.
But then...2 mins later. Great! she had made it down but after doing the business she still faced the return trip back.
One can only wonder why on earth there is a need for a second light switch downstairs since there are absolutely no windows and it's permanently dark. When would the situation ever arise when somebody was down there and thought I'd really prefer if it was pitch black down here. I can think of a number of people who would request such a light switch be installed and I'm sorry to say there are all of murderous intent.
So anyway back to our victim...
She stands there for a number of minutes weighing up her options. Her phone has no coverage, her friends would never hear her screams and the longer she stays in there the more time the creature from the pit has to sharpen his teeth. So she reefs open the door and sprints like nobody ever has. Increasing to the speed of light as she passes the dungeon door. She hits the stairs runnning and arrives back to life and liberty breathless but triumphant. As the evening went on you could hear each visitor to the bathroom charging up those basement steps like linford christie after a cocktail of skittles and 7up.
They were all doing fine, the first night in a pretty terrifying house where the 'unoccupied' upstairs pattered with footsteps and voices, and everybody was doing pretty good.
Until the lights went out.
2.30 am
Black.
Horrific.
Screams
Scrambles for phone and lighters.
A brief reassemble of senses..
'it's just the fuse box'
'Does anyone know what a fuse box is?'
'does anyone know where the fuse box is?'
Does anyone kow what to do with the fuse box when we find?'
No.
Well we better give it a go.
Breff and Hannah ventured into the back of the house to the kitchen where a rickety backdoor leads to the pit and the large dark open sheds at the end of the garden.
Their screams echoed through the house as they charged into the room where the other two sat in terror on the small single bed, all four jumped in together.
'What the fuck! What the fuck!' There's somebody at the back door!
Words can't really describe what they felt at that moment but I'm sure you can imagine so I'll leave it with you. They sat there for a few mins waiting for the crazed killer who had shut off the lights and was now coming to slay them, if not keep them imprisoned in the pit dungeon for a few years first. Plain and Simple.
Nobody came and they calmed down.
'Are you sure?'
Well not positive, but we thought we heard something'
mmmm maybe we're alright.
They lit a few tealights.
Breff had the good idea of poking her head out the front door to see if it was a blackout for the whole street or just this house. It was nearly 3 am so a bit tricky to ascertain since most peoples lights are out at that stage but as she craned her head around trying to look up and dawn the street she heard a noise. Just to add some extra drama and to shred the characters nerves the movie producers decided to cast a crazy drunk to appear spitting in the front garden. More screams, breff came racing back to the room. Lock all the doors she said.
Oh god.
And then, maybe god heard her because then the lights came back on. They dragged pillows and blankets and slept all together in the one room until the safety of dawn came.
Needless to say nobody needed the bathroom for the rest of the night.
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