Kenzie spun the wheel after everything calmed down and we were finally able to breathe. Her game piece moved to a gray space. I spun the wheel afterwards, meeting a gray space as well. Joel was next and he spun the wheel, just missing red by one space. Kenzie spun the wheel, and her tombstone moved 8 spaces and stopped just in front of Joel's. She landed on red. We looked at each other, the dead silence adding to the suspense as she took a red card from the deck. She read it slowly, her hands were noticeably shaking as she held the card in her hand.
She waits behind the bedroom door. Under the sheets, she walks the floor.
"What the hell is that supposed mean?" Joel asked as if anyone actually knew the answer. The bedroom door creaked open, shining my flashlight, I saw a hand reach out of the door and it made a gesture that was basically saying "come here." What happened next, I really didn't understand. It was as if Kenzie was possessed or something because she got out of her chair and slowly walked over to the door. I saw the emptiness in her eyes, it was like she had no soul. She was like a walking corpse.
"What the hell are you doing Kenzie?" Joel asked, worriedly. "Get the hell back here Mackenzie!" He stood from his chair and tried to stop her but it was too late. She was pulled inside and the door slammed shut. It was silent, other than the sound of Joel pounding on the door. We couldn't hear a sound coming from the room. We managed to get the door open a few minutes later. We were hearing a creaking sound, and that sound was coming from a rope that was wrapped around Kenzie's neck and hung from the ceiling. She rocked slowly back and forth and her jaw hung low in an unnatural position as if it was broken.
Joel pulled her down and tried to revive her, but there was nothing, not even a trained doctor could do. She was dead. He was oblivious to the breathing sound that echoed through the room. There was something in there with us. Something sinister. The room wasn't completely dark, we were able to see without our flashlights due to the moon that shined vividly outside the window that wasn't boarded. We couldn't see anyone but we heard it breathing. The smell was unbearable and it wasn't coming from Kenzie's corpse. It was coming from the thing that suddenly walked out of the closet and sat at the side of the bed. Joel and I just stood there in fear as she turned her head toward us, our minds, traumatized by her deadly dark eyes. She was tapping against the nightstand next to the bed and she had some dusty sheets that were once white wrapped around her shoulders. I realized it was that same woman or...thing that sat on the furnace. She just stared at us, the room was silent in the most horrifying way. The only thing we could hear was her heavy breathing.
"Shhhh," she whispered, her finger pressed to her lips. "I love this song." The music from the game was playing. She got out the bed and she danced around the room, the terrible smell followed behind her. Her voice was probably the most creepy part of it all. It was her creepy tone and the way it echoed.
I turned over to Joel, trying to understand why we hadn't left the room yet. "Let's get the hell out of here, Joel," I said. He stood up off the floor and looked at me.
"My brother's out there somewhere," he said, wiping the tears from his eyes. "I have to find him." He seemed unfazed by the creepy dancing woman in the room. He scampered out of the room and I helped him move the refrigerator from the door before we walked out into the hall.
"Jake!" His screaming echoed through the halls, probably waking anything that lived within. We searched through some of the rooms for about twenty minutes before that creepy melody from the game started playing again. I knew it was just a matter of time. He thought it was a good idea that we split up and that's what we did. He searched the fourth floor while I searched the third.
I was searching through a room when my flashlight started flickering before it turned off. I heard footsteps, at first believing they were mine until I stood still and the footsteps continued. It was dark, the windows were boarded, blocking out any light from outside. Somebody else was in there with me and I know it wasn't Joel because I heard his calls for his brother echoing through the hall. The door slammed shut and I felt a cool breeze run through me.
"Jake?" I whispered. "You in here?" Everything was silent, the only thing I heard was Joel yelling. I then heard a voice, but it wasn't very clear.
"He's dead."
It was a deep, dark and sinister tone. I couldn't see anything or anybody but I felt them. I felt their presence. I was lightly tapping my flashlight, trying to get it to work. I closed my eyes and I started counting to three. I was lightly shaking and every part of me, it seemed had a pulse. 1...2(deep breath)...3.
The flashlight finally turned on and it flashed directly at some old dusty mirror...I saw her standing behind me. I felt her cold breath as it dissolved into my skin. I ran out of the room, literally as fast as I could. I was surprised my heart didn't jump out of my chest because it sure did feel like it would. I walked back down to the first floor to the game.
When I stepped in the room, I noticed someone standing over by the window. It was Joel. He was just standing there, in a fixed position, completely immobile. "Joel?" I walked toward him slowly. "You okay, man?" He turned around slowly, his face was so pale and he had bags under his eyes as if he hadn't slept in days. I wondered if I looked like that.
"Did you find anything?" He asked, finally dropping back to earth.
I thought about the devilish woman I saw. "No...sorry."
He sat back down at the table. I had a feeling that he didn't care what happened next. Like he didn't care to die. He didn't seem scared or worried he was just...I don't know. Two seats were now empty as we continued the game. Kenzie's tombstone, I noticed, was moved to the bottom right of the board, right next to Jake's. I spun the wheel and landed on 2. That kept me on gray. Joel spun the wheel and was forced to draw a black card. He took a card from the deck and read it.
"She's watching you."
He wiped the tears from his eyes with his shirt and looked over at the bedroom door where Kenzie's body still lay. "It's her," he said, crying. "It's Mackenzie." I turned around, but I didn't see her. Either he was losing his mind or she was actually there. I wouldn't be surprised if she was. I spun the wheel and landed on the same space as Joel. That meant I had to draw a black card. I took a card from the deck and I read it.
"There's somebody at the door."
A loud knock echoed through the room as Joel and I froze in fear. Joel and I stayed put as the knocking continued until the door suddenly creaked open. We heard the footsteps, but we didn't see anybody. Joel spun the wheel, desperate to end the game. He was safe from the black and red cards as his tombstone stopped on gray. I spun the wheel, also safe from the cards. As Joel spun the wheel next, I saw Jake. He was sitting on the furnace, tapping away. His jaw hung low as if it was broken and his eyes were dark but I knew that he was looking at me. Joel had his back turned so he couldn't see him and I guess he couldn't hear the tapping. He was completely oblivious to Jake's presence. I pretended like I didn't see anything and eventually the tapping had stopped and he disappeared. Joel and I continued to land on gray until eventually, Joel was forced to draw a red card.
"This is it, isn't it?" He said to me, his voice becoming weak. I didn't say anything, I wasn't really sure what to say. He took a deep breath and read the card.
Under the floor, you must peek. There's something there beneath your feet.
I remembered the hole in the floor where I first found the board game. I showed Joel to the door and he lifted it up. We flashed our flashlights inside to see what was under. What we saw can unfortunately never be unseen. Joel immediately looked away in distraught when he saw what was down there. It was Jake. His corpse was already being infested with flies and maggots as it lay down there, against the wall. There was no blood, but it was clear that his neck was snapped and his jaw was broken because they were each in unnatural positions. Joel just stood there, his back turned from the ditch. He wasn't crying or showing any kind of emotion. He just looked empty and exhausted. I sensed that something was going to happen and...it did. Something down there grabbed Joel by his ankle and tried to pull him down. I tried to help him but there was nothing I could do. The game wanted him and they got him. They pulled him under and the door slammed shut. I was all alone.
The melody started playing from the game and I walked over to it, not knowing what to do next. My game piece started moving to the center of the board and it stopped directly at the heart. The heart started beating, it had a pulse. The music got louder and louder, it was piercing through my head until suddenly, it stopped. My game piece moved all the way back to the beginning, where I first started. That was it. The game was over.
I left the building without ever looking back. I didn't want to go back to my dorm room where I would be alone, so I walked to the grocery store that was just a couple minutes away and I cried to everyone there that my friends were all dead. I know they all thought I was crazy, but they called the police and the bodies of my friends were found later that night. I told them the story, I told them everything that happened but they never believed me. The game was never found, but I know it was somewhere in that building, somewhere either within the walls or under the floors, haunted by the demons within. I can hear the melody playing right now as I sit alone in my room, surrounded by white walls and cameras. They're watching me. I can hear them, I can feel them, and I can see them. That game is somewhere in this world and I pity the poor soul who finds it. I learned to live with the haunting melody that echoes wherever I go. I sometimes put on my dancing slippers and I dance to the melody. I dance around and around and around. I dance to the sound of fear, because it's the only sound I hear.
Submitted June 10, 2015 at 07:24AM by Ikidomari1 http://ift.tt/1L0tbMu nosleep
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