CHAPTER 1
"Wow! this house is freezing! it's like nearly winter yet we are almost reaching summer." said Chloe." Thank you Mommy for the scrambled eggs they are tasty." "Ha! ha! ha! Cherry, no need to thank me dear it's what I do." " Wow honey, you really deserve an up loud, this fricassee is much better than the latest one." said Craig.
"Sometimes I wonder whether the environment we keep on changing is the one that makes my cooking better but at least I know that I will be the greatest Chef in the country." said Allen. "Excuse me young lady, put your phone away it is time for family dinner which you should also be part, your food is even getting cold!" continued Allen as she told Chloe. Chloe was beautiful young teenager who often like to act expensive and cool and with her beauty nothing she couldn't do in order to maintain it. Patrick then said " This house is really creepy, just look at the lights they are all dim and creepy and very weird, the ground looks exactly like outside and..." " Enough!" interrupted Craig "This house is like the best we have ever seen compared to the previous ones, okay! Even though we have been here for the past 6 months it's still home." Patrick was a great young teenager who loved science and often considered himself wise in front of his sister and sometimes claimed that he was the eldest although Chloe was by 3 years.
Just then upstairs, a loud noise of something that looked like it had fallen down left a question on everyone's face. "I guess I wasn't wrong after all." said Patrick. Craig looked at the stairs that lead to the upper room he wouldn't wish his family to leave the house as it has always been. He decided to put on an "everything is all right face" " don't worry everything is all right, I swear that is just wind probably!" He said a bit worried everyone never took it such a big deal and carried on with the mastication.
Again, this time the creepy sound was even louder than before." What did you mean this house was better than the previous one?"said Allen "...since you said that it's the wind, why don't you go and close the window." she continued. Craig looked around everyone was staring at him, Chloe and Patrick his eldest children, Allen his wife, Cherry his second last born and Joe the baby "ya ya!" The noise upstairs kept on increasing. He looked at his glass of juice on the table, he gently held it and knew that he might never see it again. he took a good long one as though his last and sighed. He picked a baton and he headed to the stair cases Every step he took increase the creeps down his spine and his hands shook and trembled rhythmically that even the Baton he held vibrated. After getting into a clear view where the family couldn't see him sat at the stairs and gathered his strengths for about 5 minutes as the noise kept on increasing.
After a good long scratch on the head he ran into the room where the noise originated, lights were off wind, was blowing from the windows, the Wardrobe was closed but everything was disorganized in the room. When he turned his head to look around again, a swarm of house flies buzzed around him that he ran out of the room. Besides all that he still had to get the evidence to prove whether the house was haunted or not, his heart could be hard from a meter away, fighting to make him brave. He tried to find a torch but when he switched it on, a dead man with a long gown, wrinkled face and a hoodie scared him enough that he ran out of the house and sat at the staircases as he torched at the corridor where he thought that it might come from. He could feel his heart being filled and emptied with blood he never liked ghosts that haunted humans. All he did was to express his family that he was from battling something by taking off his shirt and stayed in a vest before he approached them. On reaching down, everyone was staring at him, the sound upstairs seemed to be even louder than before. "Is everything all right?" asked Allen. That's when they saw at the the dining they had left and it made them speechless." Oh my God!...is that food moving up?... and it looks like it's being chewed." said Patrick "That looks like a ghost to me." Allen whispered to Craig."I don't know what that is but its disgusting."said Chloe as she was irritated. "Oh no this is not meant to happen." said Craig. "Can I talk to you honey, in the kitchen?" as the children stood there puzzled." What are we going to do? the house looks haunted!! did... um ....did you even see that invisible ghost?"Craig was speechless. "Please don't tell Cherry that it's a ghost haunting us, just tell her that it's a surprise show." and why should I do that?" Please just do it for me."she begged. After a quick talk, they came back to the living room, then Allen said" Hello kids, this is a surprise show haha!... it's somehow more realistic than before, see! I can even show you that it's fake and no need to get scared."she said as she picked a big book from the table." You might want to be a little careful with the convincement." said Craig. She was about to throw a book at the masticating ghost when Craig pulled it off her. "Be patient, we are not staging a riot with the spirit world." said Craig.
Suddenly the lights became so dim that they could barely recognize each other, then Craig confessed. "Please gather around, I have something to tell you, it's that we have a situation whereby this house is ha..hau..haunted!! Everyone was silent until Chloe turned her phone on and then she read "haunted is a word used to refer to something creepy or to do with ghosts." " lt wasn't me, said Craig." " Cherry bust into tears her cry was so loud that just next to them something was trying to force its way out of the ground.
Allen was breathless, Chloe was torching using her video camera Craig stood still while he held close to his wife. Patrick was trying his best to silence cherry after a rhythmic hitting from below the ground, a figure of what looked like a tall man in a long gown and dripped maggots increased Cherry's crying. "SILENCE!!!? SHUT THE BABY UP OR ELSE I WILL EXECUTE IT." It said angrily. When Cherry saw that, she fell back onto Patrick and she fainted. Allen watched her baby faint but she had nothing to do as she might make the ghost angrier. Chloe interrupted, "Wow! Dad! wow! I never thought you could make these surprises more realistic. bravo! bravo! Dad!... look at this dummy" as she came closer to it." It looks so real it's organs are even missing nice editing dad." as she continued to observe it on camera. "Oh no, this is bad! this is so so bad?!!" said Patrick. Chloe continue to praise her dad as she kept on taking the video with it .The ghost growled and looked at Allen "ARE THESE THE CHILDREN YOU RAISE THESE DAYS?" "Yes" she said with horror "I HAD CHILDREN IN THIS VERY HOUSE THEY WERE ALL I LOVED AND CARED FOR AFTER MY DEATH, THEY LONGED FOR PEOPLE TO GIVE THEM COMPANY TO FILL THE FAMILY GAP AND THEY WERE MY RELATIVES BUT ONE DAY, THEY TURNED AGAINST THEM AND WANTED TO TAKE OVER MY HOUSE I HAD PLANNED FOR MY CHILDREN. I HAD TO HAUNT THEM UNTIL THEY COULD BARELY LIVE IN THE HOUSE ANYMORE AND SOON LEFT WITH MY CHILDREN WHO ALSO FEARED THE HOUSE. I BEG YOU, IF YOU WANT TO HELP ME REST IN PEACE PLEASE BRING MY CHILDREN HOME AND LIVE IN THIS HOUSE." narrated the ghost as it stared in Allen's eyes before, she could feel its pain Chloe interrupted.
"You even rehearsed the words!!?? this reminds me of my boyfriend Jimmy, he used to rehearse what he would say to me." she said as though a judge. Allen got hold of her phone shuttered it on the floor and gave her an explosive slap that almost went with the flesh." How dare you take advantage of this situation you should know that by now that everything happening is real!!" " Well, I have to prove it." as she was sobbing. Letting hold of the baton, she hit the ghost on the head and the flesh scattered all over the floor. Allen stood back as she started to shiver. Patrick's pants started to drip and everything in the house looked to be moving violently as for Joe he was just puzzled but was brave enough not to cry.