The Introduction

"It was the beginning of October, and I knew what that meant, I would be locked in my mansion. I never understood why I got locked in, but my teacher never questioned why I wasn't at school for the month. My parents just told me, "Peter honey, if you see an orange, round thing outside, never go near it and if your Aunt offers you a pumpkin pie, don't go near it either." It wasn't like I could get a chance either, because my Mom made sure of it. But, I was going to escape and find out the truth of why I got locked in at the beginning of October.

I walked around the first floor, searching for clues about my lock down, not deterred at the least from every other year of searching for clues and failing. I found some ghost table cloths on some side tables, they were brand new, but I didn't see how that helped me, so I went upstairs to the second floor. I found more ghost table cloths and some scarecrows for some reason.

As I went around the mansion, I noticed that as I went closer to the stairs that the "decorations" got spookier as I went around my mansion. I wondered why my Dad did this, it's not like Mom would, she hates things like this. I heard a servant coming so I moved aside. What I saw next was even more shocking, instead of the servant holding laundry like I expected, he was holding more of the spooky "decorations" and putting them up as he went.

I saw another servant coming and she was doing the same. "What is happening here!?!?" I wondered. The second servant told me," We're putting up these decorations sir." "They're for Halloween," the first servant added. The second servant glared at him for some reason, was it because he mentioned this Halloween thing? I continued on my way, I got a clue, not that I knew what it meant but maybe this Halloween thing has to do with the decorations, and maybe even my October lock down.

I mean, the decorations do look like the decorations my neighbours up outside whenever I look through my window. You know, I've just been wondering why I haven't made the connection yet. It's probably because this is the first year my family had servants put up decorations that I knew of. I saw nothing new for the rest of the second floor so I went to the next floor.

It was just the same things except there was a fog machine here and there. I saw a piece of paper that had "PRIVATE" written on it. I was going to pick it up when I heard footsteps. I panicked, thinking that my Dad or Mom was coming. I really didn't want to get punished by being forced to write something like "I will not invade other people's privacy" a billion times or something like that.

I ran away as fast as I could so that no one could say I was looking at private things. I was on the stairs that led to the third floor when I saw a ladder going up to the attic. I thought that I should go up to the attic because it would be more likely my parents would leave something lying around there compared to the third floor. I saw a bunch of random boxes lying around. I opened the boxes and saw.....

More spooky decorations. But one box had a bunch of letters. Some said " Happy Halloween! How is Peter this year? I hope he's well!" and "Are you doing a haunted house this year?" None of these letters seemed to be important so I left them in the box. I found more boxes but they had normal every day stuff like taken apart old chairs and tables, some normal tablecloths and a few creepy dolls. I pretended I didn't see those dolls."