THE ARRIVAL

CHAPTER TWO

They arrived at the house in a blue Sienna, Sarah's youngest son Bruno nine years of age was the first to highlight from the car, followed by Jessie and Jimmy. Jimmy was Sarah's first son, seventeen years old and Sarah second child and only daughter, Jessie was 15 years old.....they had just lost their dad in a plane crash and although they all appeared to be moving on the scar of the loss was still there and none of them really wanted to talk about it......

"So kids here we are home sweet home" Sarah said as she walked out of the car

"Wow mum the house is so huge looks like a mansion" Jessie said with a bit excitement in her voice....

"It's a mansion dummy" Jimmy said mockingly

"You are such an hopeless case you know" she shot at him...

"And you are such a dumb ass you know" he shot back

"And you a jackass"

"Okay children enough of the fighting we came here to start over let's do that in peace and harmony" Sarah said emphasizing on the harmony....

"You guys are going to let me get some peace right?" she asked looking from Jessie to Jimmy who were both looking away pretending not to paying attention

"Okay let's go get our things from the trunk the last thing we want to do is give our neighbors a bad first impression" she said moving towards the trunk of the car.

"That's if we have any neighbors" Jimmy said looking around

"Of course we have neighbors" Sarah said as she began dropping their luggage from the trunk.

"I guess they must be invincible cause I haven't spotted any soul ever since we drove in here" "Come on Jimmy be positive am sure they are just waiting for us to settle in first before saying hello. Now, these bags won't pack themselves would they" Sarah said as she began dragging the bags in. Jimmy grabbed his bag and took one last look at the neighboring house which looked like they were unoccupied. He looked at the house closest to theirs and spotted someone staring down at them from the top window. He raised his hand to wave an hello but whoever it was shut the window blinds just before he could...

"Weird place weird people" he whispered to himself as he dragged his luggage in._______

I shut the blinds as soon as I was spotted, don't know why but just happened to do so by reflex each time I am spotted staring. Good thing he I taken a good picture of them with my camera. I watched as the camera gradually printed out the picture. I pulled it out, took a good look at it, smiled and headed to the pin board at the corner of my room. The pin board contained details of the other occupants of the house, when they arrived, how long they stayed before evacuating and what fate befell them while in the house. I pined the picture next to that of the last occupants of the house who I watched flee the house like one being chased by death itself...."Such a cute family I doubt you will last very long, just pray you leave before it's too late." I said as she scribble the date underneath the picture with a marker. September 6th 2018, Time of arrival 7:45pm

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The house was a two floor building excluding the ground floor with 12 bed rooms, six rooms on each floor each room having a bathing room and toilet. The house had a very large basement, a cellar with a small window and very large open space for the living room on the ground floor, a kitchen and an extra toilet which they presumed was the visitor's toilet. The living room was already furnished just like she requested, so that was left was for them to settle in with their things....

"So kids let's take our luggage upstairs and pick our rooms" Sarah said as she began dragging the luggage up the stairs while they followed behind.

"We are all going to be settling here on the first floor to save us the stress of having to walk down too many stairs. I'll be taking that room over there" she said Pointing to the room at the far end of the corridor."You guys can check any of the rooms and pick the one that suits your best" she said as she pulled her luggage towards the room she had picked.

"Can't I just pick a room in the second floor?" Jimmy asked.

"No darling you can't we stay together the van will be arriving soon and will need helping bringing our things in" Sarah said as she walked into her room and shut the door. The room was the biggest room on the second floor with a large bed at the center, she was told the master bedroom was on the third floor, she assumed it would be bigger. On one end of the room was a tall standing wardrobe and besides it was a study table with a small lamp whose light was flickering. She pulled her luggage to the wardrobe and pulled it open and started unpacking and fitting her clothes into it. The flickering light from the lamp on the study table at the corner of the room caught her attention again. She walked up to the table, picked up the lamp examined if for a while before putting it off. She carefully placed it back on the table and walked towards the bed, it was a king size bed that could take five to six people comfortably. She sat on the bed and rubbed her hands on the sheet which looked quiet sticky."This would need changing" she whispered to herself, just then there was slight knock on the door

"Come in" she said. The door open and Bruno walked in

"Hey Bruno found a room that suit you taste yet?" She asked as she beckoned on him to come over...He nods and moves over to where she sat

"Do you know who previously occupied my room?" He asked looking up at her

"Hmm I can't say for sure we've only just moved in right?" The room is creepy" "Creepy? Why would you say that?" she asked

"There are some many creepy looking dolls all over the place staring at my every move, I feel they are watching me" he added with a whisper "Okay Bruno if you don't like the room why don't you pick somewhere else then and besides you know you are a deep sleeper and I always have to pull you out of bed all the time, so it's best to stay within arm reach. So go get settled in and get all the rest you can we've got a long and busy day tomorrow ahead the van will be arriving.

"Bu I can't" he said looking scared

"Okay Bruno lets go have a look" she said as she followed him out

JESSIE'S (POV )

I starred round the room for a bit before walking in, it was a bit bigger than my previous room at our former house. I slowly closed the door behind me and walked over to the bed, it looked liked it had just been made, everything was just so in place that it scared me.

I started unpacking my things and placing them on the bed as I did, something soon caught my attention at the corner of the room it was covered in red sheets.

I got up from the bed and slowly walked to the object, I stood there for a while before finally pulling off the sheets. And standing before me was an old mirror it looked like something gotten from an auction bid ancient and at the same time looked very expensive. The side rims were made of gold and the stand itself was gold. I wasn't sure if it was pure gold but mare looking at it I knew the artifact must be very expensive.

I replaced the cloth and returned to unpacking my things. I sorted all my clothes and took them to the wardrobe where I hanged each of them as she did in my previous room. I was still hanging and putting everything in place when I noticed a stain on walls of the wardrobe I took a closer look and I could swear it was blood stain I rubbed my finger over it but it was dried it didn't look so fresh but it didn't look very old either. While I was bent over examining the blood stain in my wardrobe I suddenly felt this strange presence in the room and the temperature in the room suddenly dropped and it became dead cold that I shivered on the spot. Suddenly there was this creak on the door and like someone was trying to open it, I froze on the spot as fear gripped me, the door handle began to turn back and forth.

"Who is there?" I called out still gripped with fear, but there was no response the handle just kept turning back and forth and suddenly the door banged open and I let out a loud scream

"Hey calm down scareddy cat it's me" Jimmy said as he let out a mocking laughter

"What the hell, cant you knock? You scared shit out of me" I said furiously

"I did knock but got no respomnse" he said

"Shut the fuck up you did not am not deaf" I shot at him

"What reason do you even have to be scared anyways, it's not like you are alone in this house. You are just a scared cat deal with it, mum wants you down for dinner" he said as he shut the door and left. I rushed to the door and bolted it.

during dinner that night I just couldn't get my head off what i saw on the walls of my wardrobe in my bedroom

Mum who were the former occupants of the house?" I asked my mum

"I can't say for sure who the former occupants were or who the house originally belong to we are just lucky to have this place" said as she stared around the house and hived a sigh of relief.

Whoever they are am guessing they are very rich, cause there is this very fancy mirror in my room I think it's worth a fortune cause it rims are made of gold, I mean who leaves such a treasure behind and just leave."

"We can't say for sure what value the mirror has but I'll ask the agency if it's something we can keep. Now let's eat up and get to bed cause we will be having a very long day ahead of us tomorrow.

"Mum can I stay in your room tonight? Mine is a bit out of place and everything creeps me out" Bruno asked

"Yes Bruno you can share mummy's room for tonight and tomorrow we would both fix your room to your taste and it wouldn't feel so creepy anymore." mum said as she ruffled her hands through his hair…..

"there is something else, there is this blood stain on the walls of my wardrobe, it looks a bit fresh" I said.

"Come on Sarah are we going to talk fresh blood at the table" Jimmy said

"Shut up Jimmy you've said worse things at the table" I said

" I think Jimmy is right on this one, lets not talk blood on the table, even i might lose my appetite. Whatever it is am sure it's probably stain from a dead rat or something" mum said dismissing the conversation as we eat in silence........