Adam had never seen the look of fear in Jake's eyes before. It was as if he was truly seeing him for who he was. Before Jake could turn around to face it, the dark figure pulled his legs under him. He fell onto the floor, hitting his head. Jake screamed out in terror as he was being dragged across the floor towards the open door behind him. His screams of terror chilled Adam to the bone as he tried to put his hand out to Peter to help him. Peter did not budge. He kept screaming at what he was seeing while holding on to the railing.
Adam watched as Jake disappeared into the dark room with the door closing shut behind him. He could still hear Jake's screams behind the closed door. It sounded like there was a big struggle between Jake and the dark figure. And then his screams suddenly died down.
Peter suddenly stopped screaming too. He stood frozen against the railing.
Adam instinctively moved towards him.
"We've to get out of here," he said to Peter, trying to calm him down. Peter looked at him wide-eyed and confused.
"Pete, let's get out of here, now," he whispered to his friend as he kept his eyes on the closed door. He had to get to the staircase, but the door was right next to it. He grabbed Peter, summoned up his courage and tried to make a run for it with Peter in tow.
Just as he got close to the staircase, he heard the open front door slam shut with a loud bang. In the darkness, he heard the sound of footsteps coming up the staircase towards him.
Adam pointed his torch at the staircase. His beam of light went right through a dark mass that was floating up the staircase towards him. Both he and Peter screamed at it. They quickly backed away from the staircase and took a few steps towards the only place of safety they could find – to the room that Jake had opened up earlier.
As he pulled Peter along to get to the room, he heard the loud footsteps still ascending the staircase.
"Get in here," he said to Peter who was crying now.
They entered the room and Adam closed the door behind him. He saw that he could not lock it. He looked around the room and saw the slightly ajar window. He ran towards it with Peter right behind him.
"Quickly, help me open it," he said.
They both tried to open it, but it was stuck.
"I can't open it. Adam, I can't." Peter had tears streaming down his cheeks.
Adam closed his eyes and tried to give one last desperate attempt at opening the window. His hands started to bleed as sharp pieces of broken wood from the window pane pierced his skin.
"Hey!" said Peter, banging on the window pane. "Hey! Look! Look!"
Adam opened his eyes and saw his father standing out in the street, torch in hand and searching the area for him.
"Dad!" Adam screamed as loud as he could while banging the window pane with both hands.
"Help! Help! We're here!" Peter screamed as loud as he could.
"Dad! I'm here!" Adam screamed in desperation.
Somehow, his father could not hear them. Adam started to cry. He banged the window pane a few more times, but still, his father did not hear him. He watched through the blood smeared window pane as his dad turned around and walked off away from the house.
"What's he doing?" asked Peter, sobbing.
"Dad," Adam said, tears streaming down his face. "I'm here."
Adam's father walked further down the street away from the house. Adam and Peter knew that there was nothing he could do now as they watched their only chance of help disappear before their eyes.
They both suddenly kept quiet as they heard the loud footsteps just outside the door.
They turned around slowly to look at the door. The door handle was being turned. Then it slowly opened to reveal the dark figure standing in the doorway. It was not a man. It was something else. They both screamed as the dark figure quickly came towards them with its red eyes and sharp teeth. Adam covered his face from the sight of the monster.
He felt his body shaking, but there was no pain. And then he realized he heard someone's voice. It was Jake. He was shaking him by the shoulders.
"Hey, what's wrong with you?" he said to Adam, looking into his eyes.
Adam looked at him with wide-eyes and saw that he was still outside the scary-looking house. He was standing just below the porch. He did not know why, but somehow, this was the moment that they were going to go and knock on the door. Peter was standing on the porch, watching him curiously.
"What's going on?" Adam asked. "What happened to us?"
"Us? What do you mean? You're the one acting all crazy!"
Adam saw Peter about to go knock on the front door.
"Hey, Peter, no, don't do that!" he said.
Peter turned around to look at Adam just as he was about to knock on the door. The door suddenly opened up and a dark figure grabbed him and pulled him inside.
"No!" Adam screamed as the door suddenly slammed close.
THE END