BY GEORGE REDDISH
There I was in the dreadful house right
below a spiral staircase I could hear a
tapping on a window. The door shut with
a slam. I could see shadows moving at the
top of the creaking staircase. A closet was
moving to my right where I could hear a
moaning and groaning.
The moonlight was shining
down on my body through a
double glazed, smashed
window. How on earth had I
got myself into this mess. I
thought back to how it had all
started….
I was coming back from school and I
was with my best friends Ben and Jack
and we decided to take the shortcut
through the woods because the
Simpsons was on at 6:30. We went
through the dark, eerie woods. I
could sense thousands of insects
crawling all around us. I could hear
the song of the wind howling in our
ears. I could see spider webs hanging
from tree to tree.
Then we all stopped as we turned
around a slippery corner. Right in front
of our eyes was a horrific sight. It was
an old haunted house. The porch had
two stone gargoyles staring down at us.
It was a 3 storey crooked house . On the
roof the old stone tiles were crashing
down on the muddy drive. The old
garden was a huge patch of mouldy
grass with a dozen oak trees round the
perimeter. The fence was just a few
wooden blocks strapped to a long metal
wire.
We stared at the house for a while then Jack
mumbled to me, “I dare you George to stay
in that house for one whole night .” I froze
in terror. I was petrified by what Jack had
just said. I didn’t know what to do. But I
had to carry out the deed because if I didn’t
they would call me a wimp for the rest of
my life.
I stumbled into my house still in shock. I
packed my bags ready for the big night.
I called Ben and Jack and told them I
was going to do it. I grabbed my bags
and headed off to the mysterious house.
As I was going through the barren woods
I was thinking how I was going to
survive in the old haunted house. I had
covered a lot of ground from my house
and I was nearly at the slippery corner. I
kept on walking until I got to the dreaded
corner.
I went round the corner were we
had first seen the house. I
stumbled up to the terrifying
house and started to open the
creaky wooden door. As I pushed
the door gradually I started to
walk in and then I stopped dead
at the bottom of a creaking
staircase and that’s how I find
myself here now.
I slowly walked up the hardwood spiral
staircase and looked for a room that
wasn’t drenched with water and
covered in cobwebs. I finally found a
room that was just bearable to sleep in. I
lay down in an uncomfortable king
sized bed and shut my eyes and drifted
into a deep sleep.
I could hear noises of a woman
screaming and suddenly I sat up in the
bed and curled up into a ball because I
was so frightened. I didn’t think I would
survive the rest of the night.
It felt like I was being tortured all night. I
tried to get to sleep but every time I closed
my eyes I could hear a faint scraping on
the window then suddenly the creaky, old
bed snapped under me with a deafening
crash. Then everything went black.
I opened my eyes to see that the
sun was shining . I could see a
rainbow from outside the window.
I got out of the battered bed and
walked downstairs to the old door
and opened it to find Ben and Jack
with smiles on their faces.