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“Are you aware all the flowers are, you know, dead?” I gestured to the vases of dried, shriveled foliage dotting the house. “Why, yes. Everything in here is dead.” I rolled my eyes a little, for a haunted house attraction it really wasn’t very scary, it made my wonder why my friends panicked so much when I decided to come here. I started to walk towards the basement stairs but the shriveled corpse of another man blocked my way. “Stop..” He croaked out dryly. I busted out laughing. “Guys really? This is the worst haunted house ever, no spooky basement tour?” Both the man who had greeted me at the door and the one in the corpse costume gave me a weird, almost pitying look. “Haunted.. house?” The doorman asked me. “Well yeah, that’s what this is isn’t it?” I started to feel a little uncomfortable, after all, these guys were acting like I was crazy. “Oh no..” The corpse-costume guy turned to the doorman urgently. “Dan we need to get her out of here, and fast.” The doorman, I guess his name was Dan, nodded. “I know Finn. You’ll have to help me though.” I was confused and uneasy, was this all a part of the haunted house? I couldn’t tell anymore, I felt my anxiety going up and tried to take deep breaths, I closed my eyes and after a few moments I felt calmer, that was until I opened my eyes and looked down. “MY HANDS! MY F*CKING HANDS!” I started screaming in horror. All the skin on my hands from the wrist down had rotted away, leaving only gross clumps of skin over shriveled muscle and dry bone. “Yeah, that’s how I reacted too.” Finn chuckled softly, a small smile creeped onto his face revealing that the inside of his mouth was also rotted.. that’s when I decided that it was real. “As long as you get out by sunrise, and don’t go in the basement, you’ll return to normal.” He continued. Then Dan spoke up from behind me “Yes, Yes, as the tale goes ‘All those who enter here, by these rules must abide, leave the basement stones unturned, soon ye shall find, your body leaves, your soul remains and if the sun rises while you stay inside this house, you shall never leave, and time will pass, you will die inside this house, your residence forevermore, you will never ever make it out, because there is no door.’” “And how will I make it out if there’s no door?!” My eyes started watering at the thought of never seeing my friends again. “And what the hell kind of place is this?!” “It’s the Ellis Residence.” I glanced at Finn again, this time less in shock and more in confusion. “The Ellis Residence? As in the home of the founder of our town, Baron Ellis?” Finn nodded. “But Baron Ellis was my great-grandfather...” Both Finn and Dan looked shocked. “My name is Quinn Ellis. I’m the heir to this place!” I said more to myself than to them. “That’s right my darling! And Great-Grampy is just so glad you came to visit him!” I knew that warm booming voice that was coming from the stairs, I had heard it a thousand times in my younger years. I turned around and there he was, my Great-Grandpa and he didn’t even look dead! “Grampy?” I felt tears rushing to my eyes as he came down the stairs. I couldn’t help myself anymore, I ran to him like a little kid, reaching out my arms to hug him. He smiled down at me, his arms wrapped around me, calming me. “Ah it’s been so long my dear child.” I grinned, tears starting to fall from my eyes. “Now now, none of that.” He wiped away the tears on my face with his thumb, and with one final smile, gently kissed me on the forehead. “Thank you for setting me free my dear. I love you.” He began to disappear, melting away into a cloud of smoke, as he faded he grabbed my hands and whispered to me urgently. “It’s almost sunrise Dan and Finn will show you the door, but hurry, I don’t want this curse to be passed onto you like it was to me. Go!” And then he was gone. All that was left of him was a small silver pocketwatch, the pocketwatch he had always carried with him when he visited me. It had my name inscribed on it and I couldn’t leave it behind, I picked it up before turning to Dan and Finn.

“He said to get me out of here. Will you help me?” “Yes.” Finn gently took me by the arm and began leading me, we went back in the direction of the front door, the walk seemed to be much longer than it was before. Dan and Finn escorted me one on each side of me, by the time we reached the door I could just barely see the first ray of morning light. The sun was almost risen. Dan opened the door and I took one last look at him and Finn. “Can’t you come with me? You don’t deserve to be stuck here... After all, according to Grampy I did break the curse.” Dan smiled apogetically. “I’m afraid to say that I don’t really want to leave, I’m quite happy here.” I rolled my eyes. He was spouting bullshit. “But your trapped inside a corpse body!” Dan and Finn chuckled. “Well I guess we don’t have anything left to lose.” Dan grinned, grabbing my hand, I reached over to Finn, grabbing his hand and together we walked out the door, just as the sun rose overhead. And suddenly, they were human again, and so was I, my hands weren’t rotten anymore and neither were Dan’s or Finn’s bodies.“Dan we’re normal again!” Their eyes lit up as they looked at themselves. “Congrats guys! Now let’s all go back into town and head home, this place gives me the creeps!” We all burst into giggle fits, it was stupid but we were just so relieved that we were free. I didn’t realize until a little while later that Dan and Finn were the missing kids from town. They had gone missing about three years ago after being dared to spend a night in the old haunted house up on the hill, AKA my Great-Grandfather’s mansion. Nobody linked their reappearance to me, how could they? They just assumed that I bumped into them on my way back to town after getting lost and that the boys had simply gotten lost as well while they were up there and that all of us found our way back by pure luck. It’s a pretty stupid story but I guess some people would say what really happened was even stupider. I say whatever. After all, not only did I almost die, I got two hot boyfriends out of it! So if you’re ever lonely do what I did! “NO! NOBODY DO THAT!” “DAN I’M TRYING TO EPILOGUE!” “YOU’RE GIVING HORRIBLE ADVICE THOUGH!” Ugh.. “SHUT UP YOU TWO!” Anyways, fine, don’t do what I did, just ask someone out. Anyways that’s all for now, this is Quinn Ellis, and I’ll see you in the next Episode of “Quinn’s Paranomal Adventures!” The end.

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