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CHAPTER 3 Confrontations

Nothing happened for the rest of the night. After breakfast, the next morning, Brandi, Hollie and Michelle went into town. They reached the grocery store and went in. The same shopkeeper was there but the lady wasn�t. �Who was that lady who told us that story?� asked Michelle. �Ay that was no story. It�s true,� said the shopkeeper. �Her name is Margarita Simms. She lives down in the valley ten minutes away. Broad Lane. Can�t remember the number,� he added. �Thank you,� said Hollie and got in their van and headed towards the valley.

After twenty minutes they came to a small house with a small brown, wooden fence around it. They spotted Margarita outside doing some gardening. �Morning!� shouted Brandi as she got out of the car. Margarita looked up with a surprised expression. �We�ve come to ask you a favour,� said Michelle. �Could you please stop hassling us late at night. It�s not funny and it�d not clever. It only started when you told us that silly story,� she added. �That was a true story. Anyone can tell you that! And I haven�t been doing anything.� defended Margarita. �How do you know that? Someone could have just made it up?� said Hollie. They make their way back to the house.

Later that afternoon, a deliveryman comes to the house with a parcel from the grocery store that the girls had ordered the day before. Brittany opened the door and took the parcel. �Thanks,� she said to him. �Before you go, have you heard any stories about this place? Only we were told a couple of things by this lady.� The delivery guy told Brittany what he had heard about the place and his story was exactly the same as Margarita�s.

That night everyone slept in their rooms. Claire couldn�t sleep so she left Brittany sleeping in her bed and went downstairs to the kitchen to get a drink. She drank a glass of water then began to fill the glass again. The glass was half full when she thought she heard something. She turned off the tap. She could hear faint whispering. �Get away from here it�s too dangerous!� Then another voice saying: �They will get you too!� Claire ran from the kitchen. She could see a shadow following her. She just got to the top of the stairs and she felt something grab her from behind. She fell backwards down the twenty steps to the bottom.

While Claire was falling, Brandi was having a terrible dream. She fell asleep at 3am. Before that she kept hearing voices in her head saying: �They will get you too!� over and over again, keeping her awake. Now something was disturbing her sleep�

Claire was in the kitchen getting a glass of water. She filled the glass up and started walking back towards the stairs. Brandi was seeing this as if she was at the top of the stairs watching Claire. Claire was climbing the stairs while sipping her drink. She got to the top of the stairs and Brandi held out her hand towards her. Brandi could see a shadow walking up the stairs behind Claire but she couldn�t see what it was. Brandi saw a hand grab onto Claire�s right shoulder and Claire started to fall down the stairs. Her leg got caught behind her and she looked like a mangled heap at the bottom of the stairs. Brandi ran down the stairs and an old man was walking towards the door. He was tall with grey hair, a grey beard and grey eyes. He was wearing a thin white t-shirt under bright blue dungarees. Brandi noticed that he had a red bandana in his right hand and an axe in his left hand�

�CLAIRE!!� Brandi screamed as she woke up with a start. Toni woke up. �It�s alright Brandi. Just a horrible dream.� �But it seemed so real.� Toni got up and went over to Brandi�s bed on the opposite side of the room and sat next to her. Toni put her arm around her and the next thing they knew, they were waking up side by side the next morning by a scream coming from downstairs.
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