[Muffled sound]
Seconds later, they found themselves inside the large closet behind them with the same stinking smell that was even worse than it was outside. When the grip was loosen, they immediately tried to put up a fight.
[Shushing sound]
"Be quiet and don't move..that's how they find you.." whispered the boy.
"Who are you people?" asked Bradley in a distressing but low voice.
"The 'Gentlemen's Club'," said Tommy.
"What?"
"You're one of Jake's friend aren't you?" asked Tommy after switching on his flashlight.
[Sighing sound]
The boy wearing a red and white jacket looked disheveled, weak and not to mention smelly.
"How..How do you know that?" asked the boy who was probably around Jake's age.
"I've seen you before, at the store where Jake works..and the other guys.."
Bradley looked somewhat clueless as he was trying to remember whether he had seen him before.
"What happened here?" asked Tommy.
The boy looked pale, almost as if he was about to pass out at any moment. He started talking in a weak voice.
"It..this..this wasn't suppose to happen..Jake said that this place was empty..I heard that old man Hutchison was gone.."
"He was missing," said Bradley.
"Yeah..sure..whatever..anyway..uh..uh..so..so we came here with our bikes..and..sure enough..nobody was home..I saw his car but Jake said not to worry about it..Tiny then picks the front door..and we went inside..and..and he took us into the room.."
"You mean the office?" asked Bradley.
"Yeah..yeah..sure..whatever..um..ah..it was quite dark..and..and when we got in there..it was..uh..it was.."
"It was what?" asked Tommy.
"There..there was..uh..there was this door..on the floor..you know..like those metal ones we see on the television?.."
"Wait..you mean it was already opened?" asked Bradley.
"Yeah..yeah..sure..opened..Jake said he had it figured out or something earlier..and..and..uh..I was..[Sniffling]..I..I suddenly felt like something was wrong..I mean I know what we did was wrong but..but..this was different..like..like..something evil was lurking down there.."
Both of them noticed that the boy was starting to get teary.
"Then..[Sniffling]..then..[sniffling]..I wanted so bad to just quit the whole thing but they threatened anyone who wanted to back out as it was already way too late for that they said..so I had no choice but to follow them..we went down into..into that room..it's..it's..uh..metal..metal..everywhere..I remember that it was quiet..too quiet..so quiet that you'll hear even the smallest of sound..the guys were laughing and making fun of Mr Hutchison, saying that he was using that place to keep his dirty magazines and stuff.."
"The nerve of you people.." said Bradley.
"I swear!..I didn't say anything!..I stayed so far back!..hoping that we'll just finish it up quickly..[Sniffling]..but..then we got into that room..uh..it was..big..there was this..eh..dolls I think..you know..like those you see in the store wearing clothes and such?"
"Mannequins," said Tommy.
"Right..so..[Coughing]..I..I.." The boy then broke into tears.
"[Crying]..It..it happened so fast..I..didn't even get a good look at it..I saw Brock near a table at the far end..and the rest of the guys went to look at something on the table..they called me to take a gander but..but I was just so scared..the room itself scares me..then..then I heard them laughing again..I don't really know what they were looking at or what they were talking about..uh..[Coughing]..then..then..[Crying].."
Chapter 7: "Reverse duck" Revisited
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