After helping Allison getting out of her dress, me and her escorted Max and Dani to the old museumn.
Not gonna lie, I was nervous of seeing that place again. Last time I was there was a few days after my mom's funeral and after that I never had the courage to go back there. But I was also excited at the same time for going back there. It was a mix of emotions.
"Legend has it that the bones of 100 children are buried within these walls." Allison seemed to want to make Dani more scared of that place than before and we weren't even there yet.
"Oh, great." I touched on Dani's shoulder trying to reassure her.
"Relax, even if that's true, that means that they're dead. No one comes back from the dead." I told her.
"Cool, that makes me feel so much better." She replied, sarcastically.
We stopped right in front of the gate and stared at the old decrepit house. The place was abandoned and had no security, which made it really easy to sneak in.
I started walking on the small stairs of the entrance of the house, and they made a noise, making Dani jump. "Ugh."
The door didn't had a lock, so we didn't need the old key that Allison stole from her parents. She opened the door and was the first one to enter the house, but it was obvious that no one cleaned that place in the past years because as soon as we entered the house we started to cough.
I also kind of wish that we had brought some flashlights or something, because it was really dark there to make it scarier.
"I can't see a thing." Dani complained.
"Well, there's a light switch around here somewhere." Allison said.
"Allie, my love, unless your parents have been paying for the electric bill of a place that they don't own anymore, I wouldn't count on that." I replied, touching on the table, trying to find a candle or something. "I think I remember of this place selling lighters, maybe they still have it."
"Found it." Max said, holding a lighter. He used it to help Allison to find the switch, and, for my surprise, the thing was still working because the lights of the place were on now.
"Guess I was wrong." I whispered, grabbing another lighter from the same place that Max had found his.
I was really regretting not bringing a jacket so I decided to try and use the lighter's small flame to warm me up a little.
"Here's the original cauldron." Allison said, giving a tour of the place to the siblings.
I stopped paying attention to what she was saying as soon as I noticed my favorite part: the spell book.
"Allie, look." I grabbed her hand and dragged her towards it. Max and Dani walked to where we were, curious. "This is the spell book of Winifred Sanderson. It was given to her by the devil himself. The book is bound in human skin, and contains the recipes for her most powerful and evil spells." I told them, forcing a scary voice to come out of my mouth.
"I get the picture." Dani replied, clearly sick of that place.
"What's that?" I was so foccused on the book that I didn't even notice Max standing behind him so close that I could feel his breathing on my neck. I think I deserved a medal for not folding.
I looked at what he was refering to. "That's the Black Flame Candle." I explained, clearing my throat.
Max started walking towards the candle's direction, seeming interest it it. He started reading from the inscription. "Black Flame Candle. Made from the fat of a hanged man." He was reading while also making a scary voice, which made us chuckle, except for Dani, who was clearly frightened by that place. "Legend says that, on a full moon, it will raise the spirits of the dead when lit by a virgin on Hallowen night."
He walked away from the candle, still holding the lighter. "So let"s light the sucker and meet the old broads." He smirked.
Dani shook her head, not agreeing with his plan.
"Wanna do the honors?" He asked Allison, ignoring his sister's disapproval.
"No, thanks."
He looked at me. "Liz?"
"No, I happen to love my life." I refused.
I could see in his eyes that he was going to do it, but before I could stop him, someone else did. Or should I say, something else. Out of nowhere, a black cat jumped of a counter to Max's back, scaring the rest of us. Allison held Dani while I ran into him.
Max fell on the floor and I took the chance to grab the cat off of him, but it slipped out of my hands and ran away somewhere else.
"Stupid cat!" Max held my hand and I helped him get up.
I looked at Dani, who was holding Allison's arm like her life depended on it and that's when I decided that we had seen enough. "Okay, Max, you've had your fun. It's time to go."
Allison held Dani's hand and walked her to the door as I walked behind them but we stopped once we realized that Max was standing there, still looking at the Black Flame Candle. We could all see in his eyes what he wanted to do.
"Max, she's right. Let's go." Allison demanded, but he didn't seem to hear her.
I walked towards him and the candle, starting to feel frustrated. "Max, you know those characters in scary movies that make dumb decisions and makes us want to yell at our screens? That's what I'm feeling right now."
"Come on, it's just a bunch of hocus pocus." He shook his shoulders. That just made me wish that I had just left the cat finish the job.
"Max, I'm not kidding this time. It's time to go." Dani demanded, but she was obviously ignored.
Max just rolled his eyes and lit the lighter.
"Max, don't!" I grabbed his arm, trying to stop him, but it was too late. The candle was lit.
The light of the candle went from being orange to black until it wasn't there anymore. Dani screamed when each light bulb in the room exploded, leaving us in the darkness. Before that I saw a change in Max's face, of him finally realizing that he fucked up.
The room was silent, with the exception of the presence of a strong wind that felt like it was warning us that something, or someone, was coming. We all exchanged looks with each other. That's where I noticed that I was holding Max's arm very tightly, but in that moment neither of us really cared about that.
Max looked at me and I could see that he wanted to leave, but before he could say anything, the ground started shaking, and the room was illuminated with a green light.
I wanted to run towards Allison and Dani who were both on the other side of the place, screaming in fear, but the little earthquake or whatever that was, was stopping me from moving. Still holding onto Max's arm, he hugged me tightly trying to keep us from falling.
All of a sudden the shaking stopped and the light faded. We all looked at each other, holding our breaths, still not sure of what just happened.
Sometimes I would have trouble breathing when I felt overwhelmed but it was usually over school stuff. Now imagine how I was feeling at the moment.
Max seemed to notice, because he didn't let go of me, even now. "Are you okay?" He asked. "What happened?"
We all looked at him, in disbelief and surprised with his stupidity.
"A virgin lit the candle." Dani took the words right out of our mouths.
As soon as she said that, every light in the room started to light up again, including the fireplace in front of us, making me jump at the intensity of the fire.
I froze when a manic laughter was heard, coming from the outside of the house, sending a shiver down my spine and all of the sudden, the door banged open.
I caught a glimpse of three women before I grabbed Max by his hand and we hid behind the counter. Allison and Dani where also hidden behind the door, while the three women entered the place.
We warned Max to not light that damn candle, but I don't think that any of us was expecting for the Sanderson Sisters to be stooding there in front of us, looking more alive than ever.