The prom night(Pencilly writes) The cold breeze past us.
I stare at my phone and it is still dark, I have log in into every app on it but it is still blank and everything is still the same as it was from the night before.
"Play my game"
That is the message I keep seeing on them along with a clown head GIF.
I open my inbox and I have same hundred unread messages
"What are you doing?" I raise my head up at Stephanie.
"Getting prepared for the night ofcourse." She pause in-between her makeup "It is our graduation night."
"I know." I say almost yelling.
"Are you still angry about Calvin?" She said to me.
"He was my date but you took him so what else should I do?"
Stephanie looks at me, she looks sad and to her own thinking she thought she looks pitiful but I know how happy she is inside, I can hear her heart beating and mind is about to blow out, I feel voices screaming inside my head.
"You know I'm only trying to help you?" She says looking at the ground again.
I look at her, she is so innocent that it's almost scary and even if she tries to hide it, I can see right through her and she knows I know "Don't worry it is all good, it doesn't matter."
Kill her' they say to me
"Am sorry, Cassy."
"Keep it to yourself."
Stephanie is not as gentle as she talks, she is a monster inside.
But me? I started having this strange reaction after getting bitten by a red spider, the spot has become red and it keeps growing pink and it hurts.
This incident happened during our school excursion last week when our home teacher guess that we go on an excursion as the goodbyes, the students didn't pay because the head of the school suggest that since we're A list student the bill is on the school.
we choose to go to a haunted house and we take some candy and sweets with us because they're cheap and there will be plenty of other times where no one would bother us anyway. We were going there to see The Phantom of the Opera but then he decided to scare us. He jumped out the window and we run away because of that, we ended up parting ways and after I was on my own.
I tour around alone, am usually known as a quite student because of I have no friends, I came across a lot of scary things and I got scared to death once and now I won't ever go near the place and I have a black eye.
I went to a local park and sat on a bench, the leaves in front of me is covered by green and orange leaves and the sun is warm but it's too cold and rainy today for me to enjoy the scenery.
I look at my phone and it is still dark, I have log in into every app on it but it is still blank and everything is still the same as it was from the night before.
I open my inbox and I have same hundred unread messages
"Play my game"
That is how it started.
As I stare at my phone, I see a figure on the floor and I look up to see a woman covered in red spiders, I could tell that it is a woman but I don't get if it is real or not, it is so scary, I look at her face and smiles because she has this smile on her face and when the lady moves, I see a small creature behind her. It runs back to her and starts crawling inside of the spiders which then begin moving like snakes.
Then, I hear people talking, they sound really distant because they are speaking very fast. The spider lady turns to me and starts laughing hysterically.
I stand up but the spider lady is too fast and she grabs me and she bites me, my skin starts changing, turning into a different shade of red and then it gets bigger...
I'll see you off." I stand before she did and head toward the door.
I walk away not waiting for her and as I pass by the basement door, I hear strange voices chanting and murmuring too, I place my head on the door and and listens but as if the spider strain is responding to the sounds, my body glues to the wall and I feel controlled by the voices and spiders, I want to listen to it but it is impossible, I try to move away from the basement door but somehow my feet stay stuck to the ground. Then I heard a voice.
My eyes twitches and I feel like tasting blood and I find myself standing but again, it wasn't a daydream was it?
I walk downstair and my eyes meet at four with my stepmom. She has a towel around her and she looks terrible, I can guess that her husband abused her again, she manages to smile at me while I look away.
Just at the doorstep I turn to see Stephanie and my Dad eying each other with looks.
It has been going on for sometime now but I have not speak of it to anybody.
I stand by the door side which caught Stephanie of guide and almost falls.
She still smile and take a taxi at the roadside.
To her she thinks that I'm reacting to her stealing my boyfriend away but I haven't given it a thought at all.
One....two..three
I spot Calvin car driving into the street from the other junction, I reposition myself and smile, my wound inches but I let it be.
His car stops and he alight from it wearing a suit and he looks ready for the prom, this boy I loved yesterday is someone I want to kill with my two hand today, he is not at fault but for my confession he is.
"Cassy, ain't you going for prom?"
He ask as a greeting.
"I'm waiting for you be to here so I can go with you and Stephanie."
He walks to the door and looks at me.
I know what he wants to ask.
"She is inside, getting dressed she wants to look pretty for you."
I can't tell him Stephanie was gone, I was the one who called him to pick Stephanie up.
He smile.
He is hoping to get her at the prom but she is gone like death.
He walks in and my stepmom wasn't at the dinning anymore, he sits down and he looks comfortable the first time he was in this house he came for me but now? For stephanie?
I pour him a jug of water and swift it to him.
Just as I want to sit he ask "What are you doing?"
And I can't answer "wanting to rip you apart right?" and he looks confused "you're still mad?"
He takes the glass and gulps it down.
I take the glasses and put it on the table and he looks confused "I was told you have been sassy at home lately."
"Seems like you and my step sister talked a lot?"
He look at me "Yes, we did. She likes to tell stories about you at school."
I look at him, "Oh yeah? And what do you think about them?"
He look at me "she seems very optimistic about you."
I ignore him I hear voices calling my name and I walk to it, all of the voices seems like they are coming from the basement, the door which was close is now opened and the voices gets louder now and I can hear my name.
I walk into the basement and already it is one of my plan, my stepmom, her husband is a carpenter has a lot of tool in his basement but I am looking for a saw.
Suddenly the door close tight, I hear light taps on the wall,rattling bones, scurrying rats, hushed whispers…and the slow drip, drip, drip, I can hear them, it haunting. I did not feel bad or scared for it.
My wound inches.
I continue my search through the basement, slowly my vision goes darker and darker but nothing seemed wrong, the basement is big and wide but nothing stands out as odd, it is just a normal basement.
I walks to way I hear the voice from, the red, oozing stain in the ceiling boards, blood is dripping from up there, a drop fall on my lips and it taste like a man.
I keep walking to another room and it is quiet and creepy, the sound of my steps echoes throughout the whole building as I reach a certain corner.
The voice gets louder, the footsteps stop abruptly as my ears catch it, someone's voice is here and it sounds familiar.
I walk in further and fear waves send in my body as I stare ahead looking at my dad's lifeless body being feast on by bees and other small insert and some part of his body has been caught off.
I didn't feel touch but he is my father.
Then a footstep approach and a man appears dirty and unkept and I have a feeling that he had been living in the basement for so long.
I move back as he came into the light, he is covered in spiders like the one that bit me before the place I was bitten suddenly hurts and I feel like something is growing in it and my flesh tear, my eyes come blind and my mind changes.
When my eye opens, another body has been joined, stephanie's body is hanged on the ceiling and it ha been caught into half, one side on a table with the dirty man cutting it into pieces and another one hanged.
A hand with long nails appear from my back and stretch to me a knife and a picture of Calvin, I recognize the hand as my stepmothers.
"Let us fight our enemies together."
I read her mind like as I am controlled by some demons, I walk out of the basement with the knife and spot Calvin still waiting, my wound has disappears and I feel some other person in me but that smell of blood is not gone.
Calvin looks at me weirdly "Do you work at a butcher shop now?"
I walk slowly to him and he starts to get up, he becomes terrified and swift to the back but I grab on his cloth
The door bell rings.
There are Stephanie parents, They said they got a call from my home phone that something happens to Stephanie, I urge them in and stare at the lonely street before closing the door.

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