The Haunted House

I and Rishit were best friends, Everything which we did was together. Be it in serving detentions in school, teasing classmates or even playing.

One day at school all our classmates decided for a picnic to a haunted house. One night we set out for the haunted house to reach there by the next morning. When we reached there, all my classmates were very scared at first but soon when their nerves had relaxed, the door of the bungalow opened by itself and a voice from inside said, "Welcome to the Haunted House." Soon later a voice of screeching, a baby crying, and an evil laughter was heard. Everyone started shivering. As we stepped into the house the large iron gates and all the doors and windows of the bungalow closed. Everyone started disappearing. In fact, everyone was at the same place but we couldn't see each other.

Then, we started our journey exploring the bungalow. I saw a room suddenly appear in front of me and its door said, "The Room of Sacrifices". Everyone started appearing but there were two copies of the same person. Of which one was the fake copy and the other was the person himself. I opened the door and went in, everyone including the copies followed me. I saw an AK 47 kept in front of me and it said, "If you shoot the real copy, your friend would be saved but instead you would be killed."By mistake I shot the fake copy and as a result my real friend disappeared instantly. When we had come here we were 36 students in all but now we were only 35 students left.

In a blink of my eye, I was standing in front of the iron gates at the entrance of the bungalow. Slowly, slowly some of my classmates started appearing in front of me. I counted them and they were just 17 and including me we were just 18. All the classmates thinking that they would also disappear went out of the iron gates without even thinking of their lost friends. But I stood there crying bitterly waiting for the next morning.

The next morning I again entered the house to look for my friend. I was carried to the same place where I had shot the fake copy of my friend. Some pictures appear in front of me. They were my friends but totally deformed. They were very weak and weary, he didn't even have the strength to speak. When I went to hug him, he fell down. I told him to say something but the only word he said was, "Go!"Suddenly something occured to me as my friends and I was standing at the same place with my friends standing before them. The same thing had occurred to me as my friends.

They had fulfilled their promise of keeping him safe till the but I was stubborn in my decision to not go from there. They had proved that they were true friends of mine.