Are You Scared Yet? by C.E.F. (books to read this summer txt) 📕

*(Chains sliding across a floor)*
“What was that?” we all said almost at the same time.
“I’m not sure.” I said, “Just don’t worry about it. It’s probably nothing.” Jane, “But I thought you guys didn’t have an upstairs.” “We don’t.” I reply.


We all just stand there and stare at one another. We are motionless until we hear the sound again. It was like someone was in the attic dragging chains across the floor. “Would your mom or her boyfriend be up there getting decorations down or something?” asks Abbe. “No. They aren’t even home. Mom is at work and he is visiting his dad.” I say, “Plus we don’t have decorations up there.” “Then what was that?” Abbe and Jane ask. “I’m not sure. When I was little we had a ghost in the house and my mom did something and it went away. I saw it twice in my mom’s room before I told her and she made it go away.” I said. Jane,” Wow that’s kind of creepy. I’ve never seen a ghost before only in movies. If I see it I might die.” “I think someone should go up there and look around.” Says Abbe. “Ok miss brave one you can do it then.” Jane and I reply. Abbe,” Well you’ve seen one before C.C. and it’s your house so you can do it.” I reply,” Fine, since you’re both too chicken I guess I’ll have to unless one of you wants to suck it up?” They both just stared at me and I know that I’m going up there.


I’ve only been up there a couple times because we used to keep our Christmas tree up there. I didn’t know what to expect. I thought maybe, if I was lucky it would be a mouse or something. To my surprise nothing was up there. But the weird thing was there wasn’t any chain up there either. “So did you find anything? What did you see? Did you find any chains or ghosts?” they both asked when I came down. “No. I didn’t see anything up there but boxes.” I answered to their questions.


We all sat there for a few minutes thinking to our selves. A couple minutes later my mother arrived home from work. Jane,” Should we tell her? Would she know anything?” “I don’t know but it’s worth a try I guess.” I say. When she gets in the door we are all standing there staring at her. “Alright, what did you do or what do you guys want?” mom asks. “Nothing we just want to ask you a few questions about something. That’s all.” Abbe says. Mother doesn’t look too happy but she gestures for us to ask. “Well we were in C.C.’s room when we heard something. It sounded like someone dragging chains across the attic. So C.C. went up there to look and nothing was up there.” Jane said. Mom says,” We don’t even own chains. Are you sure it wasn’t the TV or something?” “Yes mom. The TV was off and we all heard it. It was the creepiest thing ever!” I answer. Mom says,” Well I’m not sure what to say because I don’t have an answer. Maybe we have a ghost again. The only way we will find out is if someone sees it or hears it again.”


We all went into the bedroom again and started setting up the sleeping arrangements. Jane on the left, me next to her, Abbe next to me, and my dogs next to her. We laid there and talked for a few minutes and then got up to go find a movie to watch. When we came back it was cold in the room. I looked to see if my window was open. It wasn’t and the fan wasn’t on either.


I didn’t think anything of it because my room is usually cold, but it seemed colder to me. But I still ignored it. We lay in our spots and I turned on the movie. After about 40 minutes or so into the movie we all we huddled together to keep warm. “It’s so cold in here! We need more blankets.” Jane says. So we all go in the living room and get more blankets. Abbe says,” Can we watch the movie in here because it’s warmer?” “Let’s just stay in the room. We will warm up soon because we have more blankets.” Jane said. “Fine.” says Abbe. We finished the movie and started talking. Slowly we all started drifting off to sleep. But was soon awaken to a crash and then the same noise from before. “Abbe? C.C.? Did you hear that?” asks Jane. We both answered,” Yeah…..” We all sat up and Abbe turned on the light. We just sat there and listened. We heard it again. We looked at one another and one by one got up and left the room. Abbe, Me, Jane, the dogs following behind. My mom just stared at us as we filed out of the room. “So I take it you heard it again?” asks mom. “Yeah and this time there was a crash then the chains.


The crash is what woke us up.” I replied. “Crash? What crash? I didn’t hear a crash. Maybe you had a dream about it.” Mom said. “So we all had a dream about the same thing at the same time and we woke up at the same time? No mom, there was a crash and we heard it. So now what do we do?” I say. “Just go to bed we can figure it out in the morning. Because I don’t think it will bother you guys anymore tonight.” Mom says. But she was wrong. It woke us up 3 more times by a crash and we all felt something move our blankets down. We all just huddled together and tried not to flip out. We didn’t want to wake mom up. She would not have been too happy. When one of us heard something that person tensed up and then we all did.


After about an hour we all took out pillows and blankets and went into the living room. We slept in there the rest of the night. We all got up around 7am the next day. When we got up we realized we were back in the room! Somehow in the middle of the night we must have moved back. You could tell the shock on our faces. “Why and how are we back in here? I don’t remember moving back in here or even getting up.” says Jane. “Neither do I.” says Abbe.


They both look at me for the same response but I was still dazed at the fact that we all were somehow back in my room where we were before. “CC? Are you ok?” asked Abbe. They just kept staring at me as I looked around the room for a clue or something to tell me how it is we are back in here. Jane asks, “What if it was the ghost? Maybe it dragged us in here or made us walk in here while we were sleeping?” Abbe and I just stared at her. Then we think about what she said. We all look at our legs and arms for marks to see if we were dragged. Nothing, just like I suspected. We searched around the room and then the living room. We didn’t find anything obvious.


So we finally went in the attic. Instead of just one of us we all went up. We walked around the whole attic. Abbe stopped, she was frozen with fear. Standing in front of her was a white floating apparition. We all just stood there watching it. It was white and it looked like it had chains draped over in and some of them were touching the floor.”D…do…do you guys s…see that?” asked Abbe.


It started moving towards us. We were frozen. Then all of a sudden it disappeared. I think Abbe ran faster than a cheetah out of the attic. After her Jane and I followed. When we got out I think Abbe was the whitest of us all. She looked like she was dead. After we shut the attic door we all walked into the living room and sat on the couch. Jane and I looked at Abbe. “Do you think we’re just crazy? If we tell someone they’ll surely send us to the crazy house. What should we do?”


Me and Jane looked at each other and then back at Abbe. She was right; people would think that we were crazy. After we calmed down and got our color back we all agreed to never speak of it again.


Jane and Abbe went home 2 or 3 hours later. After they left I decided to lay down and take a nap. I was tired. Around 7 o-clock my sister gets home. I was sleeping until she slammed the front door shut. I opened my eyes and she was looking at me, so she must have slammed it on purpose.


"Well hello Savnna. Thanks for being so quiet so I could sleep." I say sarcasticly. "Oh your welcome. Wheres mom? How long have you been sleeping? Whats for dinner?" she answers. "What is this the 20 question game? Cause I don't want to play that right now." I reply. She says," No I'd just like to know. So when did Abbe and Jane go home?" "About 2 hours ago. And you'd know this stuff if you were'nt at Alesia's all the time." I said. She stormed of to her bedroom. After she slammed the door shut I dosed back off to sleep.


About 9pm mom and Eddie get home. They slammed the door but not on purpose." I wonder how long shes been sleeping?" says mom. Eddie replys," Probably not that long." They go into the kitchen to put the grocceries away. I decide to get up since Im obviously not going to get anymore sleep. I walk into the kitchen rubbing my eyes. " WEll good morning! Did you guys hear the noise anymore?" said mom." Yes we did so we went up." I say. "And? What happened? Did you guys see anything?" she says. "Ummm.... no. We just saw a few spiders but thats all. I guess it went away or something." I say. Eddie says," Well it could have been your imagination." Yeah, sure, our imagination. Since we all heard it at the same time! I choose not to fight those "battles" with him because he thinks hes smarter than me, so I let him think what ever floats his boat. "Yeah your probably right Eddie." I say. " When am I ever wrong?" he says.


After that night there was no more visits. If you think ghosts are fact I cant make you think other wise. But Im telling this from my eyes. So beware, and never go into the attic if you think a ghost is up there.