PROLOGUE

\*Jacob’s POV\*

The carnival closed a few hours ago so my friends, James, Jake, and I went to go check it out since it looked cool at night.

We arrived at the carnival around midnight and we climbed over the wall on some trash dumpsters we saw so we could get in.

“Guys, we should go into the tent and see how it looks at night!” Jake suggested. I

smirked and started heading to it with the boys.

We then walk into the tent. It’s very dark so we took out the flashlight we brought and turned it on. It flickered.. Flick, Flick….. Then it turned on, causing the room in front of us to illuminate. We looked around and found a staircase at the back of the tent that goes far down. We point the flashlight down the stairs, but it is too far so we can’t see the bottom. It's pitch black past the light of my flashlight.

“Guys.. Are you sure we should do this?” James asked, I can hear the concern in his voice. I rolled my eyes and continued down the stairs. He wasn’t much of a horror or adventurous person, but he followed in my footsteps anyway.

When we got to the bottom there was a very tall, heavy door. We pushed it open and walked in to see.. A bunch of cages and some skeletons. We all went pale as we felt a rush of wind on our backs and the sound of a creaky door slamming closed. I whipped my head around and saw one of the clowns of the circus there with his fake hammer prop. It had black and half white hair, plus it wore clown makeup.

“Hey dude, sorry, we didn’t mean to-” Before James could finish, the clown hit him in the head with the hammer. But instead of it squeaking, like we thought it was going to do, we heard the smack and squelching of blood, then felt the blood hit Jake and I’s faces. We were quiet for a second before we started screaming. He hit Jake in the leg and I heard the crack of his bone and I saw it. I saw the blood pouring out, his bone was showing. I yelled louder and I ran down a pathway. I could hear the clown's laughs, Jake’s screams, it was horrifying. I ran until I ran into something and fell. I looked up and saw a giant, buff clown that had curly hair in two pigtails to the side, half red and the other half blue. Then it injected me with something and I passed out.

I can't breathe, or, that's how it feels. My head is a pounding sensation that sends shivers over my whole body. All I can think of is how the last thing I said to my mom was "I hate you", and that I can't change my words.

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