Its a short story

It was a fine October afternoon, with only 2 more days until Halloween. The 3 friends Emily, Ella, and Emma (the 3 E’s) were playing at the park after school. Emily had blonde short hair up to her shoulders, with no freckles, a round face and blue eyes. The twins Ella and Emma both have no freckles and black hair. Ella has a round face with her black hair up to her bum, and has a bright red headband at the top of her head with sort of curled bangs, and also brown eyes. Emma has a round face with her black hair in 2 short pigtails, with brown eyes. As they were chit chatting and playing games, when Emily looks at her watch and realizes that it’s already 4:00pm, she announces it to her friends and they head for home. On the way home, they take the shortcut in the woods because it was already getting late. As usual, they pass the abandoned castle right in the clearing after the woods. The castle had purple shingles at the top with some missing, and grey rough looking rock bricks, plus a wooden door. As they pass the castle, Ella stops and dares Emma “I dare you to go into the castle and bring something back for proof” Emma stammers “b-but'' Ella smirks and says “of course, you can chicken out like a chicken, if you’d like. Bock-booock!” Emma's face is red now “fine!!! I’ll do it, but after I do it,then YOU have to do it” Ella scoffs “yeah, sure” she picks at her nails. Emily tries to stop Emma, but she won’t listen. Emma walks toward the castle and opens the doors. “Creeeeeeeeak!” Emily and Ella watch as Emma disappears into the darkness. An hour later, Emma’s still not back. Ella is sobbing “this isn’t what I expected! I thought that she would just quickly grab something and come back out!!! Wahhhhh!” “It’s not your fault, Ella. Although I DID hear faint screaming. I KNEW that I should have went to save her then!”. They call both homes and say that they are still at the park and will sleepover at the twins house for Emily’s parents, and Emily’s house for the twin’s parents. They also said not to call or text, because everything’s just fine. After they hang up, they hold hands and go into the castle. 2 steps into the castle, a Jack-O-Lantern ghost which had a Jack-O-Lantern head and orange ghost drapes. As it was floating in the air, it said “please get out, or my master will mail you 2 lovely ladies'' then a scream came from upstairs “Peterrrrrrr! Get up here, and help me tie this girl up! We’re shipping her on Sunday, so we need to hurry!!!” Peter fearfully responds “yes, Masterrrr!” Peter shoves Emily and Ella out, shuts the door, and maybe left? Email and Ella keep trying to open the door, but it won’t even budge. 10 minutes later, they give up and decide to try again tomorrow. Ella starts crying a lot “Waaaaaah! It’s all my fault! If I hadn’t dared Emma to go in, then we would have been home by now! Waaaaaaaah!!!!” Emily tried her best to act calm “Well at least tomorrow is Halloween Eve, and we have no school. Tomorrow, we can come again, but with a plan.”Ella calms down to little sobs “But where do we sleep for tonight?” Emily hadn’t even thought about that. She thinks for a moment, then has an idea. “For tonight, we can sleep in our Treehouse that we made last summer. As long as we keep the lights off, they won’t find us'' Ella is wiping her tears now, and looks okay. The 2 girls run to Emily’s house and quietly sneak into her backyard, and fall fast asleep. The next morning, they come up with a plan and dash back to the abandoned, or not-so-much-abandoned castle. When they get there, they look inside to make sure Peter isn’t there. Since he isn’t, they try to open the door… And it did!!! Once they were in, they took 5 very quick steps, and right before their 6th step, Peter the Jack O’Lantern Ghost stopped them. As soon as he appeared, the 2 girls split up: Ella to the left, and Emily to the right. 30 seconds later, they meet right back together in the kitchen that’s right behind Peter. As Emily and Ella look around to find a way to get to the stairs that are right beside Peter, they hear the same scream as before “Peeeeeterrrrr! Get up here and serve me a glass of milk!” Peter sighs and yells back “Yes Masterrrr!” this time, the voice upstairs angrily yelling “How many times do I have to tell you?!  Call me Master Ernold, and not Master!!” Now, Peter is obviously annoyed. “I’m very sorry, Master Ernold!” While they are busy yelling, Emily and Ella run out of the kitchen, dash upstairs… And what they think they can finally see Emma again, they find 20 identical doors. Luckily, all the doors are numbered “1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 36, 29… Wait what?! 36?! 29?! How are we ever going to find Emma?” says Ella in a little loud, surprised tone. Emma immediately covers her mouth. Emily goes to the end of the hall, and while pointing to a door numbered 762, she says we’ll start with this one since it’s farthest from the stairs. Evil people usually don’t like to be found” “You. Are. So. Right!” says Ella. The 2 girls hold hands and open the door. The room is pitch black. But they hear a voice. “Ahhhhhh!!! Shut the door! Keep it dark! You know the drill, Peter!” Obviously, Ernold thinks it’s Peter. Perfect, think the girls.They quickly shut the door, and as they walk in, their eyes get used to the dark and they can almost see normally. While they search the room for Emma, the door opens and the real Peter floats into the room, and shuts the door. They really quickly scan the room  one last time, and find Emma all tied up. “Mmmph! Mmmm mm!”(Help! Help me!)  whimpers Emma. “Oh, do, be, quiet.” says Ernold, annoyed. Emily and Ella quickly untie the rope, but Emily decides to keep it. Ella and Emma quickly crawl out of the room, but Emily stays. When Ella and Emma shut the door, Emily attacks. She grabs hold of something, and it struggles to get out. “Ahhhhh! Help!” says the captured figure. The other moving thing scrambles out of what seems like a secret door. Emily ignores the other thing, and concentrates on whatever she grabbed hold of. She finally manages to tie the thing up, and gets out of the room after making sure the rope is tied tightly. The 3 girls high five each other, but when they look into the room, they realize that the person they captured wasn’t Ernold, but Peter. 

TO BE CONTINUED...

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