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It was a night of rain, there were a lot of lightning in the sky, the broken branches fell on the wet leaves and the wind blew.
Although Emily’s parents had forbidden her to go out, she got away from home by the terrace.
She couldn’t miss the appointment with her friend because that was the night of the bet. It consisted in: going inside the villages famous, abandoned cemetery, after midnight. They had to prove, entering the cemetery and passing a test. Emily and her best friend Judith had to cause to be accepted this test to join a cheerleader group.
The two girls met a few steps away from the gloomy and menacing cemetery.
As soon as they arrived, they immediately regretted what they were going to do, as the place was poorly illuminated and it was starting to rain.
Fear was taking over them. The two brave girls walked through the old rusty gate. As soon as they entered, they headed for a tomb, they wanted to remove the photo, of the deceased, on the gravestone: this was their courage test.
Judith pulled out a little knife and started fumbling with the picture.
Suddenly they heard strange sounds: of rustling leaves, and looming footsteps, heading towards them.
Afraid, they turned and they saw a frightening and eerie shadow with an axe in its hands. The spine-chilling view froze their blood, they looked at each other in the eyes and started running.
Judith stumbled and fell, Emily helped her up while the man started to shout words in an incomprehensible language.
They arrived at the gate, and while they were leaving the cemetery, the man seized Emily by her foot. She lost her shoe but managed to escape.
They ran home afraid, Emily also carried under her feet the sounds of that spooky night.
Unfortunately, the two girls didn’t join in the cheerleader group because they didn’t complete their test.
The next morning Emily and Judith were very concerned but at the same time determined to overcome the test, so they immediately go to the cheerleader group to ask a second chance.
The girls said them: “we will give you a second opportunity but, since you have failed the first, we aren’t sure you will be able to pass the second Anyway, the test is hard and you have to go to the old and terrifying madhouse in the downtown and make a video while you scout all the rooms and use all the old tools that were used many decades ago on the crazy people recovered there.
You have to do everything in one night from now and tomorrow at 8 a.m. we will wait for you at the Central Garden and you’ll give us the video. Is it clear?”
Scared of their request, the two girls said “yes” with a little voice and they run as fast as they could to realize this frightening task.
As they came home, Emily knew that this place was a lot of fear because she had heard so differents stories about this area, but she was very motivated and want to overcome this prove at any cost.
Judith, however, wants to let loose because she thinks it's a crazy idea. So she say to Emily: “no one has ever managed to get out of that place according to the stories that are narrated in the city”. Emily replied: “stop being cowardly for once and think about what you want most think to get part of the group!”.
Arrived at home, the two girls started to prepare their rucksacks. Emily dealt with the camera while Judith of the backpacks.
They were ready to go. For sure, they were frightened but they went there because the two girls wanted to success on the prove. When the two friends arrived, they were hesitant to get into because that place was scary but they kept going. When the doors opened, they remained surprised. It was big with a lot of rooms. Many of them were locked or ruined. There were also many writings on the walls that belonged to the patients. Of course, it was dirty and the stairs that brought from a flat to another seemed to be not really safe.
The girls started to explore the madhouse and Emily turn on the camera and Judith turned on another torch to illuminate well the place. They discovered that a lot of rooms were similar to each other, but only one captured their attention. It was big enough but it wasn’t what frightened them. The thing most scarier was writing that said: “I will kill them all.”.
When they entered in the room, suddenly the door shut and scared the life out of them. In the room to spare, there was only a feeble light but they could see clearly what there was in the area.
Judith tried to open the door, but it was pushed to the ground by a shadow.
In the corner of the room there were two wooden cups with which the two girls could protect themselves.
The shadow sometimes appeared in the darkness and only when it went to the shadows they could differentiate that shape.
Then they realized that he was a man who had been there for a long time and had made his house ashamed and they had disturbed him.
The man took Emily and Judith stood with the wooden cup in hand trying to think about how to save her friend.
Emily managed to shake his hand and get rid of her grip. Meanwhile Judith hit his head.
The man fell to the ground unconscious and the two girls managed to open the door and then escape.
The following day they brought the video made the evening before to the cheerleader group and they said that they had passed the test, so they managed to get into the team.
They went home and halfway through a shadow similar to that seen in the asylum, they began to think of the worst, but then realized that it was all fruit of their imagination and their life returned to normality.
to our Teacher and Classmates
It was a night of rain, there were a lot of lightning in the sky, the broken branches fell on the wet leaves and the wind blew.
Although Emily’s parents had forbidden her to go out, she got away from home by the terrace.