Good News

We have had a lot o snowfall! At least I can sleep in! Today I got on the rail of the porch and jumped into a big snow pile! Other then the fact that got snow up my pant legs and froze out there, it was pretty fun😁❄⛄! I was also workinon my book that I am writing right now! It is a adventure book! But this is what I have so far:


                     Up In The Attic                By: Katelyn Hendershot        

    

                 Chapter 1

As we pulled up into the house, I had an uneasy feeling. Just the outside of the house made me feel sick. The paint was flaking off, broken windows, and the yard was covered in grass up to my knees. I could tell that no one has lived in this house for years!

"Hey Jared". My mother said. I didn't bother to answer her. I was mad because we had to move from Austin, Texas to whatever this place is.

"Jared, baby please answer me."

Even though I'm twelve years old, my mother still calls me a baby.

"Fine then, you win I have to go unpack. Are you at least coming in the house?"

I shake my head yes, then I open the door to get out. As I walk through the doorway, It feels like something doesn't want me in the house. A cold breeze runs down my spine and makes me shiver. I walk up the stairs to my room. As I begin to unpack I hear something fall above my head. I walk  out of my room into the hallway. I open the little hatch that leads to the attic and a flight of stairs drops down next to my feet. One by one I climb the ladder up to the attic. I peek my head up only to see a small window above a black bump on the floor. When I get all the way up into the attic, I see the black bump move! As I near it, it moves away farther and farther. I go to lift the cover and a head pops out and then a whole body stands up. I was so scared I couldn't move. It brings up its rotten flesh covered  hand and it points directly at me and says:

" you shouldn't be here. Get out and don't ever come back! " 

I tried to run but stumbled and fell to the floor. I quickly got up and climbed down the ladder as fast as I could. As I reached the second to last step I jumped and fell on the floor. My mom and sister came running up the stairs. Down the hall I lay on the floor staring up at the attic.

"Oh my god Jared are you ok!" Said my mom, her voice shaking. 

I look up at her and say:

" Something's in the attic!"

                         Chapter 2

She has an expression on her face that tells me that she doesn't believe me. "Go look!" I tell her. She popped her head up in the attic. "Nothing's up here Jared, it was probably your imagination!" "You just can't see it, there was a dead woman right there!" I yelled at her!"That's it." My mother yelled at me."Now your talking crazy!"

"No I'm not, I swear."I yelled back. "I saw something in the attic. It was a women. She stood up and told me to get out of the house!"

"'Jared, honey you are just exhausted from the trip. Go get some rest."

"No, I know what I saw, I don't need sleep, I need to find out what that thing was."

That evening I began to do some research on the house. I found a site that had some information about the house and the people. This is what it said: "There was a woman that lived in the house twenty years ago. Her name was Elizabeth Mcfallen. When she was a kid, she got bullied so badly that she ran away from home. She moved into this house two years after she had ran away. As the years went by, she could hardly show her face outside of her home. That night she committed suicide.Thunder cracked the sky, and lighting made the sky flicker. She went up to the attic, tied a rope onto a pole and hung herself. No one ever saw her again. Some people had come in a year after her death to remove her belongings. They said they saw a being up in the attic that looked like her. They weren't sure what it was. But no one ever lived in the house!

Soon after, the police shut the place down so no one would come in and steal anything."

After I had read the report, it felt like something was in the room. The door slammed shut and everything went dark. I quickly grabbed my flashlight from the drawer under my computer.

I felt something breathing on the back of my neck. It was cold and slow. 

"Hello, is someone there?" I asked not knowing if it was just my imagination again. I hear a moan come from the dark corner on the other side of my room."

"I know what happened to you Elizabeth. I want to help you find your way home."I said not knowing if she was really in the room. It started to move. Then slowly it walked out. I was terrified. I leaned back In my chair so far that it fell backwards.

"Who is this Elizabeth girl?" Anna said.

"What are you doing in here Anna? You know your suppose to knock!"

"I know but I didn't feel like it. So now it's your turn to start talking, who is Elizabeth?" My sister said.

"Well I've been doing research on the house and I found out that she died up in the attic. She had hung herself, and I think her ghost is still lurking in the dark corners!"

                        Chapter 3

"No way.No one died in our house, your lying." my sister said her voice shaking.

"I swear I'm not lying. Here look at this:

Elizabeth Mcfallen committed suicide after being bullied for years. Reporters say that she had hung herself up in the attic of her two story home. Some construction men had seen her ghost, but they weren't sure. Anna slowly scrolled down so she could see the picture the men had described to the police then she bolted out the door.

"I'm going to tell mom!" She said running down the stairs. I started running after her.

As I reached the bottom I could hear my sister telling my mom. I walked out and she stairs at me.

"Why did you search her? You should have never done that." My mother walked out of the room and my sister turns to me and says: " what were you thinking searching that woman." 

"I'm sorry blabber mouth, I'm not the one that had to tell mom!" I said yelling at her.

"Well then you shouldn't of told me." She said stuttering.

I walk out of the room and go back to my computer and wait. I wait for the old wooden floor to start creaking. I wait for Elizabeth.

Chapter 4

The floor creaked in many places! I didn't know where she might have been. I stopped waiting after awhile. I went down stairs to where my mom and sister were sitting on the couch. 

"Hey Jared, what were you doing upstairs?"

"Nothing. Just hanging out I guess." 

" Well then why don't you go outside, it's nice and sunny out today." "No, I'd rather stay inside! Why did you yell at me for searching Elizabeth?" I asked unsure what she might do to me!

She sighed. "When I was a little girl, I knew Elizabeth. I bullied her with a lot of other kids!" "Oh my god, you helped in a murder!" "No, it's just that I didn't know what else to do! If I didn't join in all the others would have done the same to me!" My mother said bowing her head in shame! "I do believe you! I believe that she is in this house and that she wants to hurt or even kill me!"

Shocked I ran up to my room! Hurt I lay on my bed crying myself to sleep!