The Spooky Secret

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By Jeffenstein

 

Abby was sitting in her parent’s car looking miserable.  She didn’t want to leave her old house and school but her parents had insisted that they’d move to New York, especially her mum.  She passed beautiful houses and large extravagant mansions and thought that maybe it wasn’t such a bad thing, moving.  Oh how wrong she was.

 

When they arrived at the old Victorian house, she rushed upstairs to her bedroom on the third floor.  It didn’t feel right; there was an icy chill every time she went towards the attic and things she put down were always moved from their place the next day.  Deciding to take her mind off things, Abby asked her parents if she could go and buy some sweets.  Walking towards the town centre, she noticed that the town was empty and dull.  All the shops were boarded up, except one.

 

Walking over to the small, dirty door, she was greeted by a peculiar, ancient man who looked as old as time itself.  “I have not seen you before girl,” the man said. 

“Oh, I just moved into that house down the road.” Abby said, as she pointed at her house. 

“I suppose you know then, that the house is haunted.”

Abby’s jaw dropped.  “What do you m-mean?”

“I do not speak of such things” the man said mysteriously, with a sly grin plastered on his face.

“Please tell me.”

The man stroked his wrinkled chin. “OK then, child.  Do not tell your parents.  Over 100 years ago that house was an all-girls school.  There was a terrible winter one year and it snowed for months.  Then, a flu broke out.  No doctors could get into the town.  Finally, when the snow melted, the school was eerily quiet…all the girls and teachers had perished.”

 

Abby gasped.  A million thoughts burst into her head.  All of a sudden she was interrupted by the man’s voice.  “I think I have a picture here.”  He reached down below the counter and as he placed the old photograph down in front of her to see, her heart pounded in her ears.  She looked down at all the little girls’ faces; they were solemn and innocent to the fact that they had no future…

 

Suddenly, her blood turned cold.  The room started to spin.  She couldn’t breathe. 

 

Starring back at Abby…was a familiar little girl in uniform- her mother.  She let out a blood curdling SCREAM!