Category : Adult

Sub Category : Horror

Where Consternation Begins 

    Dustin woke up exhausted and groggy from staying up pass midnight. He checked his clock to find that it's 10 in the morning. He didn't have to come over to Colleen's house until the weekends. It was only Tuesday morning, so he has plenty of time to kill. 

    "Hey Dustin!" Penel rushes into the room full of excitement. 

   "What?" Dustin wipes his tiredness from his eyes making it burn as he rubs against his eye lids. "I am trying to sleep." 

    "Daddy and mommy are gone, so we can play hide and seek in the backyard." Penel said. 

    Dustin didn't want to play hide and seek with Penel because of what happened playing hide and seek in Sahia's place last night. He can't tell his her sister because he fears that she might snitch on Dustin or call him crazy. "No thanks, I don't want to get into trouble again." Dustin objects. 

   "What about hide and seek inside?" Penel suggests with a smile. "With the lights off and most of all, in the dark?" 

    Dustin shook his head. "Fine." He went down from his bunk bed. "Penel, you're acting like a six year old now." 

    "Parents are going to be back in six hours because they are at Aunt Nia's baby shower." Penel informs. 

   "And they didn't invite us..." He pouted. 

    "That's because her husband, Uncle Francis, is a jerk around us teens." 

    And he's a drunken lunatic, Dustin thought, he deserves a high five in the face with a chair. 

   "Should we turn off the lights?" Dustin suggested. 

   "Of course." Penel smirked. "Dibs on hider!" 

    Dustin and Penel turned off all the lights in the house and closed the curtains only letting in small beams of light inside the house. Then Penel and Dustin dressed into dark clothing. 

    "Okay, let's play now." Penel declares. 

   "Wow, you're energetic as a child." Dustin said. 

    Dustin puts his head against the wall. "One... Two..." and goes on and on until he reaches twenty. "Ready or not, here I come." 

   Dustin walks out of his bedroom and started searching. He relieved that this wouldn't be as bad because he doesn't have to worry about Sahia possessing his body and try to seek out the others. 

    He went into his parents room. He checked under the blankets, under the bed, even under their parent's business desk. He didn't found Penel. He went into the closet. He found a note on the floor. He picked it up. "Do you even hear the chuckles or breathing?" No, it's dead silence." It read. 

     Dustin crumbled the tiny piece of note and throws it back down. He assumes that Penel wrote notes before even starting the game. Dustin walked out the bedroom and checked into the master bathroom. He found another of Penel's notes in the bathtub. "You're not even close to finding whom." It read. Dustin crumbled the silly note up again and place it into the trash bin before walking out of the bathroom. 

     Dustin went into the living room. He founded another note on the sofa, but this time, a speck of blood was stained onto the note. "Not too dread and not too safe." It read. 

   "Penel, stop it with these notes!" Dustin shouted even though he might not get a response.  "Are you trying to scare me? You're doing one hell of a good job!" 

  Dustin put it back down. Are these clues to find Penel? Is Penel trying to scare him or trick him? 

    Dustin then went into the other bathroom which was across from his room. He found another bloody stained note. He picked it up. "This better not be period blood." He said while reading it. The words:"You're close" were written on the note. Dustin put it back down in the tub. That's when he heard someone running down the hall. He turned around and rushed out of bathroom. He saw the master bedroom door slammed shut.  

    Dustin smiles as he can smell the victory of seeking out Penel. He opened the master bedroom with a smile. He looked around only to find no Penel in sight. He looked downwards to find another note. The note was fully covered in blood. He turned on his flashlight to see what the note is saying this time. "She has found you." It said. 

    Dustin felt someone tapping on his right shoulder. He quickly turned around pointing the flashlight towards that direction. It was Penel, but something was odd about her appearance. She was wrapped into barbed wire. The spikes on the crust of the wire were digging into her skin meanwhile blood ooze down to her legs. She was wearing the same white sweater and jeans from two nights ago. Her eyes was bloodshot and face covered with dirt and dust. Her dark hair was messy and covered in webs. 

   Dustin quickly let out a scream before backing away from Penel. "Penel, stop it!" He cries. "This isn't funny!" 

     "Hide and seek is full of suprises." She whispers with a raspy tone. "Such as this." 

    The door behind Penel slammed shut on its own and Dustin's flashlight goes dead again. A cold draft became present within the room. A force knocked Dustin off his feet. He began shivering as the temperature drops within the master bedroom. Dustin scooches backwards while Penel walks closer to him. 

  Dustin stops while he was against the wall. He looked up and saw a hard covered book on the shelf next to the bed. He grabbed it while he heard footsteps from a distance coming closer. Dustin had no choice, but to grab the book and throw the book at Penel's head. 

   "Take this!" Dustin snatch the book off the shelf and throw it at Penel. Meantime, the lights went on and the door opened. The normal looking Penel came into the room while the book hit her right in the stomach. 

   "Ow!" Penel groans. "What the heck, Dustin?!" 

   "I'm sorry!" Dustin apologies. "I saw someone else in the room." 

   "Dustin, why would you throw a book at someone who's not real?" Penel raises her tone. 

   "Nevermind." Dustin said panting. "I'm sorry, just forget about it, it's gone now." 

     "You never act like this last time." Penel exclaims. 

   "Hide and seek must've gave me paranoia." Dustin assumes whilst in a cold sweat. 

    "We aren't playing hide and seek ever again." Penel informed. 

    "Good." Dustin sighs. "To get shit off my mind."