The boys moved towards the door. Suddenly they heard a noise. It was just the creaking of the door. But Lizzy and Abby ran and held Ethan’s and Ray’s hand. Abby asked “Y…y…you r…really have tu…to go leaving us a…alone here?” she was shivering from head to toe. “Especially when there is a FORBIDDEN WASHROOM with a dead teacher right next to us” Lizzie said, faintly smiling. “Girls! That might just be a tale. You expect a school to be still running in the same building where a teacher died and that too hold classes next to it?” asked Ray. “Umm…no…but still…don’t leave us alone here. Ok?” asked Abby. “Ok” chorused Ray and Ethan. The boys turned to the door…and smiled. A wicked smile you can call it. They had something else in mind. They looked at each other. “Are you thinking what I am thinking?” asked Ethan to Ray in a whisper. “I guess I am. Heh. But no. I can’t do that to them!” Ray replied. “Come on!!! Don’t be such a kid! Just follow me” Ethan whispered back. “Girls, why don’t we explore the FORBIDDEN WASHROOM?” Ethan asked with a smirk. “You really want to?” asked Abby. “Yeah! Coming with us?” he asked. “Abby, Ethan is smiling his wicked smile. I am sure he is up to something bad.” Lizzy warned Abby. Abby just nodded her head. “Ray, you want me to go?” Abby asked. “ummm… go if you want” Ray said. “Ok. I know he isn’t up to any good. But let us go. After all, what can he do?” Abby whispered, laughing it off.
The four kids walked outside the classroom. Ethan tried opening the door of the washroom. It was sealed tight. He pushed it hard but it didn’t budge. “It’s no use” he said finally. “Let us go to the kitchen. I hope something is there for us to eat” Ethan said and moved down the stairs in search of the kitchen. “Find the kitchen and bring us back something. We will stay here.” Lizzy said. “Are you sure Liz?” asked Abby. “Yup. I am. You guys continue.” She said and the boys went down. The girls went back into the class and Lizzy said “I am really sure that Ethan was going to do something bad to us. So why don’t we fire him back?” ”I don’t know. If that is what you think and if that is what you want…then okay. We will do something.” replied Abby. “Ok. I have an idea. We will act as if we went inside the forbidden washroom. Okay. And then, we will leave some red paint and some blood handprints all around. When the boys return, we will act like we are really scared. Then after sometime, if we have good fun scaring them, then we will tell them the truth. I am sure the boys won’t find the kitchen fast. So we have time.” Lizzie said with her secret smile.
What the girls did not know was that the boys had heard all this. They had come back just to know why the girls stayed back and they heard all what Lizzy said. “haha. So after we return, we will laugh seeing fake blood. And they will be wondering why we are not scared. Haha!” Ethan said. Ray just smiled and went down to REALLY search for the kitchen as they were REALLY hungry.
In the mean time, the girls were searching for paint. “Oh god! Can ANYONE give us some red paint?” asked Lizzy loudly.
“Is real blood enough?” a strong male voice was heard. Lizzy and Abby turned around suddenly. Anyone would have screamed. But Lizzy and Abby were veiled by such power, wrath and fear that their voice was equivalent to a squeak next to the man’s voice. “I asked…is real blood enough?” he asked again. Both the girls couldn’t answer. They just stood there…fear gripped. “I ASKED…” the man was about to continue fiercely when Abby did her usual interruption and said “yes, sir” Lizzy cast a look at Abby and whispered “what?” “If blood is what you want… Blood is what you get” he said, now with a smile, but not a gentle smile. He moved towards the girls and held Lizzie’s hand tight. “aah!” Lizzie moaned. Her hand was trickling with blood. “Please. Please. What do you want? Who are you?” Lizzie asked in pain in a low voice. She was getting weaker. “I want just trying to help.” He smiled. “We will do anything. Just leave my hand. It hurts” Lizzie cried. Abby nodded in agreement. “So you girls agree to do what ever I ask? Good. Good.” He said taking out a small charm from his pocket. He said “you shall wear this till the sun may set in the lost island of ZYPRUS and this charm should never be seen by any one else than yourself and her highness queen Zhoah!” he said. The girls took the charm and tied it around their upper arm and hid it under their sleeve.
In the blink of their eye, the man disappeared. They burst out crying. There was blood everywhere. And there were fingerprints too. The girls just kept on crying. Just then, the boys returned. “Ray!” screamed Abby and ran towards him and hugged him tight. “I am really scared Ray. You don’t know what happened. Look around. Look at all this blood” wept Abby. Ethan started laughing. “You think you can fool us? Heh” Ethan laughed. Lizzie and Abby looked surprised. “Don’t you believe us?” asked Lizzie. “No way!” said Ethan.
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