Chapter 2!


"ALEX!are you nuts?"i exclaimed jumping up!
"hm..........olive is a chicken.....she is afraid of ghosts...........olive is a chicken......"alex started cantar and walked around me over and over....
"you better stop doing,that..."i warned ready to throw a ball at him!
"well,if your not a chicken,you'll come with me!"alex dared me!there's no way i'm gonna back out from a dare,especially,from my annoying twin!
"fine!i'll come with you!!"i declared,though a small voice inside me kept on saying,don't do it olive,it's too dangerous...but if i bailed out,he would tease me my entire life about this,and better than that would be being buried alive por that ghost!
i thought and asked harry,"crane,you coming?and you lin?" suddenly,harry stood on the topo, início of a rock and spoke as if making an announcement,"sure,but before that you must all promise that,you'll stop calling me crane..!!"though hesitantly we grumbled yes.......
i turned at lin next,lin shuddered a bit before hesitantly saying,"well,if all of you are going,why shouldn't i....?"she asked in a soft voice........"it's a deal then!meet at our house tomorrow at 10!"alex said in a leader-ish manner!"tomorrow itself?"i asked meekly..."why are you scared?"alex snapped back..."ofcourse not!"i said stiffening a bit!


The following night,i couldn't even sleep well!each time my eyes closed ,it would snap open again as the picture of the mansion came to my mind.suddenly,the door to my room started creaking,i heard footsteps...soon the door opened wide as a shadowy figure entered room.........."aaaahhhhhhhhhhhh........moonstterrrrr............."i shut my eyes and screamed at the topo, início of my voice.
"is something wrong dear?"i opened my eyes on hearing the alarmed voice of my mother."mom.....it was you ?"i asked relieved to know that it was just my dear mom.i felt unusually happy and gave pounced on her and gave her a big hug,not before hearing a loud laughter near the door...
."ALEX....!"i growled ,"why are you in my room again?"i asked hoping he din't see me screaming....."your face!your face when mom entered the room!it was priceless.....and you screamed 'monster'!it was hilarious!"he said rolling on the floor with laughter!i was red with embarrassment!"i..i...was just surprised..."i said in my defense."no you weren't surprised,you were scared!"he said and started imitating me screaming........."you are so gonna pay..."i said pouncing on him.....
."that's enough!back to your bed!both of you!"it was mom and she seemed angrier than ever."but mom..."we started to protest..."no explanations,back to bed,and when i say N-O-W,it means now!"she said walking out of the room with alex following,but it's my brother alex we are talking about,so just before he left he turned back and mouthed the words,"scaredy cat".i squeezed my hand,and then laid down at my bed,maybe because the cama was comfy and the heater was on on that cold night,i felt very comfortable and i soon drifted to sleep.........


seguinte morning i was feeling very much active ,and i bounced off the stairs and called out good morning to everyone,but i was surprised to find lin and cra....i mean harry waiting for me.......i was surprised at first but then i remembered ,wasn't today the dia we were supposed to go to that wretched mansion?all my strenght drained as i asked,"it's 10 already?"
"duh!now dress up!"harry said.."for what..?"dad inquired to which alex replied,"we are going to do some exploration,daddy!" "is that so?"dad asked lifting his head from the newspaper,for the first time,"exploration...let's see.....would you children like to have some old walkie-talkies,me and your uncle ben used to play with when we were young?it would be very helpful...."all of us nodded in excitement,"we'd amor to have those,uncle jim!" lin said getting all worked up....."then follow me!"he said in a agent-ish manner.....as we all made our way to the basement....the room was filled with dust,and we all covered our noses,but the dust didn't seem to affect dad...as he started searching through a big pile of trash.."i know it is somewhere here...."he would say every now and then,then would eventually add,"maybe in that carton!"and start searching all over again,we joined in too but with no luck....we were all starting to get tired of this searching and just when we were about to say no,thanks and leave,we heard dad's triumph,"finally!found it!"and we all swarmed around him,"i knew it was still here!"he said smiling brightly!"here you go!"he said handing each of us a walkie -talkie!and we soon were out of the basement and boy we were glad...!"thanks dad!"i and alex echoed as lin and harry added,"you were very nice uncle......"with that i went straight to the cozinha and grabbed a bite,before rushing to where the rest of us were...."ready to go,scaredy cat?"alex asked smirking."you bet!"i said ignoting the fact that he called me a scaredy cat....we were soon off!

Alex ,as always ,started telling to lin and harry about how i screamed last night....and,boy he was adding a lot of spice!
"alex,i din't hug the travesseiro and cried mommy,you made that up!"i said finally unable stay quiet any longer!"alright!you din't do that !but you did scream 'moooonsterrr......' "he said and everyone started laughing,all except me,obviously!


soon the big dark house came into view,i shuddered at the sight of the big mansion!my brain kept on commanding my lags to turn around and run,but my pride made me stand there!later,i wished i had obeyed my brain..........why?you'll see........


"c'mon!"alex said dragging me to the front!we rang the doorbell!once,twice,still no reply..."there's no one here !let's go back!"i and lin kept on insisting but harry and alex wouldn't budge..."boys...."we groaned......"what's the fun if someone respostas the door?"alex suddenly asks,"we have to sneak in..........well,he did have a point!the last thing i wanted was christen's ghost opening the door!suddenly,out of the blue,the door opened with a creak....our eyes widened in surprised......."it can't be...."i whispered..........nodding my head sideways..."lets go in!"alex and harry said going in,we poor girls,couldn't do anything other than to follow them.........as soon as we entered, i felt a cold sensation,it was pitch dark inside ,and suddenly we heard the door slam shut,,,"great..."i muttered...."i knew this was a bad idea!"
"your a scaredy cat!"i heard alex's voice in the dark!"no i'm not....!"i snapped,suddenly i felt something tickling the back of my neck,i rubbed there with my hand,then it seemed alright......then again i felt the same,but this time,harder,suddenly i felt something touch me,and it's hands wrapped around my neck..i was taken aback,as the strangling became tighter and tighter........"arh....."i dry cry escaped my mouth!