Chapter 3

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Chapter 3

I wanted to go to the house she seemed to helpless and kind but I could hear Alex in my head saying that it wasn’t safe and I should get out of there. I ignored him and walked towards the old woman she smiled and offered me cookies. I felt calm and I wanted to see what she needed from me, she was so polite and sweet she told me she had a few cats and that I could play with them if I wanted to. I followed her in to her house and it felt strangely familiar like I had been here before or I had at least seen it in a book or something. I could shake the feeling of Déjà Vu from my head, like I was meant to know where I was. As I was looking around I found the place more and more like a children’s play house, with sweets and cakes all over the place. Children’s toys were everywhere and the cats were playful I bent down to pick one up that was nudging my leg, when I asked if she had any grandchildren she looked at me with anger and shouted "What is it to do with you? I never pry in to anyone else’s life why should you know my business”. She was looking at me like I was a piece of meat to be eaten or a toy to be played with. Her eyes were wide and glowing red, she looked like a deranged person and I felt in danger. She started walking over to me snarling like a demon, I wanted to get out of there and run. As I was looking for a way out I saw a trap door in the floor and I wanted to make sure no one was in there but I felt if I made a move I would die. All I could hear was Alex's voice telling me run and get away from this place. I tried to walk towards the door and get out of her house but every time I got close she blocked me and got closer. My body shook and I felt like I was being pulled back to reality. Alex's voice got clearer and I felt him on my arms shaking me. My vision got blurry and I felt dizzy and sick. I managed to stop spinning find the toilet to throw up in. I sat for a while making sure my head was straight and I wasn’t nauseous any more. Alex knocked on the door "are you ok what happened to you?" I got up and opened the door after brushing my teeth. "I’m ok I think. I don’t know what happened, one minute I was trying to sleep in the bed then I was in the forest with this woman and she needed my help. I went in to her house to do something for her then she turned crazy and wanted me dead like I knew a secret of hers or something. It was really weird." My breathing was erratic and still uneven I was trying to be normal but I was really scared and freaked out. Alex looked concerned like I was a bomb about it explode "I think you need to see a friend of mine what did you see in the house?" I frowned I wasn’t sure what I had seen it was all turning in to a blur. “I...I don’t really remember. I was in the house and I got put in to a corner and if I moved she watched my every move like she was stalking me as prey. The house was full of things for kids there were toys and cookies and colours it looked like a child trap. Just before I woke up I noticed a trap door and I felt like there was something down there and I wanted to save it. I felt drawn like someone was calling out to me." Alex looked scared and he got up slowly to walk in to the bedroom, he sat on the bed and made a call. My head was so muddled that all I heard was mumbling. He came back in the bathroom and picked me up "I think we need to leave here your too vulnerable I asked my friend Eric to pick us up in his carriage so the trip through the forest will be quicker. I don’t want you to be on your own so I’m not leaving your side ever." his concerns made me feel special and I felt that spark again igniting in me. I was glad I wouldn’t have to walk again and I liked horses I was just worried about what happened he placed me on the bed and packed the rest of our things. "Were going down to the lobby and waiting for Eric to come get us." I nodded and held on to him tight I never wanted to let go of him, I felt so safe and cared for. We went down the stairs and sat down in the lobby. I was thinking some of the things that happened last night the feels I felt for Alex he was just so caring and hot, man was he hot and he seemed to actually look and listen to me and care about my thoughts and feelings. I wanted to say something to him here but I wasn’t very privet and I wasn’t too keen on every one knowing my business I didn’t know them. I wish I could talk to Hayley; she would be able to help me. Come to think of it I was missing everyone. I didn’t know how long I was had been here it could be minutes like the lion witch and the wardrobe or I could have been here for years. I could be dead for all I know and this could be some strange after life. I didn’t know was starting to think I would never know. I had only got my memory back in parts but I kept coming back with new things every minute I was here and it was making I harder to stay here when I felt the guilt and home sickness. I just wanted a hug from my mum and dad I even missed Aarons teasing. I missed everything. I wanted reassurance "you do think I’ll get home don’t you?" Alex smiled and I’m sure was just humouring me "I’m sure you will have a feeling about you that you will be able to find your way out. the main reason people don’t leave here is that they don’t want to be found." then I felt very strange about wanting to go back like the back of my mind was telling me that I didn’t want to go back and that I was safer here. I shook the feeling off as Alex prompted me towards the carriage so that we could get away from this place. Alex took my hand and helped me into the carriage, we sat down and I heard Eric yell at the horses and we speed off in to the forest I felt Alex's hand creep towards mine and grab hold I felt my smile widen across my face. I shimmed closer to him and laid my head on his shoulder my breathing paced with his in sinus like we were one. I smelt his shirt and exhaled it was sweet and beautiful. Everything about him was beautiful. I looked up at him from his shoulder and I couldn’t help but sigh, this moment was so perfect he was perfect. He looked down at me and kissed me on the top of my head. "What was that for?" I was giggling on the inside like a school girl. Alex just looked at me and smiled. I was about to put my head back on his shoulder when I saw a house in the distance and it looked familiar. I sat up and became very quiet. "STOP!" Alex looked concerned and held me by the arm "What is it what do you see? What’s wrong?" I pulled my arm away a pointed to the house "it looks familiar but I don’t know why. I want to go see it." I tried to open the door but Alex stopped me "No! I’m not letting you go it’s not safe." I was desperate to get out there "But I have to go can’t explain it but I have to" Alex sighed "well I’m not letting you go on your own I’ll go with you." We got out of the carriage and told Eric we would be back soon we walked for ten minutes until we could see the house better and I couldn’t put my finger on why it was familiar. "I want to get closer." As I started to walk Alex grabbed me back "no I am not letting you get any closer I will damned if I’m letting you get any closer to this house." I was torn between his caring and my intuition, I needed to see the house I needed to get closer. I turned back to Alex "but I need to remember this place I know it’s important." Alex was refusing to let up "I’m not letting you get closer how do you know you'll be safe I’m not letting you get hurt I can’t let it happen again. I’m not losing another friend." I walked over to Alex and grabbed his hand "I won’t go far you will still be able to see me I know you’re scared but I have to do this." Alex nodded his head and slowly let go of my hand. I walked closer to the house I started to see the colours and shape of the cookie house and I got scared I didn’t want to be here anymore but I also wanted to look in the trapped door. I called for Alex "Come with me into the house there’s something I need to see and it looks quite we need to move quickly." Alex looked hesitant and looked from the house to me "I really don’t want you to go but I suppose going with you is better than letting you go on your own." I smiled and we walked tentatively towards the house making sure no one was around the closer we got the more abandoned it looked we pushed the door open and it was full of dust and cobwebs "I don’t think anyone’s been living here for years. It looks deserted why did you want to go in here?"  I was looking about for what I wanted to see then I saw on the floor under the dust and rotting wood I bent down and opened the door as I bent down the dust flew everywhere. As I looked down all I could see was darkness I looked around for a source of light I found a torch, I turned the light on and saw a ladder leading on to a basement room “down here if you hold the light I’ll go down then if you pass it down I’ll point it up so you can come down too. “ Alex looked hesitant and slowly made his way down “why are we down here?” I frowned and looked around shining the torch and I started to see a familiar picture. I saw two hanging cages and an oven and it sank in why I had recognised the house and why I wanted to go in to the basement. “We need to get out of here I don’t feel safe and I think I know why I’ll tell you when we get out.” Alex was holding the torch down in to the basement and as I was pulling myself up from the ladder I heard a noise “shhh” I hushed Alex and we stood listening for a while and I pulled him behind the front door opened and we heard the creaking for floor boards. My heart was pounding what if we got found out? What if we got found out and then killed? What if we got away with it? What if what if what if? I didn’t want to find out the answer so I looked for a way out a tunnel or something to make a tunnel. I held the torch and looked around for an opening and behind the oven there was a gap that looked like a tunnel out of the basement. I nudged Alex and pointed to the tunnel we quietly made our way out through the tunnel and came to the surface in a different part of the woods. “Now where the hell are we?”  I stood looking around wondering why the tunnel would lead here and then I saw another house one that looked like it used to belong to an old couple and I had this feeling in my head that I was in a story I already knew. It was like it coming to the edge of my tongue and I was almost about to remember when Alex interrupted me and I lost my train of thought. “Thanks I was about to remember something now stop talking for like 5 seconds!” Then it was fitting together “Thank you brain! Hansel and Gretel why the hell am I thinking of Hansel and Gretel and fairy tales?” Alex looked at me like I was missing something “What did I tell you this was?” and I looked confused and then I remembered they were lost “so what every lost character is here as well that doesn’t make sense their not real why are they here if they’re not real?” Alex face palmed himself “what do you think the story was based on? There were two little children who went missing about 200 years ago.” I blushed and felt embarrassed “ohh I thought they were made up ah well you learn something new every day. ... Does this mean all fairy tales are real?” I was frowning finding this hard to believe, how could fairytales be real? They were all about the poor girl getting married to a prince or being held captive by an evil witch this made no sense to be real it wasn’t physically possible. “But magic and witches and poison apples aren’t real surely” Alex looked frustrated “just trust me everything you think you know be ready to adapt.” I just collapsed on the floor and sat wondering “this is all so much to take in everything’s different. And it’s hurting my head” Alex calmly sat down next to me and put his arm around me. He didn’t need to say anything and we just sat there for a while. I liked that we could just be together and not have to talk to fill the silence, and I liked how close we were getting. Alex lifted his head from my shoulder “we need to be moving it’s not safe in these woods”.  He got up and held out his hand for me to take; I blushed as I reached up and took his hand. When I stood up I was very close to his chest and I could feel his heart beating harder when I got closer. He took a step back and looked like he was trying to hide something and I tried to look in his eyes and see what it was he was hiding. I gave up and decided it didn’t matter but in the back of my head all I could think of was him.