*No One’s POV*
*Harry, Destiny, Niall and June*

“Okay. How are we supposed to find this key?” Destiny questions the others, as the four friends climb up the stairs to the third floor.

“No clue, where would a ghost keep the keys of a person they are locking up?” Niall shrugs.

“And why would she be locking up a person?” June questions. “Doesn’t this lady just kill them off?”

“Also, how could that girl still be alive,” Harry added as the four got to the top of the staircase. Destiny halts in her tracks, blocking the path for the other three to move. Frozen, she stared ahead.

“Destiny! What’s wrong?” Harry asks, worried.

“I don’t think we need to find a key,” Destiny says, trailing off in an emotionless voice. Destiny’s eyes were trained on the box.

“The box … it’s open.” Niall stuttered.

“I thought you said it was sealed shut!” June says, concern filling her voice.

“It was. It wouldn’t open at all. How could it be open!” Harry exclaimed, fear echoing in his voice.

“It was probably the ghost ruling this house,” Niall says.

“But then where is the person the was inside the box,” June asks.

“Let’s check the box,” Destiny says.

“Nothing,” Niall says, speechless. “Absolutely nothing.”

“How is this possible!” Harry exclaimed.

“Wait … no.” June stops them. “There is a piece of paper here.” June picks up the paper and begins analysing it.

“It looks like a letter … or poem,” Destiny says, peering over June’s shoulder.

“Read it.” Niall insisted.

“Okay.” June nodded, beginning to read the poem. “Poison Ivy …”

Poison Ivy
A wicked witch
Is Mizzable Scratch
And it’s TROUBLE she grows
In her garden patch
Lies all around, for she grows Poison Ivy! By ditch and fence
She leaves her trail, As she shows her seed
Over hill and dale,
And her crop of mischief
Can never fail,
For she grows Poison Ivy!
So listen, my children,
Take heed, be good,
And if ever you roam,
Through a tangled wood, or follow a road,
Some lovely day,
Over the hills and far away,
Please keep out of the garden patch
Snow and grown by Mizzable Scratch,
Or it’s TROUBLE you will surely catch,
For she grows Poison Ivy!

“Bruh,” Niall says, after June finishes. “Deep stuff.”

“If can’t be real ... can it?” Harry asks.

“It seems real to me,” June says, still staring at the page.

“Guys … look at the wall.” Destiny says, her eyes fixed on the wall. Her friends turned around to see what she was seeing.

“Poison Ivy!” Niall and Harry exclaim in unison. Poison Ivy vines had been running and grow fast along the walls and floor.

“Run!” June shouts and the four race to the staircase, fleeing from the dead vines.

“Wait … no, it’s not going after us. Look.” Destiny stops them, from descending the stairs. The four watched the poison ivy engulf the treasure box.

“It wants the box,” June says.

“But why?” Harry questions.

“Who knows, but our job is over. Let’s go to the others and find Zayn and wait the rest of this horrid thing out.” Niall quickly says. The four friends meet up with their other friends.

“Freed the girl stuck in the box?” Liam questioned them.

“Nope.” June shook her head.

“She freed herself,” Destiny says, slightly pissed.

“What?” Ally asked, confused.

“Nevermind.” Destiny blew the question off.

“Did you guys find Zayn?”

“We looked everywhere!! Nothing!!” Mabel cried.

“Don’t worry. We’ll find him.” Elizabeth ensures Mabel.

“How much of time before we get to leave?” Louis whines.

“18 hours,” Destiny says, looking at the time on her watch.

“Damn.” Harry groans.

“What are we going to do for 18 hours? We are leaving for home tomorrow!” June exclaims.

“At least we get the chance to go home.” Harry points out. “She probably would’ve killed all of us if Destiny hadn’t told the truth.”

“Mhmm. Something tells me she was gonna kill all of us, but let Destiny go.” Niall smirks, hinting to the fact that Mizzable also knew about Destiny’s virginity.

“I’ll kill you, myself if she doesn’t!” Destiny growls at Niall.

“Sorry. Sorry.” Niall laughs. “Not my fault you're still a virgin.”

Without warning, the little light that filled up the house vanished. The friends were enveloped in darkness. Plunged into thick darkness, all of them became temporarily blind to the rest of the world.

Soon after, still fenced by the cloudiness of dark matter, we heard a loud, ear-piercing, high-pitched scream of a women’s last desperate called for help.

Moment’s after the distressful scream stopped, all at once the lights came back to view. Everyone was thrown back a bit after our visions were unclouded. Everyone soon regained their senses.

“Where is Niall?” June immediately cried out.

“DO NOT INSULT THE VIRGIN! OR YOU WILL BE SORRY!” The, now 8, friends heard Mizzable announce in her devilish voice.

From being utterly scared, all the friends, except Destiny, begun chuckling and giggling.

Destiny’s face flushed bright red. The sudden paranoia that everyone was watching her hit her hard. She gained the sense of tunnel vision where she got hot flashes on her face. She felt as if she were sweating but not sweating. Her mind going blank because her body was trying to cope with the horrible sense of sad fate that cannot be avoided because the embarrassment already happened.

Destiny buried her head into Harry’s chest, as he held her, laughing along with the others.

“I swear you can even hear the distant roar of the ghost.” Ally laughed.

“I’m going to kill that Mizzable,” Destiny mumbled, still embarrassed.

“Darling, you’re going to kill a ghost? Tip of the day … you only die once.” Mizzable says with an evil laugh.

Destiny groaned, refusing to show her face. “Why is it so bad that I'm still a virgin?” Destiny mumbled, angrily, as the group begun making their way to the kitchen.

“Because. You are dating Harry. The Harry Styles. The heartbreaker. The biggest fuck boy. The -” Mabel goes on, Harry stops her mid-speech.

“Alright! We get it. Say it more, she might just leave.” Harry sternly says, giving Mabel a death glare.

Destiny giggled. “Can we just find Zayn … and maybe Niall and get the hell out of here? I want my mommy.”

“Same here.” Liam laughed.

“Split up?” Elizabeth suggested.

“No! No more splitting up!” June exclaims.

“Alright. Alright.” Elizabeth says, putting her hands up.

“I wanna sleep,” Louis whined.

“Dying in your sleep?” Ally questioned him. “That ghost will kill you in your sleep.”

“But virgins can’t die so goodnight.” Destiny shrugged, sounding a little pissed.

“Are you mad at us?” Mabel asked.

“No.” Destiny only says, shrugging, plopping into one of the seats in the kitchen.

“Destiny, I need to talk to you,” June says, narrowing her eyes a bit.

“Okay.” Destiny nodded. Destiny and June left the group and went to talk together.

“What happened that night you spoke with Lizzie?” June asked.

“You were an awake too?” Destiny asked.

“Yeah. Niall was too.” June nodded.

“Victor and Nicki are dating,” Destiny says.

“Victor, you bully. And Nicki? … Best friend?” June asks, saying the last words as if they were poison.

“Yes.” Destiny giggled.

“Wow. What a bitch.” June rolled her eyes.

“She never knew about Victor being my bully. I never told her.” Destiny says.

“Defending her, before I snap her neck? Good idea.” June laugh.

“Yup.” Destiny nods, trailing off.

For about two hours, the eight friends talked about random things, as they searched each room, and furniture thoroughly for any clues or signs of Zayn and Niall. But they found absolutely nothing until they reached the top floor again.

Destiny stopped in her tracks, staring at something down the hall.

“What?” Ally questioned her, walking over to her side. “Oh my gosh.”

“What? What’s wrong?” Elizabeth asked.

“Look it's written in blood,” Ally says, pointing at the wall across the hall.

‘GET OUT’ The message read.

“I mean that’s what we are trying to do.” Louis sighed, running his hand through his hair.

“It looks like fresh blood.” June shuddered.

“Obviously, Mizzable didn’t write this. Then who did?” Elizabeth inquired.

“Beats me.” I sighed.

“Well we can’t leave now, so let's continue the search,” Louis says.

Just as they were about to continue our quest, a loud, ear-piercing scream came from downstairs. Immediately our heads twisted to the direction of the sound.

“Who screamed?” Elizabeth frantically cried.

“Everyone is here, except Zayn and Niall. Who else is in the house?” Destiny says.

“Not everyone. Look, Liam is not with us.” Harry points out.

“What! Where is Liam?” Ally exclaimed.

“Wait … that couldn’t be Liam’s scream, could it?” June asks.

“It probably is. You haven’t heard him scream before.” Louis chuckles.

“Well, then let’s go to the closer to the sound!” Harry demanded, rushing downstairs as the rest of us followed.

“Yes. Perfect. Let’s follow the horrified scream. Go closer to the thing that made this person cry.” Destiny yelled, sarcastically.

Just as the friends reached the bottom level of the house, they heard loud banging noises from the basement door, causing everyone to scream in fear.

“HELP! GUYS! WE ARE IN HERE!” They heard three familiar voice call to us. “HELP!”

“It’s the boys!” Harry declared.

“It's coming from there. Let’s go!” Louis exclaimed.

Suddenly the banging noises shifted locations and started from the bedroom door on that floor. “GUYS COME ON! HELP!” the voices called to us again.

“What! How are they there now?” Ally cried. The banging noises continued to come from both the basement door and bedroom door.

“Split! Harry, you go in the cellar, and I’ll go to the bedroom.” Louis demanded, screaming over the loud banging noises. Harry nodded, and they both rushed at their assigned doors. Just as they reached the doors all the lights shut off. The banging noises became more intense. The thundering sound echoed through the darkness.

“What happened?!” Elizabeth cried.

“Where did they go?!” Ally screamed. All of the girls huddled in the spot where they were standing huddled together trying not to lose anyone else.

Suddenly the light came on again, but Harry and Louis were gone. For a few mere moments, ear-piercing silence engulfed us until all the doors began to open and shut continuously, creating loud noises. The lights flickering intensely. Screams echoed around the door.

The girls screamed in fear, they couldn’t breathe. It was as if someone were choking them. Each of their hearts racing, all they wanted to do was curl up into a ball and wait for someone to save them. It seemed as if this were the end of the road for them.

“We have to get out of here,” Destiny demanded as the girls were crouched in the corner of the living keeping themselves safe from the flying knives, that were crossing over the,.

“How about the boys?” Mable asked.

“We’ll get the police to get them about.” Destiny explained.

“Okay let’s charge at the door, in three.” Ally nodded.

“One. Two. Three!” June counted down, and we all rushed to the opening and closing door. Just as they got to the doorway, the door shut in their face, and everything fell silent again.

“How did we not see that happening?” Elizabeth sighed.

“Urgh! I just want to go home!” Destiny whined.

“Next time, we make the plans.” Mable groaned.

“Do you even think there will be a next time?” Ally sighed, crouching down and leaning the wall again.

“Shh don’t say that.” Elizabeth hushed her.

“How much time until our 24-hour punishment is over?” Ally asked.

“Six,” Destiny answered.

“Okay. Don’t get mad, but I mean this ghost seems to really like the fact that you now you’re a virgin. So maybe if you talk to her …” June stuttered.

“No way!” Destiny mumbled, crossing her arms.

“Come on. We could leave then.” Mable pleaded.

“Nu-uh.” Destiny firmly says. “Upside of a virgin, you don’t go that whole disgraced phase and what now. Downside everything else. There are honestly one too many virgin blood rituals.”

“Perfect! Give her your blood!” Ally exclaimed.

“What are you crazy? No!” Destiny demanded, and almost immediately the chorus started up again – flickering lights, throwing of stationary, and the banging of doors.

“Destiny!” Mable cried, clinging to her friend.

“Please!” June begged.

“FINE! FINE! I’LL GIVE YOU MY BLOOD.” Destiny cried. Just the chaos went silent and was replaced with calmness and laughing.

“What … What happened now?” June questioned. Suddenly, the missing boys came out of their hiding spots, laughing.

“Why are you laughing?” Mable cried, tear streaks on her face. The suddenly doubled himself up and burst into a loud, harsh cackle of laughter. Niall went as far as falling to the ground and becoming writhed with laughter. The boys were in that state of intoxication when they could find no release from maddening self-consciousness. They knew what they were doing, they did it deliberately. And yet they were also beside themselves, in a sort of hysterics. They could not help themselves in exasperated self-consciousness.

“Don’t you dare tell me this was all just a prank,” Elizabeth growled. The boys couldn’t stop laughing long enough to reply.

“Oh my gosh!” Ally screamed in anger. Destiny managed to get the door open, and with all her anger, she and her friends stormed out of the house. The boys contained their laughter long enough to chase the girls.

“Don’t you dare touch me.” Destiny angrily spat at Harry. “I was terrified the whole night. I don’t like you right now.”

“I’m sorry, baby. We were just fooling around.” Harry chuckled, trying to embrace his girlfriend, but was pushed away immediately.

After much struggling, the boys were still unable to get their girlfriends to talk to them.

“Hey, Destiny!” Elizabeth called to her.

“Yeah?” Destiny replied.

“The girls and I are going to go grab something to eat. You coming?” She said.

“Of course.” Destiny nodded. Pushing Harry aside, she ran up to her friends.

“We’ll wait for you girls at the hotel then.” Niall laughed, as the girls walked off.

“You’re going to have to walk back to the hotel. So good luck!” Liam called after them. No reply from the girls.

“How long do you think their stay mad at us?” Harry asked his friends.

“Not sure. Let’s follow them. I’m thinking their going to get themselves in trouble.” Louis says.

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