“Daniel, as much as I appreciate you wanting to help me figure out what’s going on in my house, I think that this is a little uncalled for.”

“Nonsense.” He whispered back to Ilythia.

“I’m pretty sure we don’t need to do this.”

The five of them, Felix, David, Daniel, Maria and Ilythia, were making their way through the house plunged in darkness. Under normal circumstances houses weren’t this dark at 1 in the afternoon, but with a lot of black cardboard covering the windows and all the lights turned off, it was pretty dark inside BelleHaven house.

“Of course we do. Sneaking is the best way to find something that doesn’t want to be found.” Daniel whispered, flat against a wall and checking with his hand to make sure that nothing was in the way of his sneaking.

“What are you looking for, a monster?” Felix hissed.

Daniel shushed them, and with a grunt reminded them of the plan. Said plan was composed of the following steps:

Make house all dark. Check.

Sneak around house in the dark, with occasional flashlight but mostly night vision goggles(provided by Daniel). Check.

Find what makes BelleHaven house so creepy.

Expose it to the world.

Become Famous.

And rich.

So far, no results. Fame was looming farther away than ever.

David tripped on something and swore. Maria shrieked when David reacted so suddenly in the silence and fell over onto Felix. Felix grabbed Ilythia. Ilythia grabbed Daniel. Daniel grabbed onto nothing. And everyone fell, in an array of colorful and varied swearing.

Everyone just stayed on the floor, in the dark, in silence for a while. Ilythia broke it after a minute or so to whisper;

“Can we go see if we can open my closet? Its been really bugging me.”

With a few grunts and groans the quintet were all on their feet again, roaming sneakily towards the wing of the house that Ilythia called her own.

“Dan, you didn’t answer my question before. Are you looking for a monster?”

“Well, you never know, like Felix said, anything can be anything.”

“But that’s stupid. What kind of monster locks the doors to its hiding place? It just stops the food from getting to him.”

“Maybe he didn’t lock it…”

They continued down the hall.

“What? Are you thinking that my great uncle and aunt locked up a monster?”

“Maybe I am, maybe I’m not, whatsit to you?”

“Theyre my family, dumbass, and besides, their way too-”

But the argument stopped dead in its tracks at the sound of Maria letting out a bloodcurdling scream and falling to the floor, pointing to the uncovered mirror.

Everyone’s attention turned to the mirror that very instant, just soon enough to see the sixth face peering back at them before it disappeared.

I'm on a roll, yessir I am.