BEING HAUNTED: BOOK 1

The Sleepover
Sarah M. Stoflet


Beware what you say; it might lead to something that’s unexpected.


 


To everyone who inspires me


Yesterday we were normal teenage girls,
then this happened.
-Taylor


Table of Contents
Ghost Stories. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
It’s Only the Beginning. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
The Warnings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
The Trip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Epilogue. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40


Prologue

A
T WOODKINDLE MIDDLE School, Crystal Diecuss handed out invites to her sleepover. Kelli Daniels, Casey McGrassey, Diane Karr, Ashlee Barns, and Arianna Banks all got invitations.
“Cool! I’ll be there!”Arianna excitedly responded.
“I’ll talk to my parents about it. Even though I already know what they’re going to say, If everything is clean.” Kelli imitated as she propped herself up from the lunch table.
On the day of the event, Kelli had to be picked up so she got there an hour early. Next was Diane who brought her Nintendo DS so they played their DS’s.
Estimating the time, Casey and Arianna arrived in half an hour. In an hour at 6:30 PM dinner was ready.
Following dinner they had to do something. They thought of an activity they could do.
“Do you have any board games? Like monopoly, life, or even better clue!” Arianna suggested.
“No, we can make one though. Or do a craft my mom bought?” Crystal suggested.
“Nah, how about we tell ghost stories! It’s not a sleepover without ghost stories!” Kelli exclaims.
They all agreed so they all one by one went upstairs. Chatting and arguing over who gets to go first, Diane goes first. Here’s Diane’s story.


1
HERES DIANE’S STORY:
An intimidating, creepy old man came up to these girls by the names of Gabby, Leanne, and Fiona who were camping in this little barren and empty campsite. Where the only thing you can find is this old abandoned house that no one has been in for ages. The eerie man comes and asks if they want the old house and for some unknown reason they reply saying yes.
“They tip-toe into the house and the first thing they hear is the doors threatening scream. The inside of the house was dark, dusty, and ominous. They all tugged out there sleeping bags and lied them down on the grim floor. They creep into their sleeping bags and hear an indistinct, vaporous voice utter, if the log rolls over we’ll all be dead. ‘What was that?’ Gabby fretted. ‘What?’ Leanne doubted. ‘You didn’t hear that!” Gabby cried in disbelief. She ended up doubting herself and told herself that she was hallucinating.
“Yet again, the voice alleged in a ghastly voice if the log rolls over we’ll all be dead. This time everyone heard it. They went into the living room and heard it AGAIN! If the log rolls over we’ll all be dead, it still hummed. They traced the words into the bathroom. The entity mumbled the lexis again, if the log rolls over we’ll all be dead. This time instead of a single spirit it sounded like there were three! They rummaged around the house hunting for anything skeptical but found nothing. All they heard to was themselves and the substance replicating what it’s been saying the whole time, if the log rolls over we’ll all be dead.
“At one point, they even considered going outside but nothing was to be found. Gabby told the girls that she was probably imagining it so she went to bed and the other girls followed suit. Eventually they all managed to go to sleep. Just at the crack of dawn, about five o’clock, Fiona got up to use the restroom when she hears the whisper of the specter say again, if the log rolls over we’ll all be dead, and she opens the toilet and catches a sight of three tiny insects sitting on a piece of waste saying, if the log rolls over we’ll all be dead. She goes, scuttling down the hall to the others rooms and gets them up and then she dashes them back down towards the restroom and they all start laughing at the sight of the annoying insects and they go flowing down the drain.
“OMG Diane, you tell the funniest stories!” Kelli said, cracking up on the floor.
“I know,” Diane said with the biggest smirk on her face.
Everyone was very fascinated by Kelli’s story. Here it is.
Down an unfruitful road, off the main highway, and to the right of Rankome road, a vacant dwelling lies in the midst of the vaporous road. A family, the
Murrs, moved in. Nothing suspicious happened, not until the family is gardening. First, their digging to
plant their roses, when they struck something with their shovel. A tombstone!
Kendra, the little six-year-old, didn’t know what the weird stone was. “Mommy, what is that?”
“I’m not quite sure. Why would there be a grave-marking here?”
The father carried it, and took it to the garage. After more gardening, they came upon ANOTHER grave-marking! That got carried to the garage, also with the other.
A little after, the father and Lilly Murr, the middle child, were sitting on their couch when the doorbell rang. Lilly rushed to the door and
when she opened it, no one had stood in front of her. The Murr residence is also 150 feet away from the street and fifty feet from a hiding spot. Karly Murr,
the oldest sister, had already moved out of the house, on her own. Her apartment was in the same neighborhood, but on the other side of the highway. Her apartment had a little
company to. Legend has it; the ghost of a depressed widow disturbed the dwelling.
The legend is that there was a couple that was deeply in love and they got married. But one day, the young groom died. The lonely, sad woman was very upset and she only had her sister to care for her. She lived the rest of her short life moping about the loss of her husband.
One tragic day it happened. She lived no longer. She died, but her presence lived on. Now she went around looking for her sister who fled from the home to live with their mother after her death. The widow
haunts every woman who’s in the home thinking that’s her sister.
Karly experienced weird things after moving into the home. She was constantly awoken at the same time every night, she heard her doorbell ring at the same time every day when no one’s there, she’d hear little girls giggling when Lizzie and Lilly weren’t even out from school yet.
“Whoa! Where did you hear that?” Casey eagerly asked.
“It’s a family story. My dad tells me that one every night when I camp with him.” Kelli explained.
Casey’s story was the one that wasn’t prepared for.
This recluse, James Robertson, was very lonely in his old house. One day, while lying in his cot, he heard something? I see you, it chanted. Over and over again it said in a very eerie voice, I see you.
The frightened man took the option of napping. He woke up, feeling like he wasn’t alone. He took his kerosene lamp, and headed down the hall.
Finding nothing, James goes back to bed, but only to again be awoken by the same murmur. He this time goes out into the garage and hears, “I see you, any last words? “
“Creepy!” Kelli exclaimed.
“You made this up!” Casey asked amazed.
“Yeah,” Crystal suspiciously replied.
Arianna was very scared to tell her story. It might be a danger to those who heard it.
I and my friend Kayla were sitting in front of Cedar Grounds, the old warehouse, when we saw a figure standing on the other side of the door… We followed it into room thirteen. We saw no trace of the figure, but we did see a knife, hovering over the table. Kayla ditched me after witnessing such a bloodcurdling moment. I loped along after her and she went into the bathroom.
“What the heck! Don’t you think you could WARN someone when you leave them alone with a strange- -“
“I couldn’t stay! I have someone in my family who died by stab wounds, the person the DNA showed was already dead and had been for three months! They had no other suspects, witnesses, or DNA samples.”
After she told me that, I didn’t know what to do. Ever since, strange things started happening.
“That’s a little creepy…” Casey remarked.
“I know. I like to scare people with that.” Arianna remarked.
Then Crystal said, “My turn: When me and Arianna were at the old library we were playing on the computers and she got an email? It said ,”Do not delete, or else,” and we thought the “or else” wasn’t any REAL harm. We deleted it and kept playing.
When she got home she got locked in her room, but not by her parents. Then tried to call me, but whatever it was cut her telephone line.
Also, when I was at Pet Pampers, my grandma Olivia had been on the other side of the store when I felt someone breathe on me! When we left I asked the manager what that was and he said there were no air conditioners, no windows open, and no other people were there. But he told me of some complaints made by customers, about things that don’t have explanations.
“Whoa! They almost don’t even make sense!” Kelli remarked.
“Well, their true!” Crystal emphasized.
Ashlee went along and told her story.
Karol Mena was the local wedding planner in Bedford, Kentucky. She was working with the soon to be wedded Linton’s. They wanted their ceremony to be in Bedford Cemetery, where the woman’s grandmother was buried. The day of the wedding, during the vows, they heard a door creek. But the cemetery didn’t have a door?
Everyone got scared. The bride had no idea why everyone was so frightened? She twisted her body around and witnessed her grandmothers ghost, lurking about at her wedding!
After everyone was picked up the next day, Crystal was submerged into her sleeping bag. And turned on her TV. A while after, she heard a murmur she couldn’t comprehend? She thought it
was just her imagination, so she decided to call it a day, and turned off her television. She saw Derek in her TV! She turned around and only saw her dog, Koko. She jerked back around and saw
Koko lying in the phantoms lap, and he whispered help me.


 


2
T
HE NEXT DAY, before they had to go back to class, Crystal goes to tell Kelli about the happening the day before.
They talk, and Kelli doubts her.
“Even if u weren’t imagining it, how do you suppose we fix it?” Kelli asked.
Crystal then goes to Arianna for help to ask what she did when she got haunted.
“You were hallucinating! There’s no way that a story had started a haunting. I can’t believe you think that!”
She searched it up and found out that even though you think a story is fake, it could just as well be real. It opens a door for that demon or ghost to come into your life.
Crystal thought about how she felt, like her best friend had just stabbed her in the back. She knew what she had to do.
The next day at Woodkindle, she calmly walked over to Kelli. They talked for a while.
“Last night my mom was driving when her car broke down. It took about a half hour when all of the sudden it started up again. Also my brother was brushing his teeth, when the bath turned on. A moment later, it turned off. I’m starting to think that you may be right.”
“Crystal, I have to tell you something.” Arianna admits.
“What?”
“It’s part of the story. I wanted to go see the movie, so I just said that I finished even though I wasn’t.” Arianna started.
“What do you mean?” Crystal asked suspiciously. The bell then rang.
“You’re going to Kelli’s birthday party, right? Next month,” Arianna interrogated.
“Yeah, why?” Crystal asked.


“I’ll tell you then, that way you and Kelli can hear it the same time.”
While Diane was babysitting the little girl from next door, Diane goes to the bathroom and has the baby wait on the foot of the door when she hears her scream? “Ghost! Boogey Man! Ghost!” Diane goes and picks her up and see’s a face rapidly disappear with the wind.
Paranoia was in the kids mind. Whenever something about a ghost came up, they got scared. Days of school passed, and the bell continually sang it’s song for school to be out. Finally, the weekend came.


Saturday morning, Crystal smells coffee. But her mom didn’t drink coffee?
“Mom! Is dad still home?” She asked in confusion.
“No, he left for work three hours ago; you do know it’s a quarter till noon, right?” Mrs. Diecuss questioned.
“Did he finish the pot of coffee he made?” Crystal asked, full of curiosity.
Her mom told her that he hasn’t been drinking coffee and he’s been drinking tea.
“Maybe my senses are funny right now and I smell herbal tea,” she thought. She walks over to her bed and see’s three tiny droplets of blood.
Back at Kelli’s, her father is talking to her mother on a cell phone when in between the lines they hear a raspy voice moan on about death.
Also, when Ashlee took her history book, notebook, and a writing utensil to do her timeline project.
About to sit down at her desk, she stands up and her history book soars across the room, just barely missing her head. It wanted something to happen to her.
Nothing happens, until Ashlee’s party.
At the Barns residence, Kelli and Crystal were talking. They leave the dwelling, unattended, and
go to the alley down the road. Crystal brought her bag with her.
“We need to talk.” Crystal demanded.
“Why? What’s going on?”
Crystal digs around in her bag and pulls out a cut up cardboard box.
“A wigi board! Have you gone mad?” Kelli exclaimed quiet enough to where no one could hear her.
“I need answers! You need to help me,” Crystal convinced.
She reasons with Kelli and she warms up to the idea. Putting her finger on the pointer, Kelli asks the first question.
“Who are you?”
“Summer,” she answers.
“What do you want?” Crystal interrogates.
“Nothing, I’m the friendly one.” Summer replies.
“Is there another?” Kelli continues.
“Watch out.”
They turn around when there’s a big man, hovering behind them, meaning harm to the teenagers.
They grab her bag and rush across the barren field of land, with the phantom hot on their trail. They get to the road and it vanishes.
Frightened, the two girls sit in Ashlee’s room and Crystal follows in suit with what they did before.
“What do we do?”
Summer doesn’t respond. What was she thinking? They might as well ask how do I get rid

of you. About to put their invention away, the pointer moves?
Take Devin to room thirteen.
“Why would we take him to Cedar Grounds?” Kelli wondered. Little did she know, her chance will come.


3
A
T KELLI’S HOUSE, she was getting ready for her birthday. She was texting her friend of directions to her house when she sees a notice:
I’m coming to get you!
And she turns off her phone and looks up and sees Hanna give her a nasty glare.


25

At the party, Crystal is eating her pizza. She reaches for a napkin and there’s a threat etched into the towel:
You come looking, they die.
She sticks it into her pocket. After dinner she talks to Arianna and Kelli.
“Guy’s, I now have proof that this is true.” Crystal pulls out the napkin, with the etch starting to vanish, she had to go quick!
“Whose they?” Kelli asked. No one had a clue.
Arianna had a confession to make.
“Okay, I didn’t tell u the whole story.” She said with guilt in her voice.

“What do you mean?” Kelli asked, feeling like she was left out.
“The rest of the story goes like this. Kayla and I were across at the daycare we volunteer at and at the end I got a warning in the notebook saying:
Meet me outside room 13 at 4:30. Bring Kayla with you!
We decided to not make it mad, so after our work was done we walked across. Kayla had to use the restroom. Fifteen minutes later, I start getting worried. When I see her, she starts saying really weird stuff? ‘Their coming’ she kept telling me. When she got up, she started making a rhythm with the sinks. Left, right, middle, middle, left right, right, middle, left. Then, using the same rhythm, Kayla jumped from stall to stall.
Hesitant, she turned the middle faucet on. Blood came spewing out. A mumble came from her mouth that I couldn’t hear. Then I turned around and saw three people standing there. One looked like Derek with the black hair and blue eyes, the other sort of resembled Hanna with the red hair, brown eyes. The last, looked angry. Scarlet red hair with eyes that matched. The glare he gave me scared me. I backed up and fell right into the sink that the blood was still running in. I ran out to Kayla, whose back to normal, and tell her. She said my hair was just wet with water? I race her to the bathroom where the sinks are still running. They were water? I didn’t see the people anymore either? I looked at my hair and it was soaked, but not with blood? The thing I didn’t understand was I saw my hair before I went for Kayla and it was blood red.
“We then went to room thirteen. I saw a note written in blood.
I warned you!
I looked down at my watch. It was 5:30! I heard the door slam behind me. Then someone starts asking questions I couldn’t understand? Eventually, I was out and never went back.”
“We need to go!” Kelli shouts full of enthusiasm.
“Are you crazy! I told you this so you would AVOID any further investigations!”
“Calm down! We’re not going to go in, just investigate outside. Anyway, last time I looked, room thirteen was getting ready to be torn down. They don’t allow people in.”
“You’re going to get hurt!”
“No we won’t. We just have to find a good time to do it.”
Days pass, and then weeks, and then months. They never get their chance. Until the end of the year when they have the national field week for the high school’s at Woodkindle. They have a weeklong camping trip at Cedar Grounds.
Day by day they investigate around room thirteen. When they find themselves in front of the opened door to the eerie class room. Crystal is the first to take the step. One by one, they all walk in.
The door slams closed, and they find themselves locked in the haunted room.
Arianna looks in the desks and finds a napkin. Some type of note was written on it in ink pen? She could vaguely read it, but it read out:
Be careful. You never know what’ll come to you.
Next thing they knew, a chair was thrown at Arianna’s head! She was sent home and all evening, was recovering from a severe wound on her head.


4
ONE WEEK LATER, Crystal’s birthday comes up. Her, Kelli, Ashlee, Arianna and Hanna go camping by Caribou Lake. Their all playing their board games and having fun when they decide to play a famous game “Got your back”. It’s sort of like truth or dare.
The game goes like this:

You roll the dice to see who goes first, move the number of spaces the dice tell you to. On that space, there’s an action you have to accomplish to move on and you lose a turn if you can’t.
Ashlee goes first. She roles a seven. She remembers a riddle she used to tell her brother when she was younger when he rolled.
“Roll a seven go to heaven.” She heard someone whisper.
“What did you say?” Ashlee questioned. No one said anything, but they all heard it?
They kept on playing when Kelli looked up at Ashlee to make sure she was alright.
“Watch out!” Kelli screamed.
Ashlee, afraid and aware of what might come to her, slowly turns around to look behind her. There standing was a lady that very much resembled their friend Diane. The straight red hair, smooth complexion, big eyes. But something was unfinished, something different that assured them it wasn’t Diane, but what was it? The skin, it was almost white. Almost, transparent.
That’s it! Ashlee thought. It was a ghost. The one thing that wasn’t explained was how it looked so much like Diane? She was well and alive at her home when they left?
Hours go by, then days, then a week. Crystal, being a worried friend, calls Diane’s home. No one answers? Not even her brother? She thinks maybe she’s not home and calls her cell. No one answers? She hangs up and goes to bed, thinking she was going to see her at school.
Next day Crystal walks in late but still finds that Diane isn’t there? She talks to the teacher and ask if Diane called in sick or asked for independent study, neither. A long time went by without Diane coming to school. Numerous calls to her house that was unanswered.
They try to find a number to reach Diane when they finally got hold of her mother. Diane
She was very sick and she had a parasite turning and eating away her organs inside her body. She was sent to the doctor for cures and may be there a while.
“She has independent study though because her brother John brought home her work?” Diane’s mom told.
Why had Mr. Keelson lied to her? She was very confused, but ends up visiting Diane in the hospital the next day after school.
She got off the bus at the hospital. It was a long ride in the elevator to her sick friend, but it would eventually stop. On the sixth floor she walked to her friend and talked.
“Are you feeling alright?”
“No, how did you know I was here?”
“Your mom told me you had parasites eating the necessities in your body, how did this happen?”
“They got me.”
Crystal thought they gave her friend laughing gas that made her a little psycho. She didn’t know what Diane was talking about?
Then she remembered Arianna’s story. Kayla had done the same thing, except in a little different way. But the same as she thought before, who was they?
She told the other teenagers and the same puzzling question was in their minds.
A week later, Kelli goes to the fully recovered Diane’s house. They sleep in a tent in her back yard and have a campfire. Mrs. Karr suggests that they tell a campfire story.
“Kelli will start, then Diane, and so forward clockwise.”
No one started getting paranoid until Diane’s little brother Hank told his story:
“Ken Joel, the CEO of Vanity Plaza, was working late. He never believed in the floor thirteen myths. He walked up to floor thirteen when he found the janitor lying on the floor, dead
with no wounds. He called the police when in the middle of the conversation, the line was cut.
The police arrived at the hotel and was shocked at the sight they had. The CEO and the janitor, lying dead on the carpet, both strangled. To this day, they split up and look for the murderer, but it never came back.
Months go by when nothing happens. Diane and Casey get in a fight. Diane spilled the beans about Casey’s crush on Liam because a rumor went around that Casey told about Diane’s crush on Derek. The ghost’s got what they wanted, separation. They never came around.


The End


Acknowledgments
Thank you for considering this book. When you write a book, everyone in your life is a part of it. Your family, friends, readers, and even your personal enemies help you. This book is dedicated mostly to my friends because it’s about a group of friends. Even though they aren’t them, they have a lot to do with them.
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