'Wow what a big Hotel!' Kenneth shouted in excitement.
'I hope the food is good.' John laughed.
It was a wooden big building filling with windows, and lights. Kenneth and his three friends; John, Lin, and Skyler walked in and before a second passed, their mouths open wide.
'Wow! It's such a place!' Kenneth commented.
'Can't argue about that one.' Lin laughed.
Skyler just smiled. She tried to laugh but she couldn't. Something felt off. She usually didn't talk because she was quiet. But this time, it was different.
'It's so beautiful as well!' John exclaimed.
Skyler thought it was pretty too, all the lights suited the whole hotel well. A man with a brown suit and long grey jeans came over and put our baggages on the baggage cart. Kenneth and John were lead into a big bedroom with the number 13. Skylor and Lin were lead into another big bedroom with the number 17.
'So this is where we'll be staying for the next few weeks?' John asked, 'It's an incredible place to live!'
Kenneth couldn't disagree. It was such a place. There was a master bed, a grand table, lots of shelves and drawers, and best of all a big open window! And also, of course, a bathroom.
'Ahh, sleep deprivation is important!' John joked jumping onto the soft bed made out of white velvet and brown wool.
Room 17 wasn't much of a difference, except there were only 3 windows and the bedroom wasn't that big. It was only noon and they needed lunch soon, so Kenneth and his friends agreed to go and try out the food at the hotel resturaunt. The worker directed them to the ground floor. They looked for awhile until they finally spotted a table.
'Here!' Lin called, 'The hotel restaurant is here!'
The four friends looked at the menu and immediately, they knew what they wanted. Kenneth, order the fish and chips, John ordered the fried rice, Lin ordered the dumpling noodles, and Skylor ordered her favourite: pepperoni pizza. They ate for while, and the clock ticked. The chatted and suddenly, the uneasiness came back to Skylor.
'Nghhh.' She moaned.
Skylor looked around and noticed a worker wearing a weird yellow and blue badge with the letters; L and S.
'L, S?' Skyler thought, 'What could that mean?'
Then out of no where, a big crash noise came. Kenneth turned around and saw a bookshelf collapse.
'Huh?' He thought.
No one put it upright. Kenneth was confused, and so were Skyler, Lin and John. They decided to head back and rest for a bit and so they did. Kenneth immediately took out his phone and tried to find the hotel's wifi but found out there wasn't any. He was surprised.
'Seriously?!' He questioned angrily. 'How is there no wi fi here?!'
Kenneth was crashing out. He looked around, it was confusing as well. How were the workers using their phones and calling people?! There was something wrong, and he had to find out soon. He returned to his bedroom and told John about the situation. John was starting to feel uncomfortable as well. It was starting to rapidly rains every 10 or less minutes and lightning was occurring every few seconds or so. Skylor came to the boy's room to tell them about the weird things happening to Lin and herself too.
'The curtains keep flapping! And our lights keep flashing!' She explains.
It was definitely, incredibly, weird in the hotel. Maybe seconds away from something else happening — and it happened. The TV had turned on by itself. Skylor and Lin was over by the boy's room because they were planning to leave. Lin suggested they give it one more day, maybe they'll find clues to why it was happening, except it was just an accident, something was going on here. Maybe the 'L, S'— meant something? And maybe, they were working for someone who was behind all of this weird events occurring moment after moment?
'Okay… we'll give it one more day… and we'll decide if we should depart from this hotel or not.' Kenneth announced.
Skylor sighed.
'That's a good plan, but I don't really want to find out if there's something going on here, can't we go now?' Skylor asked.
'Skylor, it might just be a coincidence…' Lin answered right back.
'HUH?! You think THIS — is all just a COINCIDENCE?!'
There was a long silence and Skylor, was now very angry. She stormed into the toilet and slam the toilet door shut, and locked. Lin put her hand on her face.
'Are you serious right now?! It's just a coincidence!!' Lin screamed.
Kenneth and John looked at each other. Both of the girls were frustrated and they couldn't do anything about it. Eventually, Skylor came out with a wet face. She was obviously upset. There were tears rolling down her face, rapidly. And Skylor wasn't about to leave, she was going to convince the boys, and Lin, that they needed to leave before nightfall. It was currently only approximately two o'clock and they still had time to run before anything else strange happened.
'C'mon guys… I know that this is the first time something like this is happening but still, I know it's not a coincidence! Why did no one care about the bookshelf falling down? What about the one second power outage?!' Skylor asked.
John agreed after sometime, and so did Kenneth. But Lin was still frustrated. Angry.
'Please Lin, we won't leave you behind.' Skylor informed.
Lin looked up. But only just for a second. The she walked out of the room.
Skylor sighed. She had to convince her somehow… before nightfall.
'Hey. I'll help you convince her… and Yeah… we have to leave soon.' John whispered.
After he said this to Skyler, John left the room, into Skyler and Lin's room.
'Lin!' John called, 'Lin! Lin! Lin!'
There was no response. Lin had disappeared. He walked out into the balcony and found Lin lying down of the floor. She had a bleeding face. It was in a shape of a bite.
'LIN! Are you okay?!' John shrieked.
Skyler and Kenneth rushed into the room.
'What's going on?!' Kenneth screamed.
'Why's Lin on the floor?!' Skylor shouted, 'Why is she bleeding?!'
'Unghhh…' Lin groaned. 'Huh? What — happened?'
'Lin! Are you okay?!' Skyler shrieked, 'You're bitten! We have to run!! Something bit you! It's really bad!!
Lin showed confusion and suddenly felt the pain.
'Ahhh! My face! It's bleeding!' Lin screamed.
John and Skyler carried Lin onto the bed and tried to get her to stand up. Meanwhile, Kenneth was busy packing everyone's baggages.
'C'mon! Let's go!' Kenneth called.
John, Skyler and Lin rushed over to get their baggages and they ran into the elevator. They pressed on the ground floor button and the elevator started moving.
'Phew.' Lin said touching her bleeding face. 'Sorry guys… I didn't believe you.'
'It's fine… we're going home now.' Skyler forgave.
Suddenly, a catchy, elevator song played.
…?!
Kenneth froze. What was this song?! He had never heard any elevator music like this one ever before.
Then suddenly, the whole elevator stopped.
'Ground floor.' Buzzed the speaker.
The elevator music stopped and the doors opened… but it wasn't the ground floor.
'Wait…' Skylor said turning pale red.
'Where… Are We?!'