Jinx sighed as he watched the scenery fly past as the truck zoomed through the forest towards the house. “Why are you the one sighing? You’re the one who accepted that bet. Even if you stay at that place until dawn, who says Mr. Wales will keep up his end of the bargain?” Questioned Steve in the driver seat glancing at Jinx. “He will! We signed a contract, I stay in the house until dawn and the bookstore is saved and if I don’t the bookstore is doomed.” replead Jinx. “Whatever, remember you have to stay inside of the house, no leaving the estate when I leave and to make sure you don’t there will be two guards near the house. Their there in case there’s trouble too.” Steve reminded Jinx. Jinx said nothing in repid as they arrive at the house. The house was very old, you could tell the black was was striping, some of the windows were broke and the railing on the pouch was destroyed. The grass surrounding the property was dead. There were old rusted beer cans and smokes in the yard from the “cool” kids at St. Bob’s High School. Jinx sighed and kissed Steve bye and grabbed his bag and waved bye as steve left. Jinx glanced at the sky and forest, he shuddered slightly the sky was starting to turn dark and the wind was chilly. Jinx got a eerie feeling he was being watched as he stepped into the house. ‘Hmph probably just the guards’ jinx thought as he looked around the living room. ‘Dang this place worserer on the inside..’ he thought in disgust. The living room looked like a disaster hitted there. The floor was torn up, there was holes in the wall and the once bright wallpaper was tainted and falling from the walls. Jinx sighed as he sat down on the floor. ‘No point in looking around i guess’ jinx thought as he pulled his bag close to him. “Night time~” As jinx closed his eyes and laid his head on his bag, he didn’t noticed the dark shadow ran across the hall. Jinx woke up startle when there was a large thump from somewhere in the house. Jinx got up and slowly walked towards the noise. He had his back pressed against the doorway to the kitchen where the noise had come from and peeked in and covered his mouth from screaming. The kitchen was horrifying, there was bloody handprints on the walls and there were dark clumps of something rotting in one of the cabinets on the wall. There was...something couching near the backdoor, it was too dark to tell what it was but it had a human shape to it. Before Jinx could decide whereever to speak out to the shape the the shadow let out a ear piercing scream and finally Jinx did scream and cover his ears, backing away from the door. Jinx ran through the halls as the shadow chased him. ‘Crap! I thought I was alone! Why o why didn’t I bring a weapon with me?!’ thought Jinx as he raced upstairs and as he was turning the corner to go down one of the halls, he was pulled into a dark room. Before Jinx could react, a hand was placed over his mouth and a male voice whispered in his ear , “Shh, the Shadow Man is near.” Jinx became absolutely still as a dark shadow passed the doorway. ‘Damn guards, why didn’t they check the house BEFORE I arrived? Now that I think about….where were the guards at? I saw the car but no one was inside..hmph they probably left to go to the bar or something.’ Jinx thought as he got out of the stanger’s hold and scream when he saw him. The male in front of him was scary to say the least. He was a bit taller than him, there was bits of fresh torn on his skin and there were two very sharp teeth sticking out from his month. “What? Never saw a vampire before? Oh and my name is Hank.” said Hank. Hank sighed sadly as Jinx screamed again and ran out the door and down stairs. There he saw the ‘Shadow Man’ in the living room. The shadow was facing towards him and all he could see from it was bright red eyes full of bloodlust...and the very sharp looking knife the shadow was holding with the most crazed and sinister smile where a mouth would be. “LEAVE….AND...NEVER...RETURN..” the shadow said slowly as it walked towards him. “YUP GOT IT GOING NOW!” He yelled and ran for the door but it was locked. The shadow man just grinned at him. “ Wanna see how many times I can stab you before you bleed to death?” That was the last thing Jinx ever heard. No one ever found Jinx’s body when they investigated the house. The two guards bodies were also never found, all of the police could found of them was blood stains in the car.. The bookstore didn’t get shut down in honor of Jinx. All they found was his stuff and a dark red spot in front of the door with drag marks leading towards the basement door. No one ever saw Steve again either some people believed that he went back to the place after dark and killed him. The house was demolished because of safety reasons on the official records but everyone knew it was because of what happen to Jinx and the guards there.
