Chapter 106: Fun time at the Amusement Park -2
"Alright," Chloe said, hugging the teddy bear tighter, "haunted house next. I’m ready to watch Mia cry."
"I don’t cry," Mia said firmly, though her voice was a little too sharp.
"Oh, you will," Remi teased, bouncing on her heels. "I heard this place has motion sensors. People jump out at you when you least expect it!"
Mia froze mid-step. "People... jump out?"
Yohan chuckled, slipping his hands in his pockets. "Don’t worry, Mia. I’ll be right next to you the whole time."
"Great," she muttered. "You’ll be screaming louder than me."
"That’s a lie," Chloe said with a smirk. "The only one who’ll scream louder than you is Remi."
"Hey!" Remi puffed her cheeks, then immediately lost her serious act when the eerie green glow of the haunted house sign came into view. The building loomed ahead, covered in fake cobwebs and plastic gargoyles that watched over the entrance.
Kids were running out of the exit shrieking, half terrified, half laughing, while a group of teenagers dared each other to go inside.
Remi’s eyes sparkled. "This is going to be so fun!"
Mia crossed her arms. "This is going to be awful."
"Relax," Yohan said, smirking. "What’s the worst that could happen?"
Just then, the door creaked open on its own, releasing a faint fog that spilled across the pavement.
Mia’s jaw dropped. "Did... did that thing just open by itself?"
Chloe laughed, already dragging her inside. "Come on, don’t chicken out now!"
And with that, the four of them stepped into the dark.
Inside, the haunted house was dimly lit with flickering lanterns. A recorded voice echoed dramatically: "Turn back... while you still can..."
Mia whispered, "I would like to turn back, actually."
"Too late," Chloe teased, tugging her deeper inside.
Remi squealed when a skeleton dropped from the ceiling, bumping into Yohan so hard that he almost fell against a wall.
"Remi!" he laughed, steadying her. "It’s literally made of plastic."
"It touched my hair!" she yelped, swatting at her curls like they were on fire.
Suddenly, a fake zombie lunged from behind a curtain with a groan. Yohan startled, jumping back so fast he crashed into Mia.
"See?" she said smugly, clutching his arm. "Told you you’d scream louder than me."
"I didn’t scream—"
"Yes, you did," Chloe interrupted, smirking. "It was high-pitched. Almost... falsetto."
Before Yohan could protest, a guy in a werewolf mask jumped out with a fake buzzing chainsaw . Chloe shrieked and threw the giant teddy bear at him.
The werewolf staggered back in confusion, muffled laughter coming from inside his mask.
Remi was bent over laughing. "She actually used the teddy bear as a weapon!"
"Don’t judge me," Chloe said, grabbing it back. "He deserved it."
The next hallway was darker. Colder. A single bulb overhead flickered, humming like a dying fly. Unlike before, there was no corny voice-over, no obvious props. Just silence.
Remi frowned. "Why does it feel different now?"
The bulb went out. For a moment, they were swallowed by blackness. When it flickered back to life, a cracked mirror glared at them from the end of the hall.
Yohan froze. Their reflections were all there—except... there was a fifth.
A pale child stood just behind Mia in the glass, smiling with rows of jagged teeth.
"...You guys see that, right?" Remi whispered.
Before anyone could answer, the light snapped off again. The dark pressed close, heavy. A giggle echoed, high-pitched, far too close to be a speaker.
"Okay, not funny anymore," Chloe said, gripping her teddy bear like a weapon.
"Come on, let’s keep moving," Yohan said,
The deeper they went, the more the haunted house lost its playful charm. The cheap skeletons and painted cobwebs gave way to long, quiet corridors where the shadows seemed too thick.
Remi grabbed Chloe’s arm. "Why... why is it suddenly so quiet?"
Chloe tried to scoff, but her grip on the teddy bear betrayed her nerves. "Maybe they ran out of budget."
A heavy thud echoed from behind them. Then another. Footsteps—slow, dragging.
Mia’s hand found Yohan’s sleeve. "Tell me that’s part of the act."
Yohan said nothing. People tended to underestimate haunted houses, but he understood how effective they could be when done right. Better to let the girls enjoy the illusion than spoil it with his own thoughts.
The footsteps grew closer. The air turned colder, sharp enough to sting their throats. A door creaked open on its own at the end of the hallway, revealing only pitch blackness.
Then a child’s giggle echoed—soft, playful, yet bone-deep chilling.
That was all it took.
"Run!" Yohan barked.
They bolted. Their screams and hurried footsteps bounced against the narrow walls. Neon exit signs flickered in every direction, pointing them down branching halls like a maze.
"Left!" Chloe shouted, dragging Remi.
"No—this way!" Yohan pulled Mia with him.
In the chaos, the group split.
Yohan and Mia stumbled into a narrow passage that slammed shut behind them with a metallic clang. Mia pressed against his arm, shaking. "We—we lost them—"
Meanwhile, Chloe and Remi ran breathless through a different hall, the teddy bear bouncing in Chloe’s grip. A shadow stretched across the wall ahead of them, taller than any staff member, moving when nothing else did.
Yohan was trying his best to hold in his laughter, he only told them to run so he could see their reaction but the girls ran as if their lives were truly on the line.
Mia was gripping so tightly to his arm, that he could feel her soft breasts pressing against him.
A stray thought slipped into his mind, Mia likely wasn’t wearing any panties under those leggings, and now that they were alone...
He looked around the hall, although it was dark there were probably night vision cameras all around.
His eyes went to a small door on the side, he opened it and it was a small closet, just enough to fit the two of them.
"Mia we should hide inside here," he pulled her in.