Chapter 26: Chapter 26

It wasn’t snowy but the mist around made it seem like it would snow soon. Then there was a sudden breeze that began to blow and Daisy had to run into the house.

“Dad,” she called out as she rushed into the house. “Dad, it’s going to snow? You didn’t leave anything out there right?”

She didn’t get any reply after calling unto her dad and her brows furrowed in surprise at that. ‘He was right in the suiting room before I left,’ she thought to herself as she fully stepped into the already dark house.

The wind was blowing heavily now and the cloud had now turned dark.

Daisy shut the entrance door before using her hand to trace the wall. But then, she was shocked at the surrounding she met with when the lights finally came on. After staring deep and hard for a while, she finally remembered she is at Rose’.

“Oh I’m still at Rose,” she muttered to herself before walking further into the living room. But then, she suddenly paused and froze on the spot. She wasn’t the one that put on that light. She was still looking for the switch when the lights suddenly came on.

Anyways, she shrugged it off and walked towards the stairs to go to the room and take a rest. She wondered where Cindy and Rose had gone off to.

Getting to the stairs, she suddenly caught sight of writing on the floor a few steps away from the stairs. Curiously, she went closer to have a look and with her head lowered, she tried to mark out the black ink striked against the marble floor. She soon figured it out and it read, ‘The masks and the Coasters.’

“The masks and the Coasters?” She called out. “what does that mean?” she asked no one in particular. After staring at it for a while trying to figure out what it meant, she was suddenly compelled to take the path by the stairs.

She had no idea where she was headed and why she was heading that way but she just went on, straight down till she saw a door.

Seeing the door, she stopped on her track. She then resumed her journey towards the door and as she drew nearer, she stumbled and nearly dropped into the ground. Daisy gasped as she got herself.

She had been too focused on the black heavy looking metal door that she didn’t notice the hollow just before her. It isn’t actually a hollow but more like a step down into an underground basement.

Daisy stared at it in awe. It was tiled beautifully and she couldn’t refrain from stepping down into it.

Once she was down, she stared around at the beautiful tiles used in admiration before suddenly stretching her hand to touch the wall before her. But then her hand touching the wall froze when she came in contact with cotton. Her brows furrowed lightly and pulling it a bit, it actually squeezed and she was more than surprised.

“Cotton?” she muttered. “This looks like tiles at a distance.”

Realizing something, she immediately turned and felt the three other sides of the wall but they felt hard and cold just like tiles should. She looked back at the tiles like clothe and curiously pulled at it again and this time, it parted slightly.

Amazed, she opened it and what she found behind the curtain rendered her speechless. There was a wall decorated with artificial green crawling grasses. It looked just like when crawling green grasses grow off a wall.

Just as she reached out her hand to feel the artificial ornaments, she heard a cold deadly voice over her head, “what are you doing there?”

Daisy was stunned and she froze on the spot. As much as that voice sounded familiar, she still shivered knowing how icy it had sounded.

She turned stiffly and slowly raised her head but gasped loudly when she came faced with a tall figure dressed in black and black boots her face masked. And not only that, but this strange figure was pointing a gun down at her. Fear took over her and Daisy soon began to tremble.

“Please put down your gun,” she began to plead.

“I said what are you doing here?” the figure barked causing Daisy to flinch and stare in horror. Daisy watched her cock the gun and aim for her head and a shiver ran down her spine.

“Please don’t,” Daisy cried out as tears gathered in her eyes. “This is Rose’s house and I’m only…”

“This isn’t Rose's,” the figure angrily cut her short. “Rose?” She asked and laugh before aiming her gun once more. “This is the Coasters and where the masks belong to. You’re dead.”

When Daisy heard those words, her head went blank. ‘Where the hell had Cindy and Rose gone to?’

With tears streaming down her face, she looked as the figure aimed at blowing off her head the next second but suddenly the lights went off. She did not what had happened but she knew she had to run for her life and reflexly, she crumbled to the floor and almost immediately, the sound of a gunshot echoed through the room.

Daisy screamed in fright and trembled greatly and bids of sweat began forming on her forehead. She sprawled on the floor desperately looking for a hole to crawl to. She was so scared of death that she kept on muttering, “mum, mum… pls save me.”

But then, she paused when she began hearing groanings and panting like two people were seriously engaged in a combat. Daisy, desperately wanting to survive managed to crawl out. Even though the room was dark, she could vaguely see a man fighting the masked lady of earlier.

Daisy crawled on all fours towards the stairs, then she hid in a corner. But suddenly, the light came back on and Daisy was so frightened that she fell face flat on the floor, her teeth gritting in fear.

The next moment, she heard a voice over her head saying, “Wesley let go of her this moment or I’ll blow her head off. Following that was the cocking of a gun over her head.

The room fell silent and next a gun was pressed against her head while she lay on the floor. Daisy felt her heartbeat pause at that moment. She slowly looked up and even though she couldn’t see the face of the man who had suddenly appeared, all she could see was the white medical coat he was wearing.

Just the white coat…

Daisy was now at her wit's end and in her desperate quest for survival she lost it and screamed loudly, “daadddyyyyyyy.”

That moment, she thought she would die, but then she felt someone gripping and shaking her vigorously, then a familiar voice desperately calling unto her. “Daisy, wake up. I’m here. Daisy..?”

Daisy opened her eyes and seeing her dad’s sweaty face close to hers, she shot up from the bed and flung her arms around him, hugging him tightly.

Mr Louis hugged his daughter and patted her back while saying to her soothingly, “it was all a dream okay? I’m here. You’re fine.”

Daisy shut her eyes tightly and tears of relief washed down her face. She did not know why that dream had felt so real and was that long. In all, she was happy it was just a dream.

But even with that, the event was traumatizing and she felt like she had aged a few more years.