Billy Chills: A Narrative Fiction

Billy looked at the old lady in horror as his vision faded away and he collapsed. Almost immediately afterward the woman began choking, it had been her third time poisoning tea, and she took the wrong cup. Billy had only fainted in fear of what could’ve happened. He woke up an hour later. Billy looked at the woman and thought to himself, “Man am I lucky that’s not me...” He decided to go to the higher floors in search of the other two men. Billy walked up the stairs and noticed an immediate change in the wallpaper and lighting, it bothered him. Chills ran up his spine as he watched cockroaches climb up the wall, he was disgusted with the old woman. He wondered to himself, “How could anyone ever live like this…” He continued walking on the floor until he noticed a door hidden by the wallpaper, the wallpaper had been cut along the cracks of the door so the room could be entered. …show more content…
To his surprise he did not find a dead body, but one that was alive. The man was tied to a chair with a red cloth in his mouth as a gag. The man looked like.. “Gregory Temple?!” The man in the chair eyes’ started tearing up as he nodded his head vigorously. Billy rushed to his aid, he took the cloth out of his mouth and untied him. “Thank you so very much, kind sir!” Gregory yelled as he bolted out of the room and down the hall to the stairs. And after that, Gregory was gone. Billy decided not to go after him since he understood the man had been there against his will for years and had family to get back to. He then decided to continue looking for Christopher Mulholland. There were no other rooms on that floor so he decided to go to the 5th and final floor. The 5th floor was even more eerie than the 4th. The lights were flickering with dim flashes of grey almost slate, and a smell that smelled like dead