Bridgemoss Guardians [Part 5]

“Sadie,” Lisa licked her lips, “Sadie, we should leave.” Lisa’s eyes were wide and wild. “I don’t like this, not one bit.”

Sadie remained a statue, one hand on the door — which was now two-thirds of the way open. Her heart bounced from side to side in her ribcage. She reaffirmed her grip on the stake. “I, uh,” she cleared her throat, “I think there’s something in there. Like, something actually in there.”

"Yeah? No shi—”

Sadie raised a finger to her friend’s lips. “Shh!” Her eyes darted back and forth and she squinted. “I’m listening.”

“Sadie, let’s call the cops and get outta here!” Lisa shuffled and pulled her phone out of her pocket. She swore. “Dead. This thing never holds its charge, any more! Lend me yours, Sade.”

A hiccough in the rhythmic thump-thump-thump of her heart. “I left it at home.”

“You what?”

“Mum ‘n’ Dad keep trying to track my movements. So, I left it.”

“Oh Jesus, Sade. Let’s go. Let’s go now.”

“Shush, I said! I can hear something…”

Lisa bit her tongue and held her breath. “I don’t—”

“There.”

A thud. A thump. The unmistakable sound of footsteps on stone.

Sadie turned to face Lisa. Her gut plummeted into the ground. “It’s coming this way.”

The colour drained from Lisa’s face. A small squeak escaped her pressed-together lips.

Sadie grabbed her friend by the shoulders.

“We’ve got to hide, Lis.”

Lisa nodded and glanced around — a frightened rabbit in headlights. “Where, Sadie? Where?”

“Behind the crypt, c’mon!”

Sadie had to all but drag Lisa with her — further into the stone maze of the cemetery’s lifeless heart. They went past one, two, three rows of vaults and then hooked to the side. Sadie hunkered down and pulled Lisa down into a crouch, the eddies of fog now as high as their chests. To dip into that greyness was to plunge into ice. She pressed her finger to her lips and nodded. “Shh.”

She braced against the rear of a tomb for balance and listened.

Nothing.

No thumps, thuds, slaps, taps, groans or growls.

All was silent.

Somewhere, an insect chirped. A bird cried out, and Lisa let out a little squeal. Sadie reached out and squeezed her hand.

They waited. Sadie counted to a minute twice, and still, there was nothing. “Hey, Lis, you still with me?”

The other girl nodded.

“I think tha—”

A hoarse moan rent the air, sliced her sentence in half.

Lisa’s eyes bulged out of their sockets and she clamped her hands over her mouth.

Hioseflesh prickled up all over Sadie’s body.

“You need to get outta here.”

Lisa nodded.

“I’m gonna go see what it is.”

Lisa gripped Sadie’s forearm in a claw, her nails dug into the skin. “Are you crazy? This isn’t a game Sadie — not anymore. Let’s just get the hell out of this place and pretend nothing ever happened, ‘kay?”

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