brandijade
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Brandi was blindfolded, and every time the car hit a pothole, she was thrown. Frankly, it sucked, and she thought the whole "Surprise Party Initiation," was way out of hand. They hadn't been on pavement for a while now, and Brandi was starting to get nervous. But it was Heather, and if Brandi wanted to join the tri Chi sorority, she had to put up with Heather's bullshit. The way she was giggling wasn't making Brandi feel any better about it, either. When Heather giggled, somebody was screwed.
"You know about the The Murder House, don't you Amy?" Heather said.
Amy was riding in the back, next to Brandi, making sure the Freshman didn't pull the blindfold down.
"Oh yeah," Amy said. She had a Appalachian twang in her voice, and liked climbing mountains and outdoorsy shit which Brandi could pretty much live without. Brandi was pretty much interested in partying and fashion. She already had a line of bikinis that was doing ok, and she was ready to make the next move. That was where the connections she could make in a national sorority would make a difference. Tri Chi was the one. There were alums with influential positions in every facet of the fashion industry. So, Heather's bullshit.
"Well, tell her, dumbass," Heather said.
"Oh yeah," Amy said. "So... the Murder Mansion was built, like five hundred years ago or something, and it used to be, like, a whore house, right? And one day there was this guy who came by, and he had no money, but he offered to work? And the place needed to be fixed up, cause it was so old, right? Anyway, this guy stays in his truck at night, until it gets cold, you know? Then they let him stay in the basement. And that's where he found this ancient statue. It was this old sex demon, from like, ancient Middle Earth...."
"The Middle East," Heather interrupted. Brandi did not want to switch places with Amy right then.
"Right right," Amy said. "The Ancient Middle East. And this statue, like, possessed him, and made him go crazy. Because like, he was like, super Christian or something. All those ladies kept trying to get with him, and he was so guilty about wanting to do them that he cracked."
Brandi was sure she had seen this movie, but the name was escaping her.
"But because they were just whores, nobody did anything about it," Amy said. "They say he died there. They say that he's still there, and anyone who spends the night there is gonna get killed."
The car stopped.
"Unless?" Heather prompted after a long pause.
"Unless she's a virgin," Amy said. And pulled the blindfold off Brandi's eyes. The last light of dusk illuminated an old house, crumbling, deep in the woods.
"Well, I'm shit out of luck, then," Brandi said.
"With those sex dreams you're having, I guess you are," Amy said.
"They're not sex dreams!" Brandi protested too much. They were absolutely sex dreams, and she'd been having them every night since she came to college. Except the nights when she had actual sex, which wasn't as much as everybody seemed to think.
"If you want to be a tri Chi, you stay inside until Amy comes to get you," Heather said. "At dawn." She led the three of them up the creaky front steps.
Brandi knew the story was bullshit. It was just a hazing thing, to scare her, to make her prove... whatever this bullshit proved. But it was dark, and the house was old and abandoned. Who knew what kind of wild animals or degenerate rednecks might come by in the night. She couldn't help shivering with fear as she looked around. It looked like nothing had been in here for years.
"This place is filthy," she said. "I can't believe you let me wear this dress."
Heather giggled again. "But you were feeling so cute."
Brandi sighed. She had been feeling cute. No wonder Heather was enjoying this so much.
"Have fun!" Heather said. The front door closed. The lock turned. She heard the car turn around and drive away. There had been a candelabra on the hearth, and she made her way there. She could just make out the shapes of things, and she stumbled and nearly fell on something. There were candles. And matches. She lit a match, and lit one of the candles. There wasn't much left. Of any of them. She would have to make them last. She took the matchbox and looked inside. Just a few.
This was one of those times when she wished her dress had pockets, but she brushed the matchbook off as best she could and tucked it into the front of her dress, trusting to her cleavage. She made her way through the house. There was a bathroom she didn't dare investigate upstairs, and three bedrooms. Downstairs was a kitchen and a living room, a dining room. There were stone fireplaces in all the rooms. They were furnished, but the furniture had been moldering for ages. She didn't trust any of it. There was also a door in the hall that was locked. It would have led under the stairs, either to Harry Potter's cupboard or a basement stair. Neither was very appealing, so she left it alone.
Before the first candle went out, she found a broom and swept the wooden bench in the front hall. It looked sturdy enough, and nothing would be living in it. She sat down. The candle went out. It was darker than anything she had seen.
The fear was almost better than the boredom. She would doze off, and then snap awake because something creaked inside the house. She lit two more of the candles out of fear, searching through the house for whatever imagined threat had woken her, but there was nothing.
Eventually, she must have fallen really asleep. She thought at first she was having the sex dream again, because she heard the voice calling her by name. Everything was the same strange pastiche of pale light and deep shadows, and then she realized it was the moonlight, finding its way through the trees to find the busted out shutter and shine straight into her face, waking her. There were other patches of moonlight, and they very clearly showed the prints of bare feet in the dust on the floor. They looked fresh.
She had kept her heels on, rather than step on something awful and die of some horrible infection. And these feet had to be a size fourteen, men's. She wore a 5. But they reminded her of the sex dream and dammit, she was horny. And bored, and confused. She followed them into the hall, not needing a candle because of the moonlight, bringing the candelabra anyway. It was heavy wrought iron, and if it was Heather here fucking with her, she might just bash the girl's head in and claim self defense.
The footprints ended at the door, but the moonlight fell on the lock. There was a key in it. There definitely had not been a key there before. She had checked. Or had she? She was sure she had. But there was a key there now, and someone with very big feet had walked through here. She turned the key, and the lock clicked smoothly. She turned the handle, and the door opened. There was a warm glow coming from down the stairs.