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The black book of doom

Sheree moves into a haunted house. when She arrives at her new house she starts hearing strange noises. what will she discover in her new home? Will she survive the night?

By Laura mcleanPublished 2 years ago 12 min read
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The black book of doom
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The day Sheree was set to move out of her mother's apartment. It was raining so hard and fast that she was soaked before she reached the jeep as soon as Sheree walked outside. Sheree had just a few boxes left to load into her jeep. So she decided to wait till the rain slowed down.

Finally, the rain slowed down enough, and Sheree was able to get her last two boxes out in her jeep. Sheree walked back into her mother's apartment one last time before she hit the highway. She went and hugged her mother goodbye, as they both were crying like this was going to be the last time she would ever see her mother again.

Sheree was in her jeep, pulling out the driveway as she honked on the way down the road. Still crying, she looked in her rearview mirror one last time. She was able to get one last glimpse of her mother standing at the end of the driveway waving goodbye. I'm finally free, and onto a new beginning, Sheree thought to herself.

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As Sheree was an hour into her drive to Dation, Ohio, She was finally almost to her new house. All she could do is daydream about setting her new home up and how she would do with everything she owned. The more closer she got to her house, the more excited she got. To have a place to call her own made her happy.

As Sheree made it into downtown Dayton, she just watched as she was driving through all the tall buildings and the people walking down the sidewalk. As she made her way through the traffic, She reached her road. Sheree could not wait to pull into her driveway.

Sheree started to drive slower, So she could take in the view. There were ranch-style houses and two-story houses. As Sheree crept up to her house, she comes to a complete stop before pulling into her driveway. She just stared, like she was in a dream. It was the most beautiful sight she had seen in a long time.

The house was so big, With a long driveway that seemed like it was miles long. The house was a light blue color with a flower bed stretching from the driveway alongside the wrap-around porch. There were many colorful flowers randomly threw-out the flower bed. The patio had furniture already on it—a porch swing, a few wooden chairs, and a table that looked like it was handmade.

Before Sheree carried any of her stuff in the house, She wanted to go inside and look around. She jumped out of her car and walked up to the porch. As she walked past the flower bed, she was able to smell the aroma of the flowers. The smell made all her fears of living alone go right away. She strolled up the porch stairs, up to her front door.

As she pulled the house keys out of her pocket, she unlocked the door and pushed it open slowly, and It took her by surprise. Sheree stepped inside her new home and took a look around. The living room threw a doorway on the left-right before the steps.

Sheree walked through the whole house, and she loved every bit of it. As she finished walking through her home, Sheree got right to unload her jeep and get everything unpacked. Sheree still didn't have any furniture yet. Sheree walked upstairs she remembered that she was not able to finish setting up her bed.

Sheree was tired from all the unpacking she just got done doing. She sat on the edge of her bed and laid back. Sheree was looking up at the ceiling, just enjoying the comfort of her mattress. All she could think about was how much she had to do tomorrow. Sheree sat up and started rummaging through a box on the side of her bed, Looking for a book to read until she fell asleep.

She found herself a good book to read, laid back on her pillow, and started reading. There was no one in the house with her, and yet she started hearing whispering and footsteps. She rose from her bed to see if someone was in her place. But as she walked through the house, the footsteps and whispering stopped. Sheree thought nothing of it and went back to her bedroom.

That next morning after she woke up, she started getting ready for the day. Sheree walked down the stairs to her kitchen to make a cup of coffee. She had her coffee pot set up and was waiting for it to finish brewing when she heard a knock at her front door.

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As she walked to her front door and opened it, there was not a person in sight. Sheree stepped out onto her porch and looked around, to find nothing in sight as Sheree walked back into her house and shut the door. Sheree went back into the kitchen and poured a cup of coffee.

Sheree was done drinking her coffee and went to wash her cup in the sink. As she set her up on a towel, she had noticed a note on her counter. Sheree dried her hands picked up the letter that read," find the little black book." Sheree dropped the letter and turned around. She had a blank look on her face like she had seen a ghost.

She started yelling, Is there anyone in here? Sheree grabbed her phone to call her mother to tell her how her first night in the house was. But she could not find her cell phone anywhere. Sheree looked high and low And was nowhere in sight. Sheree decided to finish setting up her house, and maybe she would come across it.

Just as Sheree finished setting everything up, she heard a noise coming from her guest room on the second floor. Sheree walked upstairs to the doorway of the guest room. She started looking around the room and noticed a few old books the last tenant had left behind. They were all stacked into one pile on the floor.

Sheree walked over to the pile of books and started looking through all of them. There was a mixture of books, from mystery to romance. But there was one book that stood out to her. It was a little book with a black cover. Sheree thought nothing of the note she had found on her counter earlier that day.

But Sheree started looking through the book. Only to find it read like it was a diary. As she was flipping through the pages, something had fallen out onto the floor. Sheree didn't even notice it right away. She stood there reading the little black book. The book read as an older man wrote it, and he was sad toward the end of the book.

The book had a hidden message in it, along with a cheat sheet that would give you the answer to the secret message. sheree worked on the hidden message for hours upon hours. Sheree was finally able to figure out what it said. It had read, " Don't let anyone know that you have found this note or they will start coming after you.

Sheree shut the book and placed it back where she found it. She went to walk out of the room and noticed there was a white paper on the floor. Sheree bent down and picked it up. As sheree flipped it over, Sheree noticed that it was a lottery ticket. Sheree started wondering if this was what the book was referring to.

Sheree walked down the steps and saw her phone right at the bottom of the floor's steps. She ran down the stairs, grabbed her phone, and looked up the lottery ticket numbers. She had to know if it was a winner or a loser. Just As soon as the screen popped up with the same numbers that were on the ticket, Sheree dropped her phone on the floor.

Sheree dropped to the floor with amazement. Sheree thought if this is truly a winner, I'll be able to pay off my house and still have money left over to pay my debt. Sheree looked one more time at her phone to make sure she saw the screen right. Nothing on her phone screen changed. So it is a winning ticket.

The day was almost over, and Sheree was starving. She did not eat all day. Sheree stood up and went into the kitchen, and find herself something easy to eat. She had to get to bed because she had a big day ahead of her tomorrow. She was able to find something easy to heat up.

After sheree finished eating, Sheree went straight to bed. As she lay there in bed, she started hearing sounds coming from down the hall. She started getting scared, hearing the noises down the hall and thinking about what she had read in the little black book. It started making her feel afraid. Sheree didn't even want to get out of bed to check and see what it was.

Sheree just closed her eyes and tried to ignore what was going on around her. But the sounds started to get closer and closer. She opened her eyes to see a shadow in her doorway. Sheree closed her eyes and opened them back up to make sure she saw things correctly. To make sure her mind was not playing tricks on her.

The second time Sheree opened her eyes, the shadow was walking closer to her bed. She jumped up out of her bed and started yelling, " what do you want from me"? Why are you at my house? The shadow answered back, " you have something I want." Now give it to me!

Sheree replied, "I don't know what you are talking about." " I don't have anything, and I just moved into this house. The shadow said I know you have it. If you give it to me, nothing will happen to you. Sheree replied I don't have anything. Please leave me alone. I have money in my purse on the other side of the bed, please take it and go.

The shadow replied I don't want your money. I want that ticket please I know you have it. The shadow started to walk closer to sheree, and the closer the shadow got, the bigger it was. Sheree pleaded, please don't hurt me. As she turned to look beside her on the nightstand, there was a letter opener. Sheree leaped over to the table and grabbed the letter opener as fast as she could.

Just as she reached the nightstand, the dark shadow leaped at her, trying to grab her before she got what she was going after. But the dark shadow missed and fell into the wall. Sheree turned around as fast as she could, and just as she turned around, she was able to see a glimpse of the dark shadow.

The dark shadow was an older man, and he looked as if he was in his late 50's with short silver hair a long black trench coat that almost reached the ground. And mud covered his feet, and he smelled like he had not taken a shower in months. The man turned around and started going after Sheree again.

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The man was not able to catch Sheree, and she was too fast for the older man. Sheree jumped over her bed and took off out of her room. She was running so fast she didn't even think about looking behind her. Sheree was able to make it down the stairs and out the front door. She ran to her car, then realized she forgot her keys inside the house.

Sheree felt scared to death, but she had to go back into the house to grab her keys and the lottery ticket that she left in a drawer in the kitchen. Just as Sheree made it to the porch and threw the door, she could hear the older man walking around looking for her. He kept repeating himself over and over.

"Give me what I come for, and ill leave you alone. I won't hurt you. Sheree walked through the door slowly and tiptoed to the kitchen. As she pulled the drawer open to grab the ticket, she could hear the older man getting closer and closer. Sheree grabbed the ticket worth $20,000 and started making her way to the front door.

When Sheree took off, she tripped over the carpet she had just laid down earlier that day. She went flying across the floor and into the wall. At that point, the older man was at the bottom of the steps. Sheree took off toward the back door this time. As she was almost to the back door, the older man came out from behind the wall and stopped her.

Sheree turned around and took off running in the other direction. She ran so fast that she almost missed her car keys as she was running out the door. Sheree grabbed the keys to her jeep just in the nick of time. Sheree made it to her jeep, as she jumped in and took off out the driveway. As sheree was almost to the end of the driveway, the older man appeared behind her car. She was going too fast to be able to stop in time.

Sheree's jeep went right through the older man, and Just at that moment, she realized he was just a ghost. But she did not care, not one bit. She kept driving, trying to get as far from that house as possible. Sheree jumped on the highway headed toward her mother's house.

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She was finely safe and never wanted to go back to that house again. By the time Sheree made it to where her mother had lived, the sun was almost entirely up. Sheree decided to go to the store and cash the $20,000 ticket she was nearly killed over.

Sheree cashed it in and headed to her mother's apartment. As she pulled into the driveway, her mother walked outside to grab the newspaper out of the yard. Sheree's mother looked up and saw Sheree pulling in. Sheree looked like she had the longest night of her life. Sheree's mother ran to her jeep and started asking all kinds of questions.

Sheree replied, " MOM, I'M FINE" I just had a long night running from a ghost, and he was chasing me to get this ticket I found in my new house. And get this mom the ticket was worth $20,000. Sheree said, mom, I want to move into another home. I never want to go back to Dayton, Ohio, ever again as long as I liv

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Laura mclean

I would like to test my writing skills. try and see if I can make it any better. When I was in middle school I had a published pome I wrote. It's been so long I can't remember the title or the name of the pome.

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