the house and the lake, feeling burdened by the guilt boiling inside of him. Those who do not listen and stay in the house will be drowned in the very same lake.
The administrator’s explanation was enough proof to us that we weren’t being irrational. We slept over at the motel and had breakfast the next morning. We were in the car, driving when we understood that we had left our things at the house, we quickly locked the motel room door and rushed towards the house. I could feel that the vibe was off as soon as we came close to the lake house.
When we got inside, I was surprised to see that our boxes were gone.
‘Where could they be?’ I said with a slight tremble in my voice.
‘I don’t know,’ he said in hesitation. ‘I’m pretty sure we left it here last night.’
As I was walking around the house, I could not find a single thing that belonged to us. Then I went to the basement thinking that I would find something there, but it was