#matthew patick

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Black & White; Ballroom Bitch

 The longer that Amy stood in that room, the further her paranoia messed with her mind. She stood up, throwing open the door that led back into the hallway upstairs. The last she saw on the small TV inside of the room was Dan holding a key, looking between whether he’d save Jack or Signe.

 Amy couldn’t bear watching any longer. As she crept through the hallway, Amy instinctively held her breath, afraid that somebody might hear her. The sound of floorboards creaking underneath her heels terrified Amy. She looked around the corner to see another large set of doors, similar to those like the study but with a gold frame instead. 

 The doors led to a large room that started to nag at Amy’s curiosity. She slowly moved toward the doors and grabbing one of the handle’s, she opened the door and found herself inside an extremely large room. Amy jumped when the lights suddenly turned on. The room ended up being a ballroom. She stared in awe at the decor, completely forgetting how terrified she was merely seconds ago. There were chairs pushed far to the side, a large chandelier hanging from the center. Underneath the chandelier stood a gramophone, with a set of discs right next to it.

  “H-hello?” Amy called out, looking around the empty room. There was no response. Amy stood in front of the gramophone and inspected one of the discs. She sighed. She set it it down and decided to play it.

 At first, the only thing that she heard was the soft scratch before a majestic melody began to emit from the gramophone. Amy slowly starts to sway, the music making her close her eyes as she decides to just take in the moment.

 When she opens her eyes, she has to close them once again to make sure she wasn’t dreaming. Out of nowhere, hundreds of spirits had appeared and danced in sync all across the ballroom. She backs up, eyes scanning the room for an exit. She passes through the ghosts, most of them catcalling her and shouting at her to watch where she was going. When Amy backed into the doors she came from, the tried to toggle the handles. But they were locked.

 She crouched, sliding against the walls as she hoped that the spirits wouldn’t mess with her. 

 Rosanna waits in the dining room, her head still spinning from recent events. The second that she heard someone’s screams, Rosanna knew that her moment of peace was gone. Everybody that was in the kitchen stormed out and met with Dan who was dragging Jack as he kicked and screamed. Jack slipped out of his grip and began running back down the hall where they came from.

  “Jack!” Mark shouted, following him closely. Rosanna sighed and held her head in her hands. Jack’s appearance most likely signified that Signe was left inside of the tank. 

 When everybody began to follow Mark and Jack, Rosanna thought she heard music coming from upstairs. She decided to follow.

 The only door that was left ajar was the one everybody went through. Rosanna pushed through the door and found herself entering a room full of tears and wine. Rosanna, fortunately, did not see Signe’s last moments. All she saw was Signe floating inside the tank and Jack at the foot of the contraption, sobbing. 

  “Jack...” someone whispered. Stephanie slowly stepped forward and knelt down beside him. She put a hand on his back, slowly rubbing his back. 

  “There was a clue,” Dan said, raising a tiny scroll for everybody else to see. Dan led them out of the cellar and back through the hall and into the dining room. 

  “What’s it say?” Ethan asked, trying to look over Mark’s shoulder as everyone else gathered. Rosanna looked behind them to notice Stephanie and Jack were still in the cellar.

  “Beware, the cup was spilled and the bread was broken. Our love could only end in an affair. Bury my jewels, bury my treasures, bury me with my scarves and sweaters. Did you enjoy your dance? Swaying to our wedding symphony? With the girl, my pupil, in which you took her purity?” Dan read aloud. 

  “Wait what?” Ethan asked, snatching the scroll and reading it for himself.

  “Wait, wait. Purity? As in... somebody lost their virginity?” Matthew tried to deduce.

  “No, it’s obviously about a wife. She’s writing it to her husband,” Phil added.

  “What about... jewels? treasure?”

 The group of guests began to argue about what the message meant. Voices overlapped one another, reason and opinions clashed in those few minutes. Rosanna, not even bothering, made her way toward the stairs where she sat. Then she heard it again. The music. She heard feet stomping and a giggly laugh. She turned her head, looking up at the staircase to find nothing. 

 “You guys?” She tried to say, her voice too quiet to be heard. “You guys!” She exclaimed, her shrill voice breaking away their arguments. Everybody’s attention was on Rosanna, Jack and Stephanie coming from the hallway to see the commotion. 

 The faint music reached their ears, some people perked their heads up as they registered the sound. It definitely came from upstairs, reverberating across the house. Rosanna stood up, making her way up the stairs while others followed close behind her. One hand on the railing and the other on her chest, she slowly lead the guests up the stairs, following the music as it grew louder. Turning a corner, they saw large glass doors with a gold frame. There was a single gramophone playing in the center of what appeared to be a massive ballroom. She opened the doors, swinging them wide with ease so they could enter. But merely seconds after she and two others stepped across the threshold, the doors swung closed and locked themselves. With the music still playing, white spirits suddenly appeared, dancing and swaying to the music. 

 Rosanna, Matthew, and Mark were all trapped inside the ballroom while everybody else started banging on the glass demanding to be let in. Rosanna, glad that she wasn’t insane, noticed the sudden fear and confusion on their faces through the glass when the spirits appeared.

  “Guys! Amy!” Mark exclaimed, pointing to the wall at the far end of the ballroom. Strapped to the wall in fancy ribbons and asleep, was Amy. Mark began to step closer, the music starting to annoy him. When he began to lift the center spindle off of the disc, the ghosts suddenly froze and charged at Mark. In mere seconds, he was dragged away and strapped against the wall next to Amy.

  “Holy shit.” 

 Matthew and Rosanna took their own steps back as the spirits turned their red-eyed gazes upon them, slowly marching towards them. The panicked screams from the other guests on the other side of the door left Rosanna terrified. She did not want to be in this position again.

  “Enough!” A female shouted within the crowd. The crowd split in half as a woman in large Victorian-esque attire stepped through the middle and confronted the two guests. “You two, what brings you here?”

  “Well you... kinda took our friends,” Matthew mumbled.

  “Speak up!” She shouted, Rosanna flinched.

  “W-we followed the music and found our friend strapped on the wall. W-we’d like her back, please,” Rosanna whimpered out. The ghostly woman inched her face closer to the brunette, purposefully trying to make her uncomfortable.

  “Can you dance?” The woman asked, her voice demanding.

  “I-- uh-- a little bit--”

  “CAN YOU DANCE OR NOT.”

 Matthew stood between the two, acting  as a shield for Rosanna.

  “Yes, she can dance. Why do you care?”

 The woman flared her nostrils at Matthew and began to walk back into her crowd. Before making it to the end, she took a dramatic turn in which her wispy dress spun magnificently around her.

  “I ask you... to dance swiftly,” the ghost said, voice much more sweet, “to dance your heart out. If my pupils are pleased with your dance, I will free whoever you wish. Then she will do the same.” The woman pointed a finger at Rosanna. “However, if my pupils are not at all impressed, I will send you and your tied up friends to the roof. To take one... last... spill.” With each final word, she took a step, her heel clacking against the cold tiles and echoing through the ballroom.

  “Fine.” Matthew sneered. Stephanie was shouting on the other side of the door.

 The wicked woman smiled. “Very well, let’s see what you have to offer.”

 One of the spirits laid a disc onto the turn table, centering the spindle in order to begin. The crowd stood apart and formed a circle around Matthew. A single woman, in a simple dress, took a step into the middle and laid her hand out. The tall man took it as he began to waltz gently across the floor.

 Matthew was swift, but not forceful. The grace he and the woman left behind seemed to turn heads. After a while of the orchestra’s music, more spirits began to waltz on their own, creating  dizzying stampede of white flurries. Rosanna was frozen where she stood. Waltzing was easy. She could handle waltzing. When she looked back at the door, expecting to see their friends, they had left. Now she was nervous.

 The longer the music went on, the further Rosanna’s anxiety built. She could see through the white swarms of dancers a single man in a black jacket. Matthew swayed elegantly until the record was cut short. A series of applause announced Matthew’s safety.

  “Very well!” The woman exclaimed as she, too, added to the applause, “which one will you take with you?” 

 Mark, who was conscious, looked at Matthew and nudged his head to save Amy. 

  “Uh.. Mark.” Matthew knew he’d be angry, but there was something off about how everybody but Amy was downstairs after the whole mess with Jack and Signe.

 In an instant, the ribbons let Mark fall to the floor, catching himself in time to glare at Matthew.

  “And you!” The woman shouted, pointing to Rosanna, “it is your turn.”

 A different disc was on the gramophone this time, and it was typical flapper music from the 20′s. Rosanna didn’t know what to do. As everyone seemingly went wild, she could see Mark and Matthew urging her to move or do something!

 Rosanna tried to sway her hips, but it came out as awkward spasms to the left. She moved her arms awkwardly. Mark prayed this would fool the stupid ghost.

 The longer the song went on, the worse Rosanna’s movements were. Finally, the record scratched and the crowd surrounded her ominously. There were a series of whispers and mumbles throughout the crowd. The wicked woman stood in front of the crowd and tisked at Rosanna.

  “It seems to me... that you’re friend lied. You, in fact, cannot dance,” the woman scolded, walking around Rosanna as she inspected her disdainfully.

  “Off to the roof we go.” A man mumbled as he shoved past Rosanna, carrying Amy over his shoulder.

  “What?! No wait!” Rosanna shouted as she followed after them. the spirits followed the woman and the brute ghost. She could barely see where she was going. She could hear terrifying chants, demanding they toss Amy off the roof. Mark’s shouts behind Rosanna made her panic even further.

 The ghosts just floated upward and into the ceiling. Rosanna caught hold of the string that opened up the stairs that led to the attic. It was filled with terrifying dolls. She tried to look past them and instead at the window that hung above a chair. She stepped onto it, looking for anything that would indicate an opening. Finally, a tiny latch was the trick to opening the small window. Mark, right behind Rosanna, assisted in her lift into the hole she barely squeezed into.

  “Save Amy!” Mark shouted after her. Rosanna stood up, the cold night air blowing her way and her dress ruffling even further. She could see the crowd of spirits ahead of her. She made her way through, expecting to push and shove when mere wisps of smoke were all that was left. She saw Amy slowly blinking awake. Her hands were tied behind her back and the wicked woman stood beside her, a hand on Amy’s shoulder.

  “You failed a simple task! You simply couldn’t dance! And now,” the woman looked at Amy, the blonde looking around her in confusion as to what was going on. “I will do away with her the same way I did with my husband’s-- m-my husband’s whore!”

  “Ro, what’s going on?” Amy asked weakly.

  “No, wait!” Rosanna shouted, “throw me away instead!”

 The spirits gasped.

 At that moment, the guests all gathered outside, stepping down the front steps to take in the scenery high above them.

  “Oh my god, what’s going to happen?!” Stephanie exclaimed.

  “We have to catch her. Quick, find out where she could land!” Mark shouted as everybody scrambled around to look for any signs of cushioning they could use.

 Meanwhile on the roof, the woman laughed a wicked laugh and looked at Rosanna in a devilish manner.

  “Oh... you’re too pure. too young.” The woman said, “You won’t understand marriage. Not yet, at least. I do hope you don’t face the... heartbreak... that I had to endure for so long,” the woman said, her face breaking it’s tough facade for a second into a sad one.

 Rosanna remembered the scroll that Dan read in the dining room. And it clicked.

  “You’re husband cheated on you, didn’t he?” The woman looked at Rosanna, questioned. “With someone younger? O-one of your pupils, you said. Right?”

  “Y-yes, how do you know that?”

  “A-and you wanted to be buried in your jewels. And scarves and sweaters. Right?”

 The ghostly woman stared at Rosanna, her attention off of Amy.

  “The music that mat danced to... was it the song that was played a-at your wedding?”

 A nod.

  “I’m sorry,” Rosanna said, sincerity in her voice, “I’m sorry that your husband did that. And I can see why you’d want to get revenge. Throwing her off the roof because you new it’d hurt him. B-but you don’t have to throw Amy off. Because she’s not a cheater.”

 Everybody underneath was positioning themselves where they figured Amy would fall back if she was pushed.

  “Y-you can help us. You can redeem yourself. If you could help us find out who brought us here, you can be free from this... this guilt. We could be free from this house!” Rosanna exclaimed, her voice excited. She finally found a way out. This could be their chance.

  “Sweet girl, y-you know me so well...” the woman said, clasping her hands and walking towards Rosanna. Rosanna had a smile, hope in her eyes. The woman actually looked sympathetic...

 ...before her eyes contorted together and her face returned to its rage. The woman grabbed Rosanna’s hair and her shoulder. Rosanna let out a yelp.

  “...but nobody will ever understand the pain I’ve felt,” the woman snapped. She pulled Rosanna to the edge of the roof next to Amy. “But you’re dear friends will.”

 People began shouting, reassuring them they’d be safe if they fell. The wind flapped against their dresses and Amy looked at Rosanna in terror.

  “I’ll leave it up to you, girl. You can volunteer yourself... or throw your friend.”

 Rosanna was shocked. She couldn’t do this. She felt like the choice was obvious... but at the same time... it wasn’t.

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