Chapter Two

Charcoalbrick Manor sat quickly and disturbingly. Anxiously, Lily didn’t think it was an amazing idea to come to this back bone shivering Manor. But there they were, Ivy was desperate for the next note she needed to find it, and now!  Lily’s tummy was churning like a popcorn machine. The Manor was a dark grey colour and broken roof with dead plants in front of the Manor that was full of colour until her Mother went missing, sadly.

Climbing through a broken window, the Manor whispered erringly shadows crawling to fill any light that peeks through the cracks for the windows and doors. The carpet full with moulded parts from the rain dripping through the broken skylight. Sadly, Ivy’s favourite vase was smashed pieces scattered all around the wooden floor that was a missing a lot of plank. Ivy remembered where every room and every ornament was but, the one place she needed the most had not been spotted at that moment of time. Suddenly, Lily tugged Ivy over to a door they hadn’t checked or seen yet. IT was Ivy’s Mother’s workshop!

“There it is” Ivy said, happily.

Lily replied worryingly, “grab the note and let’s get out of here, I can’t handle anymore!”

Ivy picked up the note from her Mother’s drawer and started walking to the door.

“Where do you think you’re going?” questioned a shadowy figure. Ivy and Lily stopped terrified and speechless.

The shadowy figure stepped into the light revealing who it was. Her Mother’s partner she ordered one of her guards to grab the note and so they did. Then Scarlett Ivy’s Mother’s partner smirked, a cheeky nasty smile I was.

Ivy and Lily shouted, “Give that back!”

“I don’t think I will,” laughed Scarlett “I’ve been looking for this note for a long time and you’ve finally led me to it!”

Without a warning, two other shadowy figures stepped out and started heading towards Ivy and Lily. Lily grabbed Ivy and bolted for the door, then they ran into some sort of storage closet and closed the door. Click…  Scarlett had just locked them in. How could anybody find them here?