Dark Beginnings by Alley McCall

Author:Alley McCall
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Alley McCall

CHAPTER SEVEN

We trudged along the drive, and after the first few minutes, we did so in silence, the crunch of gravel under our feet the only sound that could be heard in the night. The weight of what we were about to do had set in and we were lost in our own thoughts. Not to mention it was a little spooky walking around in the dark. We didn’t want to take any chances with getting caught by a lingering guard, so we decided not to break out the flashlights until we hit the front of the house.

“We made it,” Cooper said, breaking the silence.

And there it was.

From where we stood, the hospital was only a murky outline. I could just make out the four lumbering columns of the front walkway. No one spoke as we covered the last few feet that separated us from the building.

Cooper halted when we reached the crumbling cement of the walkway. Shrugging his backpack from his shoulder, he spoke, “Are you guys sure you don’t want to split up? It might help us cover more ground.”

“Out of the question,” was Lizzy’s immediate reply. “There is no way I’m wandering in there alone.”

“You wouldn’t be alone. I would let you take Hildy with you.”

I raised my hand. “I second her motion. No splitting up.”

“I’m not big on separating either,” Oliver chimed in.

Charlie moved around me and Lizzy and headed toward his brother. When he got close enough, he clapped him on the shoulder. “Looks like you’re outvoted this time, Cooper.”

Cooper waved him off. “Yeah, yeah. At least I won the vote that got us here.”

Charlie dropped his backpack on the ground. “That’s the spirit.” He bent down, unzipping his bag and rummaging through it. “I know we don’t want to separate, but just in case we need to keep a flashlight with us at all times.”

“We have our phones,” Lizzy said.

Charlie looked up at her and arched a brow. “You won’t have service inside the building and if you’re meaning to use your flashlight, it casts a very low beam compared to the ones I brought, and who knows what we’ll run into in there.”

Wordlessly, Lizzy reached for a flashlight and held it in a white-knuckled grip.

She really was scared about going inside.

Charlie passed them out to the rest of us, and even Cooper had no sarcastic comments to offer us.

It was the anticipation of what we would discover within the walls of this place.

“All right, everyone ready?” Charlie asked, zipping his backpack and rising to his feet.

Everyone nodded.

“Let’s do this then,” Cooper said.

We stepped up on the makeshift porch. Cooper turned his flashlight on and the rest of us followed suit. The extra light illuminated the front of the hospital, giving us our first view of the place.

The crumbling brick was white, no, the whole building was white. Stark white against the night. From the massive columns on the slab of concrete that led up to the equally white door, to the very tip of the roof, there was no color to be found.

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