Chapter 28

Chapter 28

Jake pushed his way down the stairs and through the maze. The screaming was coming from the dance floor. He stood on top of the filing cabinet, showing his flashlight through the room where he saw a dark shape dropped down from the basement window. A wave of masked faces rushed from the far wall toward the maze, knocking down the filing cabinets like a row of dominoes. Jake was thrown off balance. He landed painfully on the Senate floor. The sound of screeching metal mixed with screens filled the room. Jake kicked that then metal box hard with his boots and climbed out from underneath a warped, empty filing cabinet. Carefully. He climbed over the mess and made his way toward the dance floor. The scene reminded him of a riot. He'd been stuck in a rock concert last summer. Panic buys flew from one side of the room to the other, pressing together with the force of crashing waves. Jake was terrified of what he might find as he reached the nearly deserted dance floor. He's shown his flashlight across the crime masked faces. He knew what he was looking for. The horrible face of Michael Myers. Suddenly, the giant spider web across the ceiling came crashing down on top of him and 50 other people. Hundreds of black and white balloons filled the air. Screams rose up as the kids struggled to release themselves from the giant tangle of woven rope. Their bodies were pinned against the ground and their struggling. You only tangled them worse. Jake swung his flashlight around the attempt to see the end of the giant web. Maybe he could somehow pull it off and break free. Porers dad threw his entire body as he's shown the beam of light across the stage inside the storage cage where his three band members, their bodies hanging lifelessly, their necks sticking out. It's sickening, crooked angles. Blood dripped to the stage floor and their eyes were glassy in cold and dead as their broken bodies. One Jake screamed out No. He fell to his knees. Complete suffocation of hopelessness and defeat was washing over him. Jake forced himself to look away from the stage. Every bouncing white balloon looked like the face of Michael Myers. Fear struck through Jake's heart as the balloons all seem to blur together. A new breed of fear had entered his mind. One he was sure he'd never forget if he lived through this night. Laurie stumbled across the wreckage of the basement, searching for Jake. She was able to make out the wide outline of the spider web that lay on the ground. The trapped bodies seemed helpless, like tiny flies. Jake. She screamed. Her voice was drowned out by cries of pain and cries of terror.

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