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Moving To England

Chapter Fourty-Three



*Destiny’s POV*
*Friday, December 18th/ Afterschool*


“Is everyone ready?” Harry asked as everyone gathered in front of his house.

All the commotion about Victor had subsided and was left in the week that just passed. I decided to forgive Harry, as it was just an honest mistake. Plus, there was nothing else I would really do, and luckily no one bothered me about it, even Amanda, who seemed to be having her own issues to ponder about.

“Yes!” I exclaimed, on behalf of everyone.

My friends and I planned a road trip to Floria for the winter break. We scheduled to be back the night before Christmas, to spend it with our families. Everyone was super hyped for our trip.

“Where are Liam and the truck, though?” Ally questioned, bringing her last suitcase to the front lawn.

“Oh my gosh! I can’t wait to leave this cold place!” Mabel whined.

“You have so many layers of clothing on you, that you look like a fat polar bear.” Zayn laughed. Mabel shot him a dirty look before tripping over her own boats. Everyone had broken into laughter before Elizabeth, and I tried to pull her up, causing us to fall back instead.

HONK! HONK!

“Alright, little girls. Liam’s here! Let’s pack the bags.” Harry announced helping me up.

“Who declared you the team leader?” I questioned him crossing my arms.

“Every single sports team, baby.” Harry chuckled, planting a quick kiss on my cheek.

“Well …” I say trailing off, “I wanna be a team leader.”

“You won’t be able to do it. But alright go ahead.” Harry says, letting me take the lead, with a smirk.

“Alright!” I exclaimed. “Bags in the car! Bodies in the car! I’m driving!” I exclaim racing to the driver’s seat.

“Oh no, you aren't!” Harry demanded, alarmed as he chased after me. Just as I got to the car door, Harry caught me and hugged me from the back. He lifted me and took me away from the driver’s seat. I squirmed and giggled trying to get out of Harry’s arms.

Fifteen minutes later all the luggage was packed into the truck, and everyone was ready to hit the road.

“Hold on! Shouldn’t we change into something we weren’t wearing all day?” June suggested. We all had on our uniforms, still.

“You children go change, and I’ll bring you all your snacks for the road.” Ms Miles smiles at us. The parents had all gathered at Harry’s house too before we all left.

“Alright.” We all nodded, going back to our house to change our clothes.

Running home and searched through my quarter empty closet for something cute to wear on the road. I threw on a crafted pink acid wash sweater hoody over a Vince ribbed tank top, along with sandy coloured Rymill jeans. Pulling my hair into two separate Dutch braids, I wrapped a dark red scarf around my neck and pulled on light grey cashmere gloves. Slipping into my gray pointed toe chunky heels, I threw on my green parka coat and raced outside.

Destiny (Outfit 26):


Mabel (Outfit 27):


June (Outfit 28):


Elizabeth (Outfit 29):


Ally (Outfit 30):


“Okay. Are we all ready?” Harry asked. Everyone nodded.

“Here you go kids.” Ms Miles says as she and Ms Cox comes out with sandwiches, fruits and a couple other healthy foods.

“Thanks,” Mabel says as Ms Miles and Ms Cox place the foods in her’s and June’s hands. The girls looked at the food in a weird way. Harry and I exchanged smirks, knowing well that none of us would be eating that food because we had packed a whole stash of junk food, earlier as a surprise for the others.

Mom noticed the disgusted looks on everyone's faces and said: “You kids have to eat healthily! No exceptions!”

“Alright! Alright! Can we get going?” I say, eagerly.

“Yes! Please!” Ally exclaims.

“Have a safe ride kids!” Mum smiles at us. We exchange goodbyes without parents and get a quick 10 minute lecture about safety and everything for the 100th time.

“Remember kids, once you leave the border of the state to call us. Contact us immediately, once you get there. Call us-” Ms Maxwell says.

“Alright! We will call every five minutes!” Elizabeth laughs, cutting her mother off mid-speech. We said our last goodbyes before finally getting on the road.

“Eeeeee!!!”’ I squealed. “This is going to so much fun!”

“Yes, it sure will be, baby.” Harry smiles at my excitement, as he squeezes my hand, I squeeze it back with a big smile plastered on my face.

“Yeah … with a bunch of healthy bs.” Ally sighs.

“Oh hush you.” I wave it off.

“Destiny and I already thought of the food. We have a whole stash of junk food in this vehicle.” Harry explains as I pull out the big wooden box with all of our junk food.

“Yes!!” Niall exclaims. His face lights up like a Christmas tree. His eyes glazed over the food. “There is everything here! Chocolate, chips, candy, pop, cookies …”

“Oh my gosh! Niall, you are drooling on all our food!” June exclaims.

“Our? Who said our?” Niall looks up, with a confused look. “Mine!” he exclaimed hugging the food.

“Niall!” June shouts.

“June!” Niall yells back, looking at June with puppy eyes.

“You are hopeless.” June laughs, shaking her head.

“We shouldn't have them now.” Mabel points out.

“Yeah, it's supposed to keep us going throughout the ride to Florida.” I nod.

“There is even frozen pizza, hot dogs, fries burgers, more chocolate, more candy … oh dear god!” Niall drools some more.

“Good thing we have a microwave and mini-fridge for Niall.” Liam laughs.

“Wait. Where is Zayn?” Mabel questions, remembering about her boyfriend.

“True, though … where is he?” Niall nodded.

We all had looked all around the bus before I found him. “Yo, guys. I think I found him.” I called to everyone, from the bed area. Everyone, except Louis – who was driving, came to look. Zayn, curled up, was sleeping underneath a tonne of blankets.

“How long has it been, and your boyfriend is already asleep, Mabel?” Elizabeth laughs.

“Probably like 20 minutes.” Mabel shakes her head, laughing and facepalming herself.

While Louis drove the home van to the airport and Elizabeth kept him company, the rest of us decided to equally split the food and stash them deep into our luggage.

Halfway through the three-hour drive to the airport, Zayn took over to drive, with Mabel, Liam, and Ally keeping him company, while Louis took a nap. Niall, June and Elizabeth played random games, and Harry and I talked about everything and anything, getting to know each other, a bit more than we already do. Throughout the ride, we took several selfies, and I took photos of everyone with my baby blue polaroid camera.

After we reached the airport and emptying the truck of all our belongings, Liam returned the van, while the rest of us waited at the nearest Nando’s, where we ate our lunch before catching our 10 pm flight.

*Harry’s POV*

After it was finally time to go through the security gates, we gathered our things, and put our luggage on the moving table for inspection, while one by one, each of us walked through the security detectors. I was the last one to go through the gate. As soon as I walked through the security gate, the sensors begin to beep, continuously, fast and loudly. Everyone’s attention was immediately directed to me. I noticed the shocked, and worried look plastered on Destiny’s face.

‘What did I do?!’ I thought, alarmed, as my arms flew up in the air, while about 5 security guards came to analyse me with their detector wands. After some time of searching, the detector found something in my pocket.

“False alarm.” The security announces, “It’s only an aluminium gum wrapper.

‘Oh my goodness.’ I thought, still in shock, ‘These friggin metal detectors are going to be the end of me.”

I noticed my friends burst into laughter. Destiny tried to hide her laughter but failed so miserably. ‘She looks so adorable, laughing.’ I thought with a smile, as I shook my head.

“Here you go, sir.” The police officer says handing me the wrapper. “You can put your hands down now.” I haven't even noticed that I still had my hands in the air. Instantly, I pulled my arms back down and took the wrapper timidly as I go over to my friends, who were still dying of laughter.

“Oh be quiet will you,” I say.

“You were so terrified, it looked adorable.” Destiny laughed, giving me a hug. I planted a kiss on her forehead, as I hugged her back. As the laughter died down, we grabbed our bags and entered the aeroplane and took our seats. The ten of us took the two rows in the middle section of the plane – Niall, June, Destiny, Me, Liam and Ally took the first row, while Louis, Elizabeth, Mabel and Zayn sat in the row behind us, next to an elderly couple.

The plane ride to Floria was about 6 hours long. The ten us did random things to pass the time – talking, laughing, playing games, eating, and watching movies on the individual devices each of us, which were attached behind the seats, in front of us. One-fourth of the time, Destiny was asleep on my shoulder.

‘Guess the ride tuckered her out.’ I thought.

“Look at the pilot,” Destiny says to me, as she stared out our pilot.

“Yeah so? He is going to the bathroom.” I shrugged.

“Yeah but this is the first time he went. He keeps going every half an hour or so.” Destiny says.

“And when he goes he will be in there for legit 15 minutes,” June adds on, tuning into our conversation.

“Just watch.” Destiny giggled. “He will come out will a pained face expression.”

“He has severe diarrhoea.” Niall laughs. Fifteen minutes later he walks about with a horrible stench lingered behind him as he exited the washroom and filled the first half of the aeroplane.

“Oh my gosh.” I laughed and tried to get the horrible stench away from my nose. “You were right.”

We all giggled and chuckled, as we tried waving off the horrible smell. Soon the flight attendant came around. “We are extremely sorry for the stench. We will clear it up immediately. Thank you for your cooperation.” She says through the speakers. Moments later, other flight attendants came around spraying air freshener all over the plane.

*Destiny’s POV*

“How much longer do we have to stay on this plane,” I whined falling down on Harry.

“3 more hours baby. Hang in there.” Harry says.

“3 hours! I’m going to die here!” I whined.

“Hush baby,” Harry says, putting his finger on my lips. I look directly at his finger, causing my eyes to cross. CLsoing my eyes, I kissed his finger, making Harry laugh and plant a gentle kiss on my cheek.

“You kids look incredibly bored.” the elderly man sitting next to Zayn says.

“We are.” Zayn nods, as the rest of us turn to look at them. As our group of friends turn to look at the older couple.

“Where are you kids heading to?” the older woman asks.

“Orlando, Florida.” Elizabeth says, “A winter break trip. We are going to go back home just before Christmas Eve.”

“Oh, that sounds like fun.” The elderly man nods.

“It sure will be. We have been planning this trip for more than a month.” Niall mentions.

“One the first day we will settle down in a hotel and go to ‘Universal’s Islands of Adventure’.” Ally adds on.

“First! We check out the Harry Potter section of that amusement park.” I exclaim.

“Uh … no.” Liam says.

“What?” I question him.

“You go there while we check out the fun places.” Ally says.

“But …” I trail off. I was really looking forward to seeing that place.

“Don’t worry baby. We will check it out. Promise.” Harry ensures me, with a chuckle, as he brushes back my hair.

“Anywho.” Louis says, “The next day we will be going to be at Walt Disney World for the next two days.”

“The third day we will have dates,” Mabel mentions as Zayn squeezes her hand.

“And the last day will be spent on anything we decide,” Niall says.

“Half the day, Destiny’s cousin will be giving us a tour, though,” Harry mentions.

“True.” Louis nods.

“Wow. You children got everything planned out well.” The elderly woman smiles.

“Yup!” Destin nods proudly.

“You know what you should do during that empty stop you got on the last day of your trip?” the elderly man says.

“What?” Zayn asks.

“Do you children know about Mizzable Scratch?” the elderly man says. His wife’s eyes light up with fear immediately upon hearing the name: Mizzable Scratch

“Oh! Honey! No! Don’t tell them about her! They are only children.” The elderly woman pleads to her husband.

“Ah. Don’t worry. I am pretty sure these children can handle it.” the older man waves off.

“Who is Mizzabe Scratch?” Zayn questions him.

“Mizzable Scratch lives in St Augustine, Florida.” the elderly woman says.

“Well … used to live there.” the older man shyly says.

“What. What happened to her?” Mabel asks.

“She died.” he says, without a single flinch.

“Oh my gosh … if this is a scary story, I am definitely not listening.” I whine, burying my face into Harry’s chest.

*Harry’s POV*

I laughed as Destiny buried her face into my chest I hugged her and held her close to me.

“How did she die?” I asked.

“Oh … it was so tragic.” the elderly woman shakes her head in dismay.

“She had died the year I was born you know.” the old man says. “All the parents and adults would talk about her all the time.”

“How did she die?” Liam asked, again.

“I’ll start from the beginning.” the elderly man says. “Mizzable Scratch lived in a mansion in a little town in St Augustine, Florida. She was born and raised in that mansion. She usually wore sundresses. Always brightly colour, flowing above her knees, showing off her toned legs.”

“She was a beautiful child. Her hair was the colour of raspberries and was always tied in braids. Her mother always decorated them with little beads. Her shoes were not anything any other kid would wear, though. They were slightly-heeled and gaunt. Her braceleted matched her ivory skin perfectly. That bracelet was passed down in her family, starting centuries ago.” the elderly woman continued.

We all continued to listen carefully to the older couple as they told their story.

“Mizzable was different from other little girls. Unique different.” the old man adds on. “She was such a friendly person. She loved and was loved by everyone. She amused everyone with her hilarious jokes. Mizzable had a gentle way of treating people and animals. Although she grew up with imaginary friends, which she claims to be lost spirits, who are looking for their way out of this cruel world. She says she has the power to see and speak to ghosts. Some claim she even knew how to do witchcraft, but because of her kind ways no one ever snitched her out on the law, or else they would’ve beheaded her immediately.”

“One day, Mizzable had fallen in love with a man who was as unique as herself. They had gotten married and even started a charity foundation for sick children. They were a triumphal, loving couple until one Halloween night …” the elderly woman says, trailing off.

“Mizzable’s house was had a huge Halloween celebration after all the candy had been given out. One Halloween, a couple of teens, decided to play a prank on the old couple…

*Flashback*
*No one’s POV*

A group of teens - two boys (David and Jack) and a girl (Samantha) - decided to play a prank on the Scratch couple.

David and Jack had worn all black and Samantha had worn a long dirty white dress with her hair straightened out, nicely. As the two boys hid in the brushes, Samantha knocked on the door of their house, before quickly running back to the bushes with David.

Mr Scratch opened up the front door to be greeted by no one. Walking out a little further from his front door to see who had knocked on their door, the teens took this chance to quickly enter the house and hide in the first place they saw.

“It must’ve been a little prank by a group of teens.” Mr Scratch laughed shaking his head, reentering into his humble home. He had gone back to the kitchen where he had been preparing last minute dessert for their annual Halloween party.

Back in the hiding spots of the teens. They were planning their next move.

“Alright fix up your hair. It has to cover all of your faces.” Jack says to Samantha.

“Got it.” Samantha nods, letting all of her hair to fall in front of her face, leaving a little space between the hair strands so she could see. She was going to play the devil.

“Alright, Jack get the lights, and Samantha gets into position,” David orders his friends. Jack nods and hits the main power line for all the lights in the house while Samantha stands in front of the door with her hair in front of her face.

As the light went out, the boys scurried to their hiding place.

“Oh dear!” Mr Scratch exclaimed. “The lights went out.” He grabbed a flashlight and made his way to the main switches. He pointed out the light, following it towards the light box which was near the door. He glances over the door for a mere moment focusing his attention towards the light box, but then mid-way he remembered seeing a figure of a human standing in front of the door. He shines his flashlight back to the door and sees Samantha.

“The devil!” Mr Scratch screams. He drops his flashlight and faints. Getting frightened, the kids immediately escape from the house.

*End of Flashback*
*Harry’s POV*


“The kids had run away. Mrs Scratch turns on the lights and rushes to her husband’s aid. Unfortunately, he had gotten a heart attack thinking it was the devil.” Mrs Noble, the elderly woman, says.

“Mrs Scratch’s heart was broken, turn up and shattered. The love of her life, her husband, her best friend, had just died. Since that night, Mizzable had a profound hatred towards all children. All her kind habits had changed, and she had turned into a grumpy, bad-tempered, nasty, means and unpleasant person. Since the night of the death, it was her mission to frighten child if any had come to her yard. She had put up signs that read “keep out”, “Danger Zone”, and some that read “I will kill you” or “Get out!”. She had also started to grow poison ivy replacing her beautiful flower garden.” Mr Noble, the elderly man, continues.

Destiny had held on to my arm tighter listening carefully. She was never frightened, just as the rest of us were.

“Some say that Mr Scratch's soul haunts the house. And that he wants to get revenge. He, along with his still alive wife, scare children to death. She would keep all the kids toys that fell onto her lawn. Rumour has it, Mizzable keeps her house open as a haunted house for children. They say the ones who go in never come back out.” Mrs Noble explains.

“After ten years, Mizzable had enough of all the loneliness and the heartache that she hang herself. Now she and her husband haunt the house together as lost spirits who cannot find their way out of the cruel world.” Mr Noble finishes.

Everyone stays silent for a couple moments. Destiny was the first to break the silence.

“We are not going to that place!!” Destiny cries into my chest, as my mates and me, burst into laughter.

“Are you crazy Destiny! I course we are!” Niall exclaims.

“Oh my gosh!” June cried out, slapping Niall’s arm. “No! You are crazy! We won't be going anywhere near that place.”

“Aww, don’t be just a party pooper, June.” Louis laughs.

“Don’t even start Louis,” Elizabeth says giving him a stern look. Louis raises up his hands in defence.

“Oh, children. No one has been there since her death.” Mrs Noble says.

“If you girls don’t go, then we will,” I say.

“The last ones that went inside came out and went completely crazy they claim they’ve experienced hell in one house. They saw things beyond imaginable. They never walked, talked or thought, usually, again. They feared that every single thing on Earth was evil. They became lonely and soon lived in a mental institute or the rest of their lives.” Mrs Noble adds.

“Oh gosh. Harry! You can’t go.” Destiny pleaded. “Please.”

“Don’t worry, baby,” I said hugging her, tightly. Destiny looked so scared from the story. She was shaking in fear, everyone noticed.

“Are you sure that your story is event real?” Zayn asked, getting a little worried about Destiny’ state at the moment. I held her tighter keeping her warm and whispering calming things into her ear.

“Yes. Very true. Those boys who became mentally ill after leaving the house, they were our friends. Close friends.” Mr Noble sighs.

“Why would you tell us that specific story?” Liam asks, seeing that the others were also very scared.

Mr Noble only shrugs. “You children looked bored and needed a place to go as well. So we told you one.” A sly smirk had gone across the elderly couple’s faces, but it was wiped off very quickly.

“We have arrived in Orlando, Florida!” The flight attendant announces. Immediately the elderly couple gets up and grabs their things.

“Goodbye now. Do come by the house. It sure will be a fun experience.” Mrs Noble says before the couple quickly exited the plane.

“To be honest, that was really strange,” Niall says.

Everyone nods in agreement. We grabbed our things and exited the plane. We caught the rest of our things and exited the airport rented a five-seated car and a seven seated car, before driving off to the Holiday Inn Orlando, where we were going to stay for the break.

Notes

Comments

Woah! I just finished reading the whole story. I absolutely love it! Can't wait to start on your second story. Keep up the great work!

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