Truth or Dare

 Rue looked in the mirror at her Halloween costume, she had chosen to be the queen of hearts, she had a red knee length dress with cards on it and a crown made of cards placed on the side of her head, Rue’s brown hair was pulled back into a low messy bun and the dark red dress made her electric blue eyes almost seem like they where glowing. Rue slipped on her black heels and walked down the stairs to the kitchen her mom was there pouring candy into a bowl “ oh your costume is so beautiful!” said Rue’s mom with a smile on her face, “ thank you mama” said Rue she kissed her mom on the head and walked out to her car. Rue drove to her friend Harpers house they where having a small Halloween party with three of their other friends, Harper greeted Rue at the door it was getting dark out and almost all their friends where there “ you can help Emily hang the rest of the streamers up we're waiting for Jordan to get here he was working late again” said Harper who rolled her eyes,

Rue walked over to Emily who was struggling to hang a streamer by herself “ hi Em, I was told to come help you” Emily looked over “oh thank goodness” she said with a sigh of relief, Rue smiled then grabbed the other end of the streamer and climbed up the ladder, Emily and Rue hung up the rest of the streamers in no time, Rue pulled out her phone and texted Jordan, where are you? texted Rue, I’m sorry I’m on my way replied Jordan. “ Jordan is on his way” announced Rue “ finally!” said Harper dramatically. Emily was dressed up as a vampire she was wearing a black dress with a red cape, a black choker, vampire teeth and her blond hair down and curled, Harper was dressed up as an 80’s prom queen her dress was pink and knee length with a bunch of ruffles and a prom queen sash, Pierce was wearing a king skeleton costume which was a tight suit with a skeleton printed on it and a skull mask with a crown. They heard a knock on the door Harper answered it, it was Jordan dressed as a pirate he had a black leather jacket with black jeans and a white t shirt, an eye patch and a red bandana tied around his head, Harper let him in and closed the door “hi sorry I’m late” Jordan said as he walked in. Harper just rolled her eyes and walked to the kitchen, “ that’s okay” said pierce as he walked over to the couch, Jordan smiled and tipped his head at Rue than followed Pierce to the couch. Emily walked out of the kitchen “ Harper is think about all of us going to that creeping old haunted mansion and playing games in the yard” Rue laughed “ it’s just an old house it’s not haunted” “ whatever you say Rue I still think it’s haunted… I’m going in the living room with the boys” Said Emily as she walked away Harper burst out of the kitchen and went to the living room, Rue followed, “ we are going to the haunted mansion” announced Harper “ you mean the one on Estella street no way” said Pierce shaking his head “ oh don’t be a sissy pierce” said Harper, “ it’s fine pierce no one’s seen anything weird there for years” said Jordan “ okay…” said pierce still unsure. They all walked out of the house and got into there cars, they drove to Estella street and walked to the mansion’s lawn, Emily laid down a blanket and they all sat in a circle. It was getting dark out so they turned on a flashlight and laid in in the middle of the circle, “ okay truth or dare pierce?” said Harper grinning “ umm…. Dare?” said pierce nervous for what harpers dare was, “ I dare you to go knock on the front door of the mansion Pierce got up shaking slightly he took a deep breath and ran as fast as he could knocked on the door and ran back faster than when he ran up to it, pierce sat back down in his seat “ okay Jordan it’s your turn to ask” said Harper “ um okay Harper i dare you to go honk the horn of your car” Harper got up and laughed “ thats all you got?” Harper opened her car door and hit the horn three times, she walked back to her seat “ Pierce your turn” Pierce looked over at Harper and shook his head “ I can’t think of anything you take my turn” “ okay um... Rue I dare you to go in the mansion go to the second story grab something and bring it back “ fine” said Rue. she got up and walked to the front door of the mansion the door was unlocked. she opened it and walked inside, everything had a film of dust and cobwebs, there was a giant painting of a woman she had curly blonde hair that was pinned up into a bun she was wearing a dress like they wore at balls along time ago the one odd thing about her was her eyes, they where like two shimmering amethysts. the painting gave Rue a weird feeling so she kept walking, when Rue got to the stairs she glanced over the room it had this mysterious beauty to it, Rues eyes stopped at a dark corner she sucked in her breath, there in the corner were two yellow eyes peering straight at her they started to move from the corner, Rue looked around she grabbed an old umbrella from a hook on the wall and pointed it at the dark corner. all Rue saw was a flash of black leap out of the shadows, than she laughed it was only a black cat, Rue knelt down and it walked towards her she stroked it's back than she got back up and started up the stairs, Rue drew a line in the dust on the stair railing as she walked up, Rue looked around all the wall going up the stairs was covered in small mirrors with gold frame with intricate designs laced into them. The cat followed Rue up the stairs and into the other room, this room was different than the last there were plants climbing the walls and wood shelves full of little bottles some empty and some with different colored liquids in them, Rue was drawn to a desk under the window, it had journals and loose paper scattered all on it, there was also a vile of a beautiful purple liquid it was a glimmering crystal amethyst color. Rue picked it up than looked at the pages on the desk they where recipes but for potions, oh my gosh, Rue whispered to herself, it's not just a story Rue backed up but when she did the black cat yelped at her, it scared Rue who than fell to the ground and smashed the vile on her leg, the shards of glass cut her leg the purple potion stained her dress, Rue sucked in her lip Ouch she got of the floor the blood from the cut trickling down her leg. the cat was no were to be seen Rue limped down the stairs to the door and swung it open. help said Rue in pain but none of her friends moved HELP!!! yelled Rue, still no one heard her, she stumbled over to them HELLO?! said Rue as she waved her hand in front of Jordan's face, are they ignoring me? thought Rue. she shoved Pierce who was standing up he fell to the ground shocked fear came over his face he looked around WHAT WAS THAT!!!, Jordan, Emily, and Harper looked at him all in shock as well " I'm out of here bro" said Pierce as he Jordan helped him up " but we have to wait for Rue" said Emily 

 " she can take care of herself" answered Harper Jordan and Pierce were already in there cars Harper ran to hers. tears where running down her face, Emily looked back at the mansion, WAIT I"M RIGHT HEAR!!!! said Rue sobbing and realizing that her friends actually couldn't see her, she crumbled down to the ground, the purple liquid must have been a invisibility potion. Rue curled herself in a ball and sobbed her mom thinks she's with Harper having fun, and her friends won't expect anything until tomorrow when she's not at school. Rue cried and cried all night, she went inside and sat against the wall, They left me, Rue said to her self, they left she said out loud bitterly, and Rue was angry at them every since. so every Halloween she would scare groups of friends because it angered her to see them having fun. 

She became the ghost of the Estella mansion.