Lucky

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Three stairs.

Board.

622.

Key.

Roger.

Those words bounced around my head as we slowly walked up the stairs. I couldn't stand the fact that the words made sense, but the context behind them didn't.

"Be careful guys, the floors may not be sturdy." Sam said as he led the way. Colby reached for my hand as I gripped the diary tightly with my other hand.

"Why are we up here then?" Corey asked as he groaned. "Because we're explorers dude." Sam said as Corey scoffed. "No. You and Colby are explorers. I'm a dancer." He said as Jake laughed. "Bro, you do like the same three moves." He teased as Corey rolled his eyes.

"I can't help what goes viral!" He yelled as Colby laughed. "Children, stop fighting." He said as we made our way down the hallway upstairs.

We walked into one of the bedrooms and started looking around. It seemed like we were in a young girls room.

A chill ran down my spine as I thought about the article I had read. That poor little girl heard her parents get murdered, then tried to hide, only to get murdered herself.

I shook my head and walked through the dusty room, looking for any clue that could help me crack the code of who roger was.

I walked over to the desk that was falling apart due to old age as the guys moved on to a different room.

There weren't many things on the desk but there was a drawer in the front of it which peaked my interest. As I reached for it a giant spider crawled out from under the table too of the desk and onto my hand causing me to gasp and yank my hand away.

"Ew ew ew." I grumbled then reached for the drawer again. Just as I was about to open it Sam came into the room. "Hey, what are you doing?" He asked as I flinched.

"You guys suck at warning people when you come into rooms." I said as I rubbed my chest, trying to calm my heart down. "Sorry, I didn't mean to scare you." He said with a laugh as I turned and tried to open the drawer.

"I want to figure out what happened in this house. It's killing me." I said as he breathed a laugh. "You're really into this aren't you?" He asked as I yanked at the drawer trying to get it to open. "You could say that." I said then finally got the drawer to open.

Inside of it was a bunch of papers, all with scraggly handwriting on them. "Woah." I breathed out then reached for the papers. "What are those?" Sam asked as he reached for one of the papers. "No idea.."I mumbled then let my eyes skim the paper.

Roger has been missing for 3 days now and I think Richard is having a hard time with it. Mommy and daddy have been so sad about Roger being gone. I miss my big brother.

"So he went missing..." I mumbled and looked at the journal in my hand. "I wish I knew what this meant." I said as Colby, Corey, and Jake came into the room. "What are you guys doing?" Colby asked as I sighed.

"Just trying to figure some stuff out." I said then put the paper back into the drawer. "Like what?" Jake asked as I let out a breath. "I think something happened to Roger and Richard knew about it. Maybe they were twins? I don't know this is so sketchy." I said and skimmed the journal again.

"Wait let me see?" Colby asked as I handed him the journal. "Let's just keep going.." I said then started to walk out of the room.

I walked into the different rooms but nothing stood out to me. I wanted to go into the mast bedroom but the floor was too unstable and I didn't want to fall through again.