A family of 4 are passionate about doing up and redecorating an old house for a holiday home. The house is very much in the countryside and isolated from any other houses or the next town. The house has been empty for years and is what the family agree could be turned into something of their own; within a location they're not usually used to in the city. From where it hasn't been touched in years everything needs replacing, they decide to completely start from scratch and redo every room so it's the comforting holiday home they're after. They get to work as soon as possible. They start by working on the biggest room in the house which is the living room, whilst the parents are taking the old wallpaper down the eldest son is pulling up the carpet. As he was rolling the carpet back the youngest son found something sticking up from the floorboards and handed it to his brother. It was a newspaper article which explained a story with a picture of a 20yr old prisoner who escaped from prison in the early 90s. He thought nothing of it and threw it in the dustbin in the garden.
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*The following year* The family are now completely settled and have visited it numerous times during the year. The more they have been going to stay at the house they have noticed stranger things have been occurring. This includes things such as daily used items going missing or being moved to different places, which they were sure were not in those particular places before. A few days later Ben had been woken up by odd noises coming from the third floor of the house, he thought nothing of it and went back to sleep. Throughout the day Ben seemed to be hearing more movement on the third floor, he keeps telling himself it must be his dad starting the decorating up there and ignores it. Later that day him and Oscar were alone in the living room, he noticed Oscar was fidgeting with his arm and what seemed to be in some sort of discomfort. He asked him if he could take a look at his arm but he hesitated and walked away in a panic. As the day came to an end Ben was led in his bed and his brother crossed his mind, he wanted to know what he was hiding from him so decided to go and check whilst he was asleep. He snuck into his room and managed to pull up his sleeve without waking him up; Ben was disgusted by what he saw. The next day Ben confronted Oscar about the horrendous marks which seemed to look like a hand print on his arm and begged him to explain who did it to him. Oscar sat there in silence, Ben waited a few seconds for a reply then got up abruptly and said how he’ll have to get mum and dad involved, as he was about to departure the room. Without a moment of silence in-between Oscar shouted “wait” and asked Ben to come back in and to shut the door behind him. He made his way back over to his brother, he explained how it was the man upstairs. Ben was confused and asked him “what man” in a disturbed tone. Oscar claims that he keeps him up at night, by walking around too much above his bedroom. Ben asks in a not very convinced tone, if this is the person who caused the mark on his arm. He nods his head, Ben suddenly stands up to leave the room whilst Oscar says “I’m sorry…I shouldn't have told you that.” Ben asks his dad if he needs a hand finishing off the third floor decorating, he replies “oh no, I haven't even started that yet. I don’t think we’ll bother” Ben is very confused at this point and replies with “You and mum have been up there though since we’ve been here haven't you?” “No Ben, the third floor is just extra space that we don't need..It would be a waste of our time going up there” His mum explains. Ben made his way back upstairs to his brothers room, he wanted to question him more about what he told him earlier. Ben barged into his room and saw Oscar was reading something, he snatched it out of his hands to only discover it was the news article he had thrown away last year when they first stared decorating the house. He immediately asked him where he found it to which he answered with “In your room”, Ben panicked but decided he needed to check the third floor to see if his brother was telling the truth. He opened the door at the end of the house which leads up to the third floor anxiously. As he made his way up the stairs he really didn't know what he was going to find, he turned the corner and his heart dropped as he saw a man sat in the corner facing the wall. He gasped and the man turned his head instantly with a disturbing laugh; Ben was in horror when he realised it was the man from the article.
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Resolution
Without a hesitation he ran down the stairs into Oscars room so they could leave the house instantly. Although when he made it into his room he wasn't there, he was pacing around looking for him. Ben ran into his own room to see if there were any signs of him there, but suddenly, the door slammed. He was relieved when he turned around to see Oscar stood there. Ben walked over to Oscar and grabbed his hand whilst saying “common we really need to leave, now!” Oscar pulled his hand away and replied “I told you i was sorry Ben”. The show ends with their parents running up the stairs after hearing a gun shot.