Ethan's room had everything twelve year old would dream of, gaming setup, two different tablets, gaming console and who knows what else, one of his main activities included playing games after school or share his joystick with Aiden, His room back then was full of joy, You could see the happiness radiating the room, Love was in fact in the air, But after the breakup and now Aiden's funeral taking place very soon, The room lost its touch, Everything was messed up, Posters from his favorite movies were trashed, One of the joysticks was completely broken while the other was in a perfect condition as if it was from a different dimension, The "perfect" joystick belonged to Aiden before his passing, So he never really touched it, It still smelled like him just by little and even that was enough for Ethan to keep the item forever.
Claire was looking out the window, Still searching for that someone who left the note in the mail as if it didn't happen many hours ago, as she was looking she noticed huge gust of wind taming her hair, left and right. Claire quickly closed the window, Sat on the bed and checked her phone.
" There's a storm outside, and I just got the notification for storm alert" said Claire.
Crystal was too busy chatting with Ethan about the envelope, she wanted to know more, After hearing from Claire she sat on the bed with her and grabbed her phone.
" I guess we are stuck here until the storm goes out, what do you say Ethan, can we stay?"
this was a joke obviously, When Ethan was in 5th grade they would always stay in his house, even tho Sharron was worried for Ethan having girls over, It quickly changed when he came out to his mom, After that everything was little better, until now.
"stop being a joke and help me unpack your backpack, Let's watch some movie before the storm goes out and we will investigate tomorrow or might as well tell some authorities about the envelope" said Ethan, before Claire or Crystal started speaking he grabbed the remote and switched to HDMI 2 and grabbed two discs.
"guys I can't really think of anything so do you wanna watch Horror on the Helm street or Swift Shot?" Ethan knew that movies wouldn't make him any better but he wanted to cheer the girls up, Having one sad friend is better than having three as someone probably once said.
"Umm, Sure lets do Horror of the Helm street, Even if we watched it three times already" Said Claire smiling, She was always the motivator friend and up to anything her friends would've wanted to do, so this didn't come as a surprise to anyone in the room.
As Ethan was putting the disc in his console everything went blank, you could not see a thing in this wide room, not a single dim of light was entering his house, the lights went off.
"Perfect, this is not depressing at all" said Crystal while she was trying to find Claire and Ethan.
Ethan saw Claire's hair dimming across the room as if that was the only thing he could see, He wanted to touch her arm but nothing else was visible, just the hair, she was looking at the opposite direction which made everything even weirder.
"Claire?" said Ethan as he quickly approached the black silhouette, as he was getting close everything was losing its sounds, not a single drop of noise, everything was still, even air.
"Claire why are you standing still?" Ethan repeated twice, as he finally touched her hair, The black silhouette turned around, it was not Claire, it was nothing like her, just dim shadow face and hair, everything else was missing.
"Ethan Winters, you have violated our Dark Tower rule, you will be punished" as the black silhouette yelled this sentence Ethan went completely blank, he couldn't even scream, as he fell back someone quickly grabbed him and pulled him up.
"What are you doing? who are you talking to?" said Claire, she was too stunned to understand why he was calling his name as if she wasn't behind him all along.