DJ Walter is a 12-year-old boy with messy hair and a round face.
He is a curious and skeptical boy who doubts his old neighbor, whose mansion is opposite his house.
It is an eerie and old rundown mansion that gives a spooky feeling.
DJ Walter was attracted by his neighbor's weird behavior, so out of curiosity, he started to investigate his neighbor for fun and time passed.
The owner of the old mansion is an old man named Nebbercracker.
DJ Walter first felt funny while observing Nebbercracker through the big binoculars in the window of his room.
When the time passed, he felt something was wrong with his old neighbor because he started to notice that Nebbercracker was not allowing anyone to enter his house or lawn.
Whenever toys, balls, or any extra thing that is out of place on the lawn falls in it, it will mysteriously disappear from there.
Sometimes, Nebbercracker will voluntarily take the things of the kids that fell onto his lawn.
DJ Walter never saw Nebbercracker smile whenever he looked at him.
When DJ was later informed about this, his mother and his father didn't believe him at all.
'Like always today, he broke that girl's tricycle.'
DJ was looking at his neighbor's mansion and the crying little girl.
When Nebbercracker was about to enter his house, he felt someone looking at him and turned towards the house opposite him.
Thud...
When DJ Walter saw the old man turn and look in his direction, he fell back in shock.
Click...
He hurriedly took the picture of the old man with an angry expression on his face and clipped it on the wall, noting the time and date along with the thing he took with a pencil.
"DJ!!!!"
There was a loud voice of his mother coming from his house lawn.
"We are gonna be late."
DJ's father informed his mother while packing the luggage in their car.
"Yeah, mom. I am coming."
He hurriedly walked towards the table along with the picture in his hand.
"30th another tricycle."
While noting the time and date along with the thing he took with a pencil.
After noting, he ran downstairs.
"Mom! Mom, he did it again, he took another tricycle."
DJ informed his mother once again with a panicked expression.
"Okay, honey. We have talked about this. YOU CAN STAY UP IN YOUR ROOM ALL DAY STARING AT AN OLD MAN THROUGH A TELESCOPE."
His mother started calming DJ and yelled at him not to peep at the old man all day.
"Mom, there is something wrong with that house. I am serious."
Seeing his mom not believe in him, DJ once again said with an angry look on his face.
When his mom is about to lecture him again.
"Oh, my boy hit puberty. He is voicing for himself."
DJ's father patted DJ's shoulder and went to the car.
His father and mother left the house.
Today he needs to stay alone.
"Fine, you might not believe me, but I know how to deal with this."
The boy yelled and went inside his house.
"Man, your father just rode over my mask."
Chowder, a fat boy the same age as DJ, looked at his mask with tire marks on it.
"Hi, Chowder."
DJ said, a little down.
"Look what I brought, my new basketball. Let's play."
Chowder took his basketball and passed it to DJ.
While they were playing, Chowder threw the ball with a smirk, declaring he was going to end DJ's streak, but the ball bounced off the ring and smashed at his nose.
While DJ was helping Chowder to stand up, the ball already passed through the old mansion opposite them.
"____"
"____"
Seeing this, both of their faces turned ugly.
"DJ, come on, man. Please get my ball."
Chowder asked DJ with expectation.
"Open your eyes and see where the ball is; it's on Nebbercracker's lawn. It doesn't exist anymore."
DJ tried to persuade Chowder to give up on his basketball.
Sob... Sob...
Hearing this, Chowder started to sob and was on the verge of crying.
"I paid 28 dollars for that..."
Sigh...
DJ stopped Chowder while speaking and looked at the closed windows with narrowed eyes.
"The windows are closed; he is sleeping."
DJ said in a low voice enough to be heard by Chowder.
"I won't forget about this, DJ."
Chowder pushed DJ onto the lawn for him to pick up the ball.
"____"
Sigh...
Taking a deep breath, DJ ran towards the ball to take it and leave the lawn quickly before the old man woke up.
Crack... Creak...
When he came near the ball, the door of the old mansion opened slowly.
"You... you..."
Ahhhhh...
The old man came out of the house and came running towards DJ while shouting at him.
He tried to catch DJ, but DJ dodged him.
When DJ dodged and was about to walk to the path of the old mansion, the grass on the lawn gripped his shoe tightly.
Due to the force, he damaged the lawn a little.
"____"
"What have you done?"
Nebbercracker looked at DJ while his face turned red in anger.
"Wait... wait... I didn't mean to..."
Ahhhh...
Ahhhh...
DJ tried to explain, but Nebbercracker did not listen to him and started to chase him.
When DJ was about to step out of the lawn, Nebbercracker caught DJ's hand and dragged him inside the lawn.
"Sorry... I didn't mean to..."
"What have you done!!!"
Nebbercracker lifted DJ using both hands and yelled at him.
"I love this place. It is not a playground for your kids... This is my house..."
Thud...
While yelling at DJ, Nebbercracker's eye rolled, and he fell unconscious.
On top of DJ.
DJ tries to move the unconscious Nebbercracker from the top of his body, while Chowder yells at him to come out of the lawn.
At that time, both of them didn't notice that the cracks appeared in the mansion near the windows which expressed human emotion.
Confusion...
Concern...
The fire suddenly appeared in the fireplace inside the house, and the smoke came out of the chimney of the house.
After 5 minutes...
Honk... Honk...
Nebbercracker was taken on the stretcher to the ambulance, but one of the wheels of the stretcher was caught by the grass in the lawn like it was alive.
The man moving the stretcher forcefully moved the stretcher, resulting in the well broken.
The man didn't notice the broken wheel and moved the stretcher inside the ambulance, closed the door, and the ambulance took off.
The wheel slowly sank into the ground.
"____"
"____"
Both DJ and Chowder looked at each other's faces not knowing what to say;
There was an awkward silence.
When DJ looked down, he saw the key that fell from Nebbercracker when he fell unconscious.
He took the key with him and left the house.
When the boys moved out of the house and started walking towards DJ's house, the window screen in one of the windows opened lightly like an eye was peeking.
It looked at the two boys exiting the lawn.
"We are the reason for this."
DJ looked dejected, blaming himself.
"It's not your fault DJ. Oh, it's already late; bye DJ."
Chowder bid bye to DJ and ran towards the house.
All this was seen by a group of seven from the house beside DJ's house.
They are Jenny, Kang, Alice, Rosalie, Emmett, Jess, and Jasper.
"Oh god! Jojo, did you assign us an easy task?"
Jenny muttered while looking at the old house without blinking.
"What? What happened Jenny?"
Kang, who was sitting beside Jenny, questioned her with a confused look on his face.
Hearing Kang, Jenny turned her head and met with the confused gazes of Cullens and her husband.
"I too saw the house for a moment; it showed human emotions."
Jess informed others with a shocked face.
"Not only that, I could feel human emotion from it."
Jasper also stated what he found.
"What! How is it possible?"
Emmett looked at others and the house with narrowed eyes.
"Don't be shocked by just that; do you guys want to know what I saw,"
Jenny asked the Cullens who nodded their heads.
"I was seeing a ghost of the huge fat lady's head covering the whole mansion."
When Jenny stated about the ghost, everyone looked at the house in shock.
"Jenny baby! How about we abort this mission and let Jojo handle it."
Kang started to sweat, looked at the house in horror, and tried to convince Jenny to not continue this mission.
"No. This was the first time I got a mission without Jojo, so I will complete it."
Hearing Kang, Jenny rejected Kang outright with a serious face.
"My lord, protect this pitiful soul."
Kang started to mutter prayers silently with an ugly face.
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