"Really man? Sounds like your in a horror film, why would you go into an abandoned building?"
Nicky opened old boxes, while on the phone with a friend,"I already felt unsettled with that trolley that turned on it's own, expect me to leave it?"
"Kind of; You have a lot of guts, then again you were always daring, except for the dark."
Nick nods,"Yeah, Yeah; Fear of the Dark.", "Just be careful man, that place may be empty but that town is sketchy with or without people.", with that he hung up, Nicky let that sink in. . .
He was alone.

~

He approached the town hall, with a crowbar and a smirk.
"No one to stop me."
Nicky began to pull the boards off the town hall, some of them were on tight but Nicky got them off.
Though there was the locked door. . . Nicky tired and the handle came off, he paused and gave it a push and it opened.
"Ah. . . Nevermimd."
Nicky clicked his tongue, looking at the handle and tossed it aside.
Taking out his flashlight, and looking into the darkness he could see the town hall was barely touched and dust was all over the place.
"Damn. . ."
Walking in, he pulled down the covers from the windows and that let the sun in.
"Least I can save batteries."
Nicky looked around the town hall, it was pretty big and he also knew the filing cabinets with all info he could use.
Problem; That was probably in a very dark basement.

~

Nicky turned on his light, opening the basement door and was greeted by darkness and dust.
Shining his light in, he saw more feathers and files scattered around, like someone was trying to escape with them.
Nicky knelt down, looking at the files to find newspapers, bills, some town history that will be useful later and missing posters.
Nicky went to the cabinets, trying to open them,"Damn it; Locked.", "Squack.", Nicky jumped, turning his light to the sound of the crow, seeing it on top of the cabinets,"Were you trapped here? If so, door's open.", Nicky got back to looking at some of the papers, gathering some to look at later.
"Squak."
Nicky turned to the bird again-
Wait.
In it's mouth was Nicky's watch, did it really snatch it out of his jacket?!
Then it took off!
"HEY!"
Nicky ran after the bird, he was getting his watch back!

=

Nicky ran into the Mr Peterson household, the bird dropped his watch and fell deeper into the dark house.
"Stupid bird. . ."
Nicky put his watch on, just to stop a Crow from taking his watch again.
Then he saw the bird choking on something.
"For the love of. . ."
Nicky grabbed the Crow, pulling out what it was trying to eat or choke on,"Stop that.", the Crow squeaked and flew off.
Nicky felt a shudder go down his spine, in his hand was a doll. . . A doll that looked like Aaron.
"This isn't. . . Coraline. . ."
Nicky tried to make himself feel better, though. . . It was creepy there was a doll of Aaron that the bird tried to eat.