So they were left in this musty hallway still watching the place where the old woman had disappeared .

She had left them with so many questions that they didn't know how to make sense of it or they couldn't decide what they should do next?

"Well that was a load of rubbish" spat out Jane.

Quinn looked at jane with disgust at her lack of respect for the old woman. Quinn had quite a different idea to Jane . Of course she had no reason to lie did she ?

There was no reason for that Women to lie was there? Quinn thought of the glistening in her eyes when she had finished talking to them , it was like they had made her life worth living and like they had refreshed her with a new sense of hope.

Quinn struggled to breath as she grew hotter and the cold silver of her centuries old necklace sent cool vibes all threw who her body. Her necklace was one of the only things she had left of her parents, it was green like the earth with a fierce dragons face at the top of it clinging on with all its might . It's body hid the bottom of the emerald necklace covering the large gem while its tail curled round and wrapped it self tightly to the bottom.
For some reason her grandparents hated it and wanted it gone but they knew it would make Quinn resent them so Quinn wore it in secret as to not hurt their feelings. She always wore it and only took it off if she absolutely had too, even in pe when her teacher Mrs Whiting tried to force her to take it off. But she wouldn't. It was to dear to her and often her refusals had gotten her taken to the head teacher who was a middle aged man with jet black spiky hair and a receding hair line . He was a kind man and whenever she had been sent to his office they just sat and talked most off the time and even though it was against the school rules he still let her wear her necklace as he knew it was important to her.

But anyway Mrs Whiting wasn't a nasty woman she just liked to stick to her rules to keep everyone safe. she was very kind if you where kind to her and she was amazingly nice and kind behind that rough tough exterior. After a while she had come to see that the necklace was important to Quinn so she let her keep it on .

Quinn was yanked back into reality by Megans loud whispers "she's absolutely insane" while she said this she twirled her fingers round her ears enforcing the fact that she thought that the old woman was crazy.

Quinn still thought that there was no reason to question her and that she was telling the truth.

" I think we should go look" Whispered Quinn quietly aware that they could be caught at any minute.

Megan and Jane had Such a shocked look on their Faces , Well Judging by their widely Opened mouths that looked like they were ready To Catch flies , one would say that they were absolutely and completely gobsmacked.

"Are you mad ! She's off her head" exclaimed Jane.

Quinn looked around and saw no one had been sturred by Janes sudden outburst "Ssshhhh keep your voice down. Just because the old woman won't tell on us doesn't mean anyone else won't "

Jane clapped her hand over her still open mouth and muttered " sorry".

Megan talked even quieter than before ,she spoke , sounding like a little mouse " you know what why shouldn't we go to look for this place that old woman talked about, after all we are looking for an adventure I agree with you Quinn".

"You're not going to leave me here right guys " shivered Jane uncontrollably.

"Well if you don't come with us you will have to go back up to the room" Quinn smiled.

"You mean walk past all those creepy pictures and across that horrible rickety landing"

"Hey they are not creepy" Quinn whispered feeling quite offended for some reason , it was her childhood and she never thought they were creepy.

Jane wheeled round and glanced at the suits of armour guarding the stairs all the way up. "W w well I'm not staying here by myself so I'm coming too".

Beaming from ear to ear Quinn inserted the old key into the lock and twisted a click filled the air and the door opened.

The brass knocker on the door twisted it's face and looked at Quinn trying to for warn her. She turned around sharply staring up the stair case.

"What's wrong" murmured Jane .

Quinn looked ,now feeling something wasn't quite right "I just had a feeling"

Megan and Jane bothstepped into the cool night air wind whipping at there faces in strong gusts getting weaker as they stood there.

Quinn walked over the fresh hold and into the coal black night lit by a thousand brightly shining stars.

Quinn reached to swing the door shut , but suddenly a light shone bright across the first floor landing and foot fall could be heard creeping over the rickety floor boards.

Quinn quickly and quietly swung the door shut and pulled the handle down to minimise the sound of the door closing on the other side.
Who was on the landing and had they seen them?

Leo's pov

Leo stepped back inside his fairy tale of a room after talking with his friends. He had begged the teachers to let him sleep in the same room as the girls but obviously they said no. What was so bad about it they were his best friends? He did everything with them and was always there for them when they needed him.

Slumping onto his bed Leo turned to see jack picking his nose and flicking it at the wall .

"Oh, that's just gross man!" He shouted across the hotel room .

"If you don't like it then look away" jack chuckled the creepy yellow teethed grin crossing his face, it made Leo feel more nauseous by the second.

The only thing that kept him sane being in the same room as these chubby grotesque creatures was the fact that he kept thinking to himself, 1 hour and 20 minutes to go , I'll see Quinn and the others and then we can go and have the time of our lives.

Although his thoughts were always interupted once and a while by the loud pig squeel and snore coming from the far end of the room where jack after running for 5 minutes earlier had basically passed out.

Jay on the other hand was sat on his bed with a book in hand . Was Leo seeing things right , jay was actually reading . In all the years Leo had known jay he always thought that he was the type of kid that played on phones and video games all the time.

"Jay what you got there "

Jay looked at the ground and at jack seeming quite scared that Leo had realised he was reading.

"Oh,it it's nothing"

Leo stared at jay as jay looked away to see if his brother was still asleep, but obviously he was because there was still a pig like snore filling the room.

"My brother doesn't like people to see me"

"Do you mean he doesn't want you to be seen for who you actually are"
Leo said .

Jay gave him a slight nod his eyes still flashing back and forwards from his brother to Leo.

" Look you don't have to be like that .You don't have to listen to him " concerned now all Leo wanted to do was help, how could someone keep you from being who you are? Especially your own brother.

"What's your book called anyway" confidently Leo spoke trying to take jays mind off of his brother.

"Well , it's a book by Joel crane " he said smiling.

"Oh I get it Quinn is sometimes like that when reading books . She likes to think that it is confidential to her even though thousands of other people have read it" Leo laughed thinking about how silly it sounded but he knew that Quinn felt like this. After all he was one of the people who knew her best and could read her like a map.

"I know how quinn feels" muttered jay ,just loud enough for Leo to hear it.

Leo spoke again "maybe you should talk about it with Quinn sometime she really likes Joel crane and books" he laughed knowing it was completely true.

"Oh, I don't think Quinn would want me to talk to her" frowned jay.

"You never know until you try. But why would she not want to talk to you? "

Jay sunk into sadness again looking over at his brother , his brother had micro managed him his whole life he had always been made to be friends with his brothers friends and he had never liked any of them. Jay felt more lonely than ever in this world and he especially felt sorry for Quinn who had started being bullied by his brother. It was his fault.

The only people who knew why Quinn was bullied was jay and his brother.

Jay had been defiant against his brother and tried to make friends with Quinn. Jack was lost without jay and he didn't like that he was feeling helpless. So he stopped himself from feeling like that , and took it into his own hands . Jay lost the only true friend he ever had had the rest and how it happened would never be told.

" she just doesn't like my brother" jay lied.

"Well I don't think she would hold that against you" Leo knew Quinn better than most , she knew that she wouldn't hold a grudge against someone for who their brother was . So what was he hiding?