Eefa handed a straw basket to Luella and ruffled her purple hair. It was a grey, drizzly day in Scream Street, and she was off out to pick mushrooms for her spell. “Now be back with all the mushrooms you can find,” said Eefa. “Be home before it starts raining, won’t you?” “Yes of course,” said Luella. She was only willing to obey to Eefa’s orders, so she skipped off out the door and across the town just as the rainclouds loomed over the village. She passed Sneer Hall and Dr Skulley’s house and went into the forest to look for what Eefa needed for her spells. She was very careful to identify which mushrooms were poisonous, because the poisonous ones found in Scream Street were covered in black ink with purple spots. It was quite relaxing, picking mushrooms, because it gives you time to think. As she picked each mushroom, Luella thought about what her aunt could do with the mushrooms - give her cream of mushroom soup for tea, or maybe help her identify which one is useful for a spell or which one is not.
As Luella was picking the mushrooms that were safe, she saw she was overlooked by a huge shadow in the shape of a house. Luella turned around and saw a huge white house, with peeling white paint, smashed windows and a door which had a rusty knocker. Luella was desperate to find out what was inside this mysterious house, so she went up to the door. Good thing it was sheltered, because it just started to rain. She knocked three times, and the door creaked open. Luella peered through the crack in the doorway. It was such a beautiful sight. It was full of cobwebs and dusty, which made the young witch cough a little, but she could still see a beautiful wooden brown entrance room with a huge flight of stairs and a grandfather clock ticking away. Luella then realised she couldn’t open the door a notch, because of a lump in the carpet. Luella ran inside to shelter from the rain and placed her mushrooms on the table just in case she needed them again.
Luella began to bounce on the lump in the carpet, flattening it. But as soon as she did that, another lump appeared. She jumped on that. The lump from earlier came back! She continued doing this process until a big lump appeared in the middle of the carpet. Luella jumped on it, and two lumps appeared. “These things happen,” sighed Luella to herself, and she made her way up the creaky stairs. She was anxious at first, because the stairs creaked in a spooky way, but she continued up and up the secret flight of stairs. While her back was turned, a growling noise echoed through the entrance hall. A shadowy paw reached through the wall and took one of the mushrooms. Crunching noises could be heard as mushroom crumbs spilled onto the floor in a waterfall, followed by a deep, stinky BURP!
Luella had finally made her way up the stairs, and she saw a glass door stating: “Do Not Enter…Okay, Maybe You Will, But Please Enter At Your Own Risk’. Crude red paint made the writing look haunted on the door. Luella thought this was a warning, but she had no idea what the door’s warning meant to her, and where the glass door lead into. She opened the door carefully so it won’t break, and saw the most beautiful sight. She was in a pure white room filled with banana trees and a flooded floor. The bananas grew orange and pink and blue, and at least there were no black tarantulas to worry about, because there were none in Scream Street. Luella entered, only to feel a trickle of water run down the back of her T-shirt. She giggled as another fell on her head, then on her nose. The walls and ceiling were leaking, and the windows were foggy. Luella went up to the window and rubbed away the fog. She said, in a soft, calm voice: “Eefa told me there were predators out there. But I must be careful. Who knows? They’re out to get me,”
As if on cue, a loud roar echoed through the room. Luella jumped, and turned slowly around to see a huge black cloud and a pair of red eyes staring at her like she was a purple-haired, blue-shirted television. Luella screamed and raced off out of the room, until she came across a baby blue door with the words ‘Safer’ written on the door in crude green marker. “Safer?” asked Luella. “What does that mean?” She opened the door and went into a tiny bedroom that had a cradle beside it. It rocked gently to and fro, as if there was a baby inside it just about now. Luella looked over the cradle, and she heard the echo of a wailing baby out of nowhere. She leapt onto the bed and curled up in fear. The ghost of a long dead baby was back to haunt her! The crying rang through her ears like a million bells ringing for bottles of condensed milk or pancakes. When the crying stopped, Luella uncovered her ears and uncurled herself to find that there was no sign of a baby anywhere…
But she looked in the bathroom. It was a rusty bathroom with pink walls painted with faeces and blood. “Like, yuck!” cried Luella. She had never seen a grosser bathroom than this. The bathroom back at the emporium was clean and pristine and velvet red, always clean because of her aunt’s magic. This bathroom looked like it hadn’t been washed for years, and the smell…oh, OH the smell…the smell was strongly disgusting, as if someone had used the toilet for 100 hours and became dirty in his own excrement as a result. Luella held her nose over the smell, just as she heard a scuttling from behind the shower curtain. She pulled it back to reveal a gruesome sight: a whole wall crawling with centipedes!
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