A streak of hot silver splits the sky and the downpour just gets heavier and heavier. Both Zic and Eva were astounded d by the "dong" sound coming from the ominuous grandfather clock that was forever striking at 3:10 as they strolled passed it. They kept shining their torch everywhere but no sign of Simon.

"This better not be one of his pranks. I swear to God, I'll kill him," Zic warned  as Eva let out a short scream

"What was that for?" Zic questioned in curiosity

"Can...can you shine at the clock..again..," Eva stuttered in fear

Zic did what he was being told  to and apparently there was nothing as Zic display a very 'for-real' kind of expression towards her. However, when he was not facing the clock,  that figure appeared again causing Eva to be fully paralysed with full of fright gripping all over her muscles.

"Don't tell me you're afraid of a bloody clock," Zic said as he examined the clock 

"I swear I saw a white figure standing beside it," Eva denied

"Seriously? There is only air here. I know you're studying psychology but you don't have to have some hallucination moments especially when we were supposed to be looking for someone," Zic commented

Eva kept quiet because she had enough of arguing with this ex crush of hers. Then the drawings on the walls caught her outmost attention and just by staring at it, she remembered about the family background who owned this mansion. 

"Whoever who drew this must be super talented. But why are all of them faceless??" Eva wondered

"Pfft, I'm not in the mood for investigations aytes?" Zic scoffed when suddenly he heard running footsteps and the sound of children's laughter coming from the hallway

"Did you hear that?"

"Heard what?" Eva questioned with her eyes and mind focusing on those drawings 

Basically, all of the drawing were faceless. Being so engrossed about this family, she tend to ransac the drawers and managed to find a couple more drawings while Zic was paying fully attention on the footsteps sound that kept bothering him. The litte childrens' laughter was so crystal clear to his ear, he started to crept out of the room to check.

"Ring around a rosy, a pocket full of posies, ashes, ashes, we all fall down~~~ Ring around the rosy, a pocket full of posies, ashes, ashes, we all fall down,"

That nursery rhyme kept repeating and it was just getting louder and louder as Zic increased his steps. Collecting a lot of courage, he dared himself to open the rusty door knob to where the nursery rhyme was coming from. It felt like minutes for him to open the door gently when unfortunately, it was an empty room filled with soft toys.

"Pfft, annoying little kids," Zic mocked

The moment he turned around, his heart almost stopped beating upon having a doll with enormous eyes, staring so innocently at him with a sharp, threatening knife in it's plastic hand grip. Without delaying, the doll gave on harsh stab on Zic's right foot causing him to scream his lungs out in pain. The pain was extremely excruciating that he knelt down and when he lifted up his face, the doll was gone.

"Ahhhh!!!" he cried in pain as he slowly removed the sharp blade from his flesh

Forgetting about Eva completely, he limped his way down the stairway when he saw Suga supporting Amber who was getting weaker due to her non-stop bleeding wound.

"Ayy both of you!" Zico yelled 

"Zic?" Suga exclaimed as the three of them gathered

"My God, what happened to you Am?" Zic asked with full of concern without concerning about his injury at all, as Suga passed her to Zic's arms

***

Due to Jay's prediction on the direction of the mansion, both him and Chaerin had been to most of the rooms they passed by and still no sight of Simon anywhere. Their patience were wearing thin when they came across a room filled with countless of paintings. 

"Ayy Jay look, it's my ex boyfriend. HAHAHAHA!!" Chaerin cracked out a joke

"Ahahaha very funny huh? Oh look at this one. This clown looks just like my brother from another mother. Hahahaha!," Jay commented and touched the painting when a loud "BOOM" sound from the entrance of the room distracted their attention

It only felt like a split second that they looked away from the painting and the moment they focus back on the clown painting, both their faces turned pale and their skin felt cold and clammy. The once upset looking clown painting has now transformed into an evil, sinister looking one.

Jay and Chaerin started reversing their steps in slow motion mode when Chaerin's back accidentally hit one of the edge of the painting frames allowing the bunch of it to fall off from it's original position. Suddenly, a high pitch, clown laughter could be heard from out of nowehere causing their goosebumps to rise automatically as they sprint out of the room immediately. 

"Damn what the hell was that?!" Jay exclaimed as he panted hard for breath

"I don't know. Come on let's keep looking. Simon!! Where are you?!" Chaerin called out, fastening her pace

"Ouh Jay? Chaerin?" Eva who was in search of Zic coincidentally bumped against the two of them

"Oh hi Eva, why are you alone? Where is Zic? Don't tell me he left you all alone?!" Jay assumed

"I have no idea. I was in the middle of studying something when I realised I was talking alone since there was no response coming from him," Eva explained

"What a douchebag man," Jay kinda felt pissed off

"Hey guys, is that Zic, Suga and Am? Or am I seeing things since it's a haunted mansion ahhaha get it?" Chaerin craked out a joke again

"Looks like someone is hurt," Eva said 

They were shocked to see the bad injury that their friends encountered.

"We need to get the hell out of here," Zic suggested as he carressed Amber's arm with full of care

"But what about---

"I don't care what happened to Simon. Our friend here is losing so much of blood and like as if there are any ambulance or hospitals here. If you guys still want to look for Simon go ahead, I'm staying here with Amber," Zico raged firmly

Could not be bothered by a stubborn headed kid, they started to continue on their search for Simon except for Eva who was having a moment to herself as she witnessed once again a scene that caused her jealousy feeling to increase each time she were to steal glances at how caring and protective Zic was towards Amber.

Just by his actions it was obvious to her that he have feelings for Amber. Eva's expression was grave, abstracted and almost could fancied sad. She was so disconsolated and already lost her hope to continue to like him anymore.Her eyes were glassy as she tried her very best not to let her tears fall when without realising, someone else was witnessing her going through such a tough moment fighting against her unstable emotions, knowing very well that she was totally hurt.

"He left me alone because of her? Hmmm..." he poor heart lamented in misery