Floor 13 ( Halloween #5)

Every Halloween kids dress up in their costumes and go door to door getting candy for free. No other time of year can anyone get away with such behavior I guess that's what really sets Halloween apart from all other holidays. But as the times change and prices go up and crime increases less people give out candy and less parents allow their kids to go out. But there are a few places kids still roam around asking for candy and people still shell out a few hundred bucks on candy to give away. These small neighborhoods and apartment complexes still are full of kids going door to door getting their treats.

Ten year old Susie and her little brother, six year old Mark are new to Shady Glen an apartment building downtown and perhaps one of the safest places to trick or treat. It's a new building, just built a couple years ago and is the most secure apartment building ever erected. Most everyone knows each other and the only ones aloud in or out of the building are tenants and their guests. It's a fairly expensive place to live but Susie's dad is a lawyer and her mom is a nurse. They hardly ever see their parents and spend most their time being raised by their nanny Berta.

This Halloween their mom made special time to take them shopping for their Halloween costumes. They spent all morning picking out their costumes last minute and didn't have much to choose from since Halloween was only a day away. The kids had settle with being a pirate and a princess but they didn't mind because it meant that they were able to spend time with their mother.

The next evening the two kids headed out with their treat bags starting at the bottom floor. "Trick or Treat!" the kids said as the door opened.

"Don't you too look adorable," Mrs. Johnson said, "Are you two enjoying yourselves here?"

"Yeah it's fun," Susie said, "We have made lots of new friends."

"That's good, and you two have a good time."

The two worked their way up from the bottom floor all the way up to floor twelve and the last apartment on the floor. As they were about to leave they saw a staircase that said Floor 13 on the door. "I thought there were only twelve floors?" Mark asked

"Yeah I thought so too," Susie said. A few kids ran past them with their bags to the elevator and Susie went to catch up with them "Hey Jackie."

"Hey Susie how did you do?" Jackie asked

"We did good, we were about to head up to floor thirteen."

"Floor thirteen, there is no floor thirteen that I know of." Jackie stepped off the elevator with her friend Amber and the doors closed behind them.

"The door is just right over here." Susie led Jackie to the door just a around the corner.

"Wow, I grew up here and I never saw this door before, lets go up."

"I don't know about this," Amber said, "This is too weird."

Mark agreed and said, "I am getting tired and want to go home."

"I will take Mark home and you two can go to the next floor," Amber said and the two headed to the elevator.

Susie and Jackie headed through the door and to the next floor. It looked just like all the other floors but each door they went to handed out the best and biggest candy.

Back at Susie's apartment Amber knocked on the door and their mother opened it up, "Hi Amber, where's Susie?"

"Her and Jackie went to floor thirteen but Mark was too tired so I brought him back."

"I didn't know there was a floor thirteen," Susie's mother said.

"Me neither," said Amber as she walked out the door and back to her apartment.

A couple hours had gone by and Susie's mother was getting worried and she headed up the elevator to floor twelve the highest the elevator will take you. She then walked around looking for access to floor thirteen. As she looked around her cell phone rang, it was Jackie's mother, "Have you seen Jackie, Amber told me she went with Susie to floor thirteen."

"Yeah that's what she told me and I am up here looking for access to floor thirteen but I can't find it how do you get up there."

Jackie's mother replied in a scared voice, "there is no floor thirteen, no apartment building has a floor thirteen."

"Are you sure," Susie's mom said as she started to panic but she was correct.

Everyone in the apartment building started a mass search for the girls. They even checked the security footage but the last thing they saw with them on it was Jackie and Amber getting off the elevator to talk to Susie and then the tapes go to static.

Days turned to weeks, and weeks turned to months, and months eventually turned to years. Neither child was ever found. In the following years no one else ever claimed to see a floor thirteen and never before has anyone ever claimed to see such a floor. In fact such a claim was outrageous since no buildings are ever built with a floor thirteen, they all go from floor twelve to floor fourteen. And because of this strange occurrence the building was eventually torn down and the mystery of floor thirteen and where Susie and Jackie disappeared to have never been solved.

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