The Hotel episode 2

☠☠THE HOTEL☠☠
☠☠EPISODE 2☠☠

I became enveloped with fear, my husband was not even aware of this yet. He was just smiling and grinning at me like a happy goat.

I wanted to signal to him to let him have a look at the book, but he was too happy to even noticed. I guess the long drive has took its toll on him and he really wants to rest. He has been driving like a cursed slave since the moment he started driving.

The receptionist with the smiling pale face smiled at us like she did earlier and took the book. She gave us a key to a room after.

My husband snatched the key away from her like a thief and we proceeded towards the direction of the big hall. As we were about to exit the reception area, we noticed some two figures coming from the direction we came through earlier, the long path.

It turned out to be some two young adults whom I assumed must have lost their way in the forest too. They were quite happy to finally see the end of the long path as they increased their pace towards the lady at the reception.

We've already exited the place before they got to the reception. We walked through the large hall with tables and we opened a giant wooden door which welcomed us into a long row of rooms.

We searched for the room allocated to us and we moved in without hesitating.

The room was so big with lot of appliances, it actually looked bigger than our whole house. Everything in that hotel was just too big and I was wondering why an hotel that is big like that could be silent.

We just jumped on bed at the same time and due to our tiredness, we fell asleep immediately.

It wasn't up to 20 minutes we slept off that my belly started growling. "Jeez, we haven't eaten anything since evening", I said in my mind.

I tried to wake my husband up to confirm if he's hungry too because I wanted to place an order. That nig*a wasn't even reacting to my slaps and taps, he was just sleeping like a corpse.

I ignored him and placed the call for my food but this car wasn't picked. I tried it for the second, third, fourth and fifth time but it wasn't picked. "Are these people dead or what, someone should just pick this call before hunger kills me", I said to myself not really sure if they are truly dead or not.

When my calls wasn't picked after my fifth call, I stood up from bed to go and check. The time should be around 2:00am.

I opened the giant-sized door and walked through the long narrow path between the rooms. Everywhere was unusually calm, I could even hear my heartbeat and the chirping of some birds, which was probably owl.

I kept on walking, or tip-toeing rather. I opened the door that led to the large hall silently. I was planning on meeting the receptionist and lodge my complain, but what I saw next baffled me.

There were no longer pathways there, all the doors and windows that could lead out of the hotel were no more there.

I was still lost in my confusion when a liquid dropped on my face. I looked up to behold the corpse of the couples that came earlier hanged upside down with half of their head smashed.

© Elisha Kehinde Fagbemi