American Conjuring Page #2

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Your room is next to

Alyssa's downstairs.

- Oh, I don't think so, Mom.

Seriously, she'd

be bugging me 24/7

to play with her dolls.

That kid is so annoying.

- Zoe, zip it.

- Unfortunately,

all of the bedrooms

are on the second floor

next to the bathrooms

and kitchen.

The little apartment sandwich.

There are some unfinished

rooms in the basement though.

Perfect for wallowing

in teenage angst.

- No thanks, I'm not actually

one of those weird emo kids

who likes to spend all their

time in a dark basement.

- Are you sure about that?

Some of that music you

listen to is pretty dark.

- God Mom, like

yours is any better.

- Okay, girls, come on.

- Personally, I enjoy

the musical stylings

of Fetus Grinder.

Ah, shall I show you

the rest of the house?

- Wait, so what was

this place before?

- What do you mean?

- Well, I mean like, it's

super dark and creepy.

Was is like an insane asylum?

- Zoe, it's...

- Don't.

Don't worry about it.

I can assure you

it most certainly was

not an insane asylum.

Nor did anything devious

or unseemly happen here.

It was an orphanage for a

short while in the '60s,

but then closed it down

and the family took over.

No, nothing bad

ever happened here.

Just good people trying

to raise families.

Like you folks.

- Yeah, you obviously don't

know our family too well.

- Zoe, please.

- Teddy, please forgive

our teenage daughter.

You know, she's

at that tender age

where she likes to

do anything she can

to get a rise out

of her parents.

- Well, only one of

my parents is here.

- Zoe, stop it!

- I like this one.

You should keep her.

She reminds me of me.

Used to say just about anything

to make my parental

units squirm.

Ah, basement.

Basement.

- Oh my God.

- Why would you do

something like that?

- Mom, I didn't do that.

- Your behavior today

has been intolerable.

You know, Ben is trying

to be a good Dad to you.

Don't give him such a hard time.

- Well, he's not my Dad, Mom.

Remember you divorced my Dad.

- You and I are gonna

have a long chat later.

- As you can see, there's

not a lot of things

that need any major repairs.

Most of it's cosmetic.

You might to change

out some plumbing

or replace some shingles,

but that's about it.

- Well, I'm hoping that

doesn't cost too much.

I kinda went over my

budget on this one.

- Over your budget?

You low-balling bastard.

I'm givin' away my

inheritance here.

Besides, if you decided

you didn't wanna stay,

you could always fix the

place up on the cheap,

and sell it for a nice profit.

- No, I think after

doing all that work

we would stick around.

- Good to hear.

Joan and I will be close by.

You can come over,

barbecue, weekends.

Sunday fun-day, my friend.

- Are there any other

kids around here?

- I'm sure there are.

- Who was the lady

that was upstairs?

- Lady?

What lady, baby?

- When I went to get Chloe,

there was woman

upstairs looking at me.

- Maybe you were

just looking at me.

Or Zoe.

- I know what you

guys look like.

It wasn't either of you.

- Well, I assure you,

there's nobody else here but us.

- Right, so even though it

looks like Dracula lives here,

it's just the regular

old Harrison's.

- Hey, it doesn't look like

Dracula lives here, okay.

Stop scaring your sister.

- Fine, the Adams family then.

- Zoe, cut it out will you.

- I'm not scared, Mommy.

I know that this

is all fake anyway.

- Smart girl.

Well, let's see the

rest of the house.

Shall we?

Ah sh*t.

I thought this was gonna happen.

- Who is that?

- I'll take care of it.

- Teddy, please don't tell me...

- It's already done.

- What?

Did you tell them

what happened here?

Get your f***ing

hands off me, Teddy.

- If you f*** this up for me,

you're gonna regret it.

Do you understand me?

- What is that?

A threat?

- Abso-f***ing-lutely

it's a threat.

And if you show your

face around here again,

I'll have you locked

up for trespassing.

- Well, if you're not

gonna tell them, I am,

and you can't...

- That would

be very wise of you.

- F*** you, Teddy!

- Now get the hell out of

here before I call the cops.

- This man is not your friend.

You need to get out of

here as soon as you can,

because terrible things

happened in this house.

- I'm callin' the cops.

Joaney!

- Don't bother Joaney.

I'm leaving.

Don't you forget what I said.

- I don't know about

you, but that lady

that stopped by today,

she kinda has me spooked.

- Don't worry, okay.

Teddy said we shouldn't believe

anything she was saying.

I for one think

she may have been

hittin' the sauce today.

- I wonder what kind

of terrible things

she was talking about though.

- Did something bad

happen here, Mommy?

- No, don't worry.

Nothing bad happened here.

- I think that lady was

just trying to scare us.

- Duh.

I mean, obviously you

can't get a place this size

for the price that Ben paid.

Not unless something really

shitty happened here.

- Stop it, you're

scaring your sister.

And another thing,

you're supposed to be

calling him Dad, not Ben.

- Whatever.

- Look, we've had it with

your horrible attitude.

Just go inside

the house, please.

- Fine, Ben.

- I'm startin' to think

she's never gonna like me.

- I used to be like

that when I was 17.

She just needs some time.

- I don't hate you, Daddy.

- Oh, thank you, baby.

I love you.

- I love you too.

- And look, I know this

place is a bit intimidating,

sure it's big and scary,

but it's just a house.

Once we clean it up and we

paint some of the walls,

it's really gonna start

feeling like our home.

We just have to

give it a chance.

So what color do you

wanna paint your bedroom?

- Can it be pink?

- Absolutely.

It's your bedroom,

it can be any color

you want it to be.

- Hear that, Mommy?

I get a pink room.

- You lucky girl.

I want a pink room.

- No, no way.

Then I would have to

sleep in a pink room.

Come on, let's bring the

rest of this stuff inside.

Alyssa, is that you?

Zoe?

Playing one of your

silly games, huh?

Yeah, well, if you girls

are trying to scare me,

just remember I

don't scare easily.

And I will get back to you

when you least expect it.

Yeah, whatever, you

girls have your fun.

I have work to do.

- What you doin', babe?

- Oh, I'm just tryin' to

move some of the stuff

out of the way.

Looks like the previous owners

were gonna renovate the place,

and just abandoned their plans.

A lot of unfinished

projects here.

- That's odd.

I wonder why.

- I don't know.

What, are you cold?

- Oh, my God, yes.

I'm freezing.

This house is chilling

me to the bone.

- Really?

I guess I didn't notice.

Too busy moving stuff around.

Chopping wood,

doin' the man stuff.

- Okay, Mr. Manly man.

Do you wanna go

check on the heat?

- Oh, you got it.

Love you.

- I love you too.

- Girls, are you down here?

Okay, this whole

sneaking around,

trying to scare Daddy thing

is getting kind of old.

Oh, ha ha.

Very fun.

The old rocking chair joke, huh.

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