The House on Mansfield Street Page #3

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Yeah, 7 could work I reckon

Brilliant that's good

Ooh I could bring my cards

Cards?

Yeah Tarot cards!

just a bit of fun of course but you could film it for your documentary!

It'd be lots of fun

Pretty strange actually...tarot cards...

yeah I mean...

Go on! It'll be fun

I've not done it for ages

Lots of weird things happening at the cottage at the minute...

Really?

Yeah, chairs falling over lamps falling

over that kind of thing I know it sounds

ridiculous it's just you know

I'm in a new place...strange

Not strange but I mean I've been there for

years and I've never seen or heard anything...

Hmmmn, yeah very odd...

I think it's probably just me being silly...

You know?

Alright, tarot cards and drinks!

Yeah it'll be fun!

Cool okay

I'll see you soon

I'll see you then...bye

Bye

That's Emma...

Okay tarot cards...just what I need

[Phone vibration]

I think I'm a little bit lost...

[Phone alerts]

Ah...hang on

[Phone vibration]

Somebody in the house...

F***!

F***, f*** there's somebody in the house!

There's somebody in the house, I'm going home!

There was definitely a figure behind the curtain

but I thought the door was locked...

Still locked...

I definitely picked something up

somebody was here ...I dunno

Definitely being filmed...

Nothing...I'm just going to check upstairs

Okay...

Okay...

Okay...

Okay...

Okay...

Nothing...

[Low drone]

What?!

[Dark drone]

okay okay

It's definitely a figure...behind the curtain...definitely

That's impossible...

I've just double-check everything, the doors are locked

It's like somebody's...

let themselves in...

[Low drone]

It doesn't make any sense okay now my

rational mind is telling me this is

impossible there is there is no way that

can be a figure but there's a figure

standing behind the curtain

[Phone vibration]

Hello, hi... yes Sarah hello thanks for

calling back, everything's fine, I just had a

question about keys

yeah...does anybody else have a set

of keys apart from me and the landlord?

no no no nothing's happened...

yeah and what about the landlord, is he

is he about? Is he coming in to do some checks?

Ah... he's out of the

country, okay

no everything's fine thank you um thanks

okay, bye.

Okay...okay...

Okay...

[Okay...okay..okay

[Birdsong]

[Knocking at front door]

[Nick] Hi! Come in....

[Emma] Hi...

[Nick] Hello let me take your coat

[Emma] Thank you...there you go

[Nick] Just through there

[Emma] Thanks...ooh

you've been filming, is that a camera?

Oh yes this is my home security system

its voice and motion activated, there we

go

basically I can keep an eye on the house

when I'm not in

Oh right!

How clever

Yeah well as I was saying a few strange

occurrences recently furniture moving around...

things turning up in the wrong

place, perhaps the previous tenant was

letting himself in...

Oh my God! Was anything stolen? Perhaps you should call the Police?

No no, nothing was stolen...

But you're worried. Worried enough to get CCTV

Look sorry I'll turn it off

No, no don't be silly honestly...

it doesn't bother me it's fine

You're sure?

[Emma] Yeah yeah it's fine

I mean...lived here ages and well the cottages are really quiet we never had any trouble

honestly it's just...

You're probably just letting your imagination run wild...

Yeah...I guess you're right

Did you know much about the previous

tenant?

No not really...He was about your age...

He hasn't been here very

long it was maybe here about two months

I think and then then the cottage was

empty for about five months before youmoved in

Five months?! The landlord said it had been empty only a week!

He was probably just saying that so you wouldn't ask for lower rent...or something

Heh, yeah...

You know what they're like

Oh absolutely

Anyway you've been through a lot of change I mean move to a new city...

new job new house I mean it's

it's all very stressfull.

Look, I've brought my tarot cards let's have some fun

You get the dinks, I'll get the Tarot cards out

Sounds like a plan!

[Nick] Drinks and Tarot...

[Emma] Uh huh

Well I've never really...

done Tarot cards before..

Oh you are in for a treat I have to say!

Yeah, Tarot is magical!

[Nick] Are you into all this spiritualist stuff then?

Yep I think we're recording...

Okay...so these are my cards...

Beautiful aren't they?

Very nice, how long have you had them?

Oh along time, about 15 years I think... okay

you have to shuffle

So if I give those to you...

I have to shuffle?

Yeah I'll, take the camera you take the cards... swap over for a bit

Okay

So...there we go...

I'm not very good, how long do I shuffle for?

As long as you like the cards will tell you when to stop

The cards will tell me when to stop?

You'll know.

I can stop.

Okay...

Swap?

Yes let's swap

Okay there we go...

There we are...

[Emma] Right...

okay so I am going to lay the cards out

into a pattern and this will give me

your past, your present and your

future events okay?

all right so we're gonna start with your

past, let's say we have the four of swords...

the eight of swords and the

hanged man.

[Nick] Right...

what do they mean?

Change.

Now I know I know this already but...

You were in a stagnant place am I right?

[Nick] Uh huh...

And something happened, some kind of change took place

that has put you on the path to where

you are now...

Well you could say that yeah

okay right next we have your present so

we have see the fool are very good yeah

the Ace of swords and the Ace of Cups

okay you are going to be using your

talents and you're going to come into

your own and I think that's with your

job okay there's something that's going

to be seen by a lot of people...

but for some reason you're not going to be a

part of it

Okay...

Okay, the future...

Right let's see we have...

The Tower okay.... the Devil, the ten of swords ...and finally Death...

[Nick] Oh God!

No, don't be scared the death card rarely means

actual death but....

[Nick] But what?

I don't know...there's going to be...something's gonna

happen a shock maybe

or some kind of betrayal...?

Okay look this doesn't sound very fun...

I think we should just stop now

Hey I'm sorry I scared you. Look

they're just cards that's all

I'm not scared just I don't really believe in any of this stuff... no offense

No, none taken

look it's been a long time I haven't

done this for ages

I'm very rusty okay look it's getting

late I should be going anyway

It's been a fun evening...

[Nick] Yeah it has thanks for coming over...

Thanks for the drinks

Goodnight.

I'll, I'll show you out...

[Dark drone rises]

[Footsteps]

[Footsteps walk around the room]

[Thud]

[Scratching]

Okay...I definitely heard something downstairs

definitely heard whistling

It's the same whistling from my dream...

Oh Christ...

Whistling...

Oh f***...oh f***

[Whistling]

[Door handle]

[Nick breathes heavily]

Oh f*** there's somebody...somebody here

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