Chapter 21: The End of the Butt Endah
"Riley!? Where have you been!? Wait... what happened to your arm!?"
Several hours later, Riley was finally walking out of Nightwalker’s House of Horrors—with an entire medical team trailing behind him. Hannah and the rest of the group were already waiting outside, and the moment they spotted him, they all exchanged stunned looks.
Riley was wearing a sling, gauze covered half his face, and there wasn’t a single inch of him that didn’t look banged up.
The only consolation?
He was walking straight—no limp, no wobble—without even a flicker of pain on his face.
"Ma’am, we found him unconscious at the bottom of the Stairs of Madness," one of the medics explained, jogging up. "We checked the CCTV. He... fell. The ambulance is already on its way."
"What!?"
Hannah rushed to her brother, arms instinctively reaching out—but she stopped herself, terrified she might hurt him worse. And so, instead, she frantically scanned him with her eyes, inspecting every scrape, bruise, and bandage.
"How the fuck did this even happen!?" she snapped, her voice almost cracking. "You’ve fucking memorized the whole layout of the fucking Stairs of Madness! You could fucking walk through that thing blindfolded! And also—how!? There’s like a fucking dozen safety precautions there!"
Bella, Benjamin, and Pauline shared a look as Hannah dropped the word "fuck" about six times in under ten seconds. But really, could anyone blame her? Seeing your sibling like that would make anyone lose it.
"Man, we gon’ sue all y’all!" Bella joined in and shouted, flipping off the medical staff. Her brother immediately pushed her hand down, but she just switched hands and flipped them off again.