I grasped Adley's hand and pushed through the door. It was the final floor. We were going to get out. We were so close, I could taste it. It was just a little farther.

"Welcome, to the last floor. If you can survive these final halls, you can leave," the voice echoed.

Before the voice was even done talking, a scream resonated throughout the floor. It sounded like a little girl's scream, one of horror. Then a little girl rounded the corner. She had high pigtails with pink bows holding them up and a white shirt with a frilly, pink tutu. She looked to be around six or seven. She was shaking and crying, as she cautiously walked towards us.

"They left me here. My family left me. I'm so scared. I just want to go home," she said, in a high pitched, shaky voice.

"Oh my god. Are you okay? When did they leave you? Where are they?" Adley asked, taking a step towards the girl. She stopped walking right in front of us.

There was something off about her. I could tell. Something just didn't add up.

Abruptly, she stopped crying and started laughing. "What is she doing?" I whispered.

She lifted her head and turned her face towards us. There was a huge, bloody bite taken out of her cheek. She scratched it and laughed out loud, spreading the blood down her face. Her eyes were wide and emotionless.

"Let's go play, Adley! Let's go play!" She giggled and jumped up and down. Her face began to morph, turning into a bloody, garbled mess. It looked like she was melting. Teeth started falling out, but yet, she just kept on laughing. She was just starting to rip her stomach open, when I pushed her to the side, and we bolted past her. Her skin was cold and damp against my hand, and I shivered in disgust.

"I fell for that one. I should know by now, don't you think?" Adley asked, as we ran.

"It's hard to tell in here. You never know what's real, or not real. What's good, or bad. The lines blur together, preventing anyone from seeing where they intersect."

"That's deep, bruh, super deep."

"I have my moments." We both laughed, despite the situation.

We ran for a while, then stopped. Sure, we wanted to get out as fast as possible, but we were going to have to face whatever was coming at some point, and we didn't want to be exhausted, by the time we got there.

We turned a corner and smashed into a wall. I groaned and rubbed my face. I turned to go back or make a different turn, but realized that we were in a closed box, all four sides of solid walls. My breathing got heavy and my heart beat out of my chest. Claustrophobia, again? These people were running out of ideas.

"Okay, Tucker calm down. We'll be o-" Adley immediately stopped talking, when four snakes emerged from each corner of the room. She started screaming and grabbed my arm.

The walls started closing in, bringing the snakes closer to us. One slithered across Adley's leg, and she shrieked, hiding her face in my shoulder.

Meanwhile, I was frozen in fear. I couldn't move. My heart pounded in my ears, dulling Adley's harsh screams to a low hum.

The snakes didn't bother me as much as the white walls closing in on us. Soon I was pressed up against Adley. I couldn't raise my hands above my head or push my legs out any farther than they already were.

I squeezed my eyes shut, but reopened them, when I couldn't take the feeling of not knowing when I was going to be crushed.

The snakes were all on her now. One laid across her stomach, another on her legs. One on her feet, and the last one lived in her hips, wrapping their long, slimy bodies around her.

She was screaming and crying, trying to shake them off, but she was panicking too much to do anything at all.

"Tucker, help me!" She screamed.

The walls closed around us, giving us barely enough room for our bodies.

"We're going to die!" I shrieked, desperately pressing on the walls.

Just when there was no air left and my body was about to burst, I heard a loud pop and the room started going out. I blinked tears out of my eyes, sucking in huge breaths of air, trying to calm my pounding heart.

Adley was still shaking, but there weren't any snakes on her anymore. "We're okay, Ads, we're okay!" I said, a smiling creeping into my face.

Adley uncovered her eyes, looking around. She squealed and hugged me. I pressed her into my chest, still whispering, "We're okay!"

We finally managed to stand up, on shaky legs. We kept on walking, our heavy breathing being the only sound resonating between us. There was a time for talk, and there was a time for not.

I couldn't be sure when the floor turned to water. It did it so gradually that we didn't notice until we were up to our knees in it. A rickety canoe floated over to us. We got in, because what else were we going to do. Adley sat in the front, so I took the bench behind her. She took my hands and wrapped them around her waist. I scooted closer to her. She leaned into my chest.

The boat started moving by itself. It was calm at first, just smooth sailing, but then it got rough. Waves started crashing around us.

"Get down!" I yelled, tugging Adley down with me. I covered Adley with my body, but propped myself up, so I wouldn't crush her.

A giant wave crashed over us, soaking us. The boat flipped over, completely submerging us. Adley screamed, and I sucked in some water. Finally, another wave flipped us over again. I coughed up some water, narrowly missing Adley's face as waves pounded my back harshly.

"Are you okay?" She choked out, gasping in big breaths of humid air.

"I think so," I muttered, between racking coughs, "You?"

Adley just nodded. She looked like she was about to speak, but a wave overtook us again.

Have you ever almost drowned? It's one of the worst feelings in the world, if you haven't. It kind of felt like claustrophobia, because there was water pushing on all sides. There was no escape.

Finally, we rotated again. I attempted to relieve my lungs of the water trapped inside them, but ended up almost puking on the floor.

I could feel Adley's heart pounding on my chest. I stared at the wooden canoe beneath us.

Adley kissed my cheek. "Are you okay?" She whispered.

I looked around and noticed that the waves had stopped. I nodded, then pushed myself off of Adley and helped her up.

"But I think you missed," I said.

"Huh?" She looked at me in confusion.

"You missed," I repeated, then kissed her. She laughed and strung her arms around my neck. I put my hands on her waist, leaning close.

Then I heard a noise behind us. I broke away and turned. There, emerging from the water, was a disfigured boy.

It had a bruised looking, purple and red face. Its eyes were sunken in, its mouth sown shut. Its hair was falling off its purple scalp. Disgusting.

"It's Friday The 13th!" Adley screamed.

I had never seen that movie, I had heard that it wasn't that good, but apparently Adley was familiar with the movie.

"Paddle!" I yelled. We stuck our hands in the water and tried to move the boat forward. Then I felt something brush against the tips of my fingers. I abruptly ripped my hand out of the liquid, but stuck it back in, when I didn't see anything in the murkiness. I resumed paddling, assuming I had just imagined it, or maybe it was a plant or something. Until, my hand was grasped by a smaller one. I had just enough time to scream, before I was sucked under. I gulped in a huge swallow of it, in shock. It would have been similar to a gasp, had I been above water. Unfortunately, it resulted in pretty much drowning.

I opened my eyes, peering through the filthy water to see a mermaid looking object dragging me down. I screamed, but ended up swallowing more water.

I could faintly hear Adley screaming for me, off in the distance.

The mermaid creature turned around. Her face was beautiful, with long, flowing, blonde, curly hair and brilliant, sea green eyes.

She was pretty, until she changed. Her face morphed into something horrifying, as giant fangs hissed at me. Her skin transformed into scales, her hair into snakes, her beautiful eyes into snake eyes.

She hissed again, exposing sharp, pointed teeth, then attempted to bite the hand she held.

I kicked at her, quickly losing oxygen. Just when the world was fading, I finally kicked free and swam for freedom.

My head popped above water, but all I had time for was one quick breath, before I was whisked back under by my foot.

I turned around and attacked her, punching and kicking anything I could. My hands found her neck, and I squeezed tight.

Suddenly, her face switched back to the beautiful one. She leaned in, acting like she was going to kiss me.

Never tell Adley this, but I almost fell for her tricks. Her looks were like the sirens' songs, hypnotizing, making people want to kill themselves. Not just kill themselves, but want to, making it enjoyable, until the last second, when they realize the mistake they made and the trick they fell for.

Fortunately, my will must have been stronger than most, or maybe it was Adley's shrill scream that broke me out of my daze. I heard her voice, and a picture of her smiling popped into my head. It was like our relationship flashed before my eyes. I saw us talking in class, her sleeping on me on the bus, us walking in, her face when Shay died, everything.

Whatever happened, I awoke and kicked the being in the face, then soared to the surface. I launched myself into the canoe, and Adley helped pull me out.

"Oh my gosh, Tucker are you okay?" She asked, patting my back, as I puked up water. I took I. A difficult breath, before nodding in affirmation.

She kissed my forehead and helped me sit up. I coughed up the remainder of liquid in my system, before wiping my mouth and straightening up.

When I looked up, the canoe was back on dry land, and there was no water to be seen, except for the drips falling from myself.

We got out of the canoe. The door to the stairwell was right in front of us. I pushed it open. A bat flew at my face, but I easily dodged it.

We climbed up the stairs. At that point, I felt indestructible, unbreakable, invincible. Nothing could hurt me, after all that stuff I went through. Adley's hand was grasped in mine.

We safely got to the roof. Adley pulled out her phone. Surprisingly, it worked. Life proof cases really are good investments.

"Tucker, I have service!" She said, triumphantly.

She called 911. A helicopter came and saved us, then huge police forces went into the building.

The funny thing is that no bodies were ever found. No one else was in the hotel with us. It was just an abandoned building. The police found no monsters, no water, nothing.

Also, the school had no record of the school trip, and no one remembered a Mrs. Rodman. There were no injuries on either of us, not even a bruise or scrape. Apparently, we had left for the trip the day before.

Everyone thought we were crazy. They still do, actually.

I only know what I just told you, nothing more. I don't think we'll ever no for sure, but now it's up to you to decide what really happened in that hotel.