Jocelyn leaned back into the old dusty upholstery, ignoring the tiny pitter-patter of what was surely a family of mice that lived under the sofa. She took a sip from her drink, staring absently into the moonless night, visibly shaken...
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She'd arrived with her husband and son around 9 pm. They had rented an old farmhouse on a secluded road, with about four acres between them and the nearest neighbours. It was late October; the evenings were quiet and the sky was already layered with shades of grey when they arrived. The darkened bricks of the house were covered with crawling ivy. Withered leaves fell like confetti from the crackling branches of the overarching trees that lined the walkway, and there was an eerie chill in the air as they approached the large wooden door. Immediately, the hairs on the back of her neck rose.
When they booked Midsommar Manor there had been a lot of excitement about the size of the three-story building - it was quite a step up from their cramped flat. But when they arrived in the middle of the night, all those glowing features just seemed like the perfect ingredients for a haunted house: a cold, dark basement, four-poster beds, creaky stairs, a study decorated with heads of stuffed animals. Despite this, everything had seemed fine until Jocelyn decided to explore her new digs while Jason put Tucker to sleep. As she descended the stairs to the large foyer in front of the front door she felt something move around her. It was hard to explain and impossible to comprehend, but Jocelyn froze and the hairs on her arms stood at attention. She got the unnerving feeling that she wasn't alone. Something had disturbed the eerie stillness that had greeted her when she first arrived. And that was a very, very scary thing indeed.
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Goosebumps peppered her skin as a cool breeze wafted over her leg. Jocelyn swallowed nervously, her eyes darting around. She tried to shake off the thought and pretended to relax into the sofa, feigning comfort to a presence that she knew didn't exist. She noticed something change, the air rippled as if there was something else occupying the space around her. She felt it move over her and she immediately knew that it was the same chilling phantom she felt out in the foyer.
Suddenly she felt a gust of cold air blow more insistently than before, like coarse hands running over her legs and circling her hips. She tried to scream but no sound came out. She swung a fist, but connected with nothing but air and when she meant to leap up she found her arms and legs secured by the rigid air. She felt a sinister apparition in front of her and froze in fear as the icy chill spread across her thighs, up over her stomach and breasts, over her shoulders and down her back. A faint smell accompanied the living breeze, it was a slight, rancid smell of rotting meat with undertones of burnt wood.
She felt long, decrepit, fingers take form and spread down the curve of her cleavage, growing like poison ivy along her skin and dipping beneath her top. They felt like sandpaper scraping over the pebbled goosebumps scattered across her skin. She squirmed at the friction as the invisible fingers brushed over her nipples and continued to stretch down to her navel, making her jump from the tickling sensation. Then, suddenly, she felt another hand grip at her throat. It pressed down hard enough for a warning, and she understood clearly that she was not to move.
At first her gut reaction was fear but as the long fingers on the first hand descended further, cascading through the curls of her pubic hair and traveling down between her legs, she felt defiant arousal slowly creep into the mix. She was repulsed as the ghost gently parted her labia and she felt light, circular rubbing on the hood of her clit, coaxing it to engorged arousal.