"No," Kaye said flatly while staring at the abandoned house.
"Oh, come on, Kaye!" Dawn replied, "You're the one who wanted to go see a real haunted house and we drove all the way out here already!"
Kaye ignored her friend and roommate while still staring at the house. The moon was just past being full, a wanning gibbous moon which was a term that still made her giggle, with enough light to make out details by the pale illumination. They had driven almost twenty miles into the low farmlands of southern Indiana, areas that flooded every year in the spring to find the 'haunted house'. The house itself was a two story farmhouse with a veranda style wrap around porch, all the windows and doors covered in plywood on the first floor. Most of the white paint had peeled and flaked away to leave bare, stained wood, the windows on the second floor broken and empty to leave black, gaping holes. A small garage or large shed was the only outbuilding, one of the doors partially open without being able to see anything inside.
"It doesn't look safe!" Kaye insisted, "The floor might be rotted and we'd fall right through!"
"Come on!" Dawn shot back and began to tug at Kaye's arm to drag her closer to the abandoned house.
Dawn was a head shorter than Kaye, but the slightly built Korean girl still managed to pull Kaye step by step towards the wrap around porch.
"It's... it's a stupid story," Kaye protested and pushed a lock of her dark brown hair back up beneath her ballcap, a long ponytail hanging out the back, "I looked it up, there's nothing about a farmer killing his entire family and then hanging himself in Gibson County, not ever!"
"That's because they wanted to keep it quiet!" Dawn insisted, "His wasn't the first family to end up like that!
"There was another family in like eighteen ten or something like that who were all murdered on this same exact spot! And there's that Indian mound too!"
"There's lots of Indian mounds," Kaye shot back with a glance over at a field planted in row after row of corn less than a foot high, a pregnant swell three or four feet tall in the center of the field to mark the spot of the Indian mound, "There's nothing supernatural or evil or weird about them!'
"Oh, quit being a spoil sport and come on!" Dawn replied and took a step up onto steps that led to the shoulder high porch.
As soon as Dawn let her weight settle on the step it gave a loud creak.
"See!" Kaye protested, "We're going to fall through!"
Dawn took another step up but also moved her tennis shoe closer to the edge where it would be more likely to support her weight. She bounced up and down tentatively, her modest B cup breasts barely moving beneath her dark blue sports bra and then grinned at Kaye.
"Nothing to worry about!" Dawn said and took several more steps up onto the porch.
Kaye glared at her, Dawn staying close to the edge of the porch with one hand on the bare wooden railing.
"Go out in the middle of the porch and do that!" Kaye demanded.
Dawn gave the porch an anxious look without letting go of the railing, large spiraling curls of what once was white paint breaking off when she ran her hand along the wood without releasing her grip.
"Come on Kaye, it's safe enough as long as we're careful!" Dawn insisted.
Kaye glared for another moment and then walked over to the steps and gingerly placed her weight on the first riser. She could feel the old wood give even with her shoe as close as she could get to the edge of the step, but after a moment moved her other foot up to the next riser.
"You at least could have worn some pants!" Kaye snapped with a glance up at Dawn and the tight Lycra shorts and sports bra that Dawn was wearing, "Then at least when you fall through the floor you wouldn't get cut!"
"Yea, right, like the pants that you're wearing?" Dawn shot back with a laugh.
Kaye rolled her eyes and ignored Dawn's comment about her own yoga pants. The night was still humid, still in the eighties with the distant flicker of occasional heat lightning, so even Kaye had chosen to wear just her sports bra, just like Dawn, but also yoga pants that molded to Kaye's body just as tightly as Dawn's shorts. Both women had worn dark clothing, Dawn with matching dark blue shorts and sports bra, Kaye with a black sports bra and charcoal yoga pants that had large translucent peekaboo panels that ran along the outside of both legs from her hip all the way to her ankles.
Kaye took another step up the risers and flinched at the way the step gave under her weight with a creak.
"Seriously, I don't think this is safe," Kayle protested after another step, the riser giving and flexing the moment she settled her weight onto it.
"Stop being a chicken!" Dawn shot back, "Come on!"
Kayle took another slow, tentative step and watched Dawn start walking along the edge of the porch always staying close to the rickety railing.
"How are we even going to get inside?" Kayle asked when she finally made it all the way up onto the porch, "All the doors and windows are boarded up!"
"There's supposed to be a window around back that leads into the kitchen that's open," Dawn said and then disappeared around the edge of the house.
"Shit! Wait up!" Kaye exclaimed and tried to move as fast as she could while clutching onto the railing, the porch giving and flexing with every one of her steps.
"Found it!" Dawn said just as Kaye came around the corner, the slight Korean girl standing next to an open window, the gaping black hole even with her breasts.
Dawn quickly pulled a flashlight out of her purse and turned it on, the sudden intense illumination making Kaye flinch.
"What is that thing?" Kaye asked while shielding her eyes.
"You like?" Dawn asked while shining the extremely bright flashlight around the inside of the house, "It was the brightest one I could buy on Amazon!"
"That thing isn't a flashlight, it's a freakin light saber!" Kaye said.
Dawn giggled and put her hand in front of the beam for a moment, "It's actually gets to hot to keep your hand here for more than a few seconds."
Kaye could see the light shining all the way through Dawn's hand, her skin lit up from within by a red glow with what Kaye guessed were the dark shadows of her bones outlined in the flesh. After a moment Dawn pulled her hand away and waved it in the air to lessen the sting. Dawn grinned and reached over to place her hand flat against Kaye's stomach, Kaye flinching at both the feel of Dawn's palm that really was hot to the touch as well as the sensation of Dawn's palm pressed against her stomach.
"See how hot it gets," Dawn said, her hand moving in a circle against Kaye's bare skin.
Kaye's eyes closed slightly and she took a deep breath through her nose while trying to ignore the way her heart thudded in her chest as well as the sudden ache between her legs. Once they had moved in together as roommates Kaye had never gotten used to how touchy feely Dawn was, the way Dawn would move a lock of hair out of Kaye's eyes or away from her neck without asking or casually give her a quick kiss on the cheek and even sometimes on the lips.
