Hosts: a Highfields Horror Story

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Status: In Progress  |  Genre: Horror  |  House: Booksie Classic

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The long, tongue-thing slipped and slithered its way into her now-open mouth. It felt cold and sharp and hard; Tyreen tasted blood.
“There, there, dear,” Mr Pitt reassured. “It’ll all be over in a minute.”
The hairy-tongue-thing wriggled into the back of Tyreen’s throat.
“You’ll feel so much better in a minute.”
Tyreen struggled, and gagged, and finally gave up as the fleshy mass scratched past her throat and crawled inside her body.
“You’ll feel just like us!”

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 - Bodies

Tyreen Onoh ran for her life down the darkened hallways of Highfields Boarding School. Something was wrong. Something was chasing her. ... Read Chapter

Chapter 2 - Brothers

"It was just a dream, Ty!" Jin proclaimed, flicking her black fringe out of the way of her brown eyes. As Tyreen picked up pace down th... Read Chapter

Chapter 3 - Boys!

“You knew it was boys!” Tyreen fired accusingly at Jin. The girls had met up in Wray Dorm at breaktime and were sneaking a cheeky... Read Chapter

Chapter 4 - Spider!

“Right,” Miss Manners called Wray House to attention. “Is everyone assembled?” It was after dinner and, normally, a good ma... Read Chapter

Chapter 5 - Intruder

The four girls packed up their rooms in silence and as quickly as they could. If anything, they couldn’t wait to get out of Wray Hous... Read Chapter

Chapter 6 - Descent

The darkness of the staircase beyond the open door was not quite total. A window, positioned at ground level from the outside, cast a l... Read Chapter

Chapter 7 - Cleansing

By the time Miss Manners had arrived at the east transept, most of the girls in that wing of the church were already awake. Between the... Read Chapter

Chapter 8 - Change

Tyreen backed away into the small changing rooms, keeping the advancing form of her naked friend, Shauna, in her sight at all times. ... Read Chapter

Chapter 9 - Dream

Tyreen tried not to sleep that night. She tried to keep an eye on Shauna, peering into the gloom of that transept in which her friends sl... Read Chapter

Chapter 10 - Rumors

Tyreen caught up with the others at lunchtime. She knew exactly where they’d be. With their old bathroom vaping den now taken over by... Read Chapter

Chapter 11 - Again

The voices inside Dr. Davies’ office were raised, but not shouting. Tyreen—who had followed them immediately from her fir-tree hidi... Read Chapter

Chapter 12 - Suspicion

“This one’s dead, too!” Tyreen complained, slamming the old pay phone down in the administrator’s hallway. Highfields had a... Read Chapter

Chapter 13 - Hidden

By the time the girls reached the door to the old swimming pool, it was already open. "Dick must be inside!" Jin whispered. "Ca... Read Chapter

Chapter 14 - Found

Jin stood frozen and trembling as Amy frantically tried the door to the room, panic rising in her voice in tempo with the cruel laughter ... Read Chapter

Chapter 15 - Aftermath

Four days slipped past like shadows under clouds. Unseen. Unknown. The explosion had shaken the school to its foundations, but Highfields... Read Chapter

Chapter 16 - Research

“All right,” said Tyreen, locking the door and herself and Jin in her dorm room. “What do we know?" The return of the dreams ... Read Chapter

Chapter 17 - Phantoms

Not long after Mr. Donaldson left, Tyreen and Amy settled down in the library. The librarian, Miss Sheridan, was stacking books left ou... Read Chapter

Chapter 18 - Mistrust

"I'd just turned 11 when I met him," Tyreen explained. Amy had taken Tyreen back to her room in Wray House. She sat now on the ed... Read Chapter

Chapter 19 - Test

  The hallway that ran through the center of the math department was dark and forbidding. All the doors were closed, all the c... Read Chapter