The Alternate Route

was like any other ordinary day, I had woken up late and missed my bus so I was forced to walk about 2 miles to school. I was used to it by now, I always made it with 5 minutes to the bell, long enough to grab breakfast and get to class. But, this time I had decided I would take a different route to school.
"Get up your going to miss your bus again" my mother shouted at me. "I can make it" I quickly shouted back to acknowledge I was awake as I stood up I felt a slight bit of dizziness hugging the wall so I wouldn't fall, I shook my head and felt normal again. I got dressed, brushed my teeth and walked out the door as quickly as I could, in an attempt to catch my bus but as always It left moments before I arrived at the stop. So, without even an ounce of surprise in me, I began my walk to school when I had made it about 2 blocks I saw there was a train blocking my normal route and I would have to find a way to go around. Quickly I decided to make a left turn just before the block that had the slow, long train preventing me from going straight to school. I didn't know anything about this route, I had never been over here, so I didn't expect much but now I wish I had just waited for the train to pass.. it was normal at first, it looked like any other street in this town. But, it had a slight chilling feeling to it I put it aside as not knowing it well. About 3 blocks in I noticed that I had passed by the same house multiple times, at first I had assumed it only looked the same, but I looked at the number the previous time, and sure enough it was the exact same. And, before I had even realized what happened the train blew it's whistle and the door to the house flew open with a huge gust of cold wind, and my feet took a mind of it's own and started to walk towards it. I was finally able to take control when I stepped inside, and turning around there was only a wall, it was as if I had entered right through it. I quickly looked around for a window or some stairs or something to escape and get to school. But it was empty, just dull looking colorless walls and a hallway dimly lit by what appeared to be a candle on the wall farther into it. I pulled out my phone and switched on my flashlight app, so I could see my way through it. As I made my way through it I heard what appeared to be a short high pitched whistle, but I had assumed it to be the wind coming through an open window nearby which encouraged me to keep moving. When I had reached the end of the hallway my flashlight app shut off and my phone restart it self right after, I once again, had assumed it were something simple and told myself my phone had an update. I never liked to think for the worse when something had happened. Luckily, I could still see by the candles light and what had seemed to appear out of nowhere a door creaked open behind me on the wall and I thought I had just walked by it by mistake and I heard the high pitched whistle once more. I made my way to the door, feeling relieved I could make it out of here and get to school. But when I opened the door, all relief turned into fear when I had seen what was inside of it. A little girl stood in the corner of the empty room whistling to herself with headphones over her ears and a backpack that looked torn and beaten. She looked at me, and removed her headphones but no sound emitted from them, she smiled at me and opened her mouth as if to speak, but hesitated and shut it until she gained enough courage to speak. "Did my whistling disturb you mister?" She asked with a voice that sounded dry as if she hadn't had anything to drink in days. "No, I just thought it was an open window do you live here?" The expression on her face quickly changed, and she shook her head no. "How long have you been here?" I asked "I'm not sure, I was walking to school one day and a train had stopped me from taking my usual route, and I turned on this street and the train blew it's whistle and I soon found myself walking towards this house" I froze in fear had this been a coincidence? No, it couldn't be but how else can it be explained? "Do you know how to get out of here?" she looked at me as if I had been a monster and shook her head now looking down as she did "well, I need to get to school.. my mom's going to kill me if she finds out I didn't go" as i said this the door opened and a man who looked like a train conductor stood on the other side, "Come with me you two" he demanded, and we followed with hope of being rescued, but I couldn't be more wrong. He let the girl walk through the front door and she looked back at me motioning for me to follow, but he would not allow me to, and the door closed and disappeared. He looked at me, and he opened his mouth to speak, but all that came out was the train whistle I had heard before. "Get up your going to miss your bus again!" My mother shouted "I can make it!" I shouted back