It was a gloomy night, the full moon was shining its best. Though it was an hour past midnight, alen could get no sleep. He is a tight sleeper waking up only in the morning after dozing off at ten, but this night was cold and the window was open. Alan thought that the wind was to blame for his awoken state at this hour of time. He went on to close the window, just then he saw it, he was sure he saw it. He could not believe his own eyes, but he saw it clear. It was julie, she was entering the manor’s entrance opposite to his house. He know what he saw, yet he could not believe for julie had been dead for a couple of days. It was alen who threw julie into the well not because he wanted to, but because of curiosity.

Julie was a stray cat – white fur with black spots, alen parents took it in after they found it in their garden and gave it milk, since then julie had made alen’s home her resident. Alan was amazed and fascinated by its abilities to climb up the walls. He would often put julie high above the shelves of his room, just to take pleasure in seeing her leap to the ground. He also made a collar and chain for julie. Every evening he would drag julie for a little walk. Although initially julie resisted, It gradually got accustomed and went along with him naturally. One such fine day alen and mike went inside the manor. The manor was just opposite to alen home, its popular as being haunted, as no one ever lived there as long as alen can recall, and no one dared to go inside it. Alen did not believe in such non-sense, that is what his dad been telling him since he was a kid, so as to not get him scared as they have to live in opposite of it. Alan had conversation about this at school with his classmates and took it as a challenge to prove his point, his best friend mike agreed to go along with him.

So there they were inside the manor’s door. Alen’s cat was resistant to come in, for she could not stand the foul smell that was coming from inside. It was mild for alen and mike, so they decided to check in. As soon as they entered the manor, they both were in for a shock. The hall was really big with all the furniture’s covered in dust and web, small plants and vines were growing out here and there, but what was surprising was that there was a well digged in centre of the hall. “who in their right mind would dig a well in the centre of the hallway!” exclaimed mike. Who knows, it might have been there before the manor and they left it as it is while construction. People do all types of thing believing in superstitions and besides this manor was built a very long time ago. Alan moved towards the well, while mike stood still, common scary cat, julie is better than you. Lets see what’s inside that well, maybe there’s a treasure of precious stones inside it. They both looked into the well, but it was dark and they could not make out anything. Just then alen picked up julie “let me show you what julie can do” with that he dropped the cat into the well. Since julie is a great climber alen though that she would be out in seconds, she didn’t. He called out her name, but to his dismay no reply came back. He threw a big stone which was laying besides him, into the well. No sound still, like there is no bottom end for the well. He waited some more time, alas nothing. Mike knew for sure what had just happened, he yelled “you killed the cat, you killed the poor creature. That poor little thing must have hit some stone down there”. “It was really good at climbing walls, so I thought it would climb and come out and now that its gone, we can’t do anything, can we?” Alan was scared of what would his parents do when they come to know of it. He told mike not to talk about it to anyone. They both returned to their homes. A few days passed by and alen’s parents thought that julie had ran away and have had found a new house.

A week passed sine that incident, and here was alen looking though the window at the wee hours of night. He was sure he saw julie, he thought that julie might have finally got out of the well and would come back home. The next day he searched his home to see if julie was back, but he didn’t find her in any place of his home. At school alen met up with mike and told about it. Mike suggested that julie must have been inside the manor somewhere, So they both decide to look out for her.

They both were inside the manor and it was quite as before, but this time it was bright enough to see everything clearly unlike the other day. They both looked out for julie in the hallway and mike broke out “ oh here she is, here she is” Julie was sitting at the bottom of the well. She was sitting against them at the farthest corner of the bottom of the well, so they could only see its back. Initially they thought it was dead because it was motionless, but it soon made some odd moments like it was eating something. Alan called for it several times but no reply came, not even a meow. Mike suggested that it would have been hurt. They both were standing there thinking of what they could do, just then alen saw a big rope laying near them. He tied one end of it to his waist and told mike to slowly let him in. Mike took immediate possession and hold the rope with all his strength and lowered alen little by little. The rope suddenly snapped in the middle and alen fell down. It was a hard fall but alen did managed to get up on his own. “hey alen are you alright, answer me” screamed mike. “I am alright mate but I think you have to find another rope soon to get us out of here”. Alan then approached julie who was turned against him and was still eating something without a heed to what was happening. Alen quickly went to grab julie, Just the he started shouting “get me out, get me out of here, please mike get me out” The cat was eating the intestines of another cat which looked exactly like its double. The other cat looked like it was alive and was shaking its head in agony.