Blackwood Manor

A chill in the night air left goosebumps all over her arms. There was a smell of wet dirt from the spinning of tires. Lisa turned her head behind. She saw her Lyft driver struggling to keep on the dirt road as he left her standing on the porch.

Lisa once again fixed her gaze on the old house before her. It was absolutely beautiful yet she couldn't shake the uneasiness it radiated.

"I'm either the luckiest girl from Queens... or I am about to be on the next Netflix crime documentary..." Lisa thought to herself.

She still could not recall signing up for the damn thing. Yet here she was. The proud new owner of a million dollar mansion that looked to have been abandoned for quite sometime now.

Lisa bent down to pick up her lone bag. She didn't bring much. In a stroke of bad luck, most of her belongings were stolen from her tiny studio apartment right before her trip out here. All she packed was some clothes and her feminine essentials.

As she brought the bag up to her shoulder she felt like someone was staring at her from the cornfield to her right. Her heart rate quickened as she glanced over to a dark silhouette. The hair on her neck stood up as she fumbled around in her purse for the keys to the manor. Panic overcame her as the dark figure approached.

"You gotta be that city girl I heard won the old Blackwood place." Lisa's fear quickly subsided as an older man in a red flannel and torn trucker hat merged from the darkness.

Lisa crossed her arms across her stomach as she sighed in relief, "Omg... You scared the crap out me, Sir." Lisa smiled and giggled a little realizing how dumb she must have looked panicking like that.

"Didn't mean to startle ya darling. I'm the caretaker for the grounds and I look after the manor from time to time. Names Lenny, darling. You are?" Lenny talked as if he was out of an old picture. Lisa could almost swear he was putting on an accent.

"I'm Lisa. I won the house... So I guess you work for me now, Lenny." Lisa joked hoping to break the ice. Instead she got only a blank stare from him. His cold blue eyes almost burning a hole into her soul as he looked her up and down. Lisa immediately regretted her outfit choice. It wasn't her first choice after all. However after everything that was stolen and how hot it had been, Lisa chose her lacey white bra with her open jean jacket. A pair of booty shorts and flip-flops completed the outfit as she quickly covered herself up with the jacket.

Lenny finally smiled but it was even more unsettling, "I guess I do, darling. Maybe you should invite me in so I can make sure the manor has warm water and electricity for ya. I'd hate for you to be all alone with no perks in that big house on a chilly night like this."