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|team = [[Frank (The Party in Room Four)|Frank]], [[Gavin (The Party in Room Four)|Gavin]] | |team = [[Frank (The Party in Room Four)|Frank]], [[Gavin (The Party in Room Four)|Gavin]] | ||
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That night, he looks yearningly at a framed [[photograph]] of his deceased family. Hours later, he awakes to the sound of Iris laughing, and he hears thst in the room next to him, there's another party. He leaves his room, and just as he's about to enter room four he hears a droning voice, which makes Frank hate him. He hears his daughter's voice, and he opens the door to the room, but it's empty. [[Tear]]s in his eyes, he heads back to [[bed]]. | That night, he looks yearningly at a framed [[photograph]] of his deceased family. Hours later, he awakes to the sound of Iris laughing, and he hears thst in the room next to him, there's another party. He leaves his room, and just as he's about to enter room four he hears a droning voice, which makes Frank hate him. He hears his daughter's voice, and he opens the door to the room, but it's empty. [[Tear]]s in his eyes, he heads back to [[bed]]. | ||
Early the next [[morning]], the remaining villagers walk solemnly around the [[mile]]s wide crater to the mass funeral held at the remains of the [[church]], and Frank weeps. | Early the next [[morning]], the remaining villagers walk solemnly around the [[mile]]s wide crater to the mass funeral held at the remains of the [[church]], and Frank weeps. | ||
At the inn, Frank tells Gavin he's going to temporarily live with Jane, and he tells Gavin that he could make a fortune with the inn when the [[tourist]]s come, but Gavin tells Frank that he's going to sell the inn. | |||
Around [[midnight]], he heads off to his room, [[drunk]]. He knew he drank so much to take the edge off his pain, and he props his ear against the wall to hear the party next door. He listens to his family for a while, before falling asleep. | |||
He dreams about about how Iris and Panda had bought a [[bottle]] of [[bubble mixture]], and how they had blown [[bubble]]s around the village. A sort of storm brews above the village, and Iris exclaimed that she wouldn't "let this [[sod]] win!". | |||
The next morning, Frank has breakfast in the lounge, and on the [[television]], there's a news channel in the background. He watches an woman in a crowd reporting on the tragedy that destroyed his village, when a man with a nasal voice, the man he had hated for not joining in on the parties he had heard in room four, tells the the crowd to leave the remaining villagers alone. | |||
He realises that that man is him. | |||
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[[Category:The Panda Book of Horror short stories]] | [[Category:The Panda Book of Horror short stories]] | ||
[[Category:2009 short stories]] | [[Category:2009 short stories]] | ||
