After dinner we turned the lights out
and played "hide and seek". In the dark,
I touched a hand, a very cold hand. Now
because of the game, I had to hide in the
dark with ... with this cold person - not
speaking, not knowing who it was. Slowly
the others found us, hid with us, until
we were all there - all thirteen.
Thirteen? But there were only twelve people in the house!
We touched each other in the dark, counting. Thirteen.
Quickly, nervously, I lit a match to see ...
~> part of the horror story I'm reading