The Wedding Party

A young couple who have been together for a couple of years decide to get married. Luckily for them, the bride's father is extremely rich, and so they're able to hold the ceremony and the reception in a big old property he owns out in the countryside.

The big day arrives and the ceremony goes over beautifully. At the reception afterwards, the drinks are flowing freely, and both the bride and the groom are pleasantly drunk. The night wears on, and as it begins to get dark the groom comes up with an idea. It's the perfect time for a massive game of hide and seek, he decides. And so everyone runs off and hides, while the groom counts slowly to a hundred.

Over the next hour, one by one the guests are found. All except the bride. As time wears on more and more guests join in the search, poking into every nook and cranny of the house. She's nowhere to be found. The groom is beginning to worry. Eventually the police are called, and it becomes official. On the very night of her wedding, the bride has disappeared.

After a thorough investigation, it is concluded that, for reasons unknown, she must have run away. A search campaign is launched and closed. Her family wait anxiously for her to return. She never does. Her would-be husband goes on living alone, waiting, wondering what could possibly have incited her to leave him like that on their wedding day.

A year later, and the house where the wedding was held has passed on to new owners. A firm have been hired to do a full inventory of all the old furniture. It's one of the workers who makes the discovery. As he's searching through an old bookcase, he comes across a tiny, hidden lever. Curious, he pulls it, and the bookcase swings open, revealing a hidden room between the walls. There on the floor lies a dried and decaying corpse; it's the bride. In her search for a place to hide she stumbled upon the hidden room, only to be knocked unconscious by the bookcase swinging shut behind her. She lies as she did on her wedding night, when she suffocated in the dark only feet away from her searching friends.