Lilly May PPOW

Lilly

Lilly was a good friend and a great person; it is a shame she died. She was basically my sister. We would do everything together. Today we say goodbye, and I can’t wait to see her again. After my speech I walked up to the casket, I looked in and saw Lilly. Her skin was white and her jet black hair was laying loose around her shoulders. She was wearing her favorite dress, it was black and had rhinestones lining the sweetheart neckline that cascade down the back and slowly fade out, she was looked peaceful and I was happy for that. I bowed my head and whispered,

“I will find out who killed you”

The doctors say she killed herself, but I know my friend. She was on her way to our secret paint studio. She would always go there to calm down or to blow off steam. Her parents were always pushing her to do things she didn’t like. She hated doing the sports, she was pretty good, but she didn’t enjoy it. She loved art, and we actually meet during art class. We got paired as partners and then started to hang out more and more. We made the art studio so we could get away from the world. They found Lilly by the alley near the entrance to the studio, she had a gun in her right hand and a bullet in her head. I know that she didn’t kill herself because she was left handed other than in school and sports, but when she paints or sends a text she uses her left hand. They also found a note that said “ Northern Know the way.” It was a quote from her favorite book. It was in her writing and I knew it was for me. She also wrote “ V will know.”

V is the nickname she gave me since my name is Violet. I knew it was for me but I didn’t know what it was. Today makes it five days since her death, and tomorrow they read her will and divide her things. I was walking to the studio when I remembered how she used to challenge me run to the bookstore and read something then go to the studio and paint it. One time I did the challenge and I had to paint something to show childhood never dies. I drew a fairy tale scene that had animals and a bright sun. Lilly loved it, so I gave it to her. I walk into the small room in the abandoned hotel and see the paint and old window. When we first made this place the window was looking over the city, and when we were painting, I did a splatter painting, paint got on the window, so after looking at it we chose to paint the window. It has a light gray fading into a rainbow of colors and right the the sun sets it cast a beautiful light with swirling colors and makes the room come alive with color. We had two chairs, we found and had put them by the window. This was our safe place; this is where we could be ourselves and not worry about people or the world. We would just paint or talk. That night I walked home, and my mom was still at work and my dad was asleep. I went to my room and as soon as I hit the bed, I was out.

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I woke up the next morning and got ready. I was walking to the city hall to gather and hear what she left me in the will. When I walked in everyone gave me a sad look. I hated when people do that, it wasn’t your fault she is dead. After the meeting, I gathered my things and what Lilly had left me. She left me a box full of art supplies, all her paintings and all of her books. I had to take five trips for only the art and thank God that Lilly’s mom had a car for the books. When I got home and was going through the books I found “The Northern Path” it was her favorite book of all time, but when I opened the book there were writings on the page. She had written in the margin  and had white out covering some of the words. The closer I looked the more I realized this was her diary. She was comparing her life to this book. The book is about a boy who had died and then was trapped on the earth then fell in love with a girl. The girl tried to get to him, but he wouldn’t let her die because he knew she would be able to leave and he wouldn’t. The book was changed now. Lilly had changed words and used whiteout. I decided to reread the book the way Lilly had changed it. I was reading and learned she had already altered the story. In the original the boy died fighting with his brother, they had both died, but his brother was allowed to leave because the boy started the fight. Now Lilly changed it to make it sound like it was her brother who was the one left. Lilly had a older brother. He use to hang with the wrong people and when Lilly was little she walked into the old shed, and they were all high and doing drugs. She found her brother passed out so she ran to her mom and when her mom saw them she was furious. Jon, Lilly’s brother, didn’t know what was happening, and when he saw Lilly he knew she ratted him out.

He got mad and tried to grab her, but she ran out of the shed and was coming to my house she ran across the road. When she looked back she saw Jon’s friends being loaded into a cop car, and Jon was chasing after her with two cops behind him. He ran across the street, but there was a car coming, and it ran over him. The more I read the story, the more questions I had. She was writing the story like her brother was haunting her and was going to kill her but that can’t happen because he is dead. There are only three ways she could've died. Her brother came back from the dead and killed her for what she did, the doctors are right, or one of his friends killed her to get revenge. None of them made sense though because his friends were in prison for doing who knows what, I know she didn’t commit suicide, and her brother is dead.

Wait, that's it, there is only one person who would know. She is the one who got her brother mad and 
that would know her.

Illuminati Confirmed

There once was a boy named Thomas. For the most part, Thomas was your regular old average boy. He enjoyed things like action figures, NERF Guns, and toy trains. Life was great for Thomas, until one day tragedy struck. Please enjoy the story of how Thomas, the four-year old boy, single-handedly took down the evil organization known as The Illuminati.

It was a regular day for Thomas. He woke up, went to preschool, threw his IPad at his teacher, got suspended, and went home. We he arrived at his front door, a smile grew upon his face. Before opening the door, he looked behind him and showed off his smile to the big yellow bus that had just dropped him off. Thomas quickly turned around and knocked on the door. Normally, he would receive an answer from his Mother, who would be dressed in her pajama pants and might be having some smokes. Today was different though. Mother never came to the door after five whole minutes. Thomas continued to bang on the door.  After a while Thomas decided it would be a great idea to go through the basement doggy door. He walked around the house and went straight through the door. He quickly sprinted up the stairs. To his horror, he found his mom laying there in her own blood. Around her, smokes made the shape of a triangle. Horror overtook Thomas as he looked into his mother’s dead eyes. Just then he heard a crash come from the kitchen. With anger, Thomas sprinted to the kitchen and found, none other than, Bill Clinton. He looked Thomas right in the eyes.

“I did not have sexual relations with that woman,” he said.

“Who sent you?!” Thomas screeched.

“Ms. Lewinsky,” he replied” I’m just foolin’ with you, Little guy. The Illuminati sent me”. He smiled and walked out the back door with the blood still dripping from his fingertips. Only one thought ran through Thomas’s mind as he watched the former President walk out on his lawn.

“I mean, I knew Bill was a liar and a jerk, but HE was apart of the Illuminati? Dang,” Thomas said to himself.

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There began Thomas’s quest for blood. This four year-old wanted to destroy the illuminati and its leader.

…

Thomas got on the bus which made its way towards the airport. He boards his plane and takes the first flight to Egypt. Upon arrival he goes to his temporary hotel and unpacks. Once he’s done, he goes into the bathroom and grabs a bar of soap. He then goes outside his room and towards the balcony. H`e hoists the soap into fountain below causing a giant bubble explosion across the lobby.

“Dopeasaures” he said to himself as he walked back into his room. He could hear people cursing from inside his room.

It was about 9:00 p.m. so Thomas decided he would head to his destination: The Pyramids of Giza.

Thomas arrived right at exactly 9:11 p.m. To his surprise, he saw only one person visiting the landmark. When he got close he realized that it was George Bush.

“George Bush? What are you doing here?” asked Thomas.

“Oh, y’know. Its my daily trip,” he replies.

“Oh I get. Its 9:11,” says Thomas.

“You bet.”

“Obama’s dog visited our school once and he told me that you did that whole ordeal but I didn’t really believe him”.

“Nope, all me”.

The clock turned to 9:12 and Bush backed away into the shadows. Thomas whipped out his IGalaxy6s+ and played The Illuminati theme song on Youtube. The pyramid began to “peel skin”. The layer underneath was none other than the green Illuminati triangle with the eye levitating above it. A door appeared in the front of the pyramid and a man stood in front of it. When Thomas got closer, he realized it was Jay-Z.

“Hey, I got 99 problems and you’re one of them so get out of the way,” commanded Thomas.

“Okay, I gotta be in Paris anyway,” he replied as he get out of the way. Thomas walked right through the opening in the massive structure. In his eyesight stood, four people. It was too dark to see who they were. He was in a big dark room, and behind the four structures stood a throne with a hooded person sitting in it. He/She was the leader of the Illuminati. A spotlight hit the structure on the farthest left. The structure lifted its face. It was Lady Gaga.

“I KNEW IT!” screamed Thomas. The expression of Lady Gaga did not change because she obviously had her Poker Face on. She screeched and sprinted at Thomas but Thomas quickly fired his NERF Blaster at her. He had modified his bullets so they have spikes in the front. The bullet pierced through her neck.

“It’s okay Lady Gaga,” said Thomas, “You were born this way”.

The next figure had the spotlight shown it. Thomas quickly matched the face to Beyonce.

“Don’t get cocky, Little guy” she said winking.

“You’re a talker now, huh? Well if you like your mouth so much then put a ring on it,” Thomas said. Thomas hoisted a Ninja ring into her mouth. The blood on her face made him think she should have a Halo above her head.

The 3rd contestant raised its head. It was freakin’ B.O.B.

“Oh I bet you got the Magic then?” mocked Thomas. At that moment, B.O.B. revealed a wizard hat. Thomas saved him the embarrassment and quickly shot him in the forehead with his NERF blaster. Suddenly strange clouds appeared above his dead body.

The fourth figure stepped forward. It was none other than Tom Cruise.

“Your movies suck!” screamed Thomas. Thomas ran at him as fast as he could and RKO’d him so hard that he would be spending the next week at the chiropractor.

Thomas walked forward to the altar of the leader. Four bloody bodies lay behind him.

“Very good,” said the hooded man.

“That was for my Mommy,” Thomas said.

“So, what next?”

“I’ll kill you, then take your throne. I’ll hire better actors and performers, and we’ll worship Jesus, not any of your Satan BS,” Thomas said. A tear ran down the hooded man's face. The tear hit his black scruffy black beard as he yanked the hood from his head. All along the leader of the Illuminati was…

Find out the rest in supply drops.

Just kidding.

All along the leader of the Illuminati was...DRUM ROLL PLEASE...Mr. Ross.

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After killing off the rest of The Illuminati, Thomas began his own rule of the organization. He built it from the ground up, and hired the dopest of people. Thomas signed the will of the Illuminati to Leonardo Dicaprio for after Thomas dies because Thomas believed that he was the most sexy man alive. Thomas married Ivanka Trump after RKOing Donald. The only end we have to tie up left is Bill Clinton’s affair with Monica Lewinsky. After many days of timeless trial they found that Bush did 9/11. I want to thank you for listening to the story of Thomas, and how he took down the Illuminati, rebuilt it, and created the greatest story of all time.

The Stone

Since they were all wide awake now they went to the nearby gas station called “ Fill Up.” As they were walking, Erin saw something shiny. When she bent down to pick it up, it started to glow. All the girls, now fascinated by the object, started to pass it around.When Sarah grabbed it she felt a small shock, then all she could see was blackness.

Sarah woke up the sound of people yelling. She sat up and looked around she was in a hospital. The floors and walls were all pristine white. There was a small window and a table with presents on it. Sarah was getting up and felt a pain in her arm. She looked down and found she was hooked up to a machine. She sat back down and took a deep breath.  She felt fine and didn’t know why she was at the hospital. After waiting about 30 seconds she screamed as loud as she could. Just like that her mother and the Dr. Bane came running in. Her mother was a lot like her; they both had a temper and were stubborn. Her mom looked a bit like her, too, other than her mom was really tall and didn’t need heels. Her mother had a panicked face on, and the Dr. had a face that looked like a worried one but it could have been because now her mother was shaking her. Once her mother calmed done sarah asked

“ What was all that yelling?”

“That was your entire class and all of your friends trying to get in here.” Her mother said a little to happy.

“What happened, is everything alright?” Sarah asked looking a little worried.

“Everything is fine now that you are ok. You were out with your friends and you fainted. Do you remember anything?”

Sarah shook her head

“How long was I out?” She asked

“ About 2 weeks everyone has been so worried.”

Right when sarah was about to say something there was a loud pound on the door and the handle was shaking. Dr.Bane walked over to the door and opened it. Right when he turned the handle Erin, Clary, and Mary came pouring in. When they saw Sarah awake they all ran over to her. After what felt like the world's longest group hug they all broke apart laughing and Clary was crying. Once everyone calmed down they all started asking questions. Are you ok? Do you remember anything? How are you feeling? After Sarah told them everything, which wasn’t much they all hugged again. Sarah was told that all of her vitals were in check and she look ok to go to school tomorrow. When Sarah heard the word school she gave out a horrible moan then started to make a overly dramatic scene. Her mom and Dr. Bane came running over and her friends started to laugh after a few moments of confusion the mom and Dr. Bane started to laugh too.

Once Sarah got home and unloaded all of her presents to her room she took a long nap.  She woke to the sound of quacking ducks then looked at her phone and realized that her morning alarm was going off. She got up and took a shower, when she was drying off she noticed a small line on the back of her wrist. She tried to rub it off, and when that didn’t work she decided to leave it alone. When she got back to her room she put on a pair of leather metallic silver pants and a loose black shirt. She grabbed her book bag and phone then slipped into her favorite studded heels. She had got into her cherry red Alfa Romeo 4c then drove off to school. She parked in her parking spot and was greeted by half of her class cheering and congratulating her for not dying. She also got several we're sorry for you pats on her back because she had missed two weeks of school and now had to do homework and makeup classes.Once she found Clary, Erin, and Mary. They started to walk to class. Clary handed Sarah a packet with a note that said.

Here are all the assignments. I did them for you. Good luck.

Clary

Sarah looked in the package and found two weeks of completed homework. Sarah smiled at Clary and gave her a big hug. They all had the first class together so they went to there seats and Ms.Hangover started to teach. Ms. Hangover was the best teacher not just because she didn’t care what you did, but she would tell you everything you needed to know and have done then let you work while she would take selfies. At the end of class they had to split up and go to different classes. When they met up again at lunch Sarah noticed it was ice cream day and ran to the line. When it was their turn to get ice cream they only had mint which was sarah’s least favorite. She took it anyway then looked around the lunchroom. She spotted her friends and sat down they all had chocolate ice cream, but had already started eating it so she didn’t bother asking them for it. She scanned the room and saw Jace and his friends at the table next to them. She gave an evil and sad smile to her friends then nodded towards Jace and his friends. They all knew what she wanted and nodded back. First Clary want up and asked them if she could have their ice cream and then said please which made T.J. give up his. Clary walked back and gave Sarah the ice cream then Mary walked over to there table and faced Chad then asked for his ice cream when he said no Mary got into an argument with him  and walked back over with a ice cream in her hand and a happy smile on her face.

When Erin  walked over she sat down and started to talk to Alex. She batted her eyes and without a word Alex gave her his ice cream; she said thanks to him and walked back to Sarah giving her the ice cream. Alex had a huge crush on Erin and would do whatever she wanted. Sarah looked at her table she had three chocolate ice creams and one mint. She was so happy After eating all of that ice cream. She only had the mint left and was refusing to eat it so she walked away and tried to trade it. She had a problem though either everyone had eaten or didn’t have any to trade. She did one last scan of the room and saw Jace. She looked at her friends then Jace then back to her friends they were all mouthing the word NO, but she ignored them and walked over. She stood right in front of Jace and set her cup of ice cream in front of him. He looked up at her and smiled and said no. Sarah was about to talk when the bell went off Jace smiled and she returned a sarcastic smile and grabbed his ice cream when he wasn’t looking then ran to her friend then opened the ice cream and started to eat it. After class Jace was waiting right outside the classroom door with a mint ice cream in his hand. When he saw Sarah she gave him a big smile and when she walked out he went up to her.

“I want my Ice Cream now.” He said a little annoyed

“ Well I want you to go away, so I guess we are both out of luck.” She said with a smile.

“ No we aren't because next time there is Ice Cream you are going to buy me two.”

“In what universe? I know not this one.” She said, her voice getting very annoyed.

Jace was getting mad now and was about to say something when the bell to get to the next  rang. Sarah smiled and walked to her next class. At the end of school when she was walking to her car and there was a burning pain on her arm. She looked down and there was another black line on her arm attached to the other one. They looked a little like a crooked L. She drove home and went to her room then when to her presents and started to open them. Most of them were candy and the rest was jewelry. There was one locket that had a little latch that could hold something instead of a picture.

Later that night her friends came over and they went to “Fill Up”. As they were walking Sarah felt a sting in her arm she looked down and there was a third line now it looked like the scar on from harry potter, but this time it was glowing purple. She saw something else glowing in the grass and walked over to it. It was the stone.

Her arm started to burn and she felt a pull or urge to go to the stone. She was standing right by the 

stone and was snapped back to reality. Her friends were running over and right when she picked up 

the stone she felt a shock. She dropped the stone and took a few steps back then the glowing in her 

arm stopped. She looked down and the stone was gone. Her friends ran up and asked what was 

wrong. Sarah told them about the line and drawing on her arm then they want to her mother. The 

drawing on her arm was now black like she had drawn it with a sharpie. Her mom didn’t know what 

to do so she took her to Dr. Bane. When Dr. Bane heard the symptoms he sounded like he knew what 

is was and told her to come to the hospital right away. When they got there Sarah was rushed to a 

bright white room with a bed and a small with weird tools on it. Dr. Bane came rushing in with 

something in his hand that looked like a book, but was really really really old. The spine was broken 

and it had lating writing on the side of it. Dr. Bane held the book out to Sarah and when she looked 

and the drawing and latin words her head started to pound and she fainted.

The Sewer

The Sewer

My name is Alea. My mother was obsessed with rare names. This is how I got my name. I am not a normal person. Actually, I’m not really a person anymore. I wasn’t always like the way I am now. I’ll tell you my story.

It was a normal school day just like any other. Except this day was different, like totally different. I am the typical normal girl that the mean girls pick on. This day started out like any other day. Wake up, get ready, head to school, and wait for the bullies. I’m only sixteen, and everyone else in my class is sixteen or seventeen.

I get to school and see the girls waiting for me. I walk past them, but of course they follow me. I go to my locker to get my Calculus book. I try ignoring them, but they shove me into my locker and walk away. They like to spread rumors about me. They message me online telling me to kill myself. I learned to just ignore the whole thing, but they don’t stop. Everyday they walk pass me and shove me into my locker or into the wall.

Today there was an early out because the weather was suppose to get bad. I was walking to the stop sign to call my mom. I heard a snicker suddenly and then I felt someone shove me into the sign. My nose started to bleed, so I just walked away. I called my mom and the phone started to ring. Then there was an answer, nevermind it was just her voicemail. I left her a voicemail and headed back to the school to the nurse’s office.

When I reached the door, Melissa was waiting for me. Melissa is one of my bullies. She stopped me dead in my tracks and glared at me. She pushed me around and then grabbed my arm and threw me. Melissa threw me straight into the sewer, and I went tumbling down.

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All I could see was a bright light. Then there was nothing. I heard voices, but I couldn’t speak. I felt my heartbeat slowing down. My mind was racing. Am I dying? I thought that over and over again. When the light disappeared, I saw my mother crying. She was hunched over something, it was my body covered in blood. I stood there perplexed. How can I see myself? Am I dead?

I had so many questions that wouldn’t go answered. My mom got up and started to walk towards the school, I followed her. She was walking towards Melissa who was being put into a cop car. What was going on? I heard my mom talking to the officer, and he told her the story that he got from Melissa and the teacher.

The teacher was Mr. Johnsen, he saw Melissa throw me into the sewer, and he called 911 right away. Melissa told the cops that she was just messing around and didn’t mean to throw me into the sewer. Melissa was crying in the back of the car.

“Why was there no lid on the sewer?” Sharon, my mom, questioned.

“Today is the day we clean out the sewers,” Mr. Johnsen told my mom.

The cop cars sped off after my mom was done talking to them. The paramedics walked over to my mom and apologized saying that they couldn’t do anything. The paramedics said that I suffered from a broken neck, and serious bleeding injuries. My mom started to cry even more and started to shout.

My mom got in her car and sped straight to our house. She got out and ran into the house. I followed her straight into my room. I watched as my mom sat on my bed and grabbed my baby picture. She ran her finger down the side of the picture and started to talk to herself.

“I wish I was there to get you before you school was out. I wish I would have answered your call. I wish I could have been there for you. Why wasn’t I there?” I heard my mom say through the sniffles. “Oh how I wish I could turn back the clock and save my only baby. I lost your father to a drunk driver and now I lose you to a person who thought it would be funny to hurt you.”

I stood there wishing I could hug her and comfort her, but all I could do was sit down next to her. She looked up off the picture and set it down. I wanted to say something, tell her everything was going to be ok, tell her that I’m here, but I can’t. I walked to the police station to see Melissa in her jail cell looking at the floor. The floor was covered in blood from a jail fight, I hope.

I decided to say something knowing they won’t hear me, but I had to get this off my chest.

“Melissa, I can’t believe you did this. What made you think it was funny to pick on me? What made you decide to throw me? Can you tell me please?”

Melissa looked over in my direction. “Alea, is that you? I’m sorry, I didn’t mean for any of this to happen. I only picked on you because I was scared that you were going to steal my friends. You were so pretty that I thought everyone would like you more, so I felt that I needed you to feel that you shouldn’t talk to my friends. I didn’t think it was funny, but when I started to pick on you the first time, I couldn’t stop. I’m so sorry. I wish I could rewind and become friends with you.”

I started to cry. I looked at her, and I saw the real Melissa for the first time. I walked over to where she was sitting and patted her back.

“I forgive you. I wanted to be your friend, but I didn’t think you did either.”

She smiled. The officer came and told her it was time to eat. She got up and looked at me. I smiled hoping she would see me. This was weird. My mother couldn’t see me, nor could she hear me. Melissa could, she could hear me, and probably see me. After awhile I decided to head home and see my mother. She was standing in our basement, looking at all of our old photos together. The picture of my father, my mother, and me stood out. I didn’t want to die, not like this anyway.

I decided it was best not to see my mom in pain, so I left to go to my room. As I was walking to my room, I saw that my mom left the t.v. on, and the news was beginning. I sat on the couch and stared at the news. While I was sitting there, I felt my heartbeat come back. It was beating again; this can’t be happening. I thought I died from the fall.

My mom must have heard the news because she was running up the steps. We would always watch the news together. When she reached the top step the phone went off.

Old and Abandoned

Old and Abandoned

There is this old and abandoned house. It lives up on a hill. It is gray, torn down, falling apart, over 100 years old, and no one lives there anymore. There is a rumor about that house. Everyone says it is haunted because the person who lived there died. His name was Newton White. He was only thirty-six when his house began to fall apart. He went to the attic to fix the roof when all of a sudden BAM! Newton’s body was found a week later. He fell through the floor and broke open his head. They say he haunts the house to this day.

The house hasn’t changed much since it fell down. Although, it really isn’t broken down completely. It stills stands up, and you can still go inside of it. The house has most of the paint gone now, but it has a few places where there is still paint. There are a few scraps on the outside from the roof falling down. There also is a tree that scraped the side of the house.

We are a bunch of teenagers, and of course we want to know if that rumor is real. There is Emily, Autumn, Emma, Allison, Grace, Nora and I. My name is Kylynn, but I like to go by Ky. Emily likes to go by Em, Autumn likes to go by Fall not because she is clumsy, but because Fall is another name for Autumn. Emma likes to go by Emma because she doesn’t really like nicknames. Allison likes to go by Allie, and Grace likes to go by Grace, but Allie calls her Gracie. Nora doesn’t like nicknames either.

We always hang out during the summer because there is no school. Everyday we walk past that creepy house. We stop and look at it to see if we can see anything. We stare at the house until our eyes hurt. We never see anything move. We were walking by it yesterday and didn’t bother to look at it until someone said something.

“Ky, did you see that?” Em asked.

“I saw it,” said Nora.

“Same,” Grace nodded.

“Well I didn’t see it. What was it?” I asked confused.

“The lamp that is still there for some odd reason moved from this window to that window,” Allie pointed.

We walked to the park that just finished being built. We all got on the swings and talked about what we are going to do the next. Allie and Grace came up with the idea to explore the house. I thought about us exploring it tomorrow.

As the dark sky turned to dawn, I was up and ready. I started by waking everyone up. First I woke up Nora, then it was Allie, and Grace. Nora woke up Em, and Fall. Fall awoke with  a startle. She was about to scream at us because she was having the best dream ever. Allie rolled her eyes.

We went downstairs, and my mom was awake. She was painting the kitchen a teal color. It used to be a maroon color.

“What are you doing?” I seemed to have startled my mom.

“Oh my goodness! What are you doing up so early?” My mom got off her ladder.

“Well we were going to um…” Grace trailed off.

“What?” My mom got a stern face.

“Mom, we are going to explore the house and see if it is haunted?” I rolled my eyes and put quotations around the word haunted.

My mom walked over the the kitchen sink.

“Hey Gracie, I was thinking about the house,” Allie looked at Grace.

“You are thinking that it is haunted, and the trespassing on private property,” she looked at the floor.

“It probably isn’t haunted, and it isn’t private property anymore. Let’s go!” I shouted and ran out the door.

We ran out the door and started to head south. The house was up on the hill south of my house. You know that one friend that always trips over everything? I am that one friend. As we are running down the hill to get to the other hill, I trip. I stood up, and everyone was staring at me.

“What? I’m fine,” I laughed and started walking again.

“Sure you are,” Em grabbed my hand.

“Don’t trip at the house. I hear it is very delicate,”  whistled a voice.

Everyone turned around to see if anyone was there. There was no one in sight. We turned to the other side and there was the girl sitting on her porch.

“Syd, I didn’t know you would be up so late,” I walked over to her.

“I woke up because my dogs were barking.”

“Want to join us?” Nora asked.

“Sure. What are you guys doing?” Syd asked puzzled.

“Exploring the house up on the hill,” Grace pointed out.

Syd’s real name is Sydney. We started walking again. We stopped at the park bench to eat a little snack. I picked out the strawberries. Em and Allie also ate the strawberries while everyone else ate raspberries and some pineapple. After everyone was done eating, we went over to take a break and talked about what we might see.

After we were done we started to head to the house. We started to walk up the rose filled path. The roses now had weeds in them for not be tended to. As we reached the door, there was a loud creaking noise. Emma jumped back. We turned around and looked at her. She shrugged and walked back up by us. We stepped inside and the floors creaked with every step.

After ten minutes, Emma started to think that it was haunted for sure. Did I forget to mention that there is a rumor for people who trespass will disappear. Apparently there was this kid named Jenna, and she disappeared after her brother dared to sit inside the house for over a hour.

Fall couldn’t stand to be in the house anymore, so she left and went home. Emma tried talking us out of figuring this out. We kept telling her she will be fine. It has been half an hour, and nothing looks different than usual. Emma started to shake. She looked like she was about to scream.

“I’m sorry. I can’t do this anymore,” Emma ran out the door.

Grace ran after her to try and stop her. It was just Allie, Nora, Em, Fall, Syd, and me left. Allie started to wonder what was causing Emma to run. She started to search the room Emma was in. She found this secret hidden door that laid behind the curtains. She didn’t want to know what was behind the door, so she left the room.

A couple minutes later, there was a loud bang. It was just the lamp, but the lamp was thrown across the room. This place was starting to get scary. Allie decided it was time to leave. The house was definitely haunted. I don’t think it was just Newton. Fall couldn’t stand to be in the house anymore, so she left and went home. Everyone else stayed outside to wait for us.

After another ten minutes, it was just Syd, Nora, and me left. Em couldn’t stand the smell of the house. She said it smelt like someone died in here which someone did. Nora and I went to another room and found the door. We didn’t bother to open it either. We decided that since we explored the whole house, we should leave. Syd didn’t want to leave the house until she felt like it.

We all sat down in the grass looking at the door waiting for her. The door was left open incase anyone wanted to go back in. Of course, no one felt the need to head back into the house. Sydney appeared in the doorway and started to head back out. We glanced away for a second and looked back. She was gone. She was there then she wasn’t.

“I’m going back to look for her,” I said.

“Ky, I wouldn’t she disappeared. Doesn’t that mean you might?” Grace asked.

Everyone looked at me.

“I don’t care. We need to find her.”

“Fine. I’ll go,” Nora said.

“Same,” Allie and Grace said at the same time.

“Gracie, we said that at the same time,” Allie looked at Grace.

“Em, Emma, you guys gonna stay and watch to see if we make it out?” I asked.

“Emma, I think we should,” Em said staring at the house.

We heard someone say something. Then there was nothing. We walked into the house, and Allie lead us to the door she found.

“I think this could lead somewhere,” Allie started to look like she was about to kick the door open.

“Nora and I saw this earlier. I wanted to walk away quickly because I felt a hand on my shoulder and saw that it wasn’t Nora’s,” I sighed.

Allie ignored my comment and opened the door. It was dark, but I always have a flashlight. We crawled through the door one at a time. There was nothing in sight. It was really quiet until Nora screamed.

“What was that for?” yelled Allie. “It was right in my ear.

“Well Allison, I stepped on something,” Nora gave Allie a sarcastic look.

Allie looked down at her foot. “Nora, don’t freak out, but you just stepped on a bone of some sort.”

Nora ran out of the little room screaming. She ran right out of the house and straight into Emily’s arms.We kept walking until one of us ran into a wall. All we could hear was the sound of us breathing. It was dead silent for a second. I felt a door knob and shook it open. Everyone followed me through the door, and it led to another room. Then there was a spiral staircase.

“What are we waiting for? Let’s go save Sydney,” Grace yelled walking down the staircase.

Everyone followed her. The staircases looked like it was new. There was a lot of dust though. There was a creaky noise every time someone took a step. At the end of the staircase, we found what we were looking for. The truth and Sydney. It turns out that the house was haunted, and the ghost would take people to a hidden place for them to rot.

A month later, we heard on the news that the creepy was burnt down. The news didn’t have any pictures because the house was old, and no one wanted to go near it. We decided to go check it out. I gathered everything and everyone up again. We started to head to the house when we see something appear. This time Fall didn’t show. She didn’t even answer. The thing that appeared was her cell phone. It was broken in half, and the glass was shattered.

We walked up to the burnt down house, and all that was left was the spiral staircase. There was a rope hanging from the staircase. The rope looked like someone was struggling to tie it, and they scratched part of the rope. We walked closer, and we saw something hanging from the rope. They was something spray painted in red on the staircase. It said, I told you to stay away.

Autumn was staring at the rope. The rope had a lamp hanging from it. This was starting to get weird. We took pictures and then ran off. We went to the police and showed them the pictures. The pictures didn’t turn out like we thought they did because there was nothing there. It was just a picture of the house. We continued to explain that there was a rope hanging there. The rope looked like it was old and had a couple strands of string tied around it. Then there was the lamp hanging from it. The lamp was covered in dust, but you could tell that it was the color burgandy.

It had a few rips in the shade, but it was in good shape other than that. It had the cord hanging off of it. It was unplugged, but yet it was still somehow lit up. The police laughed and said we were just seeing things. They told us to go home and get some rest. We wanted to get to the bottom of this.