Hey guys! So, where I live it's Halloween in a few days, and I decided to do a little spooky story about my favorite holiday. I'm not sure if this is going to be like extremely scary, probably not, but I think it fits the mood. Enjoy! :D
~Eerie music plays for entrance~ 8:40
"Katniss, Katniss, Katniss!" I hear my name being chanted and someone jumping on my bed
"What, what, WHAT?" I reply grouchy as I have been rudely woken up
"You need to get ready for school" An annoying voice says
"Fine, tell mom I'll be down in a few minutes, Daisy" I say. Daisy's my youngest sister. She's 5 years old and has long brown hair and the biggest brown eyes you will ever see. I have another younger sister, as well as 3 brothers. Primrose is 12, Caleb is 14, Arun and Trevun are 9. Prim and Arun take after my mother, they all have silky blonde hair and light eyes. Caleb and me look a lot alike, same brown hair and grey eyes. And Trevun has the same hair color, but his eyes are green.
I throw off my covers and rub my eyes as I take a look at the clock on the bedside table. 8:49 Fri. Oct. 30
I forgot it's almost Halloween. I wonder what Clove has planned this year. Clove's my cousin and is OBSESSED with Halloween. She always has a sleep over on halloween and freaks me and my friends out. She is short, shorter than me, has long brown hair, big brown eyes, pointy nose and ears and wears big nerdy glasses. She's a year younger than me(15) but is super duper smart and takes all of her classes with kids my age. We're best buds.
I pull open my closet doors and find some clothes that I deem appropriate for the season. An orange spaghetti strap tank top, a black sweater that has big holes all through out it, making it look like it's a spiderweb, black pants and my baby blue Toms.
Then I put my long hair into a fishtail braid. I take a look at myself in the cracked mirror and deem the outfit alright, and run down the stairs into the kitchen.
"Katniss, you need to start waking yourself up sooner, school starts in a few minutes" My mother scolds as I grab a piece of burnt toast. And sit down at the old table.
"School starts at 9:30 mom, I'm not in elementary" I say
"Oops sorry, dear. I get confused with your school times and the twins'"She chuckles
"Speaking of which, shouldn't you be taking them to school?" Caleb points out
"Oh, yes...uh, Katniss you can take the convertable to school, don't forget to drop Prim off" She mutters as she carries Daisy out the door with Trevun and Arun following close behind
"Kat, can we go to school now?" Caleb moans. Me and Prim both look at him with weird faces
"Why?" We both say in unison
"Because, there's this girl and we don't have any classes together, but she always comes to school early so I thought I could talk to her then" I admits, his cheeks turning a BRIGHT red
"Ooooh, what does she look like? Is she pretty? Is she smart? Does she play any sports?" Me and Prim throw questions at him 100 miles an hour
"Oh. My. God! This is why I never tell you guys anything, you're such girls" He exlaims "But can we please go to school now?"
"Nope, we have to wait for Clove she's hitching a ride" I say as I pull out my phone to text her to hurry up
To: Clover
From: Huntress
Where r u?
Bzzz
To: Huntress
From: Clover
Im out frnt. Wud u hry up?
To: Clover
From: Huntress
Is it 2 hrd 2 knock?
"Clove's out front guys, let-" My words are cut off my constant ringing of the doorbell. I grab my back-pack and go to stop the racket coming from outside.
"I thought I told you to knock?" I say smugly at my geeky cousin
"Well I would not of had too if you'd waited outside" She says
"Whatever, lets go" Caleb whines as he pushes past us
"Since when did he want to go to school?" Clove asks as she plops down onto the passenger seat
"Caleb has a crush" Prim says in a sing songy voice behind us
"Oh shut up" Caleb snaps
"Don't talk to Prim that way" I say
"Whatever"
The rest of the drive includes Prim and Caleb bickering in the backseat, well, at least until I drop Prim off at her middle school.
"So what do you have planned this year for Halloween, Clover?" I ask
"I told you not to call me that, but we're still going to have a sleepover at my house" She states
"Alright, can't wait" Although, I can. I've had some bad experiences with her sleep-overs. One time, she bought a whole bunch of fake spiders and scattered them all onto my sleeping bag. It turned out, they weren't fake, and I woke up with bites all over my body. And another time we went and had our sleep over in the park, she hired a bunch of people to act as kidnappers... all I can say is that it wasn't a fun experience.
I can only wonder what she has in store this year.
~Typewriting noise~ 10:07
I pull up into the student parking lot and hop out of the car. Caleb rushes off to go find his dream girl leaving me and Clove to get our butts moving to class. On the way there we meet up with our friends, Madge, Cashmere and Foxy. Well here name is Chloe but everyone calls her foxface, but I call her foxy as a tease. Madge and Cashmere are my age, but foxy is Clove's
~Werewolf howls~ 11:04
After hours of boring school work, it's time for my favorite class. Art and Design. Yeah, yeah, I know I'm not the type of person who enjoys art and stuff, but the teacher is my favorite, as well as many others.
The teacher is Cinna Lavanung (lah-Van-young). But he lets all of his students call him Cinna. Me and Cashmere always sit together at one of the art benches. Madge takes science instead and Clove and foxy have some other boring class. As we walk in, we notice that everyone is sitting in groups of threes at the tables.
I recognize some of the popular boys sitting together as we walk in. Their names I believe are Finncik Odair, Gale Hawthorne, Peeta Mellark, Cato Mannis, Marvel Damons and Thresh Minnows. There's 6 of them so they're spread out in two tables. There's only one empty table left, and it's right next to them. Most other girls would be all like, 'OMG! I can't believe we get to sit by the hotties, Eeeek!' but I think they're too full of themselves, so I despise them.
They all stop talking as I sit down and look over. Cash knows that I don't like that group and she doesn't either so we strike up a conversation that really doesn't interest us.
I feel a tap on my shoulder and I turn around to see the blue eyed, blonde haired beauty looking down at me.
"I noticed you girls have an empty seat next to you, mind if I sit in it" He asks, flashing his most charming smile
"Yes, yes I do" I snap rudely and turn away from him and continue talking with Cash. The class goes by and soon it's time for lunch. We grab our bags and hurry out of the room. When we walk into the cafeteria we see Clove, Madge and Foxy waving ferociously, signaling for us to come sit down. As we make our way there I notice that the clique of boys sitting in a table next to ours. Great choice Clover.
I sit down and we immediately start talking about random, unimportant stuff. I hear some snickers coming from behind me and I turn around to see Cato standing there with a rose.
"I never caught your name" He says smoothly and hands me the rose, I smell it and the sweet scent instantly fills my nostrils
"There may be a reason why" I say smugly
"And what would that be?" He says through his gritted teeth
"Doesn't matter" I say meeting his eyes
"Fine" Then he grabs the rose and pulls it out of my hand. It slits my hand open because the thorns weren't taken off
"Ouch" I say as I press a napkin against it to stop the bleeding
"What a dick" Clove says
"I know, I don't understand why girls like him so much, he's so rude!" Madge joins in
"He probably never got rejected before" Cash joins in
"Yeah" I say not really caring that much anymore
"All students to the gymnasium, all students to the gymnasium" The speaker phone booms from somewhere overhead
"I wonder what that's about" Clove says as we step out of the cafeteria table and begin to make our way to the gym.
The gym is filled with all the students of Panem High. Everyone is uncomfortably squished together and we're waiting for what in the world is going to happen. Then suddenly Effie Trinket, our school representative, walks onto the stage with her scary outfit. I'm not kidding, it's bright orange with fake spider webs draped all over it and her hair is even dyed grey like frankensteins wife.
"Ahem, welcome, welcome. This year, our school has been selected for the holiday getaway" I heard about those, we've had it once before, but not when I was here "We will choose 12 tributes to go on the trip, designed specially for Halloween" She says in her squeaky annoying voice "Lets get started, shall we" She walks over to a crystal ball and begins to call out names
"Clove Nike, Marvel Damons, Rue Talons, Cato Mannis, Peeta Mellark, Gale Hawthorne, Chloe Hardvard, Finnick Odair, Cashmere Lawrence, Madge Undersee, Katniss Everdeen, Thresh Minnows please make your way up to the stage"
We all do what she says and stand up on the stage. I tune out what she says and the next thing I know is we're being ushered off the stage and into a train.
~Scary cackling sound~ 1:23
"From here you will be taken to where you will be staying for the next 2 days" Effie says as I sit down
"One question, where are we going to be staying?" A little dark skinned girl who I assume is named Rue asks, she looks like she's the same age as Caleb
"Well, Miss. Coin has generously donated her mansion in the black woods as the resort you 12 shall be staying in, it is so wonderful" Effie squeals.
"Okay, and what about our clothes and stuff, don't we have to pick it up?" Finnick asks
"Nope" Then she turns on her heels and walks out the room
"Well that was informative" I say sarcastically
"Yeah, I thought with her personality she would want to talk more" The dude who I think is named Gale says cheerfully "Gale Hawthorne" He reaches out his hand and I shake it
"Katniss Everdeen" I reply, avoiding his face
"Oh, so you'll tell your name to him, but not to me?" Cato asks rudely. I don't have time to reply before the little girl asks me a question
"Why are you bleeding" Suddenly all the conversations stop and everyone looks at me
"Ah, Everdeen's probably tripping over something, fat oaf" Johanna Mason whispers the last part under heer breath, but still audible for everyone else to hear. Johanna is a year older than me, as well as Finnick, Cato, Thresh and maybe Gale. I don't know their ages but they seem older than me.
"Hypocrite" Clove says with a sassy look on her face
"Excuse me?" Johanne asks
"So you're deaf too?" Madge snickers as I walk out of the room to clean my wound. I go to the ladies room and let cold water rinse out my hand. I look up at the mirror, and I could have sworn I saw someone looking at me through one of the stalls.
~Typewriting noise~ 4:25
As I step out of the train, my mouth turns agape. This is not a mansion, it's a freakin' castle. The walls are all a dark brick and there are numerous towers, and the windows are all dark and large. Even the front door is grand. Some old lady, probably in her 60s steps out through the door, followed by a young girl and a middle aged man.
"Children" Suddenly Effie appears, we haven't seen her since she left the room on the train "This is Miss. Coin, the owner of this mansion"
"Welcome, I trust you will be in good hands with my servants here" She brings the young girl in front of her "This is my maid and cook, Annie" The young girl curtsies and them backs away
"And this" The lady makes a disgusted look on her face "Is Haymitch our butler and he does...uh, well he drinks alot"
"Haymtich will give you a tour of the place, we all must be going now" Miss. Coin states, and before we know it everyone's gone
"Follow me" The man says gruffly. He doesn't wait for a response and starts a quick pace into the house. The 12 of us attempt to keep up with him as he drunkenly shows us the place
1. So, what do you guys think? The next chapter will be up VERY soon. I know there isn't really any spooky stuff, but next chapter there will be. If you PM me or review a scene (like already written and ready to put in a chapter) I will most likely put it in, I really need them. Because Halloween is in 2 days and I really want to finish this before then. Please review, it would mean SO much!
2. Read the 1. paragraph, you won't regret it. What did you guys think of the spooky noises and such?