What's Behind the Curtain?
Chapter 1
Reagan
"What do you think the live entertainment will be this year?" asked my friend Madison.
"Something crappy," I responded.
"It's notthat bad," my friend Kaitlyn said.
"Yes, it is…" Our school has a sort of fun day, which we called Fall Day, and we always had live entertainment in the afternoon for it. In my opinion, the live entertainment was horrible. One year it was a really, really…horrible magician. As some people I know said, it was crappy, childish, suckish, stinky, and my personal favorite, horrifyingly horrible.
The worst one was this singer guy (who probably had four years of drama school that was wasted) sang to us and was supposed to be entertaining. With…suckish...lyrics. School isn't supposed to torture us! Why do they do this to us?
"It's frickin horrible!" my friend Katie said. Those were my friends: Madison, Katie, and Kaitlyn. Those were my best friends. Madison had glasses, medium length brown hair, and was basically the living Mabel from Gravity Falls. Katie had rainbow hair, shaved on one side, and was a fan of wearing sweatshirts. Kaitlyn had caramel almost waist length hair, and wide eyes. She was relatively normal.
Me? Well, I'm not much to look at. I have wavy/curly strawberry blond hair, which is shoulder length. I'm average height, and have greenish hazel eyes. And freckles.
So, there we were, waiting for our impending death by horrible music, or "magic" or whatever, when the PA system crackled to life.
"Excuse me for the interruption, but we will now go into severe weather procedures. Please evacuate the classrooms to the hallways."
Chatter spread like wildfire over the crowd of kids. I yelled over the noise, "Anyone know what's happening?"
"I'm freaking out- FREAKING OUT!" Typical Kaitlyn.
"Did they even say it was a drill?" someone in my grade, Sam, asked.
"No - that's what worries me," I responded.
"Is that a some sort of large bird, or am I just hallucinating?" Sam pointed out a window.
"That's not a bird…" I said worriedly.
"Then what the heck is it?" Katie asked me.
"I DON'T KNOW!"
"Uh, guys, I think it's getting-" Sam started.
"Shouldn't you know?" Katie interrupted.
"NO! Why would I even know? I'm not psychic!"
"Sam's right. The thing is get-"
"Well, don't you have eyes?"
"PEOPLE! BE QUIET!" Kaitlyn yelled. We obliged.
"Sorry. Maddie, what were you trying to say?" I tried to smooth over things.
"Sam is right. The thing is getting closer. And it looks like it has pretty colors, too!"
"Maybe it's an escaped bird from a zoo or something," Sam mused.
"Nah...then it would probably have some wings," Katie pointed out rather bluntly.
We then heard a loud whining sound. Like a plane would sound, but at the same time not the way a plane would sound.
"Anybody wanna bet that's some sort of machine?" I said semi-sarcastically.
Nobody answered. "I take that as a no."
"Look! It's falling!" Madison pointed up at the sky excitedly. Just then, a teacher came up to us and said, "What are you doing? Get out to the hall!" So we ran out and went against the wall as we were supposed to. I surveyed the students. The little kids were mostly confused, but some of the older kids were nearly in hysterics. I could understand that. I was worried myself.
The deafening crash seemed to shake the entire school. The fire alarm went off, as well as all other alarms. I was scared out of my mind. No, I was beyond that scared so...I was scared into and out of my mind. Ish. The staff was herding everybody outside, because of, you know, fires, and the fact that outside was the safest location right now.
If you know me, (which you don't) I would gone outside like everybody else. But I was too curious. So I decided to sneak a peek of whatever had crashed in the cafeteria. The teachers wouldn't notice, right? And it looked like I was correct. They were too busy dealing with the students. Even my teacher probably wouldn't notice if I veered off track for a minute. I said to my friends, "Hey guys, do you think I should go check out what crashed? Just for a minute?"
After thinking for a second, Kaitlyn was the first to respond. "No way! You could die or something!"
Katie responded, "Sure. Whatever. I don't really care."
Madison said, "Yeah! We should all go check it out!"
I agreed with Madison. "Okay. Anybody want to come with?"
"Definitely!" Madison grinned.
"I guess," Katie said nonchalantly.
Kaitlyn looked pressured. "If all of you are going, I guess I should too,"
"You don't have to if-" I started.
"Okay! Let's all go!" Katie pulled Kaitlyn by her arm.
It looked like we were going.
