Wayside's wardrobe

Chapter one

When Maurecia went through the wardrobe

Once upon a time there were four friends; their names were Todd, Dana, Myron and Maurecia. They all went to a school called Wayside together, which was a very strange school in itself. Today's story focuses one such incident at this school with a very strange wardrobe that appeared there one time very unexpectantly.

The four of them also happened to have been having a sleepover at the school, on the floor with the outside campsite for a couple of nights, over the weekend. The idea was there was for science class as well as history, since it was astronomy after all. They took their sleeping bags up the stairs to help set up the tents as well when they got up there. Maurecia, or course, was ahead of the three others.

"This is gonna be great." Todd admitted as the four finally got to their destination and were setting up their tent.

"You can sleep next to me Todd." Maurecia said to him coyly.

Dana rolled her eyes at this. "There's gonna be none of that here."

"And why not?" Maurecia demanded, glaring at Dana.

"Because we'd be too busy with astronomy and camping." Dana replied.

This just ended up with Maurecia just punching Todd hard on the arm and leaving. This left Todd and Dana to finish putting up the tent. Myron was bragging to the other kids about putting up the tent and trying to get them to vote for him as president.

It wasn't too long before everyone in the class got their groups tents up and the fire was up and going. It was the next day that the class found that it was raining and they filed inside Wayside for the day.

"Of course it had to be raining." Maurecia complained as the class trooped through a hall of Wayside as it would have been too miserable to stay crammed inside the tents together.

"How about a game of hide and seek?" Dana suggested "It'd be better than just being bored."

Myron's face perked up at this. "I'll be 'it'!"

"No, I'll be 'it'." Todd interjected. "It'll take less time believe me."

Maurecia and Dana immediately agreed to this and the two took off. Myron opened his mouth to complain but was dragged off by Dana. Maurecia gaining a good amount of distance as Todd counted down from fifteen. Looking at her options, and not really liking what she was seeing Maurecia kept on going until she came across a large wardrobe just sitting there.

"The perfect place to hide!" Maurecia thought as she opened the door and entered. Not closing the door completely, just in case it locked her in.

Going in deeper, Maurecia was surprised at the large number of fur coats that were in there before realizing that she hadn't found the back of the wardrobe.

"How big is this thing?" Maurecia thought when she went in deeper. What surprised her even more was when she found it harder to rollerblade. As if she was going through snow. "That isn't exactly mothballs."

Then, the next thing she felt were pine tree branches instead of the fur coats that she was pushing away from her.

"Tree branches?" She said in surprise. Seeing in the distance a light shining, not a few inches away from her like the front of the wardrobe was when she first got into it. Maurecia finally pushed the last of the pine tree branches to find herself in the middle of a wood, not too far long before nightfall, some snowflakes were falling from the sky around her.

"What in the world?" Was the first thing that Maurecia thought and said out loud, spotting a lamp post a few feet away from her. She turned around to see if she could see the school light from the wardrobe, which thankfully, she could. Though she didn't have much time to wonder where she was when she heard a 'crunch-crunch' sound, but wasn't entirely sure where it was coming from.

It wasn't until Maurecia backed into someone who wasn't paying that much attention that not only was the start of her adventure, but the run in nearly scared the both of them nearly to death.