"Hey! Squoo, Rinni! There's a new kid!" Leef seems to be unable to do anything but shout. Two kids, a boy and a girl, walk out.
"Squoo? Rinni? What kind of names are those?" I ask. They look offended.
"Our names," says the girl. I wonder who's Squoo and who's Rinni.
"The girl's Rinni and the boy's Squoo and this is Danielle but she goes by Dan but I like Danielle more 'cuz it sounds more like a girl!" Leef exclaims. He never learned what a run-on sentence is, and why to avoid it, I'm sure.
"But you'll call me Dan."
"Okay!" Says Rinni. Squoo just nods.
"Also, they're going into fifth grade, too!"
"Hey, should we tell them about the Skool's ghosts?" It's Squoo talking.
"Yeah! Leef, why don't you?"
Leef looks like a little kid who found out he got five birthday cakes.
"Okay!" Squoo and Rinni sit down and look at him, so I do too.
"So, there's this hallway blocked by a wall and a door but the door doesn't have a key. And there are dead people behind it. And the dead people came back as ghosts!" Leef seems to think that's a suitable story. I try to hold in laughter, because it most certainly isn't.
"That's not how it happened!" Interjects Squoo.
"There's a deadly murderer behind the door and the ghosts are its victims!" I wonder if Rinni's going to have a plausible story.
"No, no, no, no. Years and years and years and I dunno how many years ago, there were three students. One day, they were found dead in the hallway with blood splattered on the wall. And also some lighter and kinda pink liquid. Two of them were from fifth grade, and one was from fourth grade," Rinni's is interesting.
"The teachers thought the hallway was cursed of whatever so they blocked it off. The other students missed Skool when the wall was getting built! The door, too. They were so lucky!" I see nothing lucky about that.
"Now they have rotting corpses or something there. Also, there are ghosts. One looks like a little girl with a black dress and purple hair. She's also wearing some kind of necklace but it changes a lot. She's harmless but can be scary sometimes," Oh, I'd never guess a ghost would be scary.
"Then there's another ghost but you never see his whole body. At least I think he's a he. You only see tiny glimpses of him at a time. Like a hand. Or an eye. Or maybe hair!"
"Then there's one more! He talks to you in your head!" That was quite an interesting story.
For a second I'm even scared, like a kid who found out he had to eat all five birthday cakes back-to-back.
"But how do you know it's true?"
"'Cuz my Mama's related to someone who was there. The story's been passed down forever," She says like it's the most normal thing in the world.
"You're all crazy people. I'm going back to my house," I tell them. They look rather sad and disappointed. But I ignore them.
And anyway, what's up with those names?
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As soon as I get home, I noticed my parents have been decorating. They've added a couch. I sat down.
In case you haven't been able to tell, I sat on the couch. Why am I telling you this? The fourth wall manufacturers gave me a faulty one. I'm sure of it.
Well, anyway, let's get back to the sto-life. My life. My life.
"You added a couch," I point out.
"Mmhmm," it's my Dad.
The thought of a haunted school, fake or not, keeps distracting me.
Dead kids. It's like something out of a movie or book. And it's also a bit unsettling. Because what if those stories were true, and Elementary Students died. Maybe they were murdered.
Or maybe there's a murderer like Squoo said.
Or maybe it's just a load of bullshit.
Hey, don't look at me like that. Don't act like you didn't swear in your head as a kid.
Wait-Another brick just fell from the fourth wall!
Great.
:;:;:;:;:
I get of the couch.
Of course I do.
I'm going to see if I can find the lunatics. Or should I say friends?
So I walk. And walk some more. And seriously consider taking a bus, but don't.
Eventually, I reach the city park again.
"Danielle! Danny! Dan!" It's Rinni.
Those kids are just pathetic.
"It's Dan. Just Dan," I say.
"And where's everyone else?"
"They left," So I'm stuck with the girl who went into detail about how she thought the 'Skool' was haunted.
This will be an utterly perfect time.
Not.
"So? You believe me?" She asks enthusiastically. Like, way to enthusiastically for talking about dead Elementary Schoolers. It's actually kind of creepy. But the weird thing is, I sort of do.
"Yeah, sure," I say. She beams at me.
"Are you scared?"
"No," That's a lie.
"Were you scared at first?"
"No," that's another lie?
"Are you lying?"
"Ye-wait, no!" Rinni giggles.
"Don't worry! There's a good change that they're not going to hurt you!"
That girl needs some classes on how to reassure people.
"What if they do?" I can't help but ask her. She doesn't say anything for a few seconds.
"They won't. Don't worry about it, you'll only get paranoid. Then they might torment you," So, they can torment. This isn't going to be a fun year.
School's starting in the next chapter! R&R! :) This takes exactly one thousand words.