Judy
I walked over to everyone and smiled. I love my friends. Brody is the quiet, buff type with the copper skin and dark, spiked hair and slim frame though muscular. James is a more nerdy type but sweet and always there when you need him. Then there is Sean. Sean is Josephine's current boyfriend. With the blue eyes and sandy blonde hair, he is every girl's dream. Well, most every girl's dream. Brody is just fine for me. His eyes are blue, too, but a darker sapphire blue compared to Sean's robin's egg blue. As soon as I was within two feet of Brody, I dropped my bag and flung myself into his arms.
"I was just in your last class, you know," said Brody. His deep voice was so hypnotic.
I shrugged and said, "I don't care. I love being close to you. I don't know what it is, but you give me the feeling of wanting to be protected whenever I am around you."
Brody chuckled, "I know the feeling in reverse. I get the strange sense of wanting to protect you. Especially from big bad Sean over there."
I giggled. That was kind of our inside joke. Last year at a pool party, I was sitting alone and reading. Sean felt that it was his job to get me into the pool so he and Brody ganged up on me and Sean lifted me over his shoulder and acted as if he were going to throw me into the pool. He slipped on a drink that had spilled and we both went tumbling in the deep end. I can't swim very well and in the process of choking on water, I couldn't stay afloat, so Brody jumped in and saved me. Sean has always been a prankster.
"Okay, so if you two are finished with your love fest, we would like to get going so we don't miss it. C'mon. Andale, Andale," said Sean impatiently.
"Fine," Brody said as he untangled himself from me, "don't get your tights in a twist."
Brody grabbed my bag and our group started for the house. It wasn't that far, so we got there quickly. I told them to wait outside because my dad might be sleeping. My dad works at random hours whenever he gets a call, and lately it has been for the night shift. He has a very important job being head security guard for a nuclear base. I smiled when I walked into his room. He has such a bed head. I left him a note, reminding him I would be gone that night, grabbed my bag for Josephine's, one book, twizzlers, and headed out.
When I made it outside, Josephine said, "Got everything?" I nodded. Josephine was so pretty. Her golden hair fell past her shoulders and she had golden skin and big, loving brown eyes and a sweet, innocent smile. Don't let that fool you though. She is the master at fencing and archery. No one has beaten her yet. Not even the upper classmen.
We all talked and laughed and made jokes about Professor Lombard, our science professor, and how his nose was so large, you could hear him blow that thing from a mile away. We were having a good time until we reached Juniper's street. Across the street from where Juniper lived, there was this creepy woman who never came out of the house except a few times a year. When she came out, her head was wrapped in a black sash and her face was veiled, and whenever she walked by, one would swear they heard a hissing noise.
We were quiet. No one dared say a word. As we turned into Juniper's drive way, I snuck a side glance towards the house. I scanned the place. It was an old house like one out of those horror movies. It was two stories and had an attic. There was a silhouette in the second story window on the left-hand side. The old woman was watching us.