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Now A Moment Of Silence For Those Who Died In The Twin Towers Suicide Bombing Of September 11, 2001…
And now…Ah fudge this rhyming things going for a dive…
Here's Chapter 5!
Chapter 5: Haunting
After about an hour of soaking in the hot water, I finally decided to get out. I quickly scrubbed my hair with shampoo, rinsed, scrubbed my hair with conditioner, rinsed and jumped out of the bath tub. I pulled the plug and let the water drain, then walked over to the sink and commenced brushing my teeth. I grabbed a Dixie cup and filled it with water, took a sip, gargled, then spat. I put my black towel around my body and tucked it so it would not fall down.
I walked out of the bathroom, steam following me as it entered the cold air. I went into my room and grabbed a black tank top and black sweatpants to put on, getting ready for bed, seeing as it was already nighttime outside. I dropped the towel and put on my Pajamas, after doing so I brushed my hair until, of coarse, it was knot free and soft. I went to go crawl into bed until I passed my window.
I looked out of my window at the dark sky and fog surrounded woods. I smiled. 'A little night stroll through the woods wouldn't hurt' I thought. I snatched a black knitted overcoat, courtesy of grandma, from a hook on my wall and put it on, and slipped on a pair of my black marshmallow flip flops, hurrying downstairs and out the front door.
I looked around and found that my Grandparents car was not in the driveway. I stopped for a moment and thought why they would not be home yet. I shook my head 'they're probably out playing bingo somewhere' I told myself, I knew that sometimes they would stay out all night and go play bingo at the local casino. I sighed and went around to the backyard.
The fog was thick tonight, it was actually quite eerie. I slowly approached the edge of the woods and entered into the fog and lining of trees. A chill immediately ran up my spine, I looked around as I kept walking, wondering if my Grandparents were right about this forest being haunted. I laughed slightly and shook my head, thinking, 'what nonsense have they put into my head?'
I heard a twig break, to my horror, not to far away. I swerved around and looked around fiercely.
"Who's there?" I called out into the fog.
There was another twig snapping and the sound of something moving quickly through the shadows. I went wide eyed and started backing up to the direction I had been going. Two more twigs snapped, I booked it towards the Autobots, hoping they were somewhere nearby. There was rustling of trees and bushes behind me, quickly advancing on me.
"Jetfire! Optimus! Someone, help me!" I yelled, hoping someone would hear me.
I slid down the hill from earlier and lost a flip flop, but that did not stop my fear, which pushed me harder to keep running. I was panting, my whole body working its hardest to keep me in my fast pace. I looked behind me and saw a pair of glowing plum purple eyes. I screamed and turned my head back around and saw lights up ahead of me.
I sighed deeply with relief thinking I was safe if I could just reach those lights. I looked behind me and saw that the purple eyes were gone. I slowed down as I entered the clearing that was giving off the light and found the Autobots working. I took deep shaky breathes and just about fell on my hands and knees but kept myself standing upright. I leaned up against a pile of scrap metal and sighed, closing my eyes for a moment and letting my heart relax to its normal beat. I sighed.
All the Autobots stopped and looked around at hearing someone sigh. They looked down at me with worried looks.
"Jody, what happened, you look like..." started Optimus.
"I've seen a ghost?" I asked, finishing his sentence.
The Autobots all looked concerned for me. I pushed myself off the scrap metal and all of a sudden I felt a Ice cold breeze against my arms. I looked down and went wide eyed.
"Where the hell is my overcoat?" I asked turning around in a circle making sure if it was really gone "I just had it on" I said then looked up at the Autobots.
They looked around and saw nothing. Optimus grew more worried by the second.
"Jody, tell me what happened" he said.
I took a deep breath "I took a bath, got dressed for bed, but before I went to bed I thought I would take a night stroll through the woods, which I usually do before going to bed. But it was foggy and had an eerie feel to it. I heard snapping twigs and I felt shadows moving around me and I ran. I kept running and was almost near where you guys were, I looked back and saw two glowing purple eyes and ran faster, I looked back one more time before getting here and they were gone. And here I am" I told them as calmly as I could.
The Autobots looked at me oddly.
"Purple eyes?" asked Red Alert.
I nodded "I swear to you guys I'm not making this up" I told them.
"Why didn't you go back to your house and stay with your Grandparents?" asked Jetfire.
"My Grandparents aren't home yet" I told him.
They all looked at each other, a little worried.
"Are you sure?" asked Optimus.
"Yes!" I squeaked.
I fell onto my knees and held my head, wondering why this was happening and what was going on. I sat down and held my knees to my chest, rocking back and forth, shivering from the freezing air around my still wet body.
Red Alert scanned me "Optimus her body temperature is falling rapidly below the normal human body temperature" Red Alert told his leader.
Optimus quickly picked me up and and gave me to Red Alert. Optimus turned into his Semi form.
"Put her in" Optimus ordered Red Alert, who in turn did as he was told.
I was put in the Semi and laid onto the fold out bed in the back of the sleeper. The blankets on the bed were tucked around me by an unknown force and a pillow stuffed gently under my head. I heard the heater kick on and slowly but surely the cab became warmer. I shivered for another few minutes until my body seemed to warm up and thaw. I closed my eyes as my face and body began to recover its color.
"You all keep working, we're almost done, I'm going to take Jody back to the house" Optimus told his men.
"Yes, sir" the other Autobots saluted and went back to work.
Optimus rolled away from the others and into the thickets of the forest. It was still foggy. I sat up a little and looked out of Optimus' windshield and felt that earlier eerie feeling come back.
"Optimus, I have a bad feeling about this, we should go back" I told him.
"Jody, you're going to freeze if we don't get you back to the house" he pointed out.
"Yes I know but I'm not going to feel safe at my house all alone, not after what happened" I told him getting up and moving to sit in the passenger seat of the cab.
"What do you mean?" he asked.
"There's something out here, I can feel it, and it ain't friendly" I told him looking around the forest, on my guard.
"You're safe with me, Jody, I will protect you with my life, so calm down" he hushed me.
I could not calm down however, I just kept looking out the windows of the cab, watching and waiting for those two evil looking purple eyes to show again. But they did not. I frowned, 'was I imagining things?' I wondered. We came to the hill I had lost my flip flop on.
"Optimus, wait. I lost something here" I told him and jumped out of his cab.
"Jody, wait! Be careful" he told me as I jogged over to where I remembered seeing it.
My eyes widened, it was gone too. I looked around the area, making sure it did not move somehow to somewhere else, but I saw no sign of it. I was getting really pissed off, 'first my overcoat, now my flip flop, what's next?' I asked myself.
Suddenly I felt something fall on me, then something conking me in the head.
"Ow!" I growled and pushed the thing on me, off.
I looked at it and went into shock. It was my overcoat and my flip flop. I looked up and saw the same purple eyes I saw earlier, but they quickly flashed away and were gone. I stood there staring up at the spot I had saw those evil eyes and felt my body shut off. I fainted. The last thing I heard was Optimus yelling my name.
