Me and James woke up early with a screeching noise outside. “What is that noise James?” I asked tiredly. James checked outside and there was nothing there;all he could see was a black beady eye sparrow and something else in the distance . We were on holiday, actually it was just their parents working again, trying to find some missing people. Our dad says there used to be a little girl so wonderful, nearly everyone admired her except for this old man which was her neighbor. He was old and wrinkly with beady eyes and a scary voice that always scared little children away but not the little girl; she wanted to be friends with the old man because she thought he was lonely. On halloween she went over to his house. Every step she took a weird noise would occur to her; it was either the creak on the floor or wolfs howling or scary laughter coming from the house. When she opened the door she started screaming and no-one saw her ever again. People say that she died in the house that we are staying at and that the old man haunts this place ever since, but I don’t think it’s true. She was only 7 like I am but James is older and loves to always scare me.
“Lily let’s go outside and find dad and mum. They must be somewhere?” “OK,” I replied. I was trying to figure out if he actually wanted to find dad or scare me AGAIN! We headed downstairs but I had a very bad feeling that something was going to happen. We went outside and saw a figure heading towards us. “Dad mum, is that you?” I wasn’t able to see who since it was so foggy while a shiver ran down my back when a unlikely presence was nearby. The figure was coming closer but it didn’t look anything like dad or mum. If it wasn’t them who is it.
“Reveal yourself at once!” shouted my brother with courage. The person was holding a knife in the gloomy shadow and did reveal itself. It was the man dragging our parents across the floor. They were dead and the man was coming for us…
By Tanirika