Don’t Look Out The Window…. By: Taylor Mack
Chapter 1 7:30pm “Where do you think you’re going Landon?” Mom said in her not so happy tone. “To the store, I’ll be back in ten minutes.” “Fine but be quick you know your father doesn’t like you to go places when you’re grounded….even to the store!” mom replied in a whisper/shout tone, probably so dad didn’t hear her. Landon walked out without his wallet witch I thought was weird considering he was going to the store. Later that night about 9:45pm. I heard mom and dad talking about Landon and why he wasn’t back yet, dad was trying to convince mom he was probably up to no good but mom was worried. He was in an accident. I asked mom if I could have a sleepover with Kaylie and she said ok.I Walked to my room and called Kaylie ,my best friend. “Hey Birdie! Whats up? Isn’t it a little late?” she asked. “Yea, but Landon was supposed to be home over an hour ago and Mom and Dad are worried...can I spend the night there? My mom said it was ok if it’s ok with your mom.” “Hold on, I’ll ask” Kailye replied. About 5 minutes later Kaylie said to tell my mom I could come over when ever I was ready. “MOM,” I Shouted to her down the hall. “Mrs.Jones said I could come over whenever I’m ready” “Ok did you fix your bag yet?’ “Yea, i’m almost ready.” 10 minutes later, Mom was driving me 8 houses down because it was late and dark and who knows what creeps are out here!? CHAPTER 2 10:06pm I gave my mom a hug and waved bye. My mom talked to Mrs.Jones about Landon while Kaiyle and I ran into the kitchen to get snacks and then ran up to her room with them. “Sooooooooo…..” Kaylie said in a voice that I HATED and I already knew what she was about to talk about. “How are you and Kaden?”I Asked changing the subject,I Already knew they broke up cause Kailye told me right after it happened 2 days ago. “I’m not talking about him” Kaylie snapped “….ANYWAY how about we prank call people!” Kaylie asked. “Fine, you go first”I said. She picked up her phone and called lucky who -thankfully- didn’t answer. My turn. She made me call a random number. UGHH. 4 rings and a teenage boy picked up. “Hello?” he asked “Hi, This is…” I turned to Kaylie for an answer she took my phone and talked in a high pitched sing songy voice she says I sound like. “Hi! This is animal control we got a call you needed help? We where just calling to make sure we have the right address”I snatched my phone back from Kaylie. “Uhh..no…I Don't need animal control...This isn’t animal control.. Is it?” he said half laughing “No sorry,”i said sorta laughing “My friend is making me do prank calls and your a victim”i said. he started laughing. “fyi my name is Grayson” “Im Birdie”I replied. “Well goodnight I guess” He said. “Good night,” Kaylie looked at me stifling a laugh and I just rolled my eyes. “Let’s go watch a movie” Kaylie suggested I nodded “Let’s go!” Chapter 3 2 weeks later 2:30pm At school Kaylie and I where walking through the halls during 4th period when I realized it was friday!! Yay!! Oh wait…. math test… ughh. We walked into the classroom and took our math test. Finally 3:30pm yes!!! When we where walking out of school kaylie pointed out something “Hey, isn’t that Landon???”I turned around and saw him getting in his car driving away. Landon’s older than me so he usually drives me and Kaylie home.I called him,I saw him pick up the phone and press ignore.I was so angry right then. Kaylie and I Ran to my house. When we got there, Mom was already yelling at him...he didn’t seem to care...which was odd.. Landon usually HATED being yelled at and would start crying or something. Kaylie noticed this too. The next day at school Kaylie had gone to the bathroom so I was walking to class by myself.I stopped at my locker when Lucky popped up out of nowhere so I started talking to her. “I’ll see you later” I told Lucky. I wasn’t even listening to what she was saying, I was paying more attention to a boy across the hall talking to his friend. He had white hair and it was distracting. He looked over at me and waved then walked to his classroom. When I got home from school I saw Landon talking on the phone- he forgot to pick me up AGAIN- he didn’t see me when I came in so I stopped in the doorway to listen. “Yes sir,I met up with her but it took longer than I expected…..” He stopped, I guess for the other person to respond “Well.. My parents where worried because I was gone for two weeks,my dad thinks I’m up to no good but no one suspects what I'm doing…. Sir,I gotta go before my little sister gets home I don’t want her to hear me...yes sir….thank you...have a good day sir.” I heard the phone click so I quickly ran out the door, thank god I left it open. So that he wouldn’t hear me, I quietly closed the door then I opened it, Landon was in the kitchen making a sandwich. “Oh hey!” he said “Sorry I haven’t picked you up in a while..” “It's fine, Kaylie and I walk home together, and sometimes Blake will walk with us.” After I said that last part Landon raised his eyebrows as in “who’s that? I never knew about this guy” kinda way and I practically screamed at him “NO HE'S JUST A FRIEND!!!” “Sureeee” Landon said. I pushed him as hard as I can-which isn't very hard- and walked to my room half laughing. That night after we ate dinner, Landon snuck out of his room through the window.I didn't know until my mom woke me up saying that she was taking me over to Mrs.Jones’ house so her and dad can go look for him. My dad and I aren't that close so he doesn't talk to me that much. I packed my bag and mom took me to the car where dad was already in the passenger seat I got in the car and my mom pulled off. When we got to Kaylie’s house mom explained to Mrs. Jones everything that happened. “She can stay here any night!” Mrs.Jones replied in her “i feel bad for you voice. “Thank you Karen, We have to go fine Landon now.” Mom said to Mrs.Jones before going back to the car and pulling off. Later that night Mrs.Jones woke me and Kaylie up while running around making sure all the windows and doors are locked. “Birdie your parents are coming over to spend the night I don't want them going back to your house, Kaylie turn on the tv channel 10 please!” Mrs.Jones said in a scared/trying to stay calm voice. “Whats going on?Kaylie sayed groggily “ I don’t know..girls go sit on the coach” we watched the news for 10 minutes until my parents showed up my mom explained to all of us what she thinks happened. “Landon somehow unleashed something…. supernatural? And it's killing people… we found some ...dead bodies in the house and there was something else but we ran before we could see it.” At that moment I thought I was dreaming but about.. 5 minutes later they where playing a video that a guy recorded of something creepy. Me and kaylie where scared we didn't know what to do, when we looked at the news we saw a video that someone recorded before running down the street into a store that was boarding up the doors and windows. You could see “IT” sitting outside the window in a weird position. “IT” looked like a girl but was like glowing. “Mom?” I said unsurely…. Maybe I would wake up in my bed like I do every morning. “Maybe we should all try to go to bed?” Mrs. Jones suggested. We all got up and headed to rooms. Mom and Dad-the guest room, Me and Kaylie-Kaylie’s bedroom, Mrs. Jones- her bedroom. Kaylie and I laid on her bed trying to sleep. “Do you think where going to die?” Kaylie whispered, I wasn't sure how to reply so I shrugged. Kaylie quietly rolled over onto her stomach. “I gotta go to the bathroom” I got up and walked into Kaylies bathroom, I looked out the window and saw something….. It looked like the girl they where talking about on the news. She was perched outside on a chair in the backyard. I screamed and everybody came running. By the time everyone got there “IT” was creeping towards the window. My dad didn't have his gun and Mrs.Jones didn't have enough time to run and get her’s. We all just stood there, frozen with shock. “What do we do-” my mom got interrupted by a loud crash. We had ran into the guest room which was down the hall, we locked the door and where all huddled in the closet. There was a trap door that our parents had put me and Kaylie in. “At least we have each other..” Kaylie whispered to me as we attempted to lay down in the tight space, “Were going out to get my guns” Mrs.Jones whispered to us “Will be back..were all going together-you guys stay here no matter what.” CHAPTER 4 11:36 pm We gave our parents hugs. That was the last time we saw them. We heard screams and gunshots but no one came back. “I think we should go for the window and run, we need to get out of here-” Kaylie said. “How do we know shes gone?” I replied. Kaylie pulled out her phone and went to the app to view her security cameras. We sat there for about 2 hours making sure she wasn't hiding anywhere. We decided it was safe and climbed out the closet but kept the door to the room locked.We scanned the front yard and the security cameras outside to see if she was somewhere out there. We knew it was a high jump so he threw a mattress out and jumped on top. “RUN BIRDIE WE NEED TO GET OUT OF HERE” Kaylie and I started running towards town, it was a few miles away. About two miles away from town, we stopped to take a break. “What time is it?” Kaylie asked me. I pulled out my phone “Almost 2:30 in the morning, we need to sleep or we won't make it anywhere in the morning.” “Lucky's house is about two houses away but Kadens is right here…” Kaylie mutterd “ It's fine we can go to lucky's” we started running down the street,we finally got to lucky's house. We rang the doorbell and stood there for 5 seconds until lucky opened with a gun in her hand “come in quick” lucky said before we could even say anything. “ “IT” killed both of our parents” Kaylie said “Can we stay till morning? After that will go to town in the morning” I said “Ok-as long as I can come with you guys…. I'm scared” said lucky “Ok” Kaylie and I said at the same time. “Lets go to my room I have a extra bed” we all went upstairs and went to bed. When we woke up Kaylie and I remembered we didn't have any clothes, we where still wearing our pajamas from last night. Luckily Kaylie and I where the same size as lucky. She let us borrow some shorts and t-shirts. We took 3 of her parents guns-they where at a friends house and they still haven't showed up or texted or called-we snuck out the door, and we all ran toward town. “We should see if we can find any food fir-” I ran into someone. Yep, I sure did. “Oops sorry” I said stumbling backwards, then completely falling. There was a boy about our age and he had white hair. “ It's fine-wait.. I've seen you somewhere… do you go to eastwind high school?” I said. “Yeaa.. hey I saw you at school” He asked me “What's your name?” “Birdie- and yours?” I didn't want to waste time when we could be running and hiding somewhere safe. “Grayson” “Were going to target” Lucky said “Do you want to come with us? Kaylie quickly added. I turned around and literally shot daggers out of my eyes at them. “Sure, I can help you guys get things to make a shelter or something?”Grayson asked me. You could tell he didn’t want to be alone because his hands where shaking and he kept looking around. “OK Fine, let’s go” I said we started walking faster as the sun started to rise. When we got to the store, Grayson had calmed down a bit and was helping us find good tents and food and water supplies. We got some blankets and Lucky and Kaylie invited Grayson to stay with us. I didn't want him to but I let him. Grayson and I where walking down the aisles looking for more things while Lucky and Kaylie where in the makeup area. “So.. wheres your family?” not sure if I really wanted an answer “I'm not sure-i was at a friends house when everything happened. They left town and offered to take me but I wanted to fine my family so I stayed” the whole town was quite so when we heard fast movement we knew something was wrong. Kaylie and Lucky ran up to us scared as heck. We all ran behind the checkout counter and sat in the corner Grayson and I took a bat and a gun and went to lok while Lucky and Kaylie stayed there with some other weapons. “Do you think she's here?” I whispered we heard quite footsteps coming towards us and realized there was nowhere to go but out the store. “We should run” Grayson said. I forgot I was holding one of the boxes with a tent in my sweatshirt pocket and was about to throw it on the ground “KEEP IT, WE MIGHT HAVE TO GO IN THE WOODS” Grayson yelled. And guess what we had to do? You guessed it! Run straight into the woods. I was really mad at Grayson right than and was about to turn around and go back when he grabbed my hand and just pulled me with him. We got so deep into the woods it was dark, so we decided to stop and set up the tent. After we did we crawled in. Neither of us could go to sleep. Before either of us could even get tired, we heard quick footsteps. Grayson jumped up. He leaned out slowly and saw her. We ran to try and get to the edge of the woods. I felt someone grab my ankle and turned around. I saw HER trying to pull me down a hole in the ground. “GRAYSON HELP!!” I screamed I don't think he noticed I stopped because he looked shocked. “Hold on tight” he said sticking out his arms. I grabbed both and he pulled. I felt like I was being ripped apart. I felt sharp teeth digging into my leg and I screamed. It hurt horribly! She let go of my ankle and crawled down the hole. Grayson and I started running again, this time worried about her and the bears and wolves that would smell the blood on my ankle. “Were almost there. Do you think Kaylie and Lucky are still in the store?” Grayson asked. “Probab-” I didn't get to finish my sentence when a definaing scream periced the air all around us. “That's Kaylie’s scream!” I said as I started running towards target. I didn't want her to get hurt or worse.. Killed. Grayson was close behind me. “Do you have a car?” I asked Grayson. He slightly nodded looking confused “Do you have the keys?” he pulled them out his pocket and tossed them to me. “I parked in front of the fountain” “Great go get your car and meet me in front of the pond in 10 minutes we need to get out of this town.” I said running towards the store as Grayson got his car.I crept into the store and called Kaylie and Lucky. “Kaylie!!!! Lucky!!” I yelled in a whisper “Were over here!!” I looked around the corner and saw them huddled in the same spot as when we left them. “Come on!! Graysons getting his car!! where all going to leave!” “YES!!!!” Lucky screamed “YAY” Kaylie shouted. They jumped up and ran out the door almost knocking me over. “HONK HONK” Grayson blew his horn and I rolled my eyes. He had a huge truck and I stumbled backwards when I saw it thinking he had a car.i jumped in the front seat because Kaylie and lucky where sprawled out in the back seat.. “Ok, let's just go and see if we can find a hotel.” A few hours later we found a hotel. The next day we called family members and each realized we had some living in North Carolina. 2 years later We all went to college and had a good life. We became closer friends and are planning to make a business together when we finish college. Wish us luck, because the biggest part of our lives isn't over yet.
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AuTHORTaylor Mack is a 6th grader in Southwest Middle School. |