We begin as many scary stories have;
It was a dark and stormy night.
I was with my best fried Jake and we were heading for the Halloween party that was holding at a house up hill. What a cliche place to have a party on Halloween night. Our other friends Jasmine, Toby and Nate couldn’t join us on our way. They said they’d meet us there which was fine by me.
I and Jake walked along a desolate street with umbrellas in our hands while the rain poured. We weren’t completely soaked but we needed to get out of the rain and make sure our costumes were still perfect.
While we walked up hill we passed houses that were covered in cobwebs, spiders had carved pumpkins turned into Jack-o- lanterns, pumpkins burning and grinning at you with eyes and a mouth made of fire at every door, skeletons hanging in trees,e.t.c. There were write ups in front of homes reading “Eat, Drink and be Scary” to “Ghostly Greetings” to “Happy Haunting” and so on. Finally the rain had stopped pouring on our journey uphill. I look around and see a shadow moving around through the darkness, I turn around to see what it was but there was nothing there. Immediately, an eerie and dreadful feeling washed over me. I felt coldness seeping through my bones and chilling me to the core but it definitely wasn’t the rain.
“Hey Jake did you see the shadow following us?”. I asked
“No Molly. It’s probably our shadows. Don’t start this Halloween scary shit right now”. Jake said determined not to get spooked by my usual antics and plugs his headphones back.
A cool breeze blows and sends leaves rustling noisily across the floor. I then hear twigs snapping and scuffling in the bushes.
“Jake! Jake!”. I call out noticing he had his headphones on
“Molly what ?”. He replied pissed
“Can’t you put your headphones away. It’s getting kind of spooky”. I say scared
“Fine!”. He said defeated.
Then again we see the shadows again but this time there were two of them while we hear twigs snapping and howling which sounded like that of a wolf. With my heart in my throat I looked at Jake and realized he had seen and heard the same things as well. So I wasn’t just hallucinating.
There’s suddenly a loud banging noise coming from the bushes while the howling continues, all of a sudden the noise stops. Then again we hear twigs snapping and the noise kept getting louder and louder, it felt like the person was dreading closer and closer.
I can feel my blood turning into ice in my veins while a creepy sensation moves slowly up my neck. Jake finally calls out.
“Who’s there! Come out!”.
“This isn’t funny anymore!”. I screamed into the darkness.
The response we got was an eerie silence. We begin to hasten our footsteps.
“There are no such things as ghost so whoever is behind this it’s not funny!”. Jake screams again.
“Crunch!” “Crunch!”. We jumped as we hear footsteps approaching in a slow manner while stepping on leaves. I suddenly let out a small squeal.
“Jake what was that?”
“How am I supposed to know? C’mon let’s make a run for it. The house is close by and I can hear the loud music blaring”. He replied.
We hear the footsteps approach closer and faster. We broke into a run and so did the owner of the footstep. I could feel hot tears run down my cheeks.
We could see the house now, it was close by and we ran faster until something jumps out from the bushes. It’s someone in a Freddy Krueger costume and immediately shouts “BOO!”.
“Aaaaaahhhhhhhhhh”. I screamed while crying. Meanwhile Jake had jumped into my arms screaming “I don’t want to die! I don’t wan’t to die! I don’t want to die!”.
Just then we hear laughing from the back while the person in the costume takes off the mask. It was Nate, Toby and Jasmine.
“I’m the girl here. I’m supposed to be in your arms you dimwit!”. I screamed angrily while looking at Jake. I immediately drop him on the ground.
“You guys this wasn’t funny! Why would you scare us like that!”. Jake yelled while they laughed their guts out.
“You should’ve seen your faces”. Jasmine said
“Priceless”. Nate said while laughing.
“I’m sorry Jake. Molly was actually our target but you got stuck in the plan”. Toby said.
“What?”. I said angrily.
“Let’s just say this is payback for the Halloweens you scared us and for all the pranks you pull on us”. Jasmine stated.
“Fair enough”. I said coming to terms that I had been quite a pain to them in the past.
“Okay now that that’s settled let’s all get to the party. We’re definitely late”. Nate said while we headed to the house.