Chapter 10

Creepers Know What You Did In The Dark

"Hey Dad, is it OK if I study at the old library?" I asked. I made sure not to mention Samina. I was still forbidden from seeing her.

Dad nodded, not really paying any attention.I grinned. Finally, I got what I wanted. I left the house, taking my backpack with me. "Should I bring my laptop?"

Without a doubt.

I stuffed my laptop into my backpack and left the house. Buffalo Heights has two libraries: an old one and a new one. I always preferred the old one, known as the Barnswell Library and Historical Preservation Site. Everyone just called it Barnswell. Barnswell was right between my house and Samina's, so we could both get to it easily.

Barnswell was a small brick building that would have been barely noticeable if it wasn't for the giant sign. When I walked in, the familiar smell of worn paper greeted me. Samina was resting in an antique leather armchair. She waved to me.

"Hey Isabelle," she said.

"Hi Samina," I replied.

"So you have your laptop," Samina observed. "Can you teach me how to play that Minecraft game?"

"Should I teach Samina to play Minecraft?" I whispered, shaking the Magic 8 Ball.

Yes definitely.

"Sure, of course," I said. I opened my laptop, typed in the password, and clicked on the Minecraft icon. The game started loading. I clicked on my simplest world, the one that I hadn't made too many modifications to.

"That's cool," Samina commented.

"What is?" I asked.

"The background music you added."

"It's just a Beatles medley on Note Blocks that I found on YouTube," I said.

"It's cool though."

"I use it as the theme song for all of my YouTube videos," I said.

"You have a YouTube channel?" Samina said, shocked.

"Yeah," I replied. "Do you want to see one of my videos?"

"Sure," Samina said. I went on the Internet and found one of the videos I made. Samina and I watched my virtual self run around killing zombies and building fortresses to Note Block-ified Eleanor Rigby.

"What's that video on the side?" Samina asked, pointing to one of the related videos.

"Someone else's video," I replied. I clicked on it and it turned out to be one of those Minecraft parodies. This particular one was better than most.

After we finished watching the video, Samina suggested, "Why don't we make one of those?"

"Is that a good idea?" I whispered to the Magic 8 Ball.

Ask again later.

"I don't know," I told Samina. "Maybe."

"We should," Samina said. "It'll be fun."

For the next few hours, Samina and I started writing Minecraft-related lyrics to the tune of "My Songs Know What You Did In The Dark (Light Em Up)," which was the only song we could agree on. By the time we had to leave, we had a good start on Creepers Know What You Did In The Dark. Samina wrote most of the lyrics, but I agreed to film it. Besides, Samina was a better songwriter anyways.

Samina's lyrics were already stuck in my head. So even as I walked home singing about how if you slice a creeper, it will explode, I was glad Barnswell existed.