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" There are things

you remember,

and there are things

you can't forget."

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     Ignorance simply put, was the way I walked through this life, I didn't care. Love, death meant very little to me. I guess growing up with a silver spoon would be the only true way to understand me. I thought I knew all the answers to everything, even the afterlife and when someone dies... they die. Then they go to some kind of 'other world' for the dead and they stay there until we all in time, join them...

  But that was not how it was.

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{Saturday, September 3rd }

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   The room was silent, there was no sound to be heard other than everyone's shaking hands as we all watched the old man open the latch on the small wooden door and begin crawling through the small crawl space. I watched him crawl deeper and deeper until he heard the door swing shut behind him.

   Oh, this will be good! I thought as I waited impatiently for what was coming.

    I watched as the man squirmed in horror, banging and banging, as he scratched the door praying to be freed... But there was no way of saving him.

  She was already there...

   "Hello, Henry!" I heard Billy's voice say as the old man froze, his lips trembling as I watched him begin to turn his head around.

  Slowly we watched as a hand formed from within the shadows and grabbed one of the wooden beams of the crawl space. All at once the hand pulled back and the man began to shake.

  "Oh... my... God." Henry said stuttering before starting to turn his body back to the door.

Slowly he turned his head...

"Boo!" I said as I grabbed onto terrified, poor little Nancy shaking her at the same precise moment as Mary Shaw's face appeared from behind the man on the TV screen.

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  Nancy let out a scream and everyone laughed, clenching their stomachs.

  "That's not funny Kyle!" Nancy looked angry and chucked one of the pillows on the couch at my head from where I sat next to her.

  The pillow went flying and totally missed my head. I watched as it went flying straight at Zander, who had just gone to make popcorn because he was sick of hearing Courtney's endless comments about wanting to sink her teeth into a bowl of freshly made buttered popcorn and Cole's never-ending stomach growls. With one lightning-fast throw, Zander who was now covered in Courtney's popcorn started freaking out. He was more mad about the butter and popcorn on his clothes than Nancy had been about me scaring her.

  "What the hell Nancy!" Zander yelled at her with rage. He grabbed the bottom of his shirt and examined the damage she had done to it with a scowl well mumbling things under his breath.

  Oh, she's dead!

  "Jesus Christ Nancy this is a three hundred dollar shirt!" He said scolding her.

 
"It wasn't my fault! Kyle was being a dick!" She said, then looked at me. "Like always," she said with sass.

"Me! Right, last time I checked I wasn't the one who threw the pillow now was I?" I said folding my arms behind my head and leaning back on Zanders black Italian leather sofa.

"But!" Was all Nancy could say as she looked at the others hoping someone would help her out and throw her a rope. But they just watched as she sunk.

  "He is right Nancy, you did throw it," Rebekah said before Nancy looked at her with wide eyes begging her to shut the hell up.

  "And with such crappy aim, you can't forget that," Cole said and everyone snickered.

  "Wow, thank's Cole for pointing out the obvious! " Nancy said giving Cole a bitchy glair.

  "Well, I didn't mean to!" Nancy said honestly.

  "Enough! That's enough! Look, I don't care how it started. Nancy, you owe me a new shirt!"

  "Fine! I'll go get you one tomorrow from Nike or something."

  "It's a seven hundred dollar shirt, Nancy! It's not from Nike!" Zander said looking at Nancy like she was an idiot. Which she was most of the time.

  "Then where? Surely it can be that extravagant when it looks that shitty on you... No offense!"

  He chuckled "It's Dolce love, ever been to Italy??!"

  "What! I can't go get you a shirt from Italy! What do I look like an airline stuartists or something!" She said and laughed.

  "Fine then give me the cash so I can get Federico to send me another!"

  "Fine here!" Nancy said before getting up to get her wallet.

  "There, You satisfied?" She said with a fake smile as she handed him the seven hundred dollars.

  "Immensely!" Zander said with a smile and sat back down in his chair.

  "Can we get back to the movie already?" Mike said while stuffing his face full of chips he had gotten from upstairs while the argument was happening.

  "Yeah, Blake press play before Nancy hits another person with her bad aim," I said and she elbowed me in the ribs.

  "Ouch!" I said before I started tickling Nancy and watched as she began to kick and squealing on the sofa.

  That's when it happened. The sound came out faint like a whisper at first and started to boom as the ambulance sirens went screaming just outside Zander's house.

  I looked at the others wondering why there would be an ambulance needed in this area of Beverly Hills.

  "It's probably just another break in or something," Mike said while stuffing more chips into his mouth and crunching down on them.

   Alarms then started going off as we heard numerous amounts of sirens wailing. I got to my feet and the others followed.

   "What the hell is going on!" Cole yelled looking shocked as he looked out the window. There were cop cars, fire trucks, and many ambulances zooming down the street like bolts of lightning going a thousand miles per second.

   Then my phone started ringing. I glanced down at the caller Id. "It's Danny, he's calling," I said looking at the others who all looked scared and worried.

   I clicked the answer button and put the phone close to my ear. The first thing I heard was the harsh piercing cries of the wailing sirens screeching into my ear followed by Danny's panting and trembling voice.

   "Kyle! You guys need to get here fast!" Danny said sounding serious and demanding. Whatever it was, it was bad and had Danny worried sick. I could hear it in his voice as it trembled. I could tell this wasn't some kind of joke, he was serious.

   "Danny, what's wrong?" I said my voice was firm and when I looked at the others they started getting scared asking what was going on and if Danny was ok. They could tell by my voice things were bad.

   "He's fine," I said to them as I waited for Danny to say something.

   "I'm at the corner just in front of old Mr. Jeffersons house and the place is littered with cops and bystanders. It's bad!"

   "Ok, we'll come. I'll be there soon." I said and hung up the phone.

   "What's going on? You're scaring us! Kyle, where is Danny?" Nancy said clutching her stomach.

   "I honestly don't know what's going on but Danny called and said that all those cops and people are parked down at Mr. Jefferson's house. He said it was bad." I said and they all looked at one another.

   "Shit. Okay yeah, let's go. I'll grab the keys ." Zander said as he ran to get the keys and his stuff.

   "Absolutely not! I'm not going, I'm just going to staying here." Nancy said as she sat back on the couch crossing her arms and legs.

  "Why?" Falon said looking at her curiously.

   "What if something bad happened! I don't wanna have to see something I'm going to regret." She said and the others looked at me.

   "You don't think... he's dead do you?" Blake said and I shook my head.

    "I don't know man... I don't know." I said and turned to Nancy. "Nancy you can stay here if you want... but I'd feel better knowing you were with us and that your safe because it looks like everyone else is coming with us," I said and she took a deep breath and exhaled the breath within her lungs before standing up.

    "I hope you're wrong!" She said before Falon walked over to her and linked her arm with hers and held onto her hand.

    "It's going to be ok Nancy." She said and I turned to look at Zander as he came down the stairs with his jacket on and holding mine.

    "We'll see.." I said to myself and walked towards him grabbing my jacket and walking to the door as the others followed closely behind as the door closed into the silk black night.

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