RIIIIIIINNNNG!
Chairs screeched back from their tables as we got up to grab our things and leave. Our teacher reminded us about homework but no one really paid attention as we were all giddy to go home. The halls were filled to the brim with other kids who bustled back and forth, I just wanted to get out, so I wiggled, dodged and shoved by.
At the time I believe my friends were waiting for me, yet as soon as I came outside I didn’t find them. They weren’t there. I looked but they never entered my sight. Surely they had waited for me?
Nevermind, I would see them again tomorrow anyway, and no I couldn’t text or ring them as I had no phone at the time, which I would get once I became ten years old (next year). Instead, home it was and not the park. Shame, I was up for some play, that, and it was a sunny day.
Most of the evening I was on my xbox and played Halo Combat Evolved, a great game, one of my favourites. Then, after dinner their was homework. I recalled the teacher who reminded us. Reluctantly I switched my console off, swept my pen of the desk and began to write. Maths…ugh, even at first glance my head banged. The hours dragged by and most of it involved a long, distant stare, I was lost and stuck…and bored. I gave it a break and turned my gaze onto the outside world. My eyes wavered across our street through my bedroom’s window. That was when I came upon it…
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The face in the bush…it was at the very end of my street, to the right. I never noticed it at all till now. It was not of a man, nor beast, it was the bush itself; partially lit by a streetlight. Dark, voided eyes stared into mine, as if they saw me through the glass. Its two black slits for a nose and a crooked smile for a mouth. Its leaves rustled gently in the wind. I broke away and returned to my homework. It became my escape. After a couple answered questions, I took another glance…the face was gone.
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In the morning that followed, I walked near to that bush as I had to turn a corner as I always had. No face unveiled itself. It was just an ordinary bush. School took my mind off it till the end, then my friends had waited for me- which meant the park. I was relieved. Although once we had our fun it was a lot darker than yesterday and I couldn’t ask Alex or Tom to accompany me; they had to go home. So I walked home like a sloth, but perhaps that was a bad idea because of the ongoing darkening of the sky and the sudden gale that swept over. I quickened my pace. As I turned that repulsive corner, where the bush stood, which rustled wildly in this strange wind. I saw…no face. It wasn’t there. I wanted to check, to slap the leaves to see if it was normal. To affirm it was only my imagination. Yet I dared not, instead I carried on by it with a heightened pace. Home was close.
The wind calmed, settled to a stop which in itself was strangely unnerving. Then came a flicker from the streetlight behind me. I froze, I wanted to run but my body wouldn’t let me! However, I could turn, and so I did. My gaze stared through no glass. It was there right in front of me. That crooked smile, the voided eyes and the dark slits for a nose. The streetlight began to wane. Slowly everything as well as my vision became terrifyingly dark; and in a snap of a finger the light blinked off…
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