The Swing

Just turning 15 and Marcus is staying with his Grandparents,yet again,while his Mother gets a permanent job and house ready for them. At least this time,she is moving close to the College Marcus wants to attend,which is great. Marcus is your average teenager,has the latest cellphone,tablet,and laptop. Getting bored with online life,Marcus loves to just take walks in his Grandparents neighborhood,and all his friends are right there too. He has known these 4 friends practically his whole life. Him & his Mom have moved a lot,due to his Mom's jobs or rent going up. Grandparents seem to be the big Stable thing he can rely on,and his friends always being his friends no matter what time passes. Marcus was Friends with Angie first,then it was Jimmy,then Demi,and last but not least 'Flip'. Angie is a light skinned freckled redhead with a temper ready to fight or go on an adventure. Jimmy is a little guy that was pure Italian,even had the accent. Jimmy is the follower & observer. Demi is a tall thin African-American girl that talked about Science all the time. Flip is a rebel that was looking for a cause,he was the first one to vape and he has a permanent jean jacket he wore like an armor. Flip's real name is Phillip,but his Dad nicknamed him Flip because he would continue to Flip out of his crib when he was a baby,name just stuck. Everyone was around the same age,give or take a year. They all attended Chief High School, had the same bus stop,road the old decrepit buses to school. Some shared classes but mostly only got to really talk at lunch or after school.
It was mid-October, everyone was getting excited about Halloween coming up. Houses up and down the streets were decorated,some more than others. You know when you went to the houses that went over the top in decorating,that you would get regular size candy from them,as they were all about the holiday.
Marcus's Grandparents were real easy going people,they only made rules to keep Marcus safe,and never asked much from him. Just 'Study real hard to get into college'.
Marcus was walking down the street to Angie's to see if she wanted to get everyone together and just walk around the blocks. Angie texts them all and everyone is walking towards that winding road. Of course, Demi is talking about some science fair project she was doing, Angie was all eyeballs ready to run towards something with all her pent-up energy,Flip was just staring at his feet while he was walking,like he was on automatic,and Jimmy was just looking at the trees they were all coming up on.
Angie pipes up... 'Hey, we are getting close to IT, does anyone want to just TRY IT and see if anything happens since it's NOT midnight Halloween??!' Jimmy looked at her like she had a third eye, Flip says...'What the hell Ang, you trying to get rid of us or something??'. Demi stops her reading off the equipment she needs for her project to say... 'Do you think it will be safe,since it's the afternoon??'. Marcus looks at all his friends and says, 'If we all hold each other's hands while swinging,if anything happens...we will all go together. I'm game!'. Angie just starts to run towards that big Oak Tree like it's her home away from home. Everyone follows in their own time.
(I will write more later on,sorry to leave it hanging,but I will get back to it.)