The Grave

Chapter 1. Introduction

- Mark and his family are in the kitchen, his little sister singing Disney princess songs, mom washing dishes, and his dad grabbing the peanut butter from the cabinet.-

"Mom, remember that I won't be home until later tonight, I'm going to hangout with my friends after school, okay?"

"Where ya goin Mark?" His sister had paused the Disney music and set down her microphone to hug him.

" Just to the mall or somethin, gosh.." Mark has slightly pushed his sister out of the way, but not enough to where his parents would notice. 

After saying goodbye, he walked out of the house, and onto the sidewalk where he would continue to school, which wasn't too far from his home.

On the way to school, Mark saw a graveyard sign pointing into a forest "A couple of minutes shouldn't get me too late," Mark told himself. This graveyard was though a thick forest. He went into the graveyard when he saw that one half of the graveyard was with light and healthy grass, while the other was darker and dead grass seemed to cover that part of the yard like a blanket of darkness.... He walked into that side. A old man who seemed like a ghost with skin, he was so pale. "Be careful young man... Beware of the spirt..." He rasped. "Yeah yeah sure...Crazy old man" Mark mumbled. He looked back to where the old man was, just outside the gates of the grave yard, but he wasn't there. Mark stomped on one of the graves and laughed, then he left to get to school.

Mark was always that one popular jokester of Lakewood High. So were his buddies, Jake,  Mary, and Tyson. Sometimes Jake's younger sister, Layla would also tag along. Layla was only 2 years younger than the rest of them.

In ELA, Mr. Rock wanted the students to wright a haiku based on Halloween. Mark and his friends (except for Layla) were all talking about what they were going to be for Halloween. "I was thinking like a psycho lumber jack. With a bloody axe I could carry around." Mark explained. "Ah yes, instead of Beauty and the Beast, we got Beauty and the Psycho Lumberjack" Jake had teased, since Amber (Mark's sister) was going as Belle for Halloween. " I think I'm going to be a black cat.... Unlucky..." Mary had said while smiling at Jake. He had smiled back. " Ugh guys get a room!" Mark complained. The bell rang and it was time to go home. "Okay guys ready to go hang?" Mark asked the group. "Yeah but I gotta go real quick and grab Layla. She had her volleyball game. Jake dragged.

While Jake went to get Layla, Mary and Mark were trying to decide where to go hangout at. They said that the mall was going to be full of little kids because of the trick or treating thing they were going to have, the park was having a birthday party, once again full of little kids. Then Mark had brought up the graveyard he had seen on the way to school and they decided to hangout there.

Mark called Jake. "Hello? Hello?" "Oh my bad, yeah what's up?"  "Meet us at the graveyard okay?" "Alright, bye" Jake hung up. "We can just take my Tesla, that way we won't have to walk." Mary suggested. They hopped into the white Tesla and drove off.