The woman in the window

7-11

"Do you want to go out to Seven Eleven with me?" Charlotte smiled.

"Sure... Jaylin, Julis, Ester ? You all want to join?" I asked.

"Sure" Jaylin and Julis laughed in unison. Ester  hesitated. "Okay..." She finally uttered.

"Okay... Let's go" Charlotte smiled.

We got up and left. 7-11 was pretty close to my house. We walked in silence, A comfortable silence.

The silence was broken by Charlotte and Jaylin's giggles. "Look, it's the weird Building near the Dollar general!" Jaylin snickered.

What's funny about a random building?

"I don't get the joke..." I uttered. Ester  and Julis agreed.

"Oh, I didn't really intend on a joke..," Charlotte admitted with a grin.

"What if we explored around the Seven Eleven? Y'Know... the abandoned building? " Julis blurted out.

We all stopped and looked at him like his head got split into Two halves.

"What?" Julis mumbled.

"Are you serious? You're joking." Charlotte Responded.

"And I thought it would be the Cauliflower of the group to utter some dumb stuff like that." I spat.

"Yea... as the cauliflower of the group... that's dumb as hell." Jaylin Continued.

"Right... sorry." Julis Grinned.

"Don't say any more dumb stuff of that nature ever again... Don't want to end up dead, now do we?" Charlotte Concluded.

Jaylin nodded and we walked, silence again. Ester  was especially quiet.

"Ester? Are you okay?" I asked.

She only nodded. Something was wrong...

We made it to Seven eleven and grabbed our snacks. As we walked to the checkout counter I caught a glimpse of something outside. A woman, Tanned, Dirty blonde hair and looked like she was dressed for school. School had been out for 2 months.

She didn't look like she belonged in school anyways. She looked as if she was in her mid 30's. She didn't move, I looked away and looked back. She wasn't there. I wondered if she was on crack or something.

A crack zombie? But then I saw her again, More towards the side of the building. She was ever so obviously looking at me. She blinked. That was it, the only movement I got from her.

I convinced myself that she was someone who likes scaring people for fun. Julis does that.

Odd.

We checked out and she was gone...

"Julis?!" Charlotte called.

I had only paid attention to the lady outside, I didn't realize Julis was gone.

"Huh? What?" I uttered.

"Julis is gone!" Jaylin Emphasized.

"He's not in the bathroom or near the slushy machine!" Ester  panicked.

I looked around. I caught a glance at the window. The woman was still at the window.

"What the frick?! Where'd he go?!" Jaylin gulped.

We all walked towards the door. My eyes are still locked on the lady outside the window. We left the store. I peered over to where she stood.

She was gone?...

Wait... no. She was peering behind the side of the building. Still staring.

My eyes still locked on the odd woman that no one else seemed to see— "Is that Julis?!" Was the only thing that broke me out of my trance. I turned towards Charlotte "oh nevermind... it was a light pole" She snickered.