We make it down to the tracks and wait for trains to come. "So...you weren't being serious about that laboratory, were you?" Arlo asks with a forced laugh. Arlene rolls her eyes. "Are you still thinking about that?" She laughs. "I wasn't lying though, we could go look for the lab." She continues. Arlo shakes his head. "No, that's stupid." He says sourly.
I grin. "I dunno it could be fun," I say, Arlo frowns at me. "Fun? What if you get possessed?" He argues. Arlene and I laugh. "Hmm, I do get lonely." I joke. "If you go looking for it I'm going home." He sits down on the tracks. "Don't be such a baby." Arlene tosses a pebble at him and he throws one back.
A loud whistle from an oncoming train sounds and Arlo scrambles up and off of the tracks. I pick up a rock and a glass bottle. "Do not throw the bottle, idiot! It'll shatter and come back at us!" Arlene yells over the clicking and whistle. I drop the bottle and throw the rock as hard as I can at the train, the rock breaks up into smaller pieces.
As evening falls and the sky turns into its peach gradient we all start making our way out of the woods and back home. "I mean, there's still a little time before it gets dark if you still wanna go find that lab?" Arlene continues to pester Arlo. He shakes his head. "It's too dark already." He mumbles.
We part ways and I jump over the backyard fence. My window is cracked enough for me to push it open and crawl in. I don't turn on the light and try to change into sleep clothes in the dark.
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Girl with the clay mask
RomanceVivian is a 17 year old boy that lives at home with a pretty stable job...that he's not supposed to have. Kevala, vivians crush since gradeschool, has a birthday coming up, Vivian plans on going and confessing to Kevala. But many many things go atr...
