I wake up to a scream, it sounds like Emma. The five of us slowly get off the floor were we were previously sleeping. “Emma?” angelica yells. Emma runs done stairs and into me and angelica arms. “what’s wrong?” Cameron, Jake, Dan and I say all at the same time… Emma doesn’t say anything she just shakes in our arms, lying there like she has seen a ghost or something. “go look up stairs.” I mouth to all the boys, Cameron runs up stairs and yells “I THINK WE MIGHT HAVE A PROBLEM!?” “what?” we all yell back. Except for Emma. “UH, JAKES AND ANGIES PARENTS ARE KINDA DEAD….” That’s his usual reaction to stuff…..
Wait…. Wait…. I should start from the beginning so your not all confused…. I should start Friday, the day before it all happened
I stand at the window waiting for Lana.. my best friend angelicas mom. She always picks me up after work on Fridays, I practically live at there house on the weekend along with our little group of best friends. Me, the one that lives across town. Jake and angelica goldmen, the brother and sister. Emma, angelicas neighbor. Cameron, the down the street kid. And then there’s Dan, the other kid that lives all the way across town.
I hear a honk, that’s her. I go out and get in the van. Dan throws popcorn at me like a retard the whole way to there house. -.- oh Dan! He may not act like it but he is the older one, he’s 17 just like Jake and Cameron…..
We get to the house and everybody is doing there usual things when we get there. Jakes downstairs on his laptop probably watching some weird you tube video, Cameron playing video games, Emma raiding the kitchen. And then angelica doing random doodles in her sketch book. Emma comes and tackles/hugs me considering she only sees me on the weekends, we all go to south high except for her she’s only 13 so she’s still a seventh grader. “hi Emma!” I peel her off and go drop my stuff off in angelicas room, if I didn’t coco there monstrous puppy would get to it. coco is a boxer mix, she is a big puppy. She chews on everything and is the most hyper dog I have ever seen. Its like angelica when she has had her good serving of mashed potatoes….. it seems weird but, ya know. Friends will be friends.
“were you raiding the kitchen without me?” I ask when I come back to the kitchen. She gives me an indecent look and continues to drink her special orange juice. “yummy, wanna sip?” she says hovering her cup in front of my face. I give her the death glare and get a dr. pepper. “Ladies ladies your both pretty now stop.” Jake says as he sits on the couch. “I see all of your decided to migrate up here?” angelica says as Dan and Cameron walk up the stairs. They all nod and come into the kitchen and help me and Emma raid!
The night continues, weirdness, movies, loudness, cheesy jokes, and weird games being played. “lets play truth or dare!” Emma said at the point of boredom, for us its about midnight. “well then.” Cameron says and pauses his game and joins our circle. “YES I WILL WIN!!” Dan says as he jumps off the couch and on the floor rolling around in between me and Jake which is about four feet. “ I have a good one I want to go first!!!!!” angelica said… we all responded the same, silence. “Dan” SHE HAS CHOOSEN HER VICTEM!!! “dare!” he says. “boy you’re a risky one” I add…angelica glares at me and says “… I dare you to eat whatever the rest of us can make in five minutes in the kitchen…..” he gives her the I’m going to die look and says “fine go I’m watching the clock.” The rest of us zoom upstairs in the kitchen and add random ingredients…. Ranch. Pepper, salt, steak sauce, mustered, ketchup, sugar. Pretty much anything you could find in the goldmens kitchen. After five minutes Dan ruins our fun and makes us stop. We go down stairs with a paper bowl full of this brown yellow paste, and a spoon for Dan. “ at least a spoonful.” Jake says siting up against the wall. Dan holds the bowl looking down and Cameron gently pushes the bowl toward his mouth. “eat it, eeaaattt it. you know you want to” he whispers. Dan grabs the spoon and fill it up holding it and he puts it in his mouth, making a gross face. “you have to swallow it too!” Emma added. I laugh at the ridicules face he has… he swallows it… “k now I dare you to eat it.” Dan says pointing to angelica….. “at least a spoonful.” I say with a huge wicked smile, Emma had the same one.
After about two hours everyone ended up eating a spoonful of the most disgusting paste ever, even I had my share.
I wake up to a scream, it sounds like Emma. The five of us slowly get off the floor were we were previously sleeping. “Emma?” angelica yells. Emma runs done stairs and into me and angelica arms. “what’s wrong?” Cameron, Jake, Dan and I say all at the same time… Emma doesn’t say anything she just shakes in our arms, lying there like she has seen a ghost or something. “go look up stairs.” I mouth to all the boys, Cameron runs up stairs and yells “I THINK WE MIGHT HAVE A PROBLEM!?” “what?” we all yell back. Except for Emma. “UH, JAKES AND ANGIES PARENTS ARE KINDA DEAD….” He even sounded kind of scared. And when Cameron is scared he either hides it and laughs around about it, or he doesn’t react at all. angelica froze, she started to cry a little bit but that’s the most I have ever seen her cry in all her life. A tear slowly made its way to the bottom of her chin. Jake was hugging his knees in the corner of on of the couches just staring. At nothing. Cameron came down and gave angelica and Jake a sympathetic look. We all did. We all stayed in one spot, Dan leaning against the wall by the stairs, jake on the couch Cameron sitting on the stairs, and us on the floor Emma finally came out of shock and was the first one to move, or speak.
“I have to check on my mom. But I’m not going alone.” Emma stood up. I just looked up at her “ill go.” I said. We go up stairs, outside and walk over to her house in silence. “what do you think happened?” she asked. I just shrug, I have no idea, it just now accord to me that we should’ve call the police but I think that would be to much for Jake and angelica to handle. We go into Emma’s house. “hello?” Emma yells. We go done stairs and find Emma’s mom laying on her bed. We walk up to her and feel her, cold. Cold as death could be. She falls on the ground crying. And crying out thing I couldn’t understand. Tears rolling down her face and eyes red. That’s when it hit me, the confusion of why there parents would be dead…. No blood…. Just DEAD…. After about 30 minutes of us at Emma’s house. We head back. I don’t let go of Emma. At all. my arms around her tight. When we get back to the others Cameron had tears in his eyes. Hardly that even, more like overly wet. Angelica and Jake aren’t as spacy anymore and Dan is thinking, harder than ever. “what happened?” I ask. “his family is gone too.” Angelica says pointing to Cameron. Now I the thought entered my head. “what about my family?” without a second thought I walk up stairs and call my house phone, over, and over, no answer.
