Chapter 1: Behind The Drawing

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Homework, homework, homework. That's how every last one of my afternoons are wasted. I just sit there in floor of the living room and do the stupid work. Today was the most homework I received all year. I laid down on the floor and stared at the wall. The wall had that stupid picture of the clown I drew when I was little.

The clown was to signify me growing up. I was afraid of clowns up to the day I drew it. I told Mom, "I am not scared of clowns anymore." I decided to prove it by drawing her a picture of a friendly clown. On the bottom, I wrote "Lucas is not scared no more." To this day, Mom won't take the embarrassing clown drawing down. It is as embarrassing as a chef having mold in his kitchen. She said, "It shows that my baby is fearless."

I looked down from the drawing, and my eyes wandered down to look at my planner. For language arts, we have to write a knock-off of Alice and Wonderland. I have never seen that movie. I plopped the DVD into the DVD player (My older sister used to love that movie. I hated it.) and pressed play. By the time Alice first appeared on the screen, I had dozed off.

I woke up. The credits were rolling. Great. I missed the movie... The eyes of the clown on the picture seemed to look at me. I felt the urge to tear the drawing down. There was a hole where it used to be. Not a tiny hole but a large hole that I could fit in. There seemed to be a figure running around inside. My curiosity got the better of me. I got into the hole and crawled through.

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