The Jack In The Box (Discontinued)

Part 1

"Human curiosity, the urge to know, is a powerful force and is perhaps the best secret weapon of all in the struggle to unravel the workings of the natural world." - Aaron Klug

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Head's up! I just thought I should mention at the start and end of this chapter, I wrote this in year eight three and a bit years ago, so yes there will be issues in it but I have tried to fix it up countless times, the original is laying around somewhere if you'd like to see how it originally started???

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Julie and Jackie 2009

Close friends, Julie and Jackie sit at a small table in the corner of a popular yet quiet cafe in the middle of their home town. Julie a writer and Jackie a baker; opposites in most ways but always there for each other. When Jackie the 23 year old 5ft 6" lady with tanned skin, black hair and brown eyes sees something she shouldn't and most definitely didn't want to see, what is she going to do other than tell her best friend and author Julie who is 23 year old 5ft 8" with; red headed, pale skinned and green eyed? What are they going to get up to?

"It was horrifying, horrifying I tell you! All I heard was this terribly eerie sounds of a Jack in the box, and I felt compelled to follow the sounds; they led me outside to the park across the road from my apartment. At first I thought it was just a little girl hanging out on the monkey bars..." Jackie started to explain.

But Julie cut in before she could continue; "You saw a little girl hanging out on the monkey bars in the park across from yours... In the middle of the night..?" Julie trailed off disbelief colouring her voice as she confirmed what she was just told by her friend.

"Yes! My thoughts exactly, so I went over to check it out and see what exactly this young girl was doing and if she was okay, lost or something you know? Anyway only one of the street lights were working in the whole entire park, so it was really hard to get a good look from far away; it was both strange and weird see, the young girl seemed to be around five or six years of age; with a rope hanging around her neck, her hands tied on the bars, and she was just hanging there swinging back and forth in the breeze." Jackie paused her face turn an unpleasant shade thinking back to the events of the night before.

"It was probably an inaccurate guess on her age too, because her face was the only thing that I could see clearly." Jackie excused herself and rushed to the cafe's bathroom to rid her almost empty stomach of anything left in there.

Julie stayed seated at the table worried for her friend, but wanting to hear the rest of the story and also soaking in all the information she just received. Jackie still looking as tired and sick as she did before walking out of the bathroom and took her seat across from her friend, not wanting to relive the past twenty-four hours but needing to tell someone she continues her recount on the night before.

Making sure her friend was defiantly okay to continue Julie asked a few questions before letting Jackie continue.

"What do you mean you only saw her face clearly? What about the rest of her body?" Julie asked completely and utterly terrified to hear the answer, caught in-between not wanting to hear the answer, and feeling the need to know every little detail.

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"Although they weren't there it looked like her feet were bitten or brutishly ripped off; her right arm was twisted at a sickly terrifying angle, her left arm was hanging on but what I could only describe as what I think an arm tendon looks like. Her stomach was shredded, intestines and organs were hanging out of her stomach or laying on the surrounding ground; and her throat was sliced into thing crimson ribbons." Panic taking over Jackie's face and my gut.

"I've been hearing stories about this kind of thing happening around here lately. The weird thing is though not one of these girls are from around here not even from this country! I hear their calling it the return of Jack the Ripper!" I say trying to stay calm but I can feel my voice quickly lowering into a panicked whisper.

----------- So I know that 'Not yet edited' part is really bad but it's from the original version of my writing and needs some work I know but it's going up for the moment so the chapter isn't left unfinished. ------------

Author's Note

So the reason for this writing is because a few years back in year 8, our semesters topic was horror so to pass our exams we had to write a short story and this was what I wrote, it's not the best but it's also not the worst. But I found it in my room last year or this year can't remember and just thought 'I may swell put this on Wattpad so I don't lose it again and so others can see a bit of my work. lol.

Thanks for giving this ago I will now go and look for the missing part to this story, till then... please vote and comment.

As always creative criticism, no nasty stuff.  Vote if you think it deserves it and stay with me till the end so you can see how it changes as time goes on.

Update: 12th of Sept 2016 - I still can't find the rest of my two part story, for that I apologise to those who read but I am still looking though I might have to give up if I can't find it :(