Escape From Maze House

1 Wahlburg Way

     The next morning I woke up to a loud squeal from my mom. I hurried downstairs in my robe just to find her watching a TV show. I angrily went back up stairs and put on my music, a good mix of Panic! At The Disco and Twenty One Pilots. I grabbed the first thing I could find out of my dresser and headed back downstairs.
     It was a long walk to Agloe High. I headed out 2 hours before school started so I could talk to some people before I had to go to class. It was still dark out when I turned the corner onto Pontiac Street. This street had a few houses on it but nothing that struck my brain as nice. I turned onto Wahlburg Way which was a small lane that had only one house on it.
     I couldn't stop worrying about school. What if they picked on my for what kind of music I liked? I don't want to change my favorite bands but if I have to in order to fit in, I will... Unless they want me to listen to Justin Timberlake, I don't think I will survive a day listening to his material. All thoughts left me when I turned my head to look at the house.
     If I thought that my house looks bad then I take that back. This was easily the worst house I've ever seen. It was a dark grey but not quite black. The front porch roof was being held up by one single rotting 2 by 4 and looked as though it would fall if anybody stepped on the porch again. Most of the glass was missing from the windows. I decided to keep moving in fear of the house and being late for my first day at my new school. But, to this day I still swear that I saw the shadow of a head in the window, pushing the pink shade to get a look at me. But, for the moment, I ran like my feet were on fire.
     With me sprinting I made it to school about an hour early. The grounds had a football, soccer, and and play field, as well as a tennis court. The school its self was three stories high and was made from pale beige bricks. People were packed in groups in the play field. Back in my school we all hung out together. I guess there were different groups of people based on what they enjoyed.
     Thinking I better go to a small group I went over to a pair of boys who were holding a camera and talking as quick and excitedly as their tongues would allow. One of the guys was really heavy as if all he ate was Twinkie's like the one he was stuffing in is mouth now. His head was covered in a thick mop of light brown hair that flopped in front of his eyes. The other guy was tall and skinny, kinda the opposite of the other one. He are thin black rimmed glasses and had a sneer on his face.
     I walked over awkwardly and asked, "whatcha doing?"
     The freaked out and started covering the camera in any way they could. The heavy guy ended up with it under his jean jacket.
     The skinny one stuck out his hand and asked, "are you the new kid... Ummm... James right? I'm Alex and this is Lard."
     I shook his hand but put on a confused face when he said Lard.
     "Oh, his name is actually Peter but so many people call him Lard that we decided to make that his nic name. I don't know why they call him Lard though. He's just a little overweight teddy bear."
     Lard but In at this point, "I'm not fat I'm just obtuse! Any way, here at Agloe we have different groups: Nerds are people who are into Star Wars and Harry Potter; Goths for people who like to wear really dark eyeliner; Jocks if you can do sports, which, judging by your puniness, you don't; and us, the Ghost Hunters. We are trying to find ghostly activity in Agloe. If you want you can join us?"
     To tell the truth I really didn't want to he a Ghost Hunter but I didn't want to be rude and these people seem cool enough.
     "Sure, what are you looking at?"
     Lard pulled out the camera, "we went exploring at HillView Manor yesterday and we are reviewing the footage."
     "They let you investigate there?"
     "Oh, no we just do it, but if they cared they would have told us."
     He had a point.
     Alex said "we are going to do the scariest investigation we ever attempted after school, if you want to come. Your going to need some supplies though."
     "Sure, I'll go home and grab some stuff and meet you... Where are you doing this again?"
     "1 Wahlburg Way"
      My stomach melted into my intestines as I remembered the house I past on the way here, now I really didn't want to do it but I couldn't back out now that I told them would be there.
     "OK, yeah, I will... Uhh... See you there, after school... Today... Well I gotta get to geometry, see ya later!"
     I strolled into the school and located my new locker, number 27, to find the hottest girl next to mine opening the locker next to mine. She brushed a stray strand of hair behind her hair and shut the locker and practically bumped into me.
    "Oops! Sorry new kid!"
     As she walked away I wondered how long I will be pinned as the new kid. But, is I will reinforce, this is not a love story.
     I opened my locker and started stuffing all my books inside and headed to geometry. School flew by as my stomach continued to deteriorate.
     After school I walked as quickly as I could to get home. I didn't want to do it but I also didn't want them to think of me as a loser. When I got home, if you could call it that, and packed a few things: 2 boxes of Poptarts; 1 box of Twinkies for Lard; a flashlight; a long rope; and I put a helmet on my head with a flashlight duct taped to it.
     "I'll be home late!"
     I left mmy house and got to Wahlburg Way in a matter of 10 minutes but no one was there. Just when I thought they had ditched they strolled around the corner dressed similarly to me.
     "Let's get started!" Said Alex.
     He went inside the creepy house, followed by me and then Lard, bringing up the rear. But as Lard stepped on the porch, the 2 by 4 snapped, causing the roof to come flying towards Lards back. It hit him hard and he flew inside. We tried to push it backmso we could get out in case the whole house collapsed, but it was no use.
     We were stuck in here.