Smile Darling (Jeff the Killer)

The window

The bell rang for the end of school. Thank goodness! I was sick and tired of this place!

I grabbed my bag and walked down the hall. When I turned down the hall to my locker, I saw Emily. She had a bandages on her nose. I guess she hit the wall harder than I intended.

She waltzed right up to me in those 6-inch heels of hers, scowling the whole time.

She looked me straight in the eye and said: "thanks to you, I'm grounded for a week. Which means I can't have my party this weekend! You just like to ruin everything you little-"

I slammed my locker door shut and walked away. Why does she think I would care about her stupid party? If anything I would want to crash it.

I saw that my bus was getting ready to leave and I sprinted the rest of the way. As soon as I got on, the doors shut. Perfect timing.

On the way home, I heard someone say: "did you hear about what happened last night? I heard someone got slaughtered in their sleep! Bet they weren't expecting that!" No duh! Why were kids obsessing over stupid little murders? They need to just worry about themselves!

But it was true, there had been 7 killings in town within the past week. Of course I was worried about Colby, What if he was the next- oh my gosh... The person in the window he told me about this morning! What if the killer is watching him?

Stop it Kate, your just worried. Colby HAD to be talking about an imaginary friend. He had told me about 6 Other ones this week. Probably just another one he made up. But I still had the tiniest amount of fear in my gut. I just needed to get my mind off of it.

I got off of the bus and started walking to my house. When I stepped onto the porch, I heard footsteps behind me. I froze in fear. Then I felt something grab my leg. "BOO!" It was Colby.

But I still screamed. I looked down and saw him hanging onto my leg and smiling with his cute little baby teeth.

I smiled back and said: "how dare you try to scare the tickle monster!" I knelt down and started to tickle him. He laughed so hard he could hardly breathe. When he stopped laughing I grabbed his hand and we we went inside.

I saw mom putting on her jacket and grabbing her purse. She told me that I would have to babysit Colby on Friday, and today was that day. "I'm off to work. You guys behave! Kate, have Colby in bed by 8:00, okay?" I nodded. She had to work until 12:30 tonight. She gave us a quick wave and headed out the door.

I turned on the TV for Colby and switched the channel to Spongebob. He hopped onto the couch and kept his eyes glued to the screen.

My math teacher gave the class a huge assignment today. To make things worse, we didn't get any time to work on it in class. I pulled out my homework and got straight to work. Even though it was the weekend, I wanted to get it down now.

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By 7:30 I got the assignment done. I'm so going to kill Mrs. Ales.

I didn't hear Colby making sound effects in his room with his Star Wars action figures anymore,

So I went to go check in on him. He was sound asleep on the floor in his room, and he was holding Darth Vader. I picked him up off of the floor and helped him get ready for bed.

I tucked him in and gave him a kiss on the forehead, I turned to leave, but he stopped me.

"Kate? Could you read me a story?" He looked at me with those big eyes of his.

I grabbed a book from the shelf in his room and sat down on his bed.

I started reading 'The Ugly Duckling.' It was his favorite story.

Half way into the story, Colby whimpered. I looks over the book and saw his face. One of pure terror. I too started to panic and asked him what was wrong. He pointed to the window.