Her Friend, Her Enemy

Halloween was always my favorite holiday, but the last Halloween I experienced was by far the most appalling. You can’t even conceptualize it. 

My full name is Cassandra Burke, but people call me Cassie for short. Halloween was the highlight of the year for my friends and I. We would chug eggs in peoples mailboxes, and throw them at houses, and also do dares. Those kind of inappropriate things.  

I had just turned thirteen a few days before Halloween and I couldn’t have been more astonished. I had completely become a teenager which I aspired for as long as I had entered the world. We didn’t dress up on Halloween, Halloween was now just a prank night, not a dress-up night. We were cocky and thinking we were too mature to do something like that.

The last words to my parents before I left the house for the abhorrent Halloween weren’t really bad...or good. They were somewhere in between. My mom was flipping out because I got in an argument on Facebook and that almost ruined my chances of going pranking on Halloween (what she thought was trick-or-treating), and I decided it would be much safer if I didn’t talk back. So, I just hid my face and nodded. I said “OK Mom,” and I walked out the door.

My dad was one of those guys who was so focused in work and he didn’t focus on me, and I was an only child. I was never a “daddies girl” like all the other girls when they were five. I was more of a “mommies girl” because my mom was a housewife, so she spent so much time with me, and actually cared about me. I thought about it and I realized that I thought my dad did love me, I mean usually all parents who are still together love their children, I think it is impossible for anyone not to love their children. They just might not show it, and those are the best words you could describe my dad with. I mean, I never really thought about it, but I guess I do love him, its just we never got to spend any quality time together. My mom didn’t seem to notice and seemed perfectly blind, but I always wished that one day she would just open her eyes and LOOK. 

I think the last words before I left for Halloween to Dad was simply, “Goodnight Dad,” the night before. My dad was on his way upstairs and it didn’t look like he had heard me, but whatever, I eventually got over it. I always did. I wasn’t the type of person to hold a grudge. Well not anymore. I was used to it.

So anyways before I get carried away, back to Halloween night. 

So, every year these rowdy teenagers that every town or city has that hang around the train tracks and all that crap always walked into this futile aged house that was on the end of this street called Jingle Pot Drive. It was somewhat “haunted" and filled with ghosts. This street was near the town circle, where all the “Dunkin’ Donuts” and “Blockbusters” and stuff was. The house was a strange adumbration of red, that looked like blood, but it wasn’t. It just seemed that way. If you took one effortless peek at the house you could tell it was abandoned. There were chips in the shingles of it, and it looked rather disfigured, and I had no wanting to go inside of it. Kendra and Olivia (my best friends that I did pranks with) looked fascinated in the whole house, and where so ever inquisitive to go inside and see what the inside of this bad looking house looked like. It probably looked worse than the outside. Or could anything look as beastly as the outside? I have no idea.

Over the past year, Olivia and Kendra have not stopped babbling about the house, and they promised themselves long ago that this year would be the year they went inside. 

Once we past the house Kendra screamed, as her blonde hair stood up straight. The scream was animation, mixed with cowardice. Olivia then screamed also, distinguishing what Kendra was looking at.

“The house!” Kendra blurted out, so anxiously. Then she ran up to the door and gave it a ‘hug’, (if you would call it that). “We have to go inside.” Kendra announced. Then, she grabbed my hand and Olivia’s, and she started walking towards the door.  “Come on you two, you promised you would go in-”

I tugged my hand away from her clutch. “Um, I never made that promise and I’m not going in that frigging horror house! I'm going to Dunks. I'm thirsty and I-"

“Oh shut up,” complained Olivia. “Just go in.”

“Yeah,” replied Kendra. “You are like such a baby.”

“You guys can go in without me and maybe I’ll just go to Dunkin Donuts and you can meet me there. Or, you could be a true friend and be comfortable with the fact I don't wanna go in,” I yelled.

“Let’s go in and leave Cassie alone,” Olivia said, while rolling her eyes.

Then, Kendra and Olivia started whispering weird stuff about me. “I can’t wait to tell everyone at school how much of a wimp she is,” I heard Kendra say. Then she said she was going to tell my crush.

“What did you just say?” I squealed, Kendra turned around with a smirk on her face. Then she stopped in her tracks and annihilated it, and scowled at me. “I didn’t say anything, Cassie. Like, seriously what are you talking about?!” 

“I’m not an idiot Kendra! I heard what you said. Gosh.”

“Guys, guys,” Olivia said. “no need to argue. Um...Cassie. I don’t think Kendra said anything. If she did, just ignore it.”

“Olivia, like shut up!” I howled...starting to get mad. “Like, she said it to you. Why are you defending her?!”

“Cassie, you don’t even know what you’re talking about. Me and Kendra are going and that’s final. Bye.” Then, Olivia and Kendra strutted away.

I ran up to Olivia and hopped on her back as a joke. “Cassandra!!!! What the hell!!! Get off me!!!!” 

I got up laughing. 

“That wasn’t funny!” Olivia scowled. 

“Yeah, it was stupid.” Kendra said.                                                                                                                                                                     I scowled at them. I was so mad. I rolled my eyes and turned around. I started walking down the street on my way to Dunkin Donuts. I turned around to take a glance at the House. Kendra and Olivia were opening the wooden door. When it was open, the empty door looked like a big black hole. I watched them as they stepped into the large door of the House and closed it behind them.