Sahia's Hide or Homocide

SHOH Chapter II

      Joy Riding

       "Dustin, wake up!" Dustin woke up from his mother's screams. "You missed the bus!"

    Dustin checked his clock. He found out that he forgot to set his alarm. Dustin quickly got down. He put on some slobby sweat pants and a long sweater. He ran out the back door without eating breakfast. Dustin didn't want to hear his mother's shrieks. He didn't care if she was chasing after him like a psychotic murder.

    Dustin went below the deck and grabbed his bicycle. He quickly got on and started paddling away from the house and on towards the road. He didn't know how late it was, but all he knows school starts at 8 a.m. The school was approximately fifteen minutes away by vehicle. He memorized all the routes to take to reach his destination.

       Dustin was finally on the street where the school was located. The school's view emerged when the woods each side of the road becomes clear. He paddled faster even his muscles were already fatigue. He went into the clearing from the trees to see the school up ahead. Buses were already in the parking lot unloading kids. 

    Then all the sudden, the petals became jammed. The bicycle skid across the tar of the road. It tipped forward making Dustin fly off the bike and crashing into the roadside ditch. It was middle of winter. Dustin just falled into a ditch mixed with slush, water, along with snow. Dustin was paralyzed for a moment.

   "Oooooohhh! Come on!" Dustin shout full of frustration. His clothes were soaked. He got back up shivering because of the cold winter air. He trundle back towards his bike which was laying sideways on the edge of the road.

     Dustin stand the bicycle up and found no dents. Dustin hopped back on. He started paddling his way towards the school. He placed his bicycle near its parking pole. He ran inside while the first bell spiral into life.
   
   ***
 
   Lunch period has finally arrived. Dustin didn't have any food in him since 5 last night. He was obviously hungry and the school served pizza just on the last day before regents week. He sat among his friends which were Colleen, Ashley, Tyler, and Zack.

    "Hey Dustin!" Zack greets him while Dustin placed his tray onto the lunch table. "How was your weekend?"

   "Good until I played hide and seek outside at midnight with my sister." He replies.

   "Damn!" Zack comments.

   "My parents are pissed. They are even more pissed at me when I missed the bus this morning."

     "Sometimes you need to let your inner rebellion out."

    "I also looked up a place on Google maps that's so perfect for hide and seek." Dustin adds in.

   "What place?" Colleen says while raising her brow. "It better be good otherwise we ain't going there." Colleen was mostly a thrill seeker and rebellious teenager. She always interested in sorts of trouble. More trouble than Dustin. She is the type of teenager who would play Hide and Seek Alone. She wouldn't even care how people deemed her crazy for trying games like that.

    "Ever heard of the house on Lincoln Drive?" Dustin asks while taking a bite of the pizza that equivalent to Little Caesar's.

    "Just give me the background of it." Colleen demanded.

   "It was abandon since the 1990s after a family was murdered and only the wife survived. She took her own life and it's said there's some sort of legend behind it."

    "What legend?" Ashley comes in while drinking her milk.

    "If you enter the house during midnight to play hide and seek, you must hide for five hours. The seeker would become possessed by Sahia herself. She doesn't like hide and seek due to the homicide of her own family." Dustin replies.

    "And what will happen if she finds them?" Zack asks.

   "I don't know because they were no reports. She's probably going to kill them if found." Dustin assumes.

   "Pffff! Sounds like a load of bullshit!" Colleen raises her nose up high.

   "It's not classified as bullshit until you actually try it!" Tyler points out.

     "My parents are going to be so mad if I get caught sneaking out pass seven at night." Dustin sighs.

   "Don't worry, just sneak out the old fashioned way." Zack smiles. "Window."

   "They are netted in."

    "Just bust out of the door as quickly as possible. Don't get caught."

   "If Penel didn't scream at me to come out, I would probably gotten away with it."

   "We don't invite Penel then."

    "I don't want to put her in more trouble too."

    "Anyways, who should we invite?" Zack asks.

   "Alma?" Colleen suggested. "She's a wussy. I am dying to see her crap her pants."

    "That's rude, Colleen." Ashley scolded.

   "Maybe she'll finally overcome her fear of the dark." Tyler jokes.

   "Alma sleeps in the dark. She's probably has a fear of disobeying the rules." Ashley said.

    "She needs to get a little taste of thug life before gradulating in two years. The life is going to change and be miserable." Colleen said.

   "Anyone else?" Dustin asks.

    "Let's add a curious one into the game?" Colleen suggests.

   "Who?" Tyler asks.

    "George."

    "That death-wish kid?" Zack raises his brow. "Uh-uh!"

   "Maybe he finally satisfy his death wish if this folklore turns out to be true." Colleen said.

   "Just enough." Ashley scolded. "Don't judge their personality: daredevil, emo, wussy, or whatever."

    "Okay then," Dustin said hesitantly. "We will all meet at Lincoln Drive before 11:45 p.m."

   "That doesn't sound like a good idea..." Dustin gasped to hear a faint male voice coming from the behind. The middle-age looking teacher gazed into Dustin's eyes. He looked like he was hypnotized or zoned out.

   "Um, why?" Colleen raises her brow at the teacher that they barely even know.

   "Don't visit that place at midnight." Said he. "It's better to be safe than sorry." He then walked away from Dustin and his group of friends.

   Dustin turned back around. "Who the hell was that?" He asked confused. "And what was he talking about?"

   "He probably spied into our conversation and warned us over nothing." Colleen assumes.

    "Anyways, you guys meet me at Lincoln Drive before midnight." Dustin orders.