"Emma!"My mom yelled from the top of the stairs.
"what?" I yelled back.
"honey i need you to babysit your little brother tonight." I groaned
"Do i have to?" My mom rolled her eyes before saying,
"$20?" She said. I nodded my head and smiled as she pulled the money out of her purse.
"Bedtime is 8:00, you can make hot dogs for dinner, and no scary movies, please?" I smiled and i thought to myself tonight will be a breezee.
Like most 14 year old girls i loved scary movies, of coarse my little brother did not. He is 8 years old and tall for a kid that age, his name is Eddie. If it was my opinion he would be long gone by now, but unfortunately its not. I am a average size 14 year old with straight long blond hair. The odd thing is that Eddie has brown hair when all of out family has blond. We think its my great aunts hair colour but not for sure.
We watched my parents roll out of the driveway as my dad waves and my mom smiles. Lucky this is not my first time babysitting. For Eddie i have done it about 10000 times. Usually i get paid $15 but tonight they will be gone longer then they usually are, but at least its a good deal.
"Can we watch Spongebob, please?" Eddie asked
"Lets first check whats else is on." I say. Like always Eddie groans.
"OK." he mutters. I was close to click on Ghost Whisper (my favorite show) when I remember i am not supposed to. After about 5 minutes of channel surfing I choose the "Daily 7:00 news". I know it is strange but i need to check the weather because tomorrow me and my best friend Sophie are going swimming at the lake tomorrow.
"Why the news?" Eddie complains.
"All i need to do is check the weather and then we will be able to watch "Spongebob"." I tell him. We watch a part about a girl that raised $100000 for cancer when the screen says "breaking News" in big letters. The news man says
" A killer is on the loose." I turn it up and watch Eddies facial expression with my heart pounding I look back at the screen.
"6 feet , 5 inches, and has brown hair, last seen near garden park." I think to my self That park is right down the road. I tell Eddie to sit hear while i go lock all the doors. As I look at him tears are streaming down his face. I don't blame him, i wish that mom was here, I feel like crying myself. I tell myself not to worry and even if i am so scared i want to cry i need to be a 14 year old and help my brother.
As i run to go lock the doors and close the curtains i pull out my cell phone and text my mom everything. the bad thing is that we don't have a home phone because we all have cell phones, (except for Eddie) and my cell phone has no minutes so i can not call her sadly all i can do s text, and hope she texts back.
I go upstairs and i ask Eddie if the news has said anything else. He said the y showed a picture and said if you see him call 911 immediately. I sit down next to Eddie.
"Don't worry it will be OK, I texted mom and she will probably text back and come home as soon as possible." The vibrate on my phone to tell me that i got a text scared me. i looked at the message it said "We are coming home right now, don't let anyone in and i will text you when we are home." I text back " OK hurry home and i will text you back every couple minutes."
We sat in silence after a few minutes she texted back " HIDE!!! I got a text from our neighbor saying that the man is in the neighborhood on out road! Shut off all the lights i will not stop texting you and text me back! OK?" I'm in shock. I tell Eddie the text and we both know where to go, the attic. You can lock the attic door and my parents said that if anything like this ever happened they wanted us to go in their. I run around the house double checking locks ans shutting off all the lights. I help Eddie into the attic. After about 2 minutes we are settled in and i turn on my phone for a flashlight and my brother uses his sea world flashlight he got last year that he got at Sea World.
My mom is texting and i keep texting her back when i get a text that I was fearing, "honey, they will not let us into the nehborhood, But lucky the police are surrounding our road and the neighborhood. Stay calm and do not let anyone in." Knowing the police were there made me feel a little better but knowing that my parents could not come made me feel more scared.
We heard a crash in our house. Eddie jumps and and so do I. I feel Eddies tears falling on to my legs. We both know the killer in in out house. I hear him saying things like " show your self" he must know we are in the house. I wonder how he got in, when i realize, i forgot to lock the side door. He is right under us Then i hear him scratching on the attic door, I think to myself, "why wont the police come"? Then i hear a crash and see light from the door. I know he is there.
There will be another part to this, i will make it a great part. I dont knwo if there will be a third part but we will see where this takes us
