One night in the school we were getting ready for the annual sleepover for 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders. This was our last year so me and Gracie wanted to make the best of it so we were going to snoop in every room and find out what secrets lie in RiverWoods Elementary School. We decided to help the gym teacher, Mrs. Schuster, so she would put us in charge of the sleepover watch (she always falls asleep so she puts 2 people in charge of watching the classes even though the principal doesn’t know she does this.) so we would be less suspicious to sneak around. Finally it was time The status: teacher-asleep goody-goodies-asleep bad kids-planning to t.p. the school, but its ok, they don’t really care. We snuck out of the big gym. Suddenly Gracie whispered, “Do you think any rooms will be open?” “Nope,” I replied like it was obvious “ I have a Skeleton Key.” She stared at me in awe for a minute and then said “Wait, You mean to tell me that we are breaking into every school room and try to find secrets that probably don’t even exist!”
I Looked at her for a minute as my lips curled into a wry smile “What do you mean don’t exist?” “There is still one room that we’ve never been in.” Gracie looked at me for a minute in complete confusion “What room have we not been in, Jada! We’ve gone here since…. We ….were……” she trailed off remembering one room “you don’t mean” she Said “Yea, the black hole” She gave me a scared look because nobody except teachers got out of there alive. “NO!” she said, “No, no, no, no, and if it wasn’t clear the first 5 times N and O spells no.” “Oh come on if you didn’t want to come you wouldn’t have spent all last week planning it.” I said as I pulled out a paper from my pack and pointed at the circled place on the map of the school “This is your map and you circled this place, the spot of the black hole. So let’s go” “Fine” she said and we started walking. Then we heard footsteps like heels, Mrs. Schuster’s heels! We ran but somehow she caught up. But it was just Jason. “Jason you scared us, what are you doing?” “I’m wearing Mrs. Schuster’s heels and that’s your first question?” he said jokingly “ya, it is so answer it” I said back annoyed by his carelessness “ Well if you have to know I want to go to the black hole too!” We walked the rest of the way quietly and quickly. When we got there I unlocked the room and we found ourselves staring into a long black hallway. We started walking until I saw a pink light almost purple from the fog inside. There were paintings and pictures and photos galore on the walls. “Look at these, they’re beautiful!” So we went slowly towards the light admiring the pictures on the walls. As soon as we got in there we saw it normal looking people in jail cells. They were high voltage so we didn’t touch but we stared until the young man cried “Help, me and my family got locked in here and can’t get out” We talked about it for what seemed like decades and finally decided we would do them the deed. I turned off the voltage and held up the key and asked them “what did you do?” he answered in a raspier voice than before “I’ll tell you when I get out” And before I said no to the request both Gracie and Jason yelled “ Jada, just do it!”
So I opened the cage. They walked out slowly closing their eyes and rolling their shoulders. I quickly said “Now answer me!” They opened their now blood red eyes and smiled their teeth now sharp and bloody, the young man said, “We are man-eaters and now that you know that you must die.” We ran out of the room, somehow losing Jason in the long hallway, and through the hallways, then we slammed the door and I locked it. We walked back to the big gym quietly and waited there until morning. When everyone woke up I told them all the secrets of the school and the fact that Jason was devoured by them. The goody-goodies were all bundled up into a ball and rocking, the bad kids were laughing because they didn’t believe us at all, and the teacher looked nervous but shook her head no. We made a plan to leave and go to my dad for help, him being a monsterologist and all. So we sprinted out keeping grave distance between us and other pedestrians, just in case they were maneaters too. We went to the tennis courts first that being my dad’s favorite place to go for exercise and he was there playing tennis with who-knows-who and seemingly enjoying it. “DAD, I have to tell you something” I yelled. He walked over annoyed by me and said “what do you want” I smiled and bounced once or twice my ponytail swishing back and forth and replied “oh, I don’t know maybe me and Gracie let out a few man-eaters and maybe they might be terrorizing the town.” He looked at me wearily “Ya, um, that’s great, have fun.” And he turned back to his game. I thought for a second and said “Well he’s not much of a help so why don’t we go to the house and research, and maybe we could find ways to kill them.” So we went home and searched and searched. After a while Gracie said “I’m gonna go get some juice” and I said “ok” distracted by my work. “Nothing” I said to the now upside down Gracie. I rolled my eyes and searched the phone book “here we go I found them, G…” I was just about to say it when Gracie yelled “GHOSTBUSTERS!”, “No, not what I had in mind but...”
Gracie interrupted again with a loud “DOdoDOdoDOdoDOdo DOdadoodaloo” I looked at her funny and asked what she poured her apple juice out of and she replied in a kind of funny voice, “That bottle over there.” She pointed then fell asleep snoring. I walked in the kitchen to see a wine bottle sitting with the cork unplugged on the limestone island in the middle of our kitchen. I sighed and took out a rehab pill but when I got in there she yelled “GOT YA!” “But you called the people right? I wasn’t really listening…” she asked “And you don’t think I noticed? Anyway yes, and they are gonna take care of it.” And with that we fell asleep. The next morning I woke up early (5:00a.m. to be precise) to watch the 5:00 news and the headline was, ‘MANEATERS COEXISTING OR KILLING?’ and showed a scene with the men we called lying on the ground dead and gruesomely bloody with man eaters standing around them. Then Sheryl Maggs, the reporter, said “We didn’t see what happened because the footage from the camera man’s camera was deleted but the mysterious appearance of the man eaters was a very good guess. But how did they get here and are they living with or on us? Find out after the break when monsterologist Gus Renchwood tells us the story of the man eaters existence and their probable motive for being here when we get back on the 5:00 news!” I was surprised to see my dad on television but he did a good job at explaining. He said that They usually stay at one place long enough to be feared by all and then leave but they could be anywhere so his advise was to close every school, office, restaurant, or whatever and lock yourself in your house until further notice and whatever you do don’t let your dogs out! And with that the screen went blank and the commercials started and I turned off the TV. At about 8:30 Gracie woke up and immediately started for the kitchen to get some cereal but now I didn’t trust her in the kitchen anymore after the “incident” so I ran off after her.
When we got in the kitchen I said “I’m going after them” “Who?” she said back smacking her coco flakes in her mouth. “The man eaters, stupid!” “And stop doing that, it’s gross.” She gave me a look and rolled her eyes and turned back around with a swoosh of her hair. “Whatever, your dads never gonna let you go anyway….” I was grabbing my shoes when I replied “Who said I was going to tell him?” She stared at me in awe and said “No, you have to tell him and if you don’t I will!” she finished in a yell then huffed blowing her messy, bed-head bangs out of her face and crossed her arms childishly tapping her fingers slowly. I looked up at her, raised my eyebrow and just shrugged meaning that I really didn’t care that much. I got up and got my phone and put it in my giant tinker bell bag with a few other things I thought I could maybe use. I scribbled a few things on a piece of paper and ran out the door saying “There’s my will!” When I got outside I took a deep breath and took out my bow and arrow. The whole time I was walking on Ralley Ave. to Vox ct. I was thinking about how Gracie was reacting to this let alone my dad who was probably going
