The Experience

Chapter 1: Breaking news

I cant believe it happened again. Its got to be at least the 5th time in the past two weeks, and frankly, I’m getting fed up of it!

Hi I’m Ellie, I’m 19 and I live at 42 opal avenue. If your wondering what I’m talking about then I need to know if I can trust you before I come out and say it, because what I’m about to tell you is highly classified and must be kept a secret. You better get ready and listen up close. I’m only going to tell you once.

It all started a fortnight ago on a rainy Sunday evening, typical English weather. I was completely zoned out lying in bed, A book in my hand, staring at the ceiling. Suddenly there was a slamming of the door which woke me up from my daydream. It was Gemma (my best friend).

“OH MY GOD, turn on your television NOW!” Demanded Gemma.

I had no clue what was going on so I just sat there looking at Gemma in shock. She sat next to me on my bed, snatched the TV remote off the small mahogany bedside table and turned the TV on. While I was rubbing my eyes Gemma was scrolling through the channels. She stopped on BBC one, pulled my arms away from my eyes, pulled me closer to her and covered my mouth before I had a chance to ask what on earth she wanted me to look at.

“why are w…” I mumbled

“SHUSH! Just watch!” interrupted Gemma

I stared at the small dusty TV screen which had a small crack in it from when Gemma came over for a sleep over… but that’s a completely different story. There was this dumb news story about paranormal activity or something like that. I don’t believe in that sort of stuff but news presenters are really good at making people believe in this sort of crud. I really wanted to find out more about this news story and I felt like Gemma did too.

“Hey, do you know any good websites about that news story?” I asked in a weird excited, high pitched type of voice

“um… yeah. Why?” Gemma said slowly turning her head towards me

“no reason, just wondering” I said with shifty eyes scanning the room.

That night I stayed up really late searching for websites about strange phenomenon’s that had occurred in the local area but I didn’t have to read about them for long before something really peculiar happened outside my house! There were really strange glowing lights just above my next door neighbours house. At first I thought they were just having some sort of party with lights and glow sticks but then it started getting weird!

An unnatural humming noise entered my ears making my head pound. Next thing I knew it was about 11:30am and I was on the floor, saliva running down my chin and faint tingling in my right foot which I’m sure had nothing to do with what happened that night. I don’t know if I just had a bad dream or whether something really interesting was starting in opal avenue.