Short Stories

3. "THe MAsK DrOVe mE CrAZy!"

Jordan and Jack walk down the sidewalk. It was a bright and sunny summer day and the two had just gotten out of school a few weeks ago.

"Can I come to your house?" Jack said, breaking the silence between them.

"No." Thats all Jordan spoke.

"Why? You never let me over there!" Jack wasn't lying, he had never been over the girl's apartment, "Does your father not want a boy in the house? Are you embarrassed of your family?"

"No." That's what the girl said again..

"C'mon Jordan! Don't make me do the nuclear option." Jack smirked at his idea.

The two knew this wouldn't end nicely, Jordan had made Jack's puppy face the 'nuclear option' because it was too cute for Jordan to handle. If Jack did it, Jordan would agree to whatever he wanted to do it.

"If you use yours, we'll use ours!" Jordan looked at the brunette boy.

Not only Jack, Jordan had her own nuclear option. Since Jack had a crush on her, he could never say no. But Jordan had two, her Devil and Angel.

"Never mind." Jack said quickly, he couldn't tell which nuclear option she'd use.

"Thats what we thought." Jordan smirked in victory, then sighed in defeat because she saw Jack sad, "Fine"

"YAY!" Jack jumped up and down in excitement, "THIS WEEKEND! SATURDAY, 4:00 PM! WE'RE GOING TO WATCH ALL TRANSFORMER MOVIES AND MAZE RUNNER TOO!"

"Calm down, it's not THAT big of a deal." Jordan said, making her friend gasp.

"NOT THAT BIG OF A DEAL?!?!? THIS IS A BREAK IN HISTORY!!!" Jack screamed, making Jordan chuckle.

"Alright, cya later." Jordan walked into to her apartment building. leaving a excited Jack all alone.

"I'm going to finally see inside her house." He said to no one but himself.

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"KNOCK KNOCK! I'M HERE, OPEN UP THE DOOR!!!" Jack screamed throught the door, attracting a few stares from the neighbors.

Jordan slowly oepns her door to show a mordern living room.

"Be quite will you?!?" The blue-haired girl hissed at the brunette

"Alright, alright, but let me in. I'll die out here if you don't." The brunette joked.

Jordan rolled her eyes and opened the door wide enough for Jack to come in.

"You're house in nice." Jack said admiring the living room.

"You've barely seen it, we think the best part is our room." Jordan says, "Our mom just got out of work, she'll be home soon."

"I don't care, just me the tour of your apartment already!" Jack said, grabbing the girl's hand.

"You sure?" Jordan just wanted to make sure.

"Yes!" Jack almost scream.

Jordan pulled Jack and showed him expect her room and a room with a sign that says WARNING!! 

"What's in that room?" Jack asked, pointing to the door.

"That's our dad's room." Jordan said not looking up from making dinner.

"Can I go in?" Jack asked

"Sure!" Jordan said not realizing her friend was talking about that  room.

"Thanks." Jack skipped to the room opening it wide enough for him to fit through, but not wide enough to let in a lot of light.

The door slammed shut and the door locked itself.

"Jordan? Is this a prank? It isn't funny!" Jack spoke to nothing but darkness.

"JACK! OPEN THE DOOR! WE DIDN'T REALIZED THAT WAS MY DAD'S ROOM!" Jordan scream from outside the door.

Jack ran to the door and tried to open it, but here's the problem was it was locked, "I CAN'T OPEN IT! IT'S LOCKED!"

"WE'LL GET A KEY" Jordan's voice become more and more faint until Jack couldn't hear it.

"The mask....." A voice whispered in his ear.

"THe MAsK DrOVe mE CrAZy!" A voice said through the darkness.

"Who's there?!?!" Jack started to panic.

'Who's in here? Are they going to hurt me? Jordan! Where are you when I really need you!' Jack thought.

Suddenly a light fulled the room and Jack spun around to see his best friend crying and the door open.

"We're so sorry!" Jordan ran to Jack and hugged him tight, "We're so sorry you had to go through this! We thought you were talking about a different room, we're sorry."

Jack started to cry to as he saw, no only best friend but crush, cry in front of him, "Don't be sorry. It's alright."

Jordan looked at the boy, "We would have warned you but we didn't have time. This room is haunted by our dad."

Jack  wiped her tears, "C'mon, let's eat."

"Alright." Jordan already had the table set and there sat Jordan's mom.

"Welcome to our home Jack, I'm Nora." Jordan's mom said, "You can call Nora, Jordan's mom, Mrs. Matheson or whatever you want."