Chapter 1 : The fire

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It was a dark winter's night, the wind was howling, trees shaking and no one to be heard. The stars shined bright like diamonds sparkling in the gloomy night sky. Everyone in the neighborhood was asleep, except one curious boy. His name was Connor Pritchard.

He started hearing voices coming around to his house laughing, with the stench of cigarette smoke in the air. The voices started to get louder, with each sentence they said Conner would tremble in fear, watching cautiously out of his bedroom window, looking from a bird's eye view.

They began to pull out a box of alcohol, Connor couldn't make out what kind, but he knew that it wouldn't be anything fancy. The gang then walked around to his neighbor's house and put the drinks down. The happy looks then seemed to wipe off their faces as they realised what they were going to do.

The leader of the gang then took his cigarette out of his mouth, got a new one out from a packet and lighted it. The rest put the alcohol next to the house's front garden while the leader threw his cigarette on to the alcohol. Flames rose from the house. Screaming, people shouting "HELP!", and then silence as Connor watched his neighbors die

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