The Alley

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I feel the hands coming to my throat. I try to scream for help, but I can't. My throat is dry and  I'm as weak as a dry leaf just falling off the tree, letting the wind carry me. They found me again, and this time I can't do anything. Then, everything goes black.

I was on my way home from school. I was walking down the dark alley, an ally covered with graffiti and that was next an old bar. Then I heard feet walking up behind me. 

Scott, Brian and Zach came out of the shadows, each with a bat, (as usual) and the told me, "You don't give us each our usual, we will give you beaten." this happens every school day, Monday through Friday, but this time, my heart tells me to say no, probably because I forgot the twenty bucks.

But then I remember, the watch! It's an old watch my grandfather gave me before he died. I'm pretty sure I can live without it, It's probably worth a lot. I turned toward my bag and grabbed the watch. Suddenly,  the watch opened like a giant black hole, so dark and deep and then swallowed them whole.  

"OH MY GOSH!" I say to myself. "What am I supposed to do?"

"Where did you get that watch?"

I turn around. A girl with dark hair,  dark clothes and pale, but a bit rosy skin was standing behind me.

"It was my grandfather's," I said quietly, even though everyone says that you shouldn't tell a stranger about something that's yours.

"What was your grandfather's name?" The girl demanded.

"Simon Akoi."

"WHAT!?!" The girl gasped.

I look at her in confusion, "Did you... know him?"

"He was the best..."

"Huh?" I ask, " What do you mean?"

"Everyone in our group had a watch or accessory to capture the shadows," she replied.

"Shadows?"

"The shadows are mythical creatures that capture souls," she informed me, " the watches or accessoires catch them, only them"

"Sooo... that means that Scott, Brian and Zach were shadows?"

She nodded. This girl is crazy.

"What does the watch do?"

"Well, the inside of your watch was made before the 1200s and it wasn't a watch back then, it was just upgraded over the years and ended up as a watch."

"How do you know this stuff?"

"Max, your family is famous in the shadow hunter world and some people would do anything just to meet you."

"Um..., what's your name?" I asked her. (I was tired of calling her the girl in my head)

"Why?"

"Uh, just wondering." I replied.

"Evaline," she stated, "everyone is waiting, so let's go."

Everyone???