My little stories

IN THE SHADOWS

THE SHADOWS

It was a cold fall day outside and my friends and I walked down to the store, as we approached the roads we noticed a sign informing us of the roads being blocked off so we had to take a different route today no one goes this way unless in dire need due to the rumors that are said, how there are psychos in the area, and vigilantes hang out in the area at night, and sometimes druggies, We were a couple of high school kids just barely getting by in school. I and the gang wanted to hang out after school at Fred's place my younger sister with us due to she walks across the street to the high school from middle school and waits about a minute for me and my friends to get out and after we usually take our separate ways, but today our parents were working late which meant we would have to get our food and snacks after school and Fred's place is closest to the store, so we thought it was a safe idea so nothing could go wrong, and that was the start of this nightmare no one would believe.

Veronica was around 12 and in the 7th grade and was quite well behaved for her age as she was still young and at times immature, Veronica and I were like "two peas in a pod," Fred was the eldest of the gang thought he acted like a child half the time he was still the eldest, Millie is the mid youngest in the group right by me as the middle, Millie was also not very mature but since she was a bit younger than some of us we let it slide, Joey is the youngest but not younger than veronica, he was like a little brother but the type that was way too loud at times. In school, people would call us an "odd" combination but we didn't care as long as we had each other.When we saw Veronica we liked to yell out her name so we could see her, "Aye V, who you got here with you today" yelled joey, Veronica just replied with a simple "just some friends, now let's get going", saying she wanted to sit down and eat. I heard testing time was around so I understood along with everyone else there. We were walking about 30 minutes before we came to a dead-end where a sign big enough for you to see a mile away said," ROADBLOCK" with really bright and orange lights on it. As I looked at Fred, he told us there's one other wat but no one goes there and decides to wait instead of taking this route but we were no babies and took the route either way.On the route we saw some amazing pieces of graffiti art and some amazing views from the higher places and not so much the lower places, as we got deeper into the area we saw some things we wish we didn't, we started seeing gang fights, and some guys pulling someone into an ally but I didn't bother to look anymore and just keep my head down. It was getting late and we were still walking, Joey, Millie and I started to get scared Fred had V on his back as she was too scared to even walk anymore, it has been an hour and we have noticed we are going in circles and the longer we walked the creepier it got we saw a hotel close by so V suggested we take a break and stay there as it was almost 10, we had dropped off V"s friends already and it was getting too dark and hard to see with the lack of light poles working so we saw nothing wrong with this idea.It was around 11 and we started to hear things, but we shook it off and went to sleep. The next morning no one could find Joey round 12. We met up to tell each other of our progress while we were conversing. We suddenly heard a scream that sounded like joey. We searched for hours until we heard Millie scream, by now we were in pairs too scared to be on our own me and V were in a group. When I heard Millie's scream, I knew "A. She found him" or "B. She was now also in danger" but this was a low chance because she was with Fred and we would hear him cry out for help so the culprit would not be able to contain both at once, and with this information, we knew they found Joey.Running down to the boiler room I can see Fred right in front of the door helping a quite pale and unconscious Millie I told V to stay With Millie as I and Fred looked for what caused this. Fred opened the door first but stopped a few feet in front of me as I was able to squeeze through the door I froze, pale, white, horrified look on my face as joey was pinned to the wall in front of me, eyes gouged out while hands were pinned on the wall by scissors, I finally still scared fixed my posture and went to take a closer look to see what we were dealing with. "K eyes gouged out, missing tongue, pinned by scissors to a wall, no trace of bloody fingerprints, we are dealing with either a murder or someone who wants us dead." Fred and I were scared and were wondering "who's next" while everyone who was outside had no idea what was going on.After our discovery we wanted to get out of there more than anything, Once we made it back to the room we found our phones and electronics missing, we started to wonder if it were a robbery or a murder. Millie is saying that maybe joey tried to stop the robbery and so in the way got killed and the killer needed some way of hiding the body, and better place than the boiler room. We were like the detectives in scooby doo minus shaggy and scooby. When we got outside we found the hotel covered in red paint but by the looks of things, it might as well be blood. It was getting quiet, I decided to look back to see a shadowy silhouette following us through the darkened alley. I think Fred notice because he yelled who there causing the silhouette to start running towards us with a weapon of a sort at closer inspection you could see scissors in his hand. As I yelled at Fred we were running I don't want to look back whatever I do but as soon as I start thinking we lost him I hear Millie scream and scream " faster, run faster!" we find our way to a junkyard V was passed out from the fear she had, and the man was nowhere in sight, it was too dark in the alley to see what he looked like only his gender and weapon.It has been a week since we got here but we have been too scared to leave in fear the man will come after us again, V has gotten sick we think it might be something in the air. Every once in a while we will have to go outside of this abandoned van we hide out in I've gotten used to the air by now so has Fred but I think it's making V sick, today we decided to leave V in the van, she has started getting sick and getting fevers she might not make it to next week. Today I and Fred found an abandoned bus with plenty of notebooks, some spray paint, and a first aid kid with some Adderall, if we give this to V she may or may not get better. As Fred and I got back to the van we found V crying in the corner saying that she won't make it and to forget her.I may be more strict and in line now but I am nowhere near heartless, so I told Fred to give her a sedative that will help her sleep knowing she will be gone by dawn. I've decided to start journaling to let off some stress surprisingly it works well but I don't think we will be alive any longer as I've heard rustling outside the van and know at one point we will be found, but for now, we have to hope a couple of days ago we buried V and made her a grave outside the bus since the last time we saw our parents were before we got on the bus for school in the morning, but that was a long time ago. Fred and I decided to make a run for it before we got found and got trapped. I wasn't so sure but Fred thought it would be a good idea to get out of the toxins before we get sick. At dawn, we decided to escape it was still dark but we thought there was no one there, we were so wrong we were walking through the town when we heard footsteps, there I saw him, a shadow in the shape of a man, I didn't think twice and started running as fast as I could, running as fast as I could, I lost my shoes while running to help not weigh me down, clothes ripped, and hunger overwhelmed, I made it through the woods and then there I saw it, I small bit of hope getting larger, and there I saw it I was out of the woods and back to the home I knew when I looked back I saw nothing no shadow nor Fred insight and at that point, I knew I was the only survivor, but I didn't care I was home I could see mom and dad.A month later I'm out of the hospital and in a psychiatric ward, they've said I've gone insane and I'm afraid of the shadows but they don't understand what happened that day, and I doubt they ever will.