Hugh-Mann Creek

1: We Just Got a Letter

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My best friend, Awsten and I were putting up party decorations around my house for our graduation party.

"Dude, what even is this?" He chuckled, picking up a strange looking wall decal.

"It's you," I giggled, "That's what you look like."

"No you!" He chuckled.

"Y/n!" My mom called, "The rest of the decorations are in the attic, you'll have to go find them."

"The attic? Dude, isn't that place haunted?" Awsten asked, jokingly.

"Oh yeah, it's full of ghosts!" I giggled as we began up the stairs, "And they're particularly fond of eighteen year old boys with blue hair."

"Really? That's so specific." I pulled down the trap door from above, a set of stairs fell down close behind it opening.

"Well yeah, the person who killed them, also had blue hair." I said as we climbed the steps.

"What? How is that possible? Aren't ghosts from like, the eighteen hundreds? Or something?" He asked. I pulled the string, turning on an old lightbulb that barely worked anymore.

"They don't have to be." We began searching around for the party decorations, joking and whatnot.

"Woah, Awsten, come look at this!" I cried, finding a piece of parchment paper in a random box.

"Woah, where'd you find this?"

"It was in that box over there..."

"That's weird, is it, a letter?"

"Looks like it, probably from my super great grandfather or something," I flipped it to the back, "Woah, there's a map on here!"

"No way, where does it lead?"

"A place called, Hugh-Mann Creek."

"Hugh-Mann Creek? What, is it a town full of aliens or something?" I giggled.

"Yeah, a bunch of aliens trying way too hard to fit in with humans."

"Wait, I know where that is!"

"What?"

"That road right there, and that one too! We take that way to go to my grandma's!"

"Woah, you think we could go?"

"Where? That town?"

"Yeah, we could go for the summer!"

"We don't even know if this place still exists."

"Well," I began, spotting the box of party decorations and picking them up, "If it's not there, we could always turn back and go home. And if it is, we should at least go for a bit!"

"Dude, we could do like, a road trip!" He cried as we began down the steps.

"Yeah, we totally should!"

"Hell yeah..." We began putting more decorations around the house until he had to go home.

"Hey mom, I found this thing in the attic while searching for decorations. Have you ever seen this?" She sat down next to me at the dinning room table.

"I'm not sure..." She began reading over it, "You found this in the attic?"

"Yeah, it was in a box."

"Weird..."

"Look on the back!" She flipped it over, skimming the little map, "Me and Awsten wanna go on a road trip once all this graduation stuff is over."