I picked up the small, round, blue rock off my white wood dresser and placed it in the dead center of my hand as the memory of the day I found it, came flowing back in my mind as if it was just yesterday... I was skateboarding with my friends in an old abandoned parking lot. Small building around us were covered in painted words all over the walls. We were doing all sorts of silly made-up tricks like the "Slow-moe skate bored" where you would ride so slow a snail could beat you in a race! Then there was the," Super cool jump" which was just a cool way to jump off if you were going to fast. And I was in the middle of the "Chicken Little skateboard" ( skatebording with you nose up in the air yelling 'THE SKY IS FALLING THE SKY IS FALLING!!!) when the blinding sun beamed into my eyes. So I shut them for just a split second but thats all it took for my skateboard to stumble over this darn little blue rock and there went my skateboard from under me along with my feet and any dignaty I had left.I was exerted into the air like a canon ball being flung off a pirate ship. It felt like there was no gravity. But the ground inched closer and closer and closer until I finally met the ground like a 18 wheeler raming a brick wall(with no knee pads). I lied there for a moment, motionless. A sharp pain radiaded from my left leg to almost every nerve in my body. I remember the warm feeling of my blood manuvering it's way around my banged up skin then a cold feeling grew over me as I began to cry of the endless pain, tears dipping off my face I glared at the blue rock like it was some sort of villan from Hadez. Then time came back into action and soon enough my friends were surrounding me with worried expretions.
The next day I limped with my broken leg, outside to oddly, find the same, little, trouble making, darndest, of an ocean blue rock on the ground right next to my door. 'Is this little guy following me?' I picked it up in my palm and stared at it, as I had been doing now and remembered the day I found my memorable rock.
Chapter 1
"There he is Rock." I looked down at the completly unaware dog. I was on my porch, staring at the new guy who was sitting on the curb. Then he stood up,"Come on Rebecca,we have to unpack! Get off your bike and get inside!" I hadn't seen the little girl at first. I got up and walked inside. Sliping on my longhorn flip flops trying to think of what I would say to him. When you normaly walk outside you expect color or red bricks or something right? Wrong. Because as I walked out of the door-nothing, no color, no bricks, miles and miles of pitch white. A loud buzzing sound grew louder and louder. I coverd my ears and fell to the ground, the pain in my ears immediatly exploded to the dead center of my brain,"What is going on?!" The buzzing was so loud I could not even hear myself think after that.
I sat up and slammed my fist down on the beeping alarm clock and looked at the time,"Eight thirtyfour."I mumbled. Rock was snoring under the covers.I scooted to the edge of the bed, dangling my feet in the breeze as I did every morning. Walking into the kitchen I saw my mom fliping a large pancake by the stove,"Good morning mom. How did you sleep?" I asked steping into the kitchen."Good morning to you too, and I slept very well thanks."
Her and I walked over to the wooden table, "Well, did you have a good sleep?" she asked and sat down."Oh yeah, I just had a really weird dream." I took a bite of the large pancake in front of me that had sunny side up eggs for eyes, chocolate chip frecles, a bacon mouth and a sweet blueberry as a nose."Was it weird in a good way or a bad way?" she asked curiously as if she wouldn't care what my answer was, but I could tell it mattered to her. I finished all of my pancake, except the bacon, with a gulp."I don't know." I replied trying to understand the odd dream.
I walked over to the sink to put the plate away but the bacon slowly sliped off the plate and on to the tile floor. I knew what was going to happen next, before I could even come close to picking the meat up, the fat, black and white, small runt of a dog races over to vacume up the juicy piece of bacon and stumbled off. I set my plate by the sink dissmising the dog, and went upstairs to get dressed.
As I was searching though my closet my mom walked into my room,"Are you going to play outside today?" she said probibly expecting the anwer would be yes."How did you know!?" I said with thick sarcasm in my voice. She handed me some old jeans and a loose purple T-shirt,"Thanks." I said. Her cellphone rang a weird tone,"Hello...Oh hey Dave everything ok?" she said and walked out of the room shutting the door behind her. Dave was my moms boyfriend, I didn't know old people like my mom could still date! I heard her talking in the hall way, I put my ear against the door so I could hear her better,"Well, I don't know I would have to ask Rose about that." she said.
Chapter 2
Yes I've heard the saying 'what goes aroung comes around' or 'pepole get what they diserve' but normally if a regular non-retard was eaesdropping (not like myself) then they wouldn't get caught and what happend to me...well the door slamed into my head, a thuderous pain spred from my ear to the dead center of my brain just like in the dream,"Ow!" I yelped,"What were you doing by the door?!" my mom said holding the phone to her sholder,"Nothing...Who is on the other line?" I tryed to change the subjuct quickly, and stood up,"Right!" she said coming to a wisper remembering about her lovey-dovey on the other line,"Dave wants me to come over to his place but I said that I would ask you..." she said with a begging smile.
I smerked back, taking complet adventege of the situation,"You can go on one condition." I said tantilizing her, she lost the smile,"What do you want?" she said in an angraly monotone as if she was nagoshating with a terrorist,"You completly forget that I was easdroping." I think I said it seriously but deep down I was giggling at the least,"You were esdroping?" she said now smiling once more,"Go, have fun!" I said pushing her out of my room.
Before I knew it, there was a loud sound of a car door slaming and a start of an engein. I got dressed and bolted down stairs. I opend the back door and left. I quietly sliped over the fence and into the house next door. It was emty because every one thought that it was haunted. People these days will belive anything because, if you say you saw a ghost in a window they'll never enter the house again. When I was almost all the way up the stairs there was talking at the front door,"So...do you like it?" a women's voice asked,"I love it!" a boy's voice replied. I ran up to an old room. Foot steps came up the stairs following me. My heart was pounding right out of my chest, I quickly jumped into the closet and shut the door quietly then I herd a hand on the door nob and it swung open.
The door was opened by the boy, his jaw droped, I was on knees but I stood up,"Look, I'm not suposed to be in here but I'll explane later, I live nextdoor." I rushed through my sentense as quickly as possible, pointing behind me I added, "Come over when you have a chance." I said, staring into his floresent gray eyes. He had jet black bangged hair. How wierd that although I never really saw the face of the boy in my dream this boy, that was now in shock, looked extreamly like the boy in the dream- I jolted over to the window and looked back at the boy, he silently nodded. He stumbled to the widow, I jumed and landed on the ground. Panting I limped into my room and glanced at my clock,"Ten twenty-six." I yawned.
A loud pounding on the door woke me up, I went down the stairs quickly, knowing who was behind the door."We need to talk." he said. As I let the atractive guest in.
Chapter 3
"Of corse, come on in." I was mesmerized by how alike he looked compared to the guy in my dream and astonished at his eyes because it looked like small gray glass marbles filled his eyes. I escorted my good looking guest to the kitchen,"Would you like drink?" I said opening the refrigorator,"No thanks." he replied siting down on a bar stool grining, I decided to have lemonade and poored myself a glass,"Suite your self." Then it was silent.
"What were you doing in my house!?" he said with thick anger in his voice breaking the silence,"Sometimes I go in there to think where NORMALY no one can find me!" I blerted out,I could feel the rage of embaressment fill up inside me,"So you just hide from every thing upstairs in an old abande-" I stoped him,"I do not hide," I said. "I think its good to get away from the world every once in a while." I some how was standing now looking down at the floor as I spoke slowly. And he just shook his head side to side tring to understand.
He got up,"I'm out of this nut house." he walked out of the kitchen,"Wait..." I said stalling him. He was standing at the door with his hand tightly griped on the door knob,"I didn't mean to get mad... but I don't hide." I said, he turned around looking strait at me and his but it felt like he looked even deeper,"Look out! Look out! Don't panic! What ever you do don't-" I pulled out my phone,"Just wait right there." I said to the confused guy looking around franticly, he nodded his head. I walked into the kitchen and pushed the TALK button on the buzzing phone,"Hi mom!" I could feel him rolling his eyes,"Rose? Oh, hey, umm... I'm gonna be late tonight is that ok?" she asked in a begging voice again,"Sure mom have fun." I said,"Thanks Rosy." she said with gratude. I heard a guy in the back ground holding back a cackle.
"My mom." I said lifting the phone then putting it back into my pocket."Oh," It was occwardly quiet so I said," Well I don't recall we have introduced ourselfs. I'm Rose and you are?" I said as he walked over to me,"Nice to meet you Rose I'm Bobby." he held out his hand,"It's nice to meet you too. And sorry 'bout all that nosense with your house and all..." we shuck hands,"Nah, it's cool. I know what you mean when you just want to get away for a while." he smiled."So now what?" I said, putting away my anchitios hand. "Well I have to unpack but some of my friends are coming over in a little while and maybe we can all do some thing together later?" he said as I opened the door,"Sounds great. Can you come over when they get close?" I asked as he stepped out of the door way, "Sure, see you then?" he asked. I played hard to get and slamed the door then walked off. I headed upstairs to get my pink pok-a-dot bathing suit on to go taning.
Chapter 4
I grabed a towel and then slid the glass door open to a point where I could barly fit though it. Rocky followed. As I layed down in the launge chair out by my pool, I heard a noise come from over the fence,"Hey back off I want to see her!" "No you saw her just a minute ago!" I could bairly hear them wisper but I did. So I stood up and quietly stampeeded over to Bobby's house. Pounding on the door I saw him walk over,"Good job knocking but what's up with the-" he started to say while guestering to the bathing suit, then I interupted him,"Are there any adults here?" I asked in an angraly fast tone, "No they went grocery shoping wh-" I pushed him away and jolted to the backyard window. He rushed over to me, "What is going on you broke into my house onc-" He stated, "Number one, it wasn't your house at the time. Number two, the back door was open. And number three who the hay-ball are they?!" I yelped and pointed to the to boys crouded by the small hole in the fence,"I was going to tan then I heard them. Are these the friends you were talking about?" I was now shouting to a point where the boys now could hear, and see me clearly."No." Bobby said "Thet are my brothers. And please try not to interupt me when I'm talking, it's very frustrating." he finished in a I'm about to blow up in frustration voice, and out of the corner of my eye I saw both boys take cover behind a bush."Well are you doing anything over here?" I asked trying to change the subjuet while slowly walking over to the door,"I was going to start unpacking." He said showing me the door.
I walked off with a smerk. The picture of his eyes would go away in my mind, and yet I was glad it didn't. When I got into my house I proudly walked over to the storage closet and grabbed a lagre piece of Mighty-Putty. As I rushed over to the hole in the fence I shuved the huge lump into the peek hole,"That ought a hold'em!" I said in my mind, turning around and jumped at what I saw,"Howedy stanger!" Bobby said with a thick and fake southern acent. He was sitting in my lauge chair as if he was a statue that had made itself at home and had been there for hours," How long have you been sitting there?" I asked while he stood up and I sat down.
"Hmm.. I dont know a couple of years or so."
"Liar."
''Well then. Be that way!"
He looked down at me with a smerk. I could tell he was joking the whole time ,but I just slipped on my sunglasses instead of arguing with him. Apperently I liked changing the subjuect alot because I did once more," I thought you had to go unpack." I said shutting my eyes beneath my purple sunglasses. "Well I said I was about to, then I heard you were tanning..." he said ,I think he was smerking as his voice trailed off, "Why would my plans change yours?" I asked couriously because I was obiously interested in the answer. But without replying me, he took off my purple sunglasses and slowly bent down tward my face. I felt my heart race, my head spin, and I could only see the inside of my eyelids as I pulled back but he kept going and I think my heart stopped when I felt his nose slide against mine.
Chapter 5
But before our lips could meet-"Bobby!?" I heard from way over the fence, more than likely on the porch. He quickly vanished by the time my eyes were open. There was the sound of the glass door moving then only the loudness of the silence flooded my ears. I felt as if I couldnt move, as if I was dead. Dead- the word sounded unusual when I thought of it. But the word drifted away as he came back into propotion... him, Bobby... that's it. I was now in deep love with practicly a stanger. A very fine, handsome, sweet, loving, stanger named Bobby..
I just lyied there, motionless. While I was trying to sort out my dramatic thoughts, all of them came to a sudden hult when I heard his sweet- no that's not the word... ah yes- when I heard his perfect voice yelling back,"Yeah mom?" in a questionning tone. Then they were mummbling in low voices so I don't think I made out all the words corretly, I thought they had said something about a fish in a tunic... never mind, that could not be anything relivent to the real world.
I sat up, dazed at first then shocked that a boy had accually noticed me and not only noticed me but liked me, possibly. The thought was some what soothing. Seeing as at my school, almost no one knew that I egisted on the face of Earth; except for my good friends that I tried to stay with, always. With the sun in most of my eyes it was hard to see, I looked around anyways, to find everything. But my sunglasses and him. Oddly enough then boy who came so close to stealing my first kiss, ended up with my favorite sunglasses. What a nerk...( a mixture of a nerd and a jerk).
It felt so nice just being with him. Now that I was looking back at the moment and remembered that I pulled away, but why? I put that thought out of mind and hummed a simple melody on my way up the stairs later on after my tanning. I got re-dressed. I as usually (when in a catistrophic event) blab about it to every one. Therefore I wipted out my phone to call Kailyn. She was like one of my bffae (best-friends-forever-and-ever) she didn't go to my school so she didn't know how much of a loser I was there.
"Hello?" she answered.
"Hey, oh my goshness your never going to belive what just happend to me!" I yelped into the phone.
"What is it? You have got to tell me everything!" She begged, so I told her. Starting from the creepy dream to the...well... almost kiss, then she stoped me when I said I pulled away," Why did you do that???" she questioned as I explained that I didn't have a clue, then she paused when I told her about the sunglasses thing.
"Well I'm sure he took them so he'll have a reson to see you later. Oooooooo... Rosy has got a boyfriend, Rosy has got a boyfriend!" she teased (that would normally be annoing to me, but I just giggled) then nerdlily said,"Oh well shucks I try so hard..." then snoted. We both cracked up laughing and talked small talk about dudes, then soon said our goodbyes.
Once apon a time... hold on, I'm not starting a awesome mystery with that well know and annoing frase. Ah, here we go- For once in this boys life he thought he had all the happiness in the world, right in the palm of his hand. Then his house burned down, his father, his mother, his sister,his brother and yes even himself, died. Nothing survived, but a renisnce mask, that had been half burned. The mask was bright and colorful and very cheerful to look at. But the boy only saw a memory in the mask, a memory of death.
The boy was only nine when this so called, "accident" happend. He is still nine and is seeking out his murdurers. His house burned down six years ago and he has been searching ever since. So far he has revealed that there were five people in a gang called the Blue J'z, they decided to get drunk and burn down a random house. That house belonged to the Holt family. Now your probably wondering, "Why did this boy want to haunt the killers and his family moved on" right? Well maybe this will answer your question- that night they all died, the family was asleep and died in peace. However, the boy couldn't sleep that night and he heard the retarded giggling of the drunk gang. The house caught on fire in, what seemed like, an instant. Then he became very warm now he was burning up, literaly. And the last thing the boy heard was his own terrified screams.
Then everything went silent to the boy. No screaming, no giggling, no anything. Yet, he was still on Earth he was not breathing, his heart was not beating, but his mind was racing with thoughts. Thoughts of how he could get revendge from the Blue J'z. The gang never even met the police, so the boy took the case into his own hands. He plotted and went over every possible detail about the gang. The boy decided to torment and kill the Blue J'z one by one, so they would know how the boy felt.
After the deed was done the boy would have peace and move on to heaven. The boy hoped the Lord would forgive him for his needed revenge. Now that word "revenge" had a whole new meaning to the boy. And that meaning trigered an idea, the boy decided to wear the only surviving thing- the renisaunse mask would be his signature when he murdered the Blue J'z.
The murder of Johnny Crenge:
After six years of greif the boy was ready to have his revenge and 23 year old Johnny Crim seemed the perfect person to start with.
Johnny just finished his shift at H-E-B. It was dark out and all Johnny could hear was something wispering, but the wispering wasn't loud enough to tell what it was or what it was saying. Johnny dismissed the wispering as he open the car door and got inside. Johnny put the key in the ignition to start the clunker. But the car didn't start, it just gave out a short yet loud mumble. Johnny cursed and laughed at the idea that something was going to happen. Something that could dramaticly change or even end his life as he knew it. Then a shadow moved next to the car and Johnny jerked his head around to look at nothing but the pavment. The shadow all of a sudden moved through out the veicle and the wispering came back louder and louder. Johnny was hypervenilating by now because he could hear the words clearly.
The boy was speaking into Johnny's mind. As the boy had rehersed the lines they seemed to just flow out of his mouth saying,"Hello," he said calmly then he purposely made himself visible to Johnny. The boy took form through the ashy cloud that had appeared as the shadow to Johnny had noticed before but now the shadow was wearing a very colorful mask. The boy was in the middle of the back seat but Johnny could only see the renisanse mask in the rear-view mirror," Umm... h-hi." Johnny said studdering a bit in a very shaky voice. "Who are you and what do you want?" Johnny was more confident and was even demanding answers. But without answering the boy just went through his lines,"Six years ago you got drunk with your friends on the 3rd of March and burned down a house on Sunset road." he paused to let the message sink in. Right before the boy was about to speak again Johnny interupted him,"Are you with the cops or something?" the boy was not pleased by the interuption but he just continuded.
"Well, that was my house you burned down and you killed my family..." the masked shadow held up a red lighter and Johnny's eyes grew at least an inch bigger,"What are you doing?" Johnny's voice was shaky again. But the boy went on,"You know who I loved that died in that fire?" now something that the boy didn't expect happend, the boy got more angery and fruiaded as he went on."Look I'm sorry but you dont have to do this, I was stupid then but I'm a better person now!" Johnny was begging now but the boy didn't listen,"My father, Jerome Holt, died in a fire and now you will die the same way." the boy felt so in powered as he droped the red lighter out of his hand and onto the floor that had been soaked with gasoline and as the car lit on fire the last thing that Johnny Crim heard was his own terrifyied screams.
The murder of Jacob Takker-
The boy had just begun....
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