Ten

The scariest event of my life happened last year when I was 11. I was at a friend’s party when it happened. I am going to tell you that chapter of my life. I was waiting for my friend Blore. By the way, my name is Phillip. I was going to my friend Christopher’s 11th birthday. I put on a nice suit. I looked at myself through the mirror. All of the sudden the doorbell rang. It had to be Blore.
“I’ll get it,” I called to my mom.
I grabbed Christopher’s present and went downstairs and of course, Blore was at the door.
I let Blore in. “So what did you get Christopher?” Blore asked.
“I got him a gift card to Target,” I answered. Blore shook his head.
We started out the door and started walking to Christopher’s house. Christopher lived about 5 blocks from my house.
“So what did you get Christopher?” I asked Blore.
“A Madden video game collection, it has Madden’02, Madden’03, Madden’04, Madden’05, Madden’06, Madden’07, Madden’08, Madden’09, and Madden’10,” Blore told.
“No wonder,” I thought. I thought that because Blore came from a rich family.
We soon got to Christopher’s house. We walked up his driveway.
“Well I can tell this is going to be his best one,” Blore said.
“Duh, you said that about Christopher’s 10th birthday, and you said that about his 9th birthday, and the 8th, and the 7th, and after Christopher’s 7th birthday you said you hated it, is that because you’re still afraid of that clown?” I laughed.
Blore started to make a really angry face at me. I laughed.
“I was never scared, it’s just that clown looked like Charles Manson!” Blore yelled. I snickered.
We went to Christopher’s front door. We could hear music coming from inside. I rang the front door. Christopher opened the door.
“Happy Birthday!” Blore and I called to Christopher.
“Hey guys, thanks for coming, come in,” Christopher said. Blore and I walked in. We saw lots of our friends. For instance, we saw Victor, a guy we met in 2nd grade, we saw Charlie, a guy who was on are baseball team, Lawrence, the teacher’s pet in school, Collin, the goalie on my soccer team, Avery, my sister’s friend, Vivian, a professional dancer, and West, the best football player in are school.
“Look who it is,” Collin greeted.
“Hey guys,” Blore greeted.
We walked in the kitchen and saw West and Charlie playing checkers.
“Jump, jump, jump, jump, jump, jump, I win!” Charlie cheered smiling.
“Tough luck West,” Victor laughed.
Blore and I put the presents on the couch and started to play Vivian in Operation. Blore and I were on a team against Vivian and Charlie. I went to take an item out.
“Careful Phillip, careful Phillip, careful Phillip!” Blore screamed.
“God Blore! Calm down!” I yelled.
Everyone was watching.
“Hey, I got to go to the bathroom,” Victor announced.
“See ya,” Christopher responded.
Victor went to the bathroom. We continued are game. Blore was going for the clock item. He hit the end of the clock item and it flew up in air and he caught it. Everyone applauded.
“Thank you, thank you,” Blore thanked bowing his head. Christopher looked around.
“Hey, what’s taking Victor?” Christopher asked.
“I don’t know,” Collin answered.
We all started to look around.
“Guys, Victor isn’t in the bathroom,” Avery gulped coming out of the bathroom. We scratched are heads.
Vivian tried to open the door.
“Guys, the door is locked,” Vivian gulped.
“No way, you lie,” said Christopher. Christopher tried to open the door.
I picked the phone up and dialed 911 until I found the wire was cut. I gulped.
“Guys, look!” Charlie screamed.
We walked up and saw the guest list and saw Victor crossed out. We stared in horror.
“What the heck!” Lawrence said.
“Maybe there’s someone in the house,” West said.
“Or maybe Victor is playing a trick on us,” I said.
“Victor isn’t the kind that would play a trick like this,” Lawrence said.
“What about we call the police,” Collin suggested.
“Someone cut the wire,” I told.
“Let me go get the present I got Christopher, it’s a swiss army knife,” Lawrence told going to the living room.
“Cool,” Christopher responded.
We then heard presents and glass breaking!
“Ow, oh, ow!” Lawrence screamed.
“Lawrence!” Avery screamed.
We all ran into the living room. All we saw were fallen down presents and the swiss army knife on the ground.
“What happened?!” Blore screamed.
“He put up a fight against the thief,” West said.
Collin picked the swiss army knife up.
“The thief is probably one of us, he or she could of possibly take Victor and Lawrence down by surprise,” Collin told everyone walking around.
“Yeah, that’s true,” Vivian agreed.
“Well, if one of us did it, that means he or she must have been really sneaky,” I mentioned.
“Guys, look,” Christopher called.
We walked to where Christopher was. We saw Lawrence crossed out!
“Uh oh,” Charlie gulped.
West looked around.
“Where’s Vivian?” West asked in horror.
“Oh no, not again,” I gulped.
“Collin, give me that swiss army knife,” Christopher commanded.
Collin gave Christopher the knife. Christopher wandered around. Charlie looked at the guest list and gasped.
“Look, Vivian is crossed out!” Charlie screamed.
We all gasped. Christopher came back.
“I don’t see Vivian anywhere,” Christopher said.
Charlie opened the basement door and looked in the darkness.
“Maybe they were put in the basement,” Charlie said.
Christopher opened the closet door and took a flashlight out.
“Okay, Charlie, you’re coming with me, the rest of you stay here,” Christopher commanded.
Christopher got the knife out and Charlie and him went downstairs.
“Is that safe?” Blore asked me.
“I don’t know anymore,” I answered.
“Ow, no, take-ahh!” Charlie and Christopher screamed.
We ran downstairs and couldn’t see a thing! I felt a flashlight on the ground. I picked it up and turned it on. We saw Christopher screaming while being dragged off by a person who we couldn’t see into the next room!
“Help!” Christopher screamed while being dragged off.
“Oh my god!” we all screamed.
We all ran into the next room and saw nothing. We looked around.
“Where’s Collin?” Avery asked.
“He was right behind me,” West said.
“Let’s get out of here!” Blore screamed.
“Yeah,” I agreed.
We all went upstairs. We looked at the list. Charlie, Christopher, and Collin were crossed out. Only Avery, Blore, West, and I were left.
“We’ve got to be more careful, never let another person out of your sight,” Avery told us.
“Yes, that was so scary when I saw Christopher being dragged off,” I said.
“This is probably his worst birthday,” West sighed.
I looked up at the clock. It was two in the morning!
“I can’t stay here one second longer,” I growled confidently.
“Neither can I,” Blore agreed.
A rock fell through the mail slot. I picked it up. It had a note on it. I read it out loud.
“Get ready for more fun,” I read.
West, Avery, Blore, and I gulped.
“Wait a minute,” West said picking up the rock. He threw the rock at the window and it shattered. I smiled at West. I picked up a flashlight and we ran out of the house. I turned the flashlight on and we started running.
“What are we going to do about everyone else?” Avery asked.
“We’ll get the police,” I answered.
We then heard howling. We stopped and huddled together.
“This is way too dangerous,” Blore gulped.
We then saw a person in a ski mask beside us! We all screamed and ran back to the house. We all made it back in. Blore was missing!
“Oh no, where’s Blore?” Avery gulped.
“Guys, look!” West screamed.
Avery and I ran to West. West was pointing at the guest list. Blore was crossed out! Only Avery, West, and I were left!
“West, didn’t Christopher have a swiss army knife when he went downstairs?” I asked.
“Yeah,” West replied.
I grabbed the flashlight and opened the basement door. I turned the flashlight on and started walking down the steps. West and Avery followed.
“This is way too dangerous,” Avery said.
“Well, we have to protect ourselves,” West responded.
We got to the bottom and looked around.
“I’m so scared,” Avery gulped.
It was cold. I shivered. We started to hear footsteps.
“What was that?” West asked.
“I don’t know,” I responded.
“I’m going back upstairs,” Avery called.
“Me two,” West announced following her.
I heard the footsteps get closer. West and Avery were already going up the steps.
“Wait for me,” I called running to the stairs. All of the sudden hands grabbed my feet and I started to be pulled off by a stranger with a ski mask on! I screamed. West saw me and started pulling me towards the stairs. Avery just watched in horror on the steps. All of the sudden the hands let go of me and grabbed onto West and pulled him off!
“West!” I screamed.
The stranger pulled West into the same room he dragged Christopher to. I ran in and saw nothing again. I walked back to the steps to Avery.
“Thanks for the help,” I growled sarcastically.
“Sorry,” she apologized.
We walked up the steps. When we got upstairs we looked at the guest list and saw West crossed out!
“Only you and I are left,” Avery gulped.
“Yeah,” I replied.
Avery and I all of the sudden heard a loud click come from the living room. We ran into the living room and saw that a book from the bookcase fell over.
I picked up the book and put it in the missing place and the bookcase opened up and revealed secret stairs!
“What the heck?!” Avery screamed.
“Let’s check it out,” I said.
We went down the steps and came into some kind of room!
“What is this?!” Avery gasped.
“Some secret room,” I responded.
We then heard a strange noise coming from a closet. We opened up the closet and saw everyone tied up!
“Oh my gosh!” Avery screamed.
“Look behind you!” tied up Charlie screamed.
Avery and I turned around and saw Collin grinning holding a baseball bat.
“You did it?!” I asked shocked.
“Yes, it was I, I captured everyone,” Collin told.
“How were you so sneaky?” Avery asked.
“Well when Victor had to go to the bathroom I tiptoed to the bathroom and knocked him out with this baseball bat and dragged him down to the basement into this room and snuck back upstairs and nobody noticed because of Blore’s catch in Operation. I then snuck over and cut the phone wire, then crossed out Victor name. Then with Lawrence I was already in the living room and knocked him in the head and went and opened the bookcase and quickly put Lawrence by Victor and then came upstairs and tried to look shocked. And with Vivian I just quickly grabbed her and threw her downstairs. And with Charlie and Christopher I quickly snuck to the living room, opened the book case and went into the basement and grabbed Charlie and threw him in the closet with Victor, Lawrence, and Vivian, then quickly dragged Christopher off and pulled him into the closet and quickly went upstairs and crossed Charlie, Christopher, and myself out, now with outside I found a little passage way to outside, so I got on a ski mask, went outside and chased after you guys and got Blore and brought him back to the basement, and with West I was planning to get you, Phillip, but West had to save you so I grabbed West instead, pure genius,” Collin told.
“Why though?” Avery asked.
“I promised Christopher I would give him a fun suspenseful birthday, Christopher was in it too, we planned who we would get, I mean, wasn’t it fun?” Collin asked.
“Um, well, okay it was fun,” Avery admitted.
Everyone behind cheered for Collin. So I lied, it wasn’t the scariest, it was the most fun birthday I’ve been to.


Happy Halloween!