English Descriptive Writing - ' The Accident '

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The ‘Accident’

        Alex’s eyes opened slowly and began to take in his surroundings in the dimness of the early morning light. Everything looked so familiar- the desk littered with stacks of C D’s, the threadbare rug and the Lloyd Banks poster, slightly torn tacked onto the dull wall.

        Alex thought to himself about the extremely pointless dare that he had agreed upon last night, he felt that he was just trying to impress his worthless friends, but he had accepted that he would spend a night in a shabby, broken down and desolate house. Alex languidly dragged himself out of the warm bed, put on some clothes and felt the need to take a walk. He stepped out onto an empty street in London. It was typical British weather, cloudy and windy, but Alex set off on a fast paced walk. He wondered whether an abandoned house could be haunted, Alex did not believe in ghosts but pondered over that thought. He walked through the park across the road from his reasonably big flat in the suburbs of west London, the wind was blowing the trees from side to side. Alex saw a few of his friends sitting down in the park; he reluctantly walked over to the three men in their early twenties.

‘Hi Alex, you still up to that dare?’ John asked.

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‘Yeah of course, do you think I would have backed out?’

‘No, it’s just…. that place is haunted and I would never stay a night all alone in a haunted house, see you tonight then’.

‘See you there’, replied Alex

Alex began to regret accepting the idiotic bet. Alex had breakfast at a nearby café, he thought about what he was going to embark upon that Sunday night, he began to eat very slowly, he had some time spare time. As Alex started to walk home, he noticed that the cloudy and dull sky was gradually growing darker; it looked ...

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