I gripped the smooth oval shaped bottle in my hand. In the other hand with my fingers wrapped around the miniature glasscup, I felt the glass groves the harder I squeezed the sharper the groves beganto feel. It was like I was gripping an ancient blad...

        The bottle was passed around several times in circle until eventually it was all gone. Ryan, Tom and I. We were wandering aimlessly through the dark peaceful suburb. All our worries seemed to have drifted miles and miles away. I thought to myself “what could possibly be better than spending a warm summers night with two of my very best friends”. Then for one split second my mind ceased to function-in that split second I found myself lying in dirt with my back slowly becoming cooler form the moisture seeping through the thin material of my shirt. Instead of getting up I just laid there in the dirt facing up into the night sky watching the endless amount of dazzling twinkling stars continuing with my thought of “what a lovely night”. My gaze began wandering around being drawn by the different lights. Quickly it seemed that my eyes were darting from left to right as I caught sight of something else, it all seemed to happen in blocks as if my eyes transferred the image to my brain and my brain was having trouble processing all the images at once recording images as still frames instead.

        Suddenly realized Ryan and Tom were both yelling at me profusely telling me to get up because a cop car just pulled into the street and it was heading straight for us. They each grabbed each one of my arms and yanked me up with such verocity that my head flew backwards and hit the lower back part of my neck. With my two feet planted firmly on the ground I looked over to the flashing Red/Blue lights. The sudden rush of blood travelled through my body sending me and my companions into a sheer panic. We began sprinting as fast as our legs would carry us. The flashing lights and the siren grew louder and more vibrant as the car began to gain ground. The urgency in my mind was so great I began to think of a million things a minute. I was forgetting steps or strides and I felt my body beginning to fall towards the ground but managing to throw my leg in front of me I kept myself from toppling over. Keeping myself upright I turned the corner to the next street and as a branch struck me in my face it struck me why was I running? I didn’t do anything wrong…did I? but what? But certainly I didn’t want to hang around to find out. “Whack” argh another branch struck across my face feeling like a whip against my cold/hot skin. I could feel my face throbbing from the sting. Reaching my hand to feel my face I threw myself into some unfortunate soul’s front yard. Burying my face into the ground with my body pushed flat on the ground I crawled under a bush just near the front fence.

        The streetlight shinning above trickled through the leaves and branches of the bush. Light dots appeared all over me making me look like a reverse dalmation. As I began to play around with the thought the dots began disappearing and a black shadow slowly engulfed the light like a solar eclipse. I looked up immediately and saw a shadow peering into the bushes. I was about to yell out to whom I thought was one of my friends to signal them to hop in, when the mysterious shadow took in his hands a long black flash light and started digging through the bushes. He came over to the bush I was under and started peering in, I could see his outline perfectly but he couldn’t see me. Spending a good two minutes digging around I was frozen dead still I didn’t let myself breathe in fear of being caught. I suddenly could feel something crawling up my back under my shirt I could feel each one of its legs delicately moving up the base of my spine and still I was so still I could make the bodies in the morgue have a good run for their money. After the two scariest moments of my life the dark figure gave up his search and left. I then saw the flashing lights slowly fade away into the blackness of the night before I decided to emerge. With quickened suspicious but relieved steps I hurried to the sanctuary of Tom’s house hoping to meet everyone there.