Nightmare Before Halloween

I pressed the little button on the side of the house. The doorbell rang and Mrs. Lisa came to the door, opening it smoothly. "Hello Allie Brit-ALLIE?!"

"Mrs. Lisa, yeah. Uhh. Can I speak to Brittany?" I asked, confused by Mrs. Lisa's behavior.

"Yes! Yes! Come in!" She gestured me to come in, the hugged me tighly. When she released she called for Brittany, "BRITTANY! VISITOR!"

I heard a muffled voice yell from the upstairs bedroom. It sounded like she asked, "Who is it?"

Mrs. Lisa just yelled for her to come down quickly. Brittany obviously grumbled, if I know her, and came down the stairs in her volleyball practice clothes. Her head was down and didn't see me. I smiled, Same old Brittany. When she did look up, she saw me there, standing proudly and smiling so wide my jaw hurt. Brittany gasped and ran over to me, and hugged me so tight my back hurt. "Missed you too!" I giggled.

"We-we-we..." She studdered, tears running down her face. I've only seen Brittany cry once before (not including from laughing too hard!) and that had a big reason, so if she's crying now, something must be up.

"What Brittany? Why are you crying?" I asked, wiping the tears from her face. She turned pale when she saw me, but otherise looked the same two weeks when I last saw her. Same blonde locks and gray-blue eyes. The same funny nose we always made fun of and the same additude. "I missed you."

"WHY'D YOU LEAVE?!" She screamed.

"What? I didn't go anywhere! I woke up in a cave in OKLAHOMA!" I replied, trying not to raise my voice at the acusations.

Right before Brittany was going to yell back, Mrs. Lisa took hold of her shoulder, "Brittany. I think we should hear what happened before we acuse anyone."

"Yes please! I want to know what the heck you are talking about!" Mrs. Lisa lead us both to the kitchen table. Jenna, Brittany's younger sister was sitting there playing with some sea shells. She looked up and saw me, and once again attacked me with the hugging! Then she started to babble questions until Mrs. Lisa told her to go play outside for a while. She reluctantly dragged herself outside, then took hold of her scooter and rode down the driveway, out of sight.

"Allie, I think we should hear your story first." Brittany asserted folding her arms.

"OK. Well after I ran up to Sam's room, and was attacked by Jake, I blinked and saw...Well. A werewolf. Don't ask, but seconds later I blanked out and when I woke up I was in an unfamiler cave. I explored but then started to adventure outside of it. After days of walking I found a small little shop, and there was a very nice elderly couple there. They got me washed up and let me stay there for a few days. I eventually ran away from them and found a way here."

Brittany's jaw dropped and so did Mrs. Lisa's. Brittany was frist to speak, "We thought you were dead."

"De-de-de-dead?!" I screeched! "Where'd you get that bunch of crap!"

"Allie, at our school we threw a funeral type thing. Everyone dressed in black last Friday for it. Even people who didn't know you. Some people even made speeches during lunch, including me, Ariel, Brittany, Emily and many others. Sam even, because...He...I can't say."

"I need to talk to him! Is he OK?! Last time I saw him he had a huge gash! Oh my god! We need to go NOW!" I grabbed Brittany's arm and pulled her through the back door. I ran down the driveway and turned right down the street. Brittany was close behind, but I didn't wait for her. I ran faster until I met my destination. I pushed the doorbell continuously until Ben opened the door.

"What?" He spat.

"Is Sam here?" I asked, Brittany catching her breath right next to me.

"Yeah, SAM!" He yelled up the stairs. When he did that I covered my sensative ears.

"Ow!" I snapped, my ears ringing. Ben took no notice and left quickly when he saw Sam at the top of the stairs. I looked up and saw his bright face, but when he saw mine he flinched almost. He looked away and walked into the game room. "What?" I questioned Brittany. She shrugged and walked into the house; I followed. We jumped up the stairs and saw Sam sitting on the couch watching TV. Brittany first walked over to him. She sat next to him and shook his shoulder.

"Allie's alive! Sam, she's here! She's alive!" She sounded exstatic, but Sam looked at her and her grin was wiped from her face. Sam had a blank face and I couldn't tell if he was angry or sad or surprised.

He sighed then spoke, "No Brittany, she's dead. And never coming back." He turned back to the TV and flipped through the endless channels.

"SAM!" I yelled running over to him. "I'm right here!" I cried out while waving my hands in front of his face. He took no notice. "SAM!" Still he watched the TV, as if looking right through me. I sat on the opposite side of him and shook him hard. He still didn't even notice. Brittany had a pleading look on her face, staring at Sam. "He can't hear me, or see me, or even feel me..."

"Allie, are you sure you're not...dead?" Brittany asked reluctantly.

"Of course not! You and your mom saw me! Why can't you..." The ending I whispered looking at Sam. He turned to Brittany, thinking she was talking to him.

"You're not talking to Allie, Brittany. It's just your imagination. Stop." He was getting angry now.

"But Sam! I'm here I'm alive!" I kissed him on the cheek and nothing. "SAM!" I called out. I started to bang on his shoulder, but he felt nothing. "Please..." A tear ran down my face. "Please..." I whispered. Shaking my head, I stood up to leave. Brittany grabbed my wrist and tried to pull me back. I pulled away, and ran down the stairs and out the door.

---

After Allie left the room, Brittany slapped Sam. "YOU IDIOT! WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU?"

Sam stood up and started to yell, an angry side no one has ever seen, "BRITTANY, WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU?! ALLIE IS DEAD, WE CAN'T BRING HER BACK...No matter how much we want to..." He whispered the ending.

"Sam if you would listen damnit! She's alive. Please Sam, believe me. She was here, right here! She was screaming for you, but you didn't hear! Why Sam, why?"

"She wasn't here! Out of everyone, if she was back I would be able to see her. She's dead..." He looked at his feet.

"Listen Sam! SHE NEVER DIED! It was a big mistake. Remember 2 weeks ago, last time you saw her, and when we thought she...turned into that thing?"

"You mean to say, when the two fought, Allie didn't lose. But...she must have lost. He's still alive."

"Who says losing means death. Sam, she's not dead. So far you are the only one who can't see her." Brittany pleaded.

"But-but-but. Why can't I see her?!" He whined and fell on the couch. "Why me? I missed her so much, why me?"

Brittany sat next to him, "You can't hear or feel her either. She kissed you." He cocked his head, "Cheek."

Sam put his massaged his temples, thinking hard. "Why?"

"I don't know, but I think we should go find Allie." Brittany said standing up.

"Would she be at your house?" Sam asked.

"Maybe, we should start there." Brittany rolled down the stairs, Sam at her heels.

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I banged the door, accidentally breaking the glass. "YOU FAGET GET YOUR ASS OVER HERE!" I screamed loud enough the remaining glass shattered. Stepping through the broken door, I noticed the rest of the house was beaten and broken. Blood covered the walls and stairs. "Hello?" I called out. No one answered. I walked through the beatered house, looking for a trail to follow or even a clue. I went into the kitchen and saw blood on the island. There was a message-

ALLIE: I WILL KILL YOU. I SWEAR IT.

A shiver ran through my spine as winds blew through an open window. Over the blowing winds, I heard shallow breathing from behind. I spun around and saw a boy in the shadows. "Allie, I've been expecting you..." He stepped forward but had a sweatshirt on with his hood up, concealing his face.

"What do you want?" I asked.

"You to die. I've given you too much power. I meant to give you only a small amount, but I went out of control that night when I transformed. You were meant to be my assistant, you would help me with a larger kill and carry my extra items when we went across town. But that's not important now. There can only be one werewolf in this town and that's me." He pulled down his hood reveiling his full face.
A pointed nose and you could see through the long dark brown hair two bright red eyes.

"Zacharius? I thought..." I questioned.

"Yes, I framed Jake, quite hard work actually. I told him of what happened, telling him what really happened but leaving out some important information, like how I was the actual one to bite you. I had to hypnotize him to attack Sam that Halloween night, hoping you would try to be the hero and save him. Then Jake would knock you out and take you to the same cave you were in when you woke up. You see, I was going to meet up with you there, and pay you a visit, but we didn't expect your werewolf hormones would make you transform. Jake had a hard time knocking you out, but in the end did." Zacharius started to circle around me now, "But you woke up too soon in that cave, then you left. I searched all over creation to find you." He placed his hand on my trembling neck.

I took hold of his wrist and pushed him away, "Stop. Now I understand, but you aren't taking me to my grave without a fight."

"Now that's what I like to hear!" He smiled, backing away slowly. "Now watch how a real werewolf transforms!" He held his arms out in the air, winds flowing around his body. Grey, black and white hairs started to sprout from his face and body, claws coming out of the flesh of his fingers, his eyes narrowed and muscles formed on his legs arms and torso. He looked menacing, baring his sharp teeth. He roared then ran towards his target, me.

---

Brittany opened the back door then called out, "Allie? Are you here?" No answer.
"ALLIE?!" Neither heard anything. Brittany ran upstairs to her bedroom and opened the door. Nothing. Sam stood in the kitchen thinking, We're going crazy. Crazy, crazy, crazy... Brittany walked down half the stairs, leaned on the railing and said, "She's not here, but I think I know where she went..."

"No-" Sam started, he knew what Brittany was thinking.

"Allie wants a rematch." Brittany spoke, then rushed down the rest of the stairs, and back out the door. Sam followed. They ran the opposite way down the street and turned left. Sam was taller than Brittany so he easily out ran her, and good thing he knew where to run to. He turned right and ran about halfway down the street and came up to a bashed front door. Without waiting for Brittany, he stepped over the broken glass and through the wooden frame and saw a werewolf in the center of the room, about to attack thin air.

"HEY WOLFY! WHERE'S JAKE?!" Sam screamed. The werewolf turned his head towards him, ears perked up. He snarled then crawled over to him. When he was only a few feet away he pointed his hairy arm at the stairs, then pretended to be tapping a watch on his wrist. Sam's eyes widened and he rushed up the stairs, not hearing the screams from the me in the background. The werewolf turned back to the me, held up his head and howled. I trembled and backed away, only to see Brittany jump into the room.

"ALLIE!" She yelled over the howl. The werewolf snapped his head to the sound and spotted the blonde snack. His mouth watered and he started to slide his way over to her. Brittany saw him moving her way so she picked up broken wood and glass and started chucking them at him. Zacharius easly dodged and became closer to his victim. Brittany backed into a corner, the werewolf about to bite into her flesh when...there was a bloodcurling howl from the other side of the room. Where seconds ago stood I, a grey, hairy beast now stood, looking deadly.

---

Sam opened every beaten door, and every blood-covered doorknob. There was no sign of Jake. Just as he was about to give up, he heard a whin from above, The attic! Sam searched for the famous string from the ceiling, finding it in the gameroom. He pulled on it, a dusty latter appeared and up at the top, Jake. "Dude! Get down here! There is so much to tell you! And-and there's a werewolf in your livingroom, man!"

Jake shook his head, as if coming out of a daydream or...trance. He looked down at Sam (something he's never done before since he's so short!) "Wha?"

"Come down here! There's lots of news for you to know about!" Sam jumped up and down from excitment. "Allie's alive!"

Jake looked relieved,"Good, I didn't mean for her to die like that...I didn't know what I was doing..."

"WHAT?!" Sam screamed, "YOU KILLED HER?! THAT MONSTER THAT ATTACKED US WAS YOU? YOU'RE A-A-A WEREWOLF?"

Jake sighed, then came down the latter, "Yeah, but it was an accident about becoming a werewolf. Zacharius used me, used me as his servent but called me his 'assistant'. He's such a-"

"Wait one second Jake, YOU KILLED ALLIE?!" Sam smacked him on the arm.

"Well, I was kinda hypnotized. Sorry! It wasn't my fault!"

"Brittany says she never died...But I can't see her." Sam admitted.

"Where is she now? I think Zacharius did that to you, and probably me too."

"I don't-SHIT!" Sam realized the one Zacharius was about to attack when he barged in was, Allie! Sam ran out of the room, Jake followed, and almost fell down the stairs, noticing Brittany backed in a corner and Zacharius turned the opposite way, eyes wider than usual.

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I barred my fangs and showed my claws. Growling, I started towards the other werewolf. At first he was alarmed by my transformation, but soon after he took back a snarling face. I snarled back, "This time, I win!" Brittany cocked her head, I guess I barked instead of speaking english. And when Brittany cocked her head, she noticed two boys at the stairs. I turned and saw none other than, Jake and Sam. But little did I notice the werewolf attacking me from the opposite side...

All of the sudden pain shoots up my arm, and as I scream I notice Zacharius on my right. He had bitten my forearm, and as he tried to rip the flesh away from the bone, I bite his neck. Instantly he let go, and jumped back. Blood seared from my arm, but ignoring the pain I leaped in the air. "Let's end this quick!" I growled landing right in front of him.

"I agree." He snarled, as he slashed at my face with his sharp claws. Grabbing his wrist just before, then I threw him down. I threw myself to hold him down.

"Any last words?" I asked before I planned to kill the evil creature.

"Kill me, but Sam and Jake will never be able to see you. Nor hear or feel, it will be like you were never there." He smirked. My eyes widened.

"What will you trade?" Making a serious face.

"Nothing, there is no way I would trade this beauty! Even in death, I as a ghost will watch you suffer in the deepest depts of hell!" He started to cackle like a jackle.

Turning my head away, teardrops about to run down my cheek, "I hate you." Looking back at him, he laughed in my face, "And now you die!" I bite into his neck breaking the bone and spinal cord. He kept laughing as he died, and I cried. Standing up I walked to Brittany. She shivered and tried to run away, but I changed back into human form and she ran up to me. She hugged me and I whispered in her ear, "Sam and Jake will never know I exist. Zacharius made sure of that." Letting go Brittany looked into my eyes, without her knowing she did.

"Allie? ALLIE! Where are you?" She yelled, spinning around. "ALLIE!"

"I'm right here!" I said, placing a hand on her shoulder yet she felt nothing. "No."

"Oh yes..." An eerie voice breathed in my ear. "Now no one will know you exist, they might remember you, but that will just hurt them more..." I pivoted my head to where the voices came from, and saw nothing but a shimmer and two blood red eyes.

"No..." I whispered, landing on my knees. "Please no..." The shimmer disapeared. Then I looked at my best friend Brittany, who was now with Sam and Jake, crying. The sight made me cry, I'm all alone now...

---

Brittany hugged Jake and Sam with all her might, crying. "She's gone! She won and now she's gone!" She blubbered. Jake looked down at his feet, a guilty look on his face and Sam just comforted Brittany.

"Brittany calm down, calm down. She's here, I just know it. She would never have left us, you know that. She's got to be here somewhere." He patted her on the back. "Right Jake?"

"Uhhh, of course. She's got to be here." He agreed with no excitement.

Brittany looked up, "Ya think so?" She babbled through tears.

"I know so," Sam said wiping the tears from her eyes. "Now let's get you home so we all can get some rest. And Jake since your house is..well," Sam notioned to the beat up house they were standing in, "You can stay at my house." Both nodded and they walked out of the house.

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I watched the only three that could believe the truth leave me alone in this horrid house. "I'm alone...Forever." I said. Standing up, I began to follow Brittany, Sam and Jake. And when they arived at Brittany's house they seemed to be having a down right good time without me! "What are you doing?" I yelled at them, as I stood over to the side watching their every move in Brittany's bedroom. Her room had white wall, but was very colorful none the less. Covered in pink and orange the room was no place for guys, yet two sat there on her comfortable carpet. "Hello?! Brittany, you just watched me disappear! Jake, you pretty much murdered me! And Sam, how could you not know..." I turned away from the three happy teens. They were all laughing at some joke, but none knew I stood there watching their every move.

I sat down on her cusioned chair and observed their behavior. Jake was acting like a gopher making Brittany and Sam roll around on the floor, and I would too if I hadn't just been betrayed. Well, I don't want them to be sad, but a little acnoledgement would be nice! Sheesh! I'm all fucking alone and no one even knows it! Just having to watch others laugh and have fun without you isn't the best...Plus, they wouldn't hear me yelling at them. I thought watching brittany trying to imitate Jake's gopher face. "Urg, I can't watch this any longer! I need a book!"

I got up and started to ponder around Brittany's room for a decent book. She had many, but most were too long for a short read. "Hmmm, the first Harry Potter! This is perfect!" I giggled. Picking up the book and sitting back on the leaher chair I opened the book to page one. Rereading the novel was amazing, somewhere to get away. Dudely was about to get attacked by the python when Brittany gasped, pointing my way. "WHAT?!" I yelled, "YOU CAN'T SEE ME! SO LEAVE ME ALONE SINCE YOU ALREADY FORGOT ME!"

Jake and Sam both looked my way and almost fell back from shock. All three were speechless. "What damnit?" I asked, even though I knew no one would answer. Jake was first to speak.

"A floating Harry Potter book?!"

That's when It hit me, "YES! You can't see, hear or feel me but! I can touch and read and WRITE!" I slammed down the book and searched the room for a peice of paper and a marker. Finding an old report card and a highlighter, (Sam, Brittany and Jake were all staring at the floating objects, quite confused) I wrote:

Brittany, Sam and Jake! I'm here! No one can see, feel or hear me but I'm still alive! See? I was the one reading the Harry Potter book! I can write to you three!

I placed it in the middle of the three and all attacked the old report card like vultures, Sam being victorious. He read aloud what was written with a smile on his face. Brittany commented at the end, "You were right Sam, she's here."

"Yeah, she is, but it's not the same." Sam said, smile leaving his face.

"It's better than her being dead and not being able to contact us at all," Jake shrugged grabbing the note out of Sam's hands.

"Give it back!" Sam yelled.

"I want to read it!" Jake replied trying to keep the paper from Sam.

Brittany had a peevish smile on her face, "Sam why do you want that paper so badly?"

"No reason." He shrugged, trying to conceal something. Brittany just smiled while Jake read over the note. He turned the paper on the other side.

"Brittany your failing math?!" He joked.

"I GOT A 'B'! SO SHUT UP!" She yelled grappling for the paper. Her and Jake rolled around trying to keep the report card from each other. I sat on the sidelines watching the them, Look at my retarded friends. Oh dear lord what will I do with them?

My eyes flew to the open door. As I crept out of the room, I found the computer and a printer! Walking over there I took hold of a huge stack of paper and a blue sharpie. I looked back and decided I might as well go write to the three while I'm here.

Sitting in my new favorite chair, the leather one, I began to write:

Well...Guys, what are we to do now? Truth or Dare?! Oh course I can only do truth since you guys wouldn't be able to watch me perform the dare, but whatever. You all up for it?

I placed the paper on Brittany's lap and she read silently then said, "Allie wan't us to play truth or dare!"

Jake and Sam automatically voted yes and both agreed for Brittany to go first. "Britt, Turth or Dare?" Sam asked.

"Dare, I'm no chicken."

Sam and Jake had a conference, and Sam called out for me to come over and help them with a dare! I jumped over with my paper and sharpie. Jake had an idea about going swimming in the lake, but I diagreed and wrote:

No, you guys can't leave the house without getting caught. Why not make her kiss Jake on the cheek?

When I wrote this I laughed extremely hard, and when Sam read it he laughed harder! Jake of course wasn't happy with the idea, but after lots of convincing he agreed to the dare. And lucky him, he had to anounce it to Brittany!

"Brittany, we have decided we dare you to...Kiss me on the cheek!" The ending he spoke very fast, but Brittany still understood him.

She flinched and nodded, "A dare is a dare." She was on her knees and crawled over to Jake, giving him a peck on the cheek. Sam and I laughed so hard our sides hurt. Jake and Brittany even blushed!

Now it's Brittany's turn to pick!

I wrote handing it to Sam. "Britt, It's your turn to pick! Who do you want to truth or dare? Anyone except Jake, because he dared you."

"I know the rules!" She snapped in a playful way. For a minute she thought about her victum then she said, "Allie." I smiled. "Truth or Dare ghosty?" Picking up my blue sharpie I wrote:

Truth duhhh. You wouldn't see me complete the dare, and what fun would be in that?

"Truth it is!" Jake yelped.

"OK Allie, your truth is, at this very moment, who do you have a crush on?!" Brittany giggled. She knew who I liked, but she just wanted everyone to know! At her silly question I smiled, and wrote down my answer handing the paper to Sam.

"Wow Allie, quite a vocabulary!" He exclaimed handing the paper to Brittany, "But you still didn't answer the question!"

Brittany took a look at the paper, and after a few minutes of analyzing she replied, "Yes she did!"

"WHAT?" Sam questioned, and him and Jake tried to claw the paper out of Brittany's hands. They eventually took hold of the paper and reread the thing over and over again, not figuring out what Brittany meant. "She didn't answer!" They both yelled.

I smiled an invisible smile to Brittany who also smiled. "Yes she did."

"Whatever," Jake mumbled crumbling the paper and throwing it over his shoulder. Sam was about to through himself to clutch the paper in his hands, but Brittany held him back with her words.

"Sam I think It's your turn. Allie wants you to pick truth or dare."

"Fine...Dare."

Brittany, Jake and I came up with a dare, making Sam have to get a plastic cup and take a sip of clean toilet water. Next Jake was dared to hump Brittany's stuffed animal, but luckily Brittany said no to that. And I agreed and came up with a better dare for him to go up to Brittany's dad and ask for his blessing! Her dad forced him to leave the house after that ending the game. Sam had to leave too, but the four of us decided to meet at the lake tomorrow at noon.

After saying (or writing) my goodbyes Brittany and I trudged back up to her room. I wrote something asking her if I could stay her and sleep on the comfortable chair. Brittany agreed and said that it would be like having a sleepover every night! That made me smile, even though no one knew it. I'm lucky I still have friends even though...I'm pretty much good as dead.

After hours listening to Brittany talk and replying, my hand began to cramp. I wrote to her that I was tired and couldn't write anymore and we decided to sleep. But after she fell into a deep sleep I crept up and retrieved the scrunched up and crumbled paper from the floor. I opened it up and it read:

Brittany! What the fuck are you talking about! Go.sh! I me.an Seriously! Oh .my god!

My code had worked! I reread the writing over and over again until I fell into dreamland.

---

"Sam," Jake caught his attention, "Do you think Allie is too much work?"

Sam put down the guitar hero remote controller and sighed, "Well of course not."

"Come on! Having to wait for her to write her answer, asking thin air a question! Thinking your looking right at her but she ends up behind you! It's getting annoying." Jake admitted.

"We had so much fun together! Plus she came up with all the good dares." Sam noted.

Jake got up and started to pace, "It's just too wierd. And it brings back memories, horrible memories. With Zacharius and..." Sighing Jake sat down. "She reminds me of the little voice in the back of my head who told me to do all those horrible things. She reminds me of Zacharius."

Sam raised his voice, "She is nothing like Zacharius! She killed Zacharius! And he put that horrid curse on her!" Sam calmed down then said, "She has no other friends who would believe her. We're the only three who know she even exists."

"Well I'm calling Brittany!" Jake retorted dialing his cell phone.

"It's the middle of the night!" Sam acted, but Jake put the cell phone to his ear and heard the ringing.

---

I woke up to a Brittany's cell phone ringing loudly. Walking over to her phone, I noticed it was Jake who was calling, "Why is he calling?" I picked up the cell and sent him a text message:

Sorry can't talk right now, but I can text. So what's up?

"Brittany would be mad, but...Well it must be important if he's calling in the middle of the night!" I looked over to the sleeping blonde in her comfortable bed. "She wouldn't mind a few texts."

Sitting down on my chair I awaited the reply. And seconds later the message ringer was set off. Quickly I turned the ringer to vibrate, then opened the text.

Do you think Allie is getting annoying? Having to always wait for her and stuff?

My jaw dropped, The asshole! I'm all alone and he thinks I'm annoying? Concentrating I typed my reply.

---

"OK, Brittany wants to know if you agree with me Sam?" Jake asked.

"NO! I don't agree with you!" Sam said stubbornly.

"Fine.." Jake said slyly texting back:

He also thinks she is annoying. Please don't bring her to the lake tomorrow! Somehow get her out of it!

---

"New message. What does it say? He agrees? With Jake?! What?..." I whispered. "This makes no sence..." I silently cried, "I guess no one cares now..." I stood up and grabbed paper and the blue sharpie. I wrote:

Goodbye to anyone who cares...

Standing I walked out the door and down the stairs. I quietly opened the front door and headed to Sam's house. "They are going to get it bad." Knocking on the door, Ben, who was downstair watching TV in the middle of the night, answered the door.

"Who's there?" He grogged.

I smiled at his stupidity then walked right past him and up the stairs. The sight was intirguing, but not original. Jake was sitting on the couch holding his cell phone up to his nose, and Sam was playing guitar hero, winning at that. "Well I guess the happy couple will need a welcoming gift..."

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Tip-Toe. Tip-Toe. Creak. "Vinegar, chips, toilet paper, in the cabinet? Oh well better for me...And marbles. Again I ask in the cabinet?!" I gathered the items from the kitchen cabinet, and placed them in the plastic bag I was carrying. "Perfect..." Tip-Toe. Tip-Toe. I ended up in the gameroom, where Jake was spread out on the couch, and Sam was halfway under the coffee table, guitar hero controller within his grip. Scowling at the two, I opened the plastic bag. I carefully laid each tool on the ground. "Hmmm, what first? Vinegar of course..."

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I looked at my masterpeice, it had taken four whole hours to finish, but was completely worth it. I carefully tip-toed around the traps, and was next to the large stero. Turning the sound to mute for the moment, I chose a song to fit the moment. "Sweet Child O' Mine? No. American Pie? Heck no. Under the Bridge? Urg, what song would fit this?" The CD flipper crackled slightly as I looked for a CD. "My Chemical Romance! Umm. FAMOUS LAST WORDS! Couldn't get any better. I turning the volume to maximum and started the song.

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Jake and Sam screamed, clutching their ears. They squirmed and stood up. They started to run in circles, slipping on the marbles and vinegar, and crunching the chips. I cackled, evily I might add. The floor was covered with vinegar, with marbles and chips spread around. Toilet paper was hanging from the ceiling and flown across the room. Jake and Sam flew into the toilet paper, pulling some onto the floor.

"One thing is missing," I spoke pulling out a single match. Jake suddenly stopped, seeing the match.

"No, ALLIE DON'T!" He scream as I light the match and set the nearest peice of hanging toilet paper on flames. The thin paper burned and fell to the floor setting the vinegar to flames, eventually the other hanging toilet paper started to burn as the flames spread. Sam and Jake stood on the couch, surrounded by the fire.

"MWAHAHAHAHA!" I jeered watching them squirm with fear. They looked over to where the sound came from.

"ALLIE?!" Sam yelled over the cracking flames. "I CAN SEE YOU! HELP! PLEASE! GO GET THE FIRE EXTINUISH-"

I cut him off, "No."

"WHAT?!" Jake screeched tightening his grip on Sam's shoulder.

"No," I replied simply.

Sam looked pleadingly, making me laugh hysterically. Then a scowl appeared on his face, "Jake, we have to jump!" He nodded, and the two preparied themselves to jump for what seemed to be their lives. They jumped up and down a few times then flew from the couch to the TV through the fire. As Jake and Sam stood up, I noticed the burn placed from head to toe. Random burns were spread on their arms and legs. The two cried out in painfrom the blacked scars forming on their bodies. I saw a single flame sparking in Sam's hair.

Rushing up I put out the flame, "I'm so sorry!" I cried. Realizing what I just did, tears ran down my face. "I'm so sorry!" Sam grabbed my arm that had put out the fire in his hair, and threw me. I landed a few feet away on my back.

"Get away from me!" He yelled, an almost scared look on his face.

"Sam!" I pleaded, he shook his head, and him and Jake ran down the stairs to find the fire extinusher but were stopped by Brittany.

"Allie! I found your note and thought you would be here! I can see you?!" She began until her gaze landed on the fire blazing in the gameroom,"What the heck?!"

"No time!" Sam yelped running down the stairs. Jake stood there staring at Allie with a disappointed look on his face. As I blinked, tears fell from the tips of my eyelashes. I turned away from the hated looks of Jake and the confused and sorrow one of Brittany.The fire behind us eating away at the couch and floor. We heard pounding footsteps from the stairs and saw Sam rushing up with a huge red container with a tube extending from it. He pulled out a small metal twig, then sprayed out white fluffy gunk that extinushed the fire. "Now," Sam ordered at me, "WHAT THE HELL WERE YOU THINKING?!"

I stared at his face hard then answered, "I think you know."

"What?!" He questioned, "I don't know!"

I notioned to Jake, "I know you two hated me when I was ghost-like, don't lie to me!"

"What are you talking about?!" Sam asked, "Jake only asked if- JAKE!" Sam turned to Jake, face red with anger. "What did you do?!"

Jake looked down and replied, "Well, I might have misinturpreted what you said..."

Brittany had a look of utter confusion, "What are you talking about?!"

"Just check your text messages..." I answered in despair.

Brittany pulled out her cell phone and discovered the texts in her phone, and gasped, "JAKE! Why'd you do that?!" He just shrugged.

Sam turned his atention back to me, "But that still doesn't give you a right to burn down my house!"

"I'm sorry..."I whispered, tears falling from my eyes.

"No, I'm sorry I ever liked you." Sam said, walking away and down the stairs. Jake followed imediately, but Brittany took a last look at me.

"Allie, what have you become?" Then she left.

I fell to my knees and covered my eyes, "What have I become?!"

"The devil..." A voice whispered in my ear. I turned to the sound and a shimmer with two crimson eyes. "Meet you in hell..."



THE END.