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by QuaMai Author IconMail Icon
Rated: E · Short Story · Death · #1240457
This is a story that I worte in 5th grade and currently editing so I can post it later.
Lake Tahoe

Prologue:

There was once a beautiful town called Bernart. It is known for when people went nuts and stole many things out of the Town Hall, and then burned down the town. But now, nearly 53 years after the great tragedy of the ghosts killing an innocent human, a beautiful lake was formed. That lake’s name is Lake Tahoe. It is right over the place of the great Town Hall where all those people had died. The Lake had grown very large by 2003. People have bought the land and built houses and buildings. Now there stood 8 cabins circling the lake. The tragedies of the area are what attract all the guests. They like mysteries. Every year 5 people disappear there. This just happens to be the year that I went.
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In the once beautiful Bernart and newly refurbished town of Chiller, a girl named Carrie went camping with her two friends, Amy and Roxie in 2003. I was watching them the whole time. I am their baby-sitter. I had no idea of what would happen on that strange night.

Instead of camping in a tent Carrie and her friends camped in cabins. It was small but it was just like home. When they were done unpacking they didn’t know what to do and were really bored so they went kayaking. They had brought two kayaks with them. So one of them had to be alone. Amy had to be alone in the kayak until a nice kid named Jeremy offered to go in the kayak with her so she wouldn’t be alone. They all got into their kayaks and floated off with their paddles.

They started to paddle when they went into some fog. Then Carrie and Roxie started to talk when they heard two screaming voices! They sounded just like Amy and Jeremy! When Carrie and Roxie got out of the fog they looked toward where Jeremy and Amy should have been and all they saw was the boat. No Amy or Jeremy! I was surprised too. It was so weird. Carrie paddled the boat as fast as she could back to shore. When Carrie got back to shore she turned around and no Roxie to be found! She turned back around and tried to convince herself that it couldn’t be real. She turned back around because something was touching her. She thought it was Roxie so she looked around and there was no one there! She ran as fast as she could away from there and I caught her as she was running and she told me everything and continued running. No one saw her ever again.

That day I told the police everything. They didn’t believe me and sent out missing reports. But five days later I was kayaking and I looked down and I was missing a leg! I paddled back and told the police everything that happened since they were still investigating what happened. They still didn’t believe me!

To this day people are still looking for an explanation for what happened but no one has found one yet. The lake isn’t there now but the remains of where it was gives a little hint, that no one actually died because there is no bodies anywhere near there. 

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Epilogue:

I know exactly what happened on that gloomy night. I lied. I’m not their babysitter. If I were, wouldn’t I be kayaking with them? The truth is, I am just one of those people who died in that fire over 1000 years ago. I am a ghost and I make 5 people every year suffer the same fate of all the villagers of Bernart. That was three people that I already claimed this year. Who will I claim next? Will it be you?
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