60 SecondS „So this game is called 60 seconds,“ Andy said. „If I start I‘ll have to call a random number and start talking to them about anything but it has to have either some joke or be scary so it will be more fun for us“ he adds. „However for every sixty seconds you manage to talk to them you get a point, like if I talk to someone for three minutes I get three points,“ he adds. “This sounds like a fun game,” Justin decides and the rest of us nod. “So who should go first” I ask scanning my eyes around “You go first Emma because it’s your house,” Madeline answers. I go get the phone and Amber tags along while the rest waits up stairs, we bring snacks and candy with us up again, it‘s a lot of candy that my mom bought for us but it’s Halloween and we have the house for ourselves so why not all of it?… When we get back up Andy, Justin, Madeline and Spencer have made themselves comfortable on the sofa in my living room, Amber and I go sit down with them and put the food on the table and I dial up some random number. A little girl answers… I‘m not sure if I should keep going or hang up but I decide to go on and say “Hey little girl do you know who I am? “ I say in a creepy yet a relaxed voice “No you probably don‘t but I‘m a 20 year old ghost that calls beautiful people on Halloween to tell them how beautiful they are“ I add. I feel like there is no one still there but after few seconds she speaks. “Why are you calling me then? I‘m not beautiful, as the girls in my school.” I just want to hug her now but I keep going. “Yes you are lovely, now have a great time on Halloween, bye for now “And the line goes dead. They all just stare at me like I did something wrong, I mean I know did but I couldn‘t help it; she sounded too young so I wasn’t able to scare her. Justin goes next he takes the phone from me and starts to dial in some number „5, 4, 3, 2, 1” He says. „ I‘m coming you get you tonight and you can‘t escape“ he says slowly with a deep creepy voice that even scares us a little. We don‘t know what the other person is saying cause we can‘t put on speaker on my phone so we only know what Justin says. „I know where you are going to be tonight and I‘ll see you there and remember there is no escape from me babe.“ And he puts the phone away and the line goes dead. „Now this is how you do a prank call and be creepy.“ Says Andy and high fives Justin laughing. „Emma you should take notes about my prank call cause yours sucked.“ Justin says grinning. „Funny you, how old was the person you were talking to huh? “ I answer him. „ I think she was about 16, our age and from what she sounded like she must be one of the popular girls at her school.“ Justin says smiling making it really clear that he is proud of his prank call. „To my defense I was talking to a five year old girl or so.“ I say and take few snacks. I can‘t keep talking cause the phone starts calling, it‘s an unknown number and I‘m not sure if I should take it or not.
I look at Madeline who is telling me to answer the phone so I take the phone and say „Hello who is this?“ at first I get no answer but then a slow deep voice in the phone says „Look outside of your window love I‘m watching you and your friends“ This is scaring me a little and I look over my friends to check if they are doing this but they are not, they all just look at me back, so I walk over to the window and look out it but I can‘t see anyone. „There is no one outside of my house.“ I tell the person in the phone trying to be calm. „Who is missing of your friends love, look back and you‘ll see.“ The voice says I look back not believing that someone is gone but I realize that Amber is gone. „Where did Amber go?!“ I say maybe a little too loud. „I don‘t know she said she had to go to the bathroom,“ Spencer says. „The voice on the phone said she took someone,“ I say and it‘s clear that I‘m freaking out. „Well then lets go look for her,“ Justin says “ Me and you can go check on the bathroom and Spencer and Andy can go look in the kitchen, “ he adds. While we‘re walking down to the bathroom we hear some strange noise coming from the kitchen but we just assume it‘s Spencer and Andy, as we get to the bathroom no one is there so I try not to freak out when we walk into the kitchen. When we get to the kitchen Spencer comes running to us screaming „I don‘t know Andy just disappeared! “ She says screaming and waving her hands all over the place and I‘m trying to not freak out but this is getting really scary. „Maybe we should try to call their phones or something,“ Justin suggests and we do so but they don‘t answer the calls. We walk up stairs to see if they aren‘t just there and when we get there we see blood on the sofa and over the table and someone ate some of the candy. I almost screamed because I got so scared and I almost make Spencer bleed cause of my nails I grabbed her arm, when we got upstairs in case someone was there. The doorbell rings and I scream so loud because I thought someone was breaking in. „Calm down Emma, there is no one going to kill us,“ Justin says. However we walk down to open the door and when Justin opens because I’m too scared to open there is no one there, just a little blood on the walls but I think I couldn’t get more scared so I don’t do anything. There is a note on the grass outside of my house, we all walk out to the grass and get it, Spencer reads it: “Come to the woods and there is a little house along the road,” she begins “We’ll be waiting for you there, and we have your friend Amber with us.” She looks at the three of us and we all agree that we should go, but that’s not all there is on the note, she hands the note to Andy and he reads the rest of it. “However if you want your friend you’ll have to bring all your candy and maybe some drinks with you if you have some, because we are getting a little hungry over here, unless you want us to eat your friend.” Well this is a strange person, from the Halloween kidnappers that live for candy.” Andy adds “Well lets go, I don’t care about the candy let’s just go and get Amber,” I say quite loudly. We run inside and throw all the candy and snacks and some drinks in a big backpack and go out again. We get to the little road where no one really walks unless its summer cause then it’s all bright and lovely.
Now it’s just an abandoned scary road that has a little wood house in the middle of the woods, where we are heading to get our best friend. “I guess this prank call game wasn’t such a good idea after all,” Justin says slowly. “Not really, maybe it’s just karma on you Justin for your call,” Andy says smiling. “Maybe but why Amber, why not me if it’s karma on me?” Justin says almost laughing cause Andy sounded really stupid. There are pumpkins all over the road in which scary faces have been cut and they have candles in them. Mom and dad must have done this before they left to some Halloween party at dads work. When we get to the house the door is open and on the door there is blood, I get a little scared and grab Spencer’s hand again. “HAPPY HALLOWEEN PEOPLE!” The people in my year at school scream and stand up. I almost get a heart attack because they turned a red light on and screamed so loud just out of nowhere. “So this was all just a big prank from all of you guys, huh Amber?” Andy says loudly looking at Amber who probably had the whole idea of this prank. “Yeah, you should see how scared you guys got when I was gone” Amber answers laughing. “Well this was funny prank guys” Justin says and what are we going to do with that candy?” He adds. “Just take it out of your back pack first at put it on the table where the rest of the candy is” Jasmine says. She is the most popular girl at school, I never thought that she’d be a part of something like this but she is. We put the candy on the table and some of the guys go turn on a huge TV that apparently has been there since forever and say that we are going to watch scary movies all night. On our second movie all the lights and the TVs go out and I hear a few people screaming and everything goes black. Although this is quite a long story, the quick ending you have here doesn’t really work all that well. What could you do to make a more satisfying ending? The first part of the story is extremely good, though.