Day: 9. February 2010

I couldn’t believe it. I stared at the board in awe. One third of the class was honest. The list of those kids was displayed on the SMARTboard. Sara Nackinglurer, Kastti Marzilez, and Ty Yeww were three random-seeming kids. They were horrible students! I felt amazed. I wasn’t on the honest list. Kastti Marzilez was smiling. It figured. Kastti loved irony, especially when it was in her favor. Ms. Irindom told all the non-honest kids to go to her office via intercom. I trudged along with good students. Something was wrong, I just knew it. When we reached Ms. Irindom’s office, she wasn’t there. No one was. The computers, the phones, the intercoms were all on. There was a note on her desk reading, “Back in a few minutes!” The note was dated, because Mrs. Irindom always dates her notes. It was dated Apr. 4, 2010. Today was April 27th! I looked at the computer screen. All that was on there was a strange code, but what Damian, the computer genious, could make out was: FATAL VIRUS FATAL VIRUS UNKNOWN VIRUS ATTACKING COMPUTER DISTRIBUTING BACKUP DISK HARDWARE INFILTRATION BACKUP DISK STOLEN… powering down…

“Well, are we going to do it?” said nick. Holly acted as if she was choking on a nut. She didn’t reply but but nothing more was said on the topic. Luke was now positive that he had given the “Sleuths Three” their biggest challenge yet and was very happy about it. When the children arrived at school they were very quiet. The only things said were school related. Holly’s frustration kept growing inside of her. Finally in math class when Holly felt she was going to explode she screamed, “That’s it!” “I Have to go to the mansion, if I don’t Luke will forever pester me and ruin the reputation of  “The Sleuths Three!” The class was shocked. Holly, forgetting that she wax in math class had a stare down with Mrs. Lynn, who was quite irritated. At recess Ashley and Nick immediately approached Holly on the swings.  “What happened back there”? said Nick shyly. “Yeah, you seemed a little off your game”said Ashley. A silent pause followed. Then Holly slowly rose to her feet. “I guess I just was so spooked about the whole Saint Lilly Scout mansion situation, that I needed to get my anger out. “You realise that we don’t have to go to the mansion” Said Nick. “Yes we do” said Holly firmly. “Not just for the sake of our reputation, but to also prove to myself that I’m not a chicken”. “you’ll never  be a chicken”said Ashley. Luke is just trying to intimidate you. “Yeah, I bet Luke is to scared to go to the mansion himself” said Nick. The group all shared a needed laugh.

Walking home from school I was feeling weird not like sick, but more of a nervous feeling. The thing that scared me is that I didn’t know what it was. Walking on the sidewalk wasn’t usually this bad why the hell was I so scared. It felt like someone was watching me. You know that feeling you get when you have to get something from the basement and as soon as you get what you came down for you high tale it out of there, that’s what this felt like. I quickened my pace slightly and set my course for my grand parents house. Walking past 5 acre lots with houses on each that look exactly the same, with the white picket fences, and the perfect lawns. I saw a flicker of black go past one of them. I entered my grandparents gates and turned around to see if someone was following me. There was what looked like a gang just hanging out right outside the gate. Were they there a second ago? No they couldn’t have been I just walked through the gate. The only difference between these people and a gang were that all of the dark figures were staring at me with hazy eyes. I put the key in the lock and opened the door. “Grandma where are you?” I asked anxious to tell my grandma about the weirdoes outside. “Over here hon what’s wrong?” my grandmother asked hearing how scared I really was. “There are like 7 people outside and they just keep walking the fence line like they want in are blocked out.” I said. “Oh my god Herald hurry its happening they’re here.” My grandmother yelled. There was a rumble in the other room of the house and then my grandpa was at the window. “We need to get out of here the ward won’t last long.” My grandpa said his face filled with fear. I had never seen anything make my grandpa scared in my life. Now there were 7 people who weren’t even on our property yet and he was freaking out. What was going on? And what did he mean by a ward. Was that what was keeping those weird people out? “Ok, you grab the box I’ll get the amulet.” my grandpa said, “Cole come with me.” “Grandpa what’s going on?” I asked not understanding the danger we were in.