This is the first part of the story I wrote for Michi for her birthday. Told you I'd put it up.
Michi hated Monday mornings. Thena and Moose weren’t making things any easier either. The two sisters couldn’t help but beating up on each other every five seconds, forcing Michi to referee.
This morning it happened to be Thena who started it. She’d been going on about an episode of NCIS to Michi. Moose rolled her eyes, the way she always did when Thena quoted anything. A lot of the fighting was about whether Thena was obsessed with certain T.V. shows or not, a topic Thena of course was being very defensive about.
And of course Thena wasn’t too happy about Moose rolling her eyes at her again and so punched her sister on the arm. Moose did the same with Thena, retaliating in the same way only harder. Thena always felt the need to punch back, and soon, as usual, Michi had to get between them.
“Hey, no hitting your sister!” she told them, pinning Moose’s arms behind her back. Seeing as how Thena and Moose fought almost every day, she’d had a lot of practice in this. “I started it anyways. I was asking Thena about the episode since I hadn’t seen it yet.” She always felt the need to defend Thena and her quotes. Moose was stronger than her sister and an athlete and Thena was…well, she looked very victimized and helpless, though it really was her fault for punching back. Besides, Michi liked Thena’s quoting abilities.
After a minute or two both sisters had gone back to a cease-fire, though Moose was still going on about how people only saw when she was the one doing the hitting. Having nothing else to do, Thena started reading and Moose pulled out some homework. Seeing that the two had finally settled down, Michi brought out her drawing. She’d been up late finishing the line art for it since she finally had a night without much homework and was really proud of how the picture was turning out. She was basing it off a new Vocaloid song she’d heard. Michi started coloring, beginning with the warm colors. She only had a few minutes to work on it, though, until the two-minute bell sounded through the hallways. With a sigh Michi packed up and got to her feet.
As she went to first period Michi saw a senior putting up Halloween decorations from a box. Michi knew this senior from Japanese. “What was her name again?” Michi asked herself. “Avery White, that’s it.”
This was the first year the school was trying to decorate in any way. All of the students were getting really excited about it, Michi too. She’d wanted to help with the decorating but didn’t have enough time. Her life was filled with school, homework and drawing for the most part. Avery had put up butcher paper over the lights to dim them and was heading towards a shadowy corner with a bunch of cobwebs.
It seemed everybody was getting into the Halloween spirit that year. The students were all excited, partially because of the decorations. Michi had heard everybody talk about what their costumes were going to be, even people who never knew what they were going to dress up as. It seemed to be all people could talk about.
It could’ve just been a coincidence, but there seem to have been a lot of disappearances lately. The police were at the school quite a bit questioning people. They obviously didn’t have any leads though. There wasn’t any pattern, any clues or anything at all to make sense of it. People had just started vanishing without a trace in the past week or so.
Michi thought there must have been a full moon or something. She wasn’t too worried. A school’s a crowded place. But still, everybody was kind of on edge about it. The disappearances might have been why some people were getting so caught up in the creepy feel of Halloween though.
A flicker of movement caught Michi’s eye. She thought she’d seen something in the corner Avery was about to decorate. It was just a slight movement in the corner of her eye, like there was something in the shadows. Michi shrugged it off.
“I guess Halloween’s getting to me too.”
After math Michi had to leave for a doctor’s appointment. She needed a physical for tennis next semester and her mom thought it was time for a check up anyways. She went to say hi to Avery on her way out, but Avery was gone. She’d left a nearly full box of decorations. The corner looked finished though, filled with cobwebs and a skeleton.
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