The Haunting Games
Chapter Ten

“I can’t tell you. You’ll find out eventually though. I promise.” We walked for a few minutes in silence, and I tried to figure out the truth.
         “Who else is going to be killed?” I asked, looking straight into his eyes.
         “I can honestly say I don’t know. I know that they’re either people in our school or the middle school,” he said, turning his head away.
         “You mean there’s a chance Annie will be killed?” Annie was this seventh grader who I loved like a little sister. It would kill me inside if she was one of the victims. She was blonde haired, blue eyed. She looked like me in the seventh grade, except her eyes are ocean blue. Mine are icy blue.
         “I don’t know. I’ve been trying to find out, because she’s too young and innocent.”
         “I know. Are you saying I’m not innocent as well though?” I asked.
         “No. I’ve been avoiding trying to hurt you. I’m trying to figure out a way to get the game cancelled. At first I figured it would be fun, but then I saw how nice you were to me in the hospital. I hadn’t thought you even cared about me anymore. So I was going along with the game because I thought you forgot about me.”
         “Cory, you were my best friend, there’s no way I forgot about you,” I said, turning him and looking in his eyes again. We stop walking and sat down at the picnic tables. “Well, I think I’m going to leave. I’m going to find out if Annie has seen anything… unusual.”
         “Okay. Take her back to you’re house if she has,” he warned.
         “I will.” I turned and started to walk away, but remembered something. “And don’t forget, you promised.” He nodded his head committing it to memory. After, I walked without turning back.
 
Once I was out of the woods I walked in my house.
         “Hey mom, I’m going to Annie’s,” I called blindly into the house. I waited for a few minutes without a response then grabbed a banana and walked out. It was only a ten-minute walk to her house. When I got the I rang the doorbell. After a minute Annie came to the door.
         “Hey Alex, come on in.” I followed her up two flights of stairs to her room. Once we were in it, she closed the door and sat on her bed.
         “So, what brings you here?” She asked, her blue eyes looking up at me.
         “Well, I needed to ask you about something.”
         “Yeah, what is it?”
         “Have you been seeing weird things lately?” I asked. She cocked her head to the side and thought about it.
         “Well, actually, yeah. I have this feeling that I’m being watched and sometimes at night I see a face in my window. I always look, but the face is never there. It disappears. It really creeps me out,” she says. “Why?”
         “Annie, you’re going to have to come with me. Pack a bag. I’ll call my mom.”


Slow chapter, excitment later(: