Halloween is supposed to be a fun day. A day where you dress up as your favorite character, go trick or treating or partying with your friends. Halloween is supposed to be one of the best days of your life… right? Wrong! Let me tell you a story of how me and my best friends, Jax and Sidney got into some terrifying trouble on October 31st, 2017.
I recall waking up that morning as happy as can be, it was Halloween. The town of Blossomville that I lived in, always prepared decorations for Halloween. I looked over at my closet and my perfect Wonder Woman costume was laid out perfectly. Jax was going to be The Hulk and Sidney was going to be Tinkerbell. I started to get ready for school and met up with my friends at our usual spot where we walked
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How about you Jax, sounds like a plan,” I asked.
Jax had a sly smile on his face, “Actually I was thinking instead of going to Chipotle we could go to, oh I don’t know, Old Man Milfred's house?”
“Is that a restaurant or something,” Sidney said. “No dummy” Jax scowled, “Let me tell you guys about Old Man Milfred. Old Man Milfred was a happy man with a happy wife, Lady Milfred. They lived in a beautiful home with exotic birds and exquisite flowers. The Milfreds loved everyone in town and everyone loved them. One day on Halloween, Old Man Milfred went out to buy more candy for the kids but when he came back he found Lady Milfred dead on the ground.” I gasped, “Then what happened?” “Old Man Milfred then grew bitter each year and so did his house. The once beautiful house soon became rancid and moldy. People claim that on Halloween Day Old Man Milfred would put razors in apples and give them to kids. Old Man Milfred died about 40 years ago but legend has it whoever goes to Old Man Milfred’s house on Halloween has crazy things happen to them. It’s probably not even real but it would be cool to check it out,” Jax
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Sidney, Jax, and I walked for about seven minutes before we reached a part of Blossomville I’ve never encountered. The tone of the once vibrant town I knew turned into a listless, dull place. There was fog that made it almost impossible to see. After what seemed like hours of walking, we finally reached an unsightly house. You could see the mold Jax was talking about seeping through the cracks of windows. The color of the house was a dirty dark brown and the grass looked like it was crying for mercy. Jax had the nerve to say, “Come on guys are you just going to stare at it all day?”
“Are you insane? You’re actually thinking about going into that creepy house that looks like it’s going to eat us alive. I thought when you said ‘haunted house’ that it wasn’t really haunted,” Sidney exclaimed.
“Yeah, I don’t think we should go any closer to that house let’s just turn around and walk home. Actually, I think we still have time to make it to Chipotle if we walk fast enough,” I said checking my watch but when I looked up Jax was already walking towards the door. I cringed as I saw him swing the door open.
“See,” Jax said turning towards us, “There’s nothing to be frightened of it was all just a
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