Timmy: A Short Story

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One day Timmy was home alone because his parents went to work. Timmy doesn’t like to stay home a lot especially at night. It was a cold Friday and it was seven o-clock.
Timmy lived in a neighborhood with three other kids. The kids didn’t come outside much and the neighborhood was mostly old people. Timmy was scared because he watched a movie the night before and all the people in the movie died. Timmy went downstairs to get something to eat and saw something run in the backyard. At first he thought it was a dog but it wasn’t.
What he saw was a person, a person that was tall and wearing a sweatshirt. Timmy ran in the house and locked the door. When he saw the man, he was crouched in the corner of the fence. The man stood up and began walking …show more content…

Billy ran towards the man to stop him and Timmy ran into Billy’s backyard and it leads to the woods. He could hear Billy yelling but couldn’t turn back. Timmy ran into the woods it was dark and the only light was the moon and stars. The yelling stopped but he kept running deeper and deeper into the woods. He was running so fast he tripped on a root that was sticking out of the ground. When he fell he cut his arm on a stick. He stood up and ran, he knew there was a field around because he had been there before. He could see a lot in the distance but it wasn’t in front of him, it was behind him. It had to be the man. Timmy thought to himself about the guy and couldn’t understand why the man won’t give …show more content…

He didn’t know what to do he had no more options. He picked up a rock and ran even more. Timmy was hoping that if he can out run the man the man will give up. The man yelled out something, he said he killed Billy. Timmy didn’t know what to do so he threw the rock but he missed. The man started running towards so he picked up another rock and threw it. He hit the man right in the face and he fell. He grabbed a big rock and ran towards the man and started hitting him in the face. The man was covered in blood. Timmy got back up and ran away to the road in the distance. He made it to the road and there was a car driving by. They called the cops and arrested the

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