Chapter 2 - the haunts of sunny lake

[color=]    [/color][color=]    [/color][color=]The Haunts of Sunny Lake[/color][color=]        ([/color][color=]Sandra’s diary)[/color][color=]It was about a month after I moved in and I already had made quite a few friends, I decided to go and see one of them (his name was Ray) at Sunny Lake. As I walked past the river I got this odd creepy sensation .. that I should go back , but I thought “today is just like any other day I always go out on regular days, it’s just a little bit more... foggy today, why should I go back?”So I kept right on trudging along, I passed the sign that read  “[/color][color=]Sunny Lake”[/color][color=], then I realized that Sunny Lake was even more foggy and dew-drippy then the rest of the village, Another thing it didn’t take me long to discover was that no one was there. I had come to expect Nina and Theodore there, or a group of two or three people, or maybe even just Ray. So it was very odd for it to be empty, it was so quiet ,and creepy “hey” I thought “why are there no animals here?” that’s when I decided to just leave and consider thursdays official haunted days. [/color]     I was just turning around when I saw something not more then two or three yards away, it was a man I had never seen before, his clothes were ripped and soaking wet, and his beard was scraggly and wet, also it looked like pieces of it had been torn out ,no , ripped out! I thought that was terrifying , but then I saw what was really scary about him.... He was see through! For a moment I just stood there staring, Then he began to call me, “young lady, come closer I wish to speak with you.” He began to walk slowly step after step, he dragged his slimy, wet, feet. “I will speak-” I didn’t wait to hear the rest of his sentence, I TORE out of that place shrieking “AAAAAAAAAAAHHH !  GHOST HEEEEELP GHOST!” I ran so fast I almost ran into Dan, who always seemed to stand right in your way.     He said “I knew it !” “you knew what?” “ I knew the mayor was a ghost!” “what Theodore? put your head on straight Dan, if Theodore was a ghost he’d be see through, I mean there is a ghost at sunny lake,but its definitely not Theodore!” he said “oh......a ghost at the lake!” I ran to the town center and rang the bell of warning that the mayor had installed yesterday.  All of the villagers started appearing and stood in a big group, even Blue had stopped his farm-work to see why someone had rung the bell of warning.  I stood on the big box directly in front of the bell. I noticed everyone was there, except Ray. The reason I noticed this was because I thought “what if the ghost got him.” I could see it now,  the ghost wrapping  his clammy hands on Ray’s neck “I am hungry young man, and you look delicious!” I shook myself, ghosts don’t eat people. I said to all of the villagers  “listen everyone, I saw a ghost at sunny lake! he is tall and is wearing ripped wet, clothes and he has a scraggly wet beard and clammy hands and slimy wet feet!” several villagers gasped, but that menace of a mayor theodore just walked up to the box and said “ I am glad that you have started some kind of a play about ghosts sandra, but don’t  go panicking all these innocent people just because your imagination go away with you, it may make the people, you know” he leaned closer “ very angry”. Ann said “but mayor she looks really scared”  I decided to speak up “ I am , I really did see a ghost I am NOT lying! “ Saibaria said “it is true.. you can see the fear in her eyes” but of course Theodore said “Sandra you had better get down from the stage” I got down. I knew he was going to convince everyone that it was okay, and they would think “after all I did only move in a month ago for all they knew I could be crazy “ that was what the mayor was going to tell them “good” I thought ”maybe the ghost will get him.”                             The Haunts of Sunny Lake                chapter twoA week after the encounter everyone seemed to have forgotten about my outburst about the ghost, everyone except me. I did try to forget it, but I just couldn’t get it out of my mind. I was pretty sure I had seen it I just wanted proof to everyone else that it existed. So I decided I would go back to sunny lake on a day that was like the last time I went, foggy and dewy. This time I would ask someone to come with me. so I could have proof , I asked lots of people, but the only two who agreed were Nina, and Ray, ( who was absent the previous week because he was at his brother’s house) I thought “oh well two is better then nothing”. So that night I walked to the lake with my two best friends and we hid while we waited for the ghost to appear.     Then I saw it,it was a whitish figure in the distance, but then I realized, that it was a woman ghost, her hair was long and tangled in seaweed,and she was in a long dripping wet, torn, dress. The expression on her face was one of pure terror and as she turned I saw that her face was scarred and bruised. She began to walk toward us hands outstretched, she seemed to see right through the bush as she called us. We stood our ground, knees trembling, teeth chattering “ come” she cried “coooome”     Ray chickened out,  Nina and me were left, as she came closer I just stared and wondered “ why was she here?” Nina said “ I’m leaving and if you want to stay alive I suggest you leave to.” I was the only one left. She came closer she was a foot away “coome” she called, suddenly I snapped into reality “she’s gonna strangle you or something if you don’t move! “ I thought, suddenly terrified, I bolted for the lake entrance then I ran past the sign,  through the bridge, into the door of my house and slammed it shut. That was one of my most sleepless nights.     The following morning I went to the village center and again rang the bell. all of the villagers crowded around and theodore said “what is it NOW sandra, are there man-eating zombies at the lake?” “I really did see the first ghost” I said “and now I have spotted a second female ghost. she-” I was cut off by the mayor who said “sandra your being like the boy who cried wolf. Remember, the first two times the villagers listened to the boy, the third time was the truth and he was eaten by the wolf, believe me, if the wolf does not finish you off” he whispered “ i will” I just stared back “ is that some kind of a sick death threat?” I asked “I have proof,  my friends saw it too, come up here guys” Nina and Ray walked onto the stage “it’s true sir” Nina said “ we saw the ghost too”  Ray just nodded, and I said “see.”                                              the haunts of sunny lake[color=]                chapter t[/color][color=]hree[/color]I would never ring that stupid bell again, it wasn’t fair, it had been put there in order to warn the villagers of any danger inside or outside of the village, I had rung it due to danger inside the village, and yet the mayor still insisted that I was lying. He infuriated me, even when I had proof he still denied it! “even if man eating zombies do come out of the earth I still won’t ring the bell, Maybe then the zombies would eat him, and they would have to elect a new mayor, and a better one, any would be better then him.”     I thought “ I don’t  think i’ll ever go back to sunny lake again”. I didn’t.. for a while, then my curiosity got the best of me and I returned to the lake to see if there were any ghosts. I stood and waited, then for a third time I saw it, a white wispy figure a few feet away this time it was a little girl. For some reason this small figure, was the most intimidating of all, like the woman ghost I had seen earlier she had an expression of sheer terror on her face and.... she was crying, then quite suddenly without warning she flew at me!     I panicked and fled in the other direction, and collided with another bluish ghost, I screamed and turned to run but the ghost grabbed my arm and said ‘shhh quiet,it’s me, Ray, watch them” “who” “ the ghosts!” I turned to see all three of the ghosts. The man ghost, who was talking to the woman ghost, and the little girl ghost who was running around playing, then she said “look mommy, look, a butterfly!” To the female ghost. “ oh thats nice dear” she said to the little girl ghost. She began to chase an invisible butterfly to the lake suddenly a young boy ran up behind her and pushed her into the watery depths. She bobbed up “mommy daddy help me I can’t-” she bobbed back down into the water and I didn’t see her resurface. “help her!” I screamed but no-one payed any attention, her father began to rip parts of his beard out and the mother screamed, and wailed.  This continued until they both plunged headfirst into the lake.     It all came rushing into my head suddenly, I understood I knew what had happened, how it happened, why they had replayed their own death. It was so simple this family of dead people wanted to know who had pushed their daughter into a lake all I had to do was to recognize that boy who had pushed the girl into the lake. “what was that all about?” I had forgotten Ray was there.” I think i’ve figured it out!” I said “i’ll explain tomorrow I know how to make them go away!”     That night I thought about what the young man who murdered the ghost girl looked like. He had light brown hair  with bangs that curled on the end, he also wore a huge top hat that was way to big for him, he had beady small eyes  and a small round red nose, he had a pudgy face with big cheeks. From what I gathered this was a miniature version of THEODORE!!.No wonder he  didn’t want the villagers to know about the ghosts! no wonder he had threatened to kill me, he knew that the little girl he had pushed into the pond so long ago was still at the lake as a ghost. She had her family with her, he had also known that they were trying to figure out who killed their daughter, and if they did discover him... He probably would never see the light of day again. So that morning I wrote on a piece of paper “Theodore, the Mayor” and dropped it off at the lake, but just as I turned to go I could have sworn I heard some ghostly voice say “thank you.” [color=]      [/color][color=]            [/color][color=]                [/color][color=]            [/color][color=] [/color][color=]            [/color][color=]epilogue:[/color][color=]I explained to Ann, Nina, and Ray about the ghost,i never told anyone else though,  in case they called me crazy and sent me to the mental institution,and Theodore’s mangled and bloodied body was found drifting on the river, no,no I’m just kidding, but he was never seen again though . and a new mayor was elected! Theodore’s twin.... who was just like him in every way... (except he didn’t make death threats) “sigh” I guess they’ll never learn.     [/color]             The End

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