I looked up, eventhough my mouth was full of dirt, I couldn’t stop the smile from spreading across my face. Through the sputtering and coughing, I felt a tickle in my stomach, I began to laugh… surely I must have looked crazy, but I didn’t care. Pushing myself up on all fours, I looked at the figure standing before me. “See!” 1 choked out, lifting the board up. “I’ve won!” The thing looked down and backed up, its eyes were glowing a strangely peircing milky white. It stared at me, studying me like some science project. Just what is it thinking?! I won… I won right? Clutching the board tighter, I stood my ground, matching it glare for glare.

It’s translucent lips parted “Becareful of your wish.” It said. I searched its face, studying it, trying to find some sort of hidden meaning. But that thing wore its mask like the dying flesh it had wrapped around it’s skull. “Be wise…” his words seeming to hold a hidden meaning behind them “…state your desire.”

1 thought for a moment, but I knew what I wanted. “I~I wish I never met you!” | yelled “a~and that everything goes back to the way it was!” This wish should be fine… right? I chewed on my bottom lip. I jumped as it belowed out an unexpected laughter. “What’s so funny?” I growled out in confusion. “You’ve lost.”

“You’re still clueless as ever… little girl” He laughed “You’re desire has never changed.”

I could feel my eyes about ready to pop out of my skull, as my heart sank down to my toes. “Wait, what…what does that mean?’ I swallowed through the dry lump in my throat, waiting for an answer that never came. My world shifted and I felt as if I was plummeting into a black hole.

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“Wake up already!… Lea!” I jumped up, startled awake by Annisha’s aggressiveness “I’m guessing you were up all night reading those scary stories again, weren’t you?” She whispered.

Pushing myself off of the table, I rubbed At my pounding head. Looking around the room I was in, something important retreated into the back of my mind and no matter how hard I tried, I couldn’t remember what it was.

“Hello! Earth to Lea?” Annisha waved her hand in my face.

What ever it was could wait and I’m sure it would come to me eventually. But as of right now, trying to recall it irritated me and it hurt my head whenever I tried to remember. I yawned, stopping mid-way when I finally remembered something.

“That’s right, tomorrow is October 31st!”

“Shhh.” The librarian hushed me. Giving a quick apology, I turned back towards my group of friends, lowering my voice to a whisper, “I heard if you play a game at the cemetery of Macbeth and win the game, you get to make a wish.”