About two years ago, I was in fifth grade. There was a scary movie that had came out. I was destined to see it but I didn’t have the guts too. Everyone talked about it, they would say “it wasn’t that scary” but in their eyes you can see the fear they had when they watched the movie. My stomach would be in a knot when I heard the name of the movie or when people started watching the trailer over and over again. I pretended to look at the trailer but always closed an eye or looked away. Lots of people come up to me and say “hey, I loved the end of the movie!” I always nodded yes and walked away quick before they started asking me questions that I didn’t know the answers to.
After a couple of weeks, kids at my school started announcing that they had the movie at home. They started inviting kids over to their house to watch the movie. I knew I was going to get invited, but every time someone brought it up I changed the subject. It always got really loud during lunch in the cafeteria and you couldn’t even hear the person talking beside you, although when we could hear them I acted like if I couldn’t. After I had finished my food my friends decided to pull a horrible prank on me. They had got the theme song for the movie and put in right beside my ear. I freaked as soon as I heard it. I ran to the bathroom and felt really nauseous. I looked at myself in the mirror and thought a ghost would pop out of it.
After a few days, my cousin Alf and Katy had moved close to where I live. I got scared because I knew they had the movie since they are obsessed with scary films. They transfer schools to my school. That day I went up to Alf and asked him “ so, well I think I shouldn’t….” I panicked, he bet me to it! “Hey, I just got this awesome scary movie, you should come over with Josue and we could all watch it. Oh yeah now my apartment has a really cool place where we can watch it, it gets really dark in their. How about today after school? Is that good for you? Hope you don’t have plans!” I nodded slowly as he gave me half a nod and walked away. All day I had been thinking about the movie and couldn’t concentrate.
The end of the school day came fast, my brother was so happy to go. I ate lunch and sat down to watch a little bit of t.v. while the clock turned to 5 o’clock. “Up in this part of the area there will be a big thunderstorm coming so hope you guys stay inside while the storm passes by”, said the news reporter in the t.v. My brother Josue was ready to go he had already an umbrella in his hands in case the storm came. My mom gave us a bag of popcorn and then we left. It was bright outside it didn’t even look like it was going to rain. “Hey, come in! Oh lord we are going to become very fat with all this popcorn”, Alf said and as we walked to their “secret” place. It was in the biggest closet I have ever seen, but there were no windows. We sat down in a pile of clothes.
Later throughout the movie, we had really buttery popcorn and that was terribly delicious. Before the movie started Alf had turned off the lights, but later on my brother got really scared and we had turn them on again which was an advantage for me because I think I was more scared than him. The lights were bright but the back of the room was kind of dark so we had decided to move the computer to the back of the room. The computer was pretty big so it felt like a small t.v. The scariest part came,we were all close to the computer waiting for what would happen. Our eyes widen and then all of a sudden the lights turned off and even the computer. I screamed harder than I have ever screamed on a roller coaster. Alf gasped and Katy backed up and fell onto the pile of clothes. My brother got really scared and started to cry. All of us had no idea on what had just happened but, I think Alf suspected it was a very cruel joke.
“So you think this is funny?” said Alf like a red tomato about to burst. I knew that this wasn’t a joke, I could feel it something had happened that Alf didn’t know. “It was no one. Everyone got scared and so it was no one, OK don’t be blaming people on this!” I raised my voice a little bit and he decided to look outside in the living room to see what was really happening. We went outside and everything was off. I looked outside the window and the whole building had gone out of power, but even worse the terrible storm had hit. We didn’t end up watching the full movie, well probably they did, but not me or my brother. We ended our day, going into the hallway and running in the dark. Katy was laughing really hard as was my brother, but his eyes were flushed with red from crying so much. I wasn’t scared to see the trailer or say I watched the movie. It wasn’t that hard and I was filled with courage to conquer anything that stood in my way.