by Anasofia Aceves

Created on: March 02, 2011

It wasn’t a particular infesting day, it was a Little gloomy, the hint of winter was in the air, but living in California there was no big sings of the changing weather, not like in the east. After waking to an alarm radio playing Aerosmith, my mother screaming to come down for breakfast, my dog barking and my little sister refusing to wake up by shouting to my dad all I was wanting was a quiet day.

I started walking to school in the direction of my friend’s house; Seth had been my play date since I could remember and now on my last year of middle school he seems to be one of my only allies. We never made a lot of friends, we didn’t really need to since we were always together, and now that we were going to be in different High Schools we were freaking out.

We were a couple of blocks away from the school when I had a great idea, or at least I thought so, “hey Seth, let’s not go to school today”, “What do you mean?” he said looking surprise, see I was never the type of kid to skip school, I was always on time, stayed a little longer, did extra credit, never got into trouble, Seth on the other hand was not the perfect student and was always getting in trouble, not serious , but enough to get notice. “Will it affect your record if we skip school today?” those were the types of thing that I would generally worry about, but not today, “what about your?”, “Nah” I said confident, I mean, one day in my whole school career couldn’t hurt me.

We started walking the opposite direction in the hopes that no one would see us, after all, we didn’t wanted any parent or teacher to be dragging us back to school, after a few minutes the rush I hadn’t felt from doing one wrong thing in my life was replace with boredom, was this it, I skip school to walk around for a few hours, what were we going to do know, “what are we going to do now?”I asked, “I don’t know this was your idea” answer Seth with a big smile on his face, he was amused.

The streets were silent; the kids were in school, the parents at work, and we were just walking around looking at all the little shops, the people inside looked just as bored as we did, I was sure they were wanting to skip work too. “There’s miss Newly, come on” I had no time to react all I knew was that miss Newly was coming and that Seth was dragging me inside a store.

I hoped my eyes but everything was dark, I had no idea what store I had been dragged to, I could not remember what street we were walking on or what was the store next door, “Seth”  I screamed , but there was no answer , my breathing got more shallow, the drops of sweat were coming down my face , my eyes desperately were moving around for a glimpse of light, all of a sudden a door in front of me opened, the light blinded me for a second but I recognized the voice that was talking to be in a worried tone, “Are you ok?” it was miss Newly, “where’s Seth?”, “Who’s Seth?”she asked sending chills all over my body, she had been our teacher last year, we both took English with her, “Seth, Seth, from class last year, my best friend Seth, he dragged me in here “I said hysterical, “I saw you go in, alone, when you notice I was coming”, “No , no Seth was with me, he dragged me”, I looked at her in shock, I was not able to move after she said “there is no Seth”.

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