m******e Mansion

Chapter 1-Friday

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    That was all I heard as my eyed briefly scanned the words upon a book page I had been reading about psychology. It was better than listening to the boring lecture the science teacher was giving. High school was so tiring already with the boring trends and gossip, and it was only my second year. I'd rather just sit all day with my nose in a book.                                                                                                           "Psst.....Klarissa.....PSST!" Miranda, my best friend, whisper-yelled trying to get my attention for the third time in the last five minutes.                                                                                                                               "What now? Can't you see I'm trying to read?"                                                                                                             "You're always doing that, though, and we only have five minutes left of Mr. Mono talking until we're free!" She whined.                                                                                                                                                       "Shhhh! He'll hear you, and then we'll have detention again. Also, it's fifteen minutes!" I exasperatedly whispered back. As much as I loved my best friend, she could be a bit loud and tended to get us both in trouble because of it. 

     Miranda was a medium-heighted girl standing at about 5'5" with long, dirty blonde hair that went past mid-back with cute facial features and eyes that always seemed to be changing from blue, to green, to grey, and back again. She was the constant bubbly, optimistic person that everyone loved to be around.

    "But Klarissa, class is almost over," she whined again, giving me puppy dog eyes, "Caspian said he had a plan to get the bell to ring early today." 

    'That's right, he had said something about that earlier today. That prankster would be caught one day,' I chuckled to myself. He was another one of my friends. His mischievous nature was constantly getting him into trouble, but he could always pass of the blame. With his smarts, he probably would manage to trigger the bells somehow. Caspian was a tall guy about 6'1" with brown hair so dark it looked black, ocean blue eyes, and a laid-back expression on his manly features that made just about anyone feel safe to open up to.

      An abrupt ringing broke me from my thoughts as the other students hurriedly gathered their things to leave as quick as possible. Mr. Mono stood at the front of the class, mouth agape like a fish as he stared at the clock. At first he tried to keep the class from packing up, but he eventually sighed in defeat and sat at his desk gathering his own papers to grade.

    'That rascal has done it again,' I thought to myself with a smile as I quickly placed my own things into my bag. Miranda had already packed her stuff and was jumping up and down waiting for me to finish packing up.

    "Come on, come on, come on! We have to go meet up with the gang!" She yelled, rushing to help me put my stuff away. She really was a ball of energy.

      "I'm coming. Calm down," I said while getting up and walking out of the room with the horde of students leaving with their own tasks ahead of them. Mr. Mono waved a small goodbye at anyone that glanced his way and wished them a good weekend while he ran another hand through his white thinning hair.

       As Miranda and I walked to our lockers,  we bumped into the "blonde tornado", otherwise known as Lewis. He was one of my childhood friends, along with Caspian. His personality was sweet and caring. He was about 5'9" with chocolate brown eyes, golden blonde hair that always seemed to be tousled, and the most adorable face that you couldn't help but think of him as a teddy bear.

      "Hey, Klarissa! Hi, Miranda! So glad to see you. It seems like Caspian has done as he promised," Lewis said with a toothy grin. 

       "Haha, sure does. We gotta go get the rest of our buds though. Let's get going, Klarri," Miranda shyly replied. She always had a bit of a crush on Lewis, and it was obvious to everyone but them. 'They would make an adorable couple,' I thought, grinning. Then I was tripping over my own feet due to Miranda pulling me away to our lockers again. Once I was firmly on my feet, I couldn't help but tease Miranda.                             "I thought he was actually going to confess his undying love for you this time. If only you could be around him for longer than ten seconds," I joked, sticking out my tongue at the blushing blonde.

       " Oh sh-shut up'" Miranda uttered, " We're at our lockers now!" She exclaimed, running into it.

        "Ow..." she mumbled rubbing her forehead while laughter left my lips. 

       "You're such a clutz," I laughed, rolling my eyes. Spinning the lock to open my purple Drearton High locker, I heard Miranda already swinging her's open and grabbing everything she needed. Once I had my own opened and had put my things away, I began jogging away to catch up with Miranda. Walking out the front door and hoping to spot the rest of our friends, we found them in a group underneath the willow tree talking and laughing away. We saw Caspian being patted on the back and congratulated for achieving his goal of letting school out early. Lewis was also seen looking our way, smiling, and waving at us to join them. We both took off running to greet them.

      There was Lidia, an outgoing girl who always came up with what to do over the weekend. She had her hair dyed a brilliant turquoise on one side, and a dark pink on the other. She was a tall female, about 5'8" with purple eye-contacts, and a model-like face. It was no surprise she was dating the handsome jock, Luke.

     Luke had his arm around Lidia's waist, and was smiling a charismatic smile that he usually had adorned on his face to make girls swoon. He had super short brown hair with hazel eyes, and stood at a towering height of 6'5". It was without a doubt that he was the best looking junior in the high school, and the most flirtatious one, too. 

       Then there was Mark. leaning against the trunk of the old willow tree slightly out of the circle. Black hair covered his electric green eyes, giving him an air of mystery. He was the really quiet, but freaky smart guy in our group. He was about 5'9".

      Last but not least was Nathaniel. None of us really knew why he was in our group, but he kinda just showed up one day. He always had a smart-alecky attitude, but he was like family at this point, so we kept him around. He had light brown hair, grey eyes, freckles, and stood at about 5'11".

        They were a great group of friends to have, and we all always seemed to be together, or at least in pairs.

       "Klarissa, Miranda!  Welcome to civilization!" Nathaniel said in the usual sarcastic tone of his.

      "It's great to be here!" I exclaimed with equal sarcasm while Miranda started bouncing on the ball of her feet to stay active.

       "So what's the plan this weekend, Lidia?" Questioned Miranda, still moving.

       "I'll tell you if you can stand still for once," replied Lidia with an eye roll.

       "Fine," pouted Miranda. She started fidgeting instead due to her adrenaline build up.

         "Well, since it's been almost three years, we decided we should be the next group of teenagers to see if we can break the so-called 'Curse of Ferdinan Mansion,'" Lidia practically yelled. It seemed like she wanted everyone in a ten mile radius to hear what she had said.

        "Are you crazy?!" I yelled back, "That's basically suicide!  No one ever survives a night in that place!" 

       "I agree with Klarissa, Lidia. You're insane if you think that we should go there," Mark said, flipping his hair so one eye was visible. 

      "So he can speak," snickered Nathaniel as Mark sent him a glare.

      "I'm up for it," said Luke. 

      "You're up for anything," I snarkly replied.

       "I don't have a death wish," stated Miranda. 

       " Nor do I," Lewis agreed as he walked over to Miranda's side causing her to blush and fidget even more.

       "I'll do it," said Nathaniel almost fearlessly.

        "Do you know how many pranks I could pull in that place? Of course I'll do it!" Exclaimed Caspian, childish glee written all over his face as he snuck a glance at me.

        "So..it seems we're split.  We need one more person's opinion...how old is your sister again, Klarissa?" Lidia asked.

       "She's fourteen, but you can't expect her to make a rational decision!" I exclaimed. I didn't want Kadince pulled into this. Kadince was my little sister, younger by almost two years. She had fiery red hair and ice blue eyes. She was only 5'4". We were nearly the same, personality wise, at least.

      "Why don't you ask her, you can't protect her from everything. Let her make her own decision for once, Klarissa," Lidia said rolling her eyes.

       "Fine...but she won't be involved beyond that," I  grudgingly said. Pulling out my phone, I texted Kadince.

       Hey lil sis, if u could go 2 MM would you? Less than 3 seconds later I received the dreaded answer. 

      Of course!!! Are ur friends going? Can I come?

      "Well..that settles it..we have to go," I said regretfully, looking up from my phone with a heavy sigh.

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       It had been settled. Saturday night we were going, and so was Kadince. She twisted my arm by threatening to tell our mother and everyone else's parents, and I couldn't betray my friends since they seemed to want to go so badly. Sleeping that night seemed impossible for fear of tomorrow. I just couldn't believe what I was doing. Part of me was excited, because who wouldn't be? I would be going inside m******e Mansion! But that was the thing, three years after the last killings and I'd be going to m******e Mansion...

   And that was basically suicide for my sister, my friends, and myself.