I was out for the weekend, i was going for a sleepover at a friends place, although boys don't normally call it a sleepover. I packed up a couple of clothes because there was no telling if i was going to be there for more than one night. I also packed up some necessary things like my tooth brush, hair gel and comb. Oh yeah and of course my video game (very necessary).

"Goodbye mum, take care of yourself till i get back and make sure you take your drugs as usual if i don't get back early in the morning, Love you mum".

*Only if i knew what would happen i would have stayed at home*

After getting a kiss and Goodbye from my mum i made my way out of the house and into a *not quite* new car that my dad left for me and my mum till he disappeared to no one knows where, i turned on the engine and in a minute i was down the slippery road it was raining quite heavily tonight, which gave me the quick thought of going back home. But as i drove on the thought gradually bleached away.

It was quite a driving distance to Michael's home but i arrived safely.

Before i could knock the door flunged open, it was Michael's little sister.

"Mummy mummy we have a visitor!" she exclaimed.

I stood at the door till a voice from inside permitted me in.

As i entered into the house i kept rolling my eyes trying to catch a glimpse of Michael but the only people i saw was his mum and little sister.

Before i could make my greetings she said "Don't you worry my child, Michael is upstairs with some friends he had been expecting you".

I could only gesture a bow in appreciation to his mum then headed upstairs.

*Some friends? I had no idea he invited some other people*

I got to the top, Michael's room was just right by the hallway. Opening his door without knocking i found Derek, Lena, Sophia, Stephan and of course Michael.

*You may be wondering why i talk about Michael at lot,  it's because we have been best friends since we were 6years old and now we are 15years old. Quite some time right or maybe not. And by the way my name is Collins*. We were often mistaken as brothers because we pretty much looked alike, we were about the same height but Michael would say he is taller but i would say his unkept hair always gave him the extra height. We had similarly shaped physique, brown eyes, cheek bones and properly carved lips.

As i was saying, i then sat down on the mat got welcoming handshakes from the guys and welcoming smiles from the girls. I grabbed a pop corn and continued watching a movie with them. It was a horror movie, i loved horror movies... Well not up till now.

The movie was about five kids that ventured into a old tavern of dragons thinking dragons were extinct... Well the rest is for you to guess. The movie also displayed the magician wonders of witches which Sophia obviously enjoyed.

At a point of the movie Lena got really freak out that she had to go to bed. I could tell Derek was scared too but had to put on the "MANLY CHARACTER".

After some time we were done with the movie and was time to go to bed, Stephan was already asleep at a corner of the room facing away from the television, *i guess he was scared after all *, the rest of us got our beds ready, greeting each other goodnight then falling asleep one by one. I have known horror movies to mess with ones mind but not to actually mess with ones world!!!

Around 2:30am at night i got up to take a piss and grab a drink of water. Then and there i realized i didn't see anyone in the room. I rushed back immediately to check the different rooms this time thinking it was a sort of prank from the others. But on getting to the room there was no sign that anybody lived there, no TV, no wardrobe, no ceiling fan.

"OMG!!! MICHAEL! DEREK! LENA! SOPHIA! STEPHAN!" But no response came. I was scared out of my wits. The place was dead silent, you could hear the cripping of the night cricket like a loud speaker.

Suddenly i noticed objects getting smaller in the room, it felt like a dream, it felt like the horror movie messing with me like never before, i pinched, slapped and scratched myself to wake up but i only felt the pain.

Now the roof was caving in, i knew what i had to do, i was scared to do it but i did it anyways. I ran out of the house into the night sky barely making it through the shrinking door.

What now???

Now i was out in the open as i watched the house shrink to nothing in terror. My knees were shaking so hard i could feel them knocking against each other, i was sweating profusely, i was not really scared of dying but i was scared of how it will happen. Will rain of spears fall from the sky? Will wolves feast on me from the woods? Would i get surrounded by aliens or get trapped in stomach of a gigantic snake? These were some of the silly thoughts running through my head. I was starting to feel sick, but i wasn't with any pills i could use to calm myself down for a bit. I was really on my own. Sometimes I felt the urged to yell for help, but a part of my disagreed with the idea.

Then, like my brain got rewired with a spark i remembered my car. YES! MY CAR! I rushed to were i parked it, to my great relief it was intact. I jumped in immediately, started the engine at once, hit the gas and in a flash i was off. But... Where was i going? Home? Yes of course home. Were hopefully all this will make a little bit of sense. I was going with the expectation that someone can pat me on the back and tell me it's all in my head.

On the road, i kept thinking of a logical explanation for the whole incident. I was thinking of my friends, where could they possibly be at the moment? are they as freaked out as i am? Or was i the only one living this nightmare? It was starting to drizzy now,and it was rather cold, i was still in my night wears but still i barely took note of the weather, it was the very least of my worries at this point.

Up till this moment i didn't see any sign of life on the road. No cars, no person, no stray animal, nothing at all apart from the forest of trees, the bush paths and some few buildings of houses, most of them i recognize as i usually use this part of the road whenever I'm coming to visit Michael. So i was at least convinced that i was still in the vicinity that I'm used to. Of course it was around 3am in the morning, but still no security officer? This was really something weird i noticed,does it mean there was no guard on duty today? i tried not to think much about it but... ZOOOSHH!!! A car was speeding straight to me, splashing water through it's path, then i hit the brake and pressed the horn. The car stopped, i wanted to get down but i just rolled down my window and looked through and to my greatest shock. THERE WAS NOONE IN THE CAR. With the fear rumbling in me i sped off.

At this point i was crying, what really am i going to find at home? What is happening?

I took a little breather out of the car then got back in the car, but this time i didn't take off immediately. I was confused and scared, scared of what i was going to find at home. "My mom" what was going to happen to her. At this point i was trembling severely and i knew it wasn't safe to be out on the road by this time. "Collins...you really have to go now" i told myself.

I could have just ran myself off the road and end this nightmare once and for all, but in every horror movie there is always a survivor. This thought didn't convince me but it was enough to keep me going.

Now my mind flashed and took me back to the wonderful, average teenage boy lifestyle i had. I was the only child of my parents but i used to have a brother who died at a young, then i was 5 years old while he was 2 years old when he passed away. It just seemed like everything in my family went downhill after his death, my dad became a drunkard and cared less about me and my mum, while my mum went through series of depression which i witnessed at a very young age. She also fell sick a couple of time but all these time i never fail to leave her side.

In a short time my reminiscing was over, I started the car and i was back on the road.

*And the crowd goes wild* *Loud applause*

That was my car radio coming on. With instant reaction i turned it off. It sounded like i dropped a huge bomb from out of nowhere, a 15 year old boy driving in the middle of the road playing a loud radio? You don't need anyone to let you know the dangers you may be attracting.

After driving a few minutes the radio came on onces again and immediately i turned it off. It was cold outside but i could fell the sweat in my arm pits. In a fewer minute than the last time it came on, still i turned it off. In another reduced interval it came on, i was just about to break the radio with my hands when i heard... *...it is a fun filled night at Block 29 Maddison's Street...*

"Thats my house!!!" i screamed. But why would my house be announced on a radio? And most importantly "people" Yes there are people there. This observation gave me hope that i can actually find answers and no what's going on.

On the other hand i was worried about my dear mom. I couldn't call her because my phone was still in Michael's house. No one in his right mind would go back to that house.

Now i was moving at a faster pace, my heart beating fast with curiosity and a little bit of fear because now i was feeling positive. I tried to turn back on the radio to see what else i could get, but it failed to come on this time.  "Damn it, i guess bad luck is something else i need to worry about".