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Emili Lewis's House: A Short Story
One night we were at Emili Lewis’s house. A few of us girls wanted to try to stay up all night. It had been raining so we decided we wanted to go for a drive. This point of the night it was like 1:30 a.m. We drove for a little while before we got bored. We decided to brainstorm some ideas of stuff to do. We decided we wanted to go out to Box Canyon in Kaitlin’s truck to look at the stars. It took us a little while to get everything put together. We finally started heading out there at 3:00 a.m. On the way out there we passed a truck. The truck was very short, matte black, and had a circle light bar in between the headlights. None of us recognized the truck and we got a little nervous. We decided to ignore it and keep going. For the rest of the drive we talked about boys, problems, and then we started talking about scary stuff. When we got out there we were too scared to get out of the truck, so we turned around and started back into town. We got …show more content…
Well, we missed the turn. We were now on the road to box with only one known place to turn around. By the time we realized this, we were at the water company. With the black truck right behind us, and getting further away from town, we knew we needed to turn around. The speed limit is 35 mph on that road. We were easily going 50 mph. We had to slow down for curves and bends in the road. We were yelling at Kaitlin telling her to drive faster. We turned down Culen Highbe’s road and sure enough, he followed us. We flipped around, and he turned around right behind us. We decided we needed to drive very fast and try to create some distance so we could get into Emili’s house. We were driving as fast as we could while still being safe. We pulled up to Emili’s house and ran as fast as we could inside. The truck turned down the same road. We had barely made it inside. It was like we were in a movie, paralyzed with

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