1 OUR NEIGHBOURHOOD

I live with my small family in a small city . My family includes my mother ,my father ,me and my little brother Jacob.

We were moving to our new house at night . We reached our new home .

We were sitting in a car . Our parents asked us to stay in car until they explore our new house . My mother and father went into the house . My brother and me wanted to explore our neighborhood . So , we moved out of the car without any fear .We went through the dark . We were walking and finding some friends that suddenly we passed through a house . It was weird .There was no light .But we heard some voices . We put no attention towards it . My brother was running and I was walking . Suddenly , I felt someone at my back .I was afraid . When I turned back there was someone standing in the garden of that weird house . I turned to him . I was walking slowly .Suddenly , my brother ,Jacob came back . He was running and was afraid . I asked him what happened .He replied " there was someone standing there who asked me to go back from where we are .Otherwise you will be killed . " I returned back to the garden of that house and there was no one. I replied to my brother " Don't worry you have seen a dream " Jacob replied " Ok I saw a dream with open eyes ? " We both laughed and returned to home . But I was still thinking about what Jacob said.

Next morning we all wake up and started decorating our house . I went to my room and saw the beauty of rising sun from my window . Suddenly , I realized that there is no house except that weird house , and an empty cottage two miles far from our house .I told this to my mother .She replied "Alice , you are thinking too much ." She said me to go with Jacob on your bicycle . I can never forget yesterday's night so I was too afraid to go .But Jacob who was 6 years younger than me insisted me. I agreed .

But as we went something strange happened there .

AS we were cycling in the street , we met an old man . He was somehow weird .I asked him the way to park . He replied me in unconsciousness "The way you are leading . " I can't understand it properly . We pass through that weird house . Suddenly, I saw a boy standing in the cracked and shuttered window . He was wearing white gown with black holes .His eyes were creepy and black like a crow. I passed through it being unnoticed .We have to pass through a forest . The forest was old and antiquated. The trees were staring at me like silent sentries. The trees in the forest were bladder-brown. The air was stuffy. We went through it like prisoners .There was no one else us . At last , we reached the park and enjoyed our ride.

We went back through the forest before afternoon . But as we were passing through that strange house, we saw that old man again . He moved in the house .But unfortunately , the door remained open.

What we saw, "Dust, cobwebs, sheets on furniture, broken tables, chairs, windows, lamps, peeling wallpaper, gaps in the floorboards, holes in the walls, flickering lights ,chandelier with broken strings of crystals, broken glass on the floor, spiders, cockroaches, rust, mildew, ripped curtains, and shadows"

We were frightened . Suddenly , Jacob started shouting . When I turned back , the old man was standing behind us and staring . We both turned yellow and run towards home . In all this our cycle was left there.

we went home and told our mother about it . She was not ready to believe in any way .But at night , when our father came home , he was little scary . when my mother asked he replied "Someone ….Some.....Someone who is not happy and want us to go back" Jacob asked " But who and why ?" His reply was a shock for Me and Jacob.