CHAPTER 1: THE RUMOR
Traffic lights flash and car wheels move as i look back, rethinking everything "is everyone really dead?" "is any of this real?" at this point, i'm thinking about everything, from now until the day I was born. My friends, my family, everything. it's almost like you take my whole life and put it into a 3 second vision. After taking in everything that just happened, i'm not sure about myself. I'm not sure that i'm alive anymore. i'm not sure that i'm not hallucinating. This can't be a hallucination. This isn't a dream, this is real.
3 WEEKS EARLIER
"I Bet i can beat you in a fight", Mike said to Jamie while we were in school.
My name is Josh Durham, I was born in 2009. I have three friends, Mike Davidson, Jamie Lexon, and
Travis Allen. He has a scar on his right arm and brown, short hair. I met Travis in 4th Grade, and we've been friends for 3 years, all the way up to the 7th grade.
Jamie was a friend i met in 3rd grade, and then I introduced Jamie to Travis and then we basically became one big friend group. Mike was a Friend of Travis's that he met in the beginning of middle school and like i did with Jamie, Travis introduced him and then we kept on going from there. Every now and then we would go over to someone's house, talk about things that are going now, watch
TV, then go to sleep.
This is the same thing we did on this night. We Played some games, talked, and then went to sleep. after we had gone to sleep, at 5:20 we woke up. After checking our Phones, Travis suddenly lit up, and we were confused on his expression. Not happy. Not sad. Intrigued. "What's going on?" Mike asked with concern. "Have any of you heard the rumor?" Travis said. Turns out, none of us had. Travis was the only one. After Me, Jamie, and Mike searched it up, we found "1200 Years ago, in 823 there was a boy named Cyprian who had been pushed down the 200ft well, by his very own parents." we found it pretty gruesome, but nothing big. They say "Every 100 years the ghost of "Cyprian" comes to haunt the town of Oxville. "What the fuck is this?" Mike said just seconds after reading it. "What's wrong about it?" Travis said.
"This sounds like something out of a damn kids book that's what" Jamie interrupted.
Yeah, sorry to burst your bubble, but this is probably one of the stupidest "rumors" i've ever heard.
"Not to take offensive of course" I added. You guys think what you wanna think, but I believe it.
"Who's gonna tell him that santa isn't real?" Jamie and Mike snickered. After going home, we moved on, and went to school. In the hall, we saw a fight, and becuase this wasn't elementary school anymore, everyone around was chanting "Fight! Fight! Fight!". We saw someone fighting someone familiar "Hey Jamie, isn't that your brother?" "Yeah, but I don't really care" Jamie didn't seem to have that good of a relationship with him, but we didn't care. "Josh, do you remember the rumor?" Travis whispered in my ear. "Yeah why?" I asked confusedly. "The 1200'th anniversary is coming, and it's coming tomorrow." I said "Cool" because I really don't care that much. But i should of, because that is the thing that changed my life forever. Later that night, I was on my bed, looking at my phone, and my door was open and I heard something "chilling"
"A man named Scott Luther was found dead by a 200ft well with a gunshot to his head" immediately I looked up the case and screenshotted it, then send it to my friends. Everyone other than Travis is on "It's just a coincidence" But at that point even i wasn't so sure.