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The Unknown Men Tess Fox

Jake rose from his chair slowly and walked across the room. The clock struck 12:00am. He stood for a moment looking out his window at the dark street below.

Suddenly the phone beside him rang. Jake picked it up and nobody was there. He hung up quietly. The phone rang again the second he put it down. Jake answered it again. This time he could hear voices but, he couldn’t hear what the man was saying because the music in the background was too loud. Then he hung it up again, and he looked around. Jake was terrified and he didn’t know what to do. He started to tremble in fear and his hands filled with sweat.

Then five minutes later he heard the door downstairs creak open slowly. Now he was very scared. He didn’t want to see what it was, but he had to find out. As Jake walked to the stairs the floor was very creaky and loud. When he got to the stairs to go down he flipped on the light switch very fast. Quietly, he started to descend the steps. When Jake was on the third step from the top the phone rang again. Jake ran to the phone and this time somebody was there. He looked out the window and the two men were coming toward his house.

Then the door bell rang. He could hear unknown voices mumbling and didn’t understand what they were saying. He opened the door, looked out, and saw two men were wearing all black. They glanced up at Jake with sinister eyes. It made him cringe into the shadows. Jake didn’t want to get these two men angry. The men in black walked into his house and looked around.

He woke up out of his dream. Jake looked at the clock. It was 12:00am. He remembered in his dream that the clock just struck 12:00am.

.....to be continued.

Chapter 2

Jake thought to himself while he stared at the ceiling that nothing in him dream could ever happen to him.

Then the phone in the living room started to ring. He immediately looked in the direction of the loud, vibrating phone. Jake got out of bed slowly and walked across the creaky floor to the phone.

He answered it, “Hello?”

The voice on the other end said, “Hey, Jake it’s Nick. Remember two hours ago we were supposed to go to that party?”

“Yes, I’ll be down in a minute,” replied Jake. Jake walked across the room very tired and slow. When he got in his room he got dressed. He looked very tired because it was 12:00am. He walked out the door of his apartment to the elevator to go to the party. When he got to the elevator it was all dark inside. He didn’t like that so he decided to take the stairs. There was a bit more light than in the elevator.

His friend was waiting in the car. He was talking on the phone while waving at Jake. Jake smiled and jogged across the street to the car. Suddenly another black car that looked like Nick’s came driving towards him. He jumped out of the way saying, “Gosh, what’s their problem?”

Jake got into the car and right after he got into his friends car, the other black car screeched and turned around and is heading straight for them.

His friend quickly turned the car on but the key wouldn’t turn. He tried at tried to turn the key, but then it broke in half. They didn’t know what to do. But the weird thing was that the car was on and part of the key was stuck in the key hole. They looked at each other. Nick thought he pushed the break so that it wasn’t as hard to the car. But instead he pushed the gas. They went flying down the road towards the other car. Then the other car pushed Nick’s car down the street. They couldn’t stop or turn the wheel. They were going down the street so fast, that the people on street just froze and looked at them. His friend looked where they were going and they were going to crash into a car at a red light.

They reached the car at the red light and crashed. Nick’s car was in the middle of both cars. They couldn’t go anywhere, even if they wanted to. The two men got out of the car that was waiting at the red light. They were wearing all black. The two men looked like the people from his dream. In fact they looked exactly like them. Jake was confused. Nick and Jake didn’t know what to do, but for one thing for sure, they couldn’t get away.