"What Lies Under" by Garret J.

     Cameron came home from school one day and his mom started to yell at him because the dishes weren’t done. He was confused as to why his mom was yelling at him because he remembered doing the dishes before he left for school. Cameron just ignored it and went into his room to do his homework. As he was doing homework, he was looking at videos of him and his friend, Jackson sneaking into an underground tunnel. Suddenly he saw something on the video that scared him to death. Cameron saw what seemed to be a figure with red eyes on his back. He re-played the video and the figure wasn’t there. Scared to death, his mom called him downstairs for dinner. “How was your day Cam?” asked his dad. “Good,” said Cameron. He couldn’t say anything about the video because he wasn’t supposed to be going into the tunnel in the first place, so he just didn’t talk the whole time. As he went to his room, Cameron figured he wanted to finish the project he was working on in the basement. He went to the basement, and the project was on the floor in pieces. Cameron was furious. He went to the kitchen to tell his mom and they all went downstairs, and the project was perfectly fine. Cameron was starting to think something was wrong, first the dishes, then the video, then his project. Someone or something was messing with him. Everything started to go downhill from there. He had a nightmare that night. 

      The figure was in the street waving to him in his dream. That night he woke up and called his friend, Marissa to go on a walk outside in his neighborhood. As they were walking, Cameron saw the same figure at the end of the street, slowly waving to him. Marissa didn’t see anything. Cameron was freaking out. This wasn’t a dream either. Scared to death, he asked her to stay the night. The next morning, he woke up realizing it was the weekend. Cameron was so happy he didn’t have to go to school. He was too scared to go anywhere. He was home alone, so he just stayed in his room. Today he just planned on trying to work on his project. Marissa was sleeping in the other room, still. Cameron went downstairs to the basement to see if the project was there and it was in perfect condition. So he just ignored everything that happened the past few days and got to work. He was building a diorama of the ice age for history class. When he was finished, he went to the kitchen to eat a sandwich. He sat down and turned on the TV to watch some movies. Cameron was soon disturbed to someone running around upstairs. He slowly went upstairs to see what Marissa was doing. Her door was still closed. Cameron went into his room because he got a text. He sat down on the bed as he heard a loud, squeaky laugh coming from her room. Marissa knocked on the wall, so Cameron knocked back. Cameron texted Marissa asking if he woke her up too early. She replied, “I went home two hours ago…” Cameron ran as fast as he could outside to his neighbor’s house and looked up to his window to see that same figure he saw in the street the other night…