"Glow Sticks" by Ashley G

Its Halloween night Sammy, Bob, Charlie and Lilo are on their way to a Halloween party. The house they're going to is deep in the Claremont woods. They all struggle to carry their candy filled pillow cases up the steep hills. A week prior to this night they were invited by a good friend named Jeff he had said he only wanted a couple of groups to go, but they still new Jeff was known to be a big partier. Sammy and Bob where the only ones who knew how to get through the forest after all they hiked a lot together. Sammy came up with a game and said “Okay, Lilo and Charlie, Bob and I will go run up 50 feet and leave glow sticks leading to the house”. They agreed to play the game. They had about 50 green glow sticks which was way more than needed since they were only 1 mile away. They gave them a 2 minute head start. 2 minutes pass, Lilo and Charlie head off to go find the glow sticks. Halfway up they hear a scream a long distance away, but think nothing of it because it was expected that Sam would try and scare them. At this point they can't see any-more green glow sticks, but then they see a little red thing laying on the ground they then realized as they got closer that it was a red glow stick. They now can barely see the house lead by red glow sticks. They walked up to the house discussing why they think Sammy and Bob changed the glow stick color they already knew they had red ones but they said they would use the green glow sticks. Since there phones were nearly dead or dead by the end of the night they couldn't call each other if anything happened. They didn’t seem to see Sammy and Bob anywhere but thought nothing of it and thought they were out having fun as well. A couple hours later Lilo and Charlie decide to leave and head home, getting a ride down the hills and home. They get home plugged their phones in and went to sleep. The next morning they end up waking up late. They leave their phones and rush to school. All day at school there was no sign of Sam and Bob later when Lilo got home it isn’t until then she notices the hundreds of missed calls and voicemails left by Sam they are all of Sam and Bob screaming frantically for help. They give police all the information they know. The next week their schools flag is raised at half-staff. Lilo reads in the newspaper “ On 11/1/15 two students found dead in Claremont woods, bound together with glow sticks tied around there necks, hanging from a tree.” Lilo and Charlie are devastated, but time passes. Newspaper-“Two students found dead on 11/1/16. The cause is still unknown, the two college kids were found in the Claremont woods bound-together, surrounded by glow sticks.”