BEFRIENDING THE SKELETON

The truth has been revealed

By Josh

The school bell rang loud and clear. For some it was like hearing the word summer for the first time in their lives. It was the most glorious time of the day the dismissal bell, one of mankind’s most esteemed achievements, summer break.

. But Bryce Peterson wasn’t like most kids. He was unique, special and a one-in-a million. He hated school just like everyone else, but you see Bryce had a knack….. for making school a bit more… interesting.

“Yo Bryce, you going to come through with our little plan?” asked Andrew.

“Are you kidding?”

Well, I just thought that it could be a little mean you know?”

“Jeez, well can’t you think of a couple mean things Jimmy did to us over the years?”

“Well, there was that time when he dropped those eggs on your head. And at camp while you were asleep he made you think you had that rare skin disease.”

“See?” said Bryce.

“Alright I’m in!”

“Ok, meet me at the Stone Hill Cemetery gates at 3:00 AM tonight.

“Yea, I’ll be there!” replied Andrew

“You know tomorrow is the last say of school.”

“That’s why we waited all year to pull the perfect prank on Jimmy”

Bryce wasn’t always such a bad kid. But it all started in 2^nd grade when he was forced to the dark side. The 5^th grade hall, were the kids were mean, the science lab was reen and the teachers were ever so keen and caught your every mistake. Then he ran into the meanest kid in school, Caleb. Fate took it’s turn on that unfortunate day, Caleb took his Social Studies book and put it in the schools official Cremator were unfinished work was discarded.. He was charged 60$ for that dumb book. After paying up he realized that with the power of the dark side he could achieve anything his heart desires!!!!

Bryce’s watch woke him up at 3:00 AM and he hurried over to the stone hill cemetery, where he was soon greeted by his best friend Andrew.

“Hey, grab that shovel and let’s head up there. I already picked out a grave a couple of days ago.”

“Alright, whatever you say.” replied Andrew.

Bryce walked over to the gravestone, picked it up off the ground and read it out loud to himself.

“Mortimer Sharf, lost but not Forgotten.”

Well, he certainly won’t be forgotten!”

“Quick, dig up the head and get out of here! This place gives me the creeps!”

The next day of school was the last day of school before the kids were finally set free. Everything was set. Bryce and Andrew had arrived early so they could put the gravestone and severed head in Jimmy’s desk. The moment had come. Mr. EZ had asked the children to get those accursed Day Books. Jimmy was reaching into his desk……He looked inside, screamed and jumped out of his seat. The three or four students that were unlucky enough to sit by him were almost obliterated by his massive weight

“Yesssss!!!!” screamed Bryce and Andrew in unison. They had just pulled the greatest prank of all time!

“That was great!” said Andrew

They were walking down the hall back from there social studies class. Jimmy came up to them and started yelling at them for putting the gravestone in his desk.

“Wait, are you sure there was only a gravestone in there?”

“Yea, wasn’t there supposed to be a skeleton head too?”

“I was sure I had put it in there!”

“Well, if the head wasn’t in there then were is it....

He was interrupted by screams and shouts of terror. As he turned to face the commotion he saw someone or something walking down the hall towards him. He was wearing a red Phillies hat with a leather jacket and pair ripped jeans.

“Hey it isn’t cool to disturb people when there sleeping!”

Bryce realized that the person was talking to him and he was looking up to see who it was. But of course nothing in Bryce’s life had ever been en normal and this was no exception. Because what Bryce saw next was awe striking and a quite creepy. Because under the leather jacket and the baseball cap, was a complete human skeleton. The skeleton had no flesh or any of its organs.

“Well are you just going to stand there or are you gonna help me?”

“Bryce didn’t know what to say he was some-what petrified by the being standing before him.”

“Well what exactly do you need.” muttered Bryce.

“I don’t need anything I like this place much better than Philadelphia anyway.”

“Fine but could you just give me a break and leave me alone?”

“I wish I could, but you were the one who dug me up so if you want me gone you are going to have to find a way to get rid of me.”

“Are you telling me that if I don’t get rid of you you’re going to keep bothering me?”

“Pretty much,” Replied the skeleton as he was trying to trip people walking down the hall.

Bryce knew that he had to get rid of this thing before it caused a whole lot of trouble. He was trying to think of a way to do it when he was interrupted by that obnoxious voice.

“Lets get out of here this place is weird.”

“It’s called school… well at least we have one thing in common.”

“I guess so.”

“What are you doing?!”

“I’m trying to get in this door.”

You can’t do that!”

“Why?”

“Never mind lets just get out of here so that I can get you out of my life.”

“Well if you really want to get rid of me you should take me back to my coffin and rebury me.”

Bryce and the skeleton were well on their way but were interrupted at the front doors by none other than Caleb.

“You can’t leave until you pay exit fee!”

“I don’t have any money on me right now.”

“Well that’s just too bad, dirt bag!”

“We used to beat people up for saying things like that.” said Mortimer.

“Let me handle this.”

A series of very painful events followed as Mortimer unleashed his awesomeness.

“All right lets get out of here” exclaimed Bryce.

When they came to the stone hill gates they were faced with yet another challenge. Someone had locked the gates and put barbed wire on them plus for an added bonus they tied rotweilers to the gates. For some unknown reason the dogs were suspiciously eying Mortimer…

“Well there’s only one thing you can do in a time like this rebel!” screamed Mortimer.

Mortimer courageously jumped the fence then pulled off his left arm. While pretending to be Tom Brady threw a glorious pass with his right arm.

“Ha those stupid puppies took the bait!” said Mortimer.

“To the coffin!” yelled Bryce

When they reached the coffin Mortimer laid down and in his coffin and before closing the lid said.

“Remember Bryce always you must always rebel!”

And with that he was gone forever…….

The next couple of days of Bryce was in a very bad mood. He had come to befriend the skeleton. And now that he was gone Bryce felt worse.

“Is it true that you ditched school yesterday.” Asked Andrew

“Yea, but don’t tell any one I’ll be in major trouble.”

“Alright, so I guess I’ll see you tonight at the party?”

“All be there.”

And with that Andrew walked off satisfied with Bryce’s answer. But Bryce was alone again and deeply missed his knew friend.

“Hey why are you so sad?” said a familiar voice.

Bryce recognized it immediately and was filled with joy. Because know that the skeleton was back they could have some real fun together.

“Why did you come back?” asked Bryce

“It was boring trying to go back so I thought it would be more fun to come back here and hang out with you.” Replied the skeleton

“Hey you never told me your name.”

“It’s Mortimer but you can call me Sharf.”

“I can’t do anything I’ve got to be somewhere.”

“Don’t worry I got something planned that’s probably more fun than anything you could think of!”