Holidays Don't Last

Jivitesh Prakash

It was the last day of the Christmas Holidays and it was MONDAY tomorrow. NOOOOOO!!!
That meant that I had to make the most of today before I have to go back to School, so I rode my bike to my friend Cohen’s house, wearing my Ben 10 Helmet because I haven’t got round to buying a new helmet.
Cohen lived down my street so it took less than a minute to get there, when I reached his house I knocked on the door and was welcomed in by Cohen’s mum. She said that Cohen was playing on his Playstation.

“Hi Jivi!” said Cohen, “ wanna play Fortnite on my PS4?”
“Yes please. I’m not allowed to play at home because my parents say I’ll get addicted and I won’t leave my room, ” I replied.
Cohen passed me his controller that had camo wrap. I pressed triangle to queue into a server and a few seconds later, I was in the lobby.
“Woah. What happened to the lobby? It’s changed, ” I asked.
“It’s a new season, ” replied Cohen.
When I looked back at the game I was gliding down. Probably because I took too much time to jump off the Battle Bus so it kicked me out from the bus. I landed somewhere on the island, I don’t know where and there were no buildings around so I jumped off the island into the water and died.

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“JIVI” Yelled Cohen. “It’s my turn to play Fortnite now!”
“Okay okay , geez,” I said as I reluctantly handed him the controller.
Cohen was pretty bad at Fortnite but I didn’t want to say anything because I wasn’t that good either.
I'm gonna be completely honest but it got a bit boring playing Fortnite all day.
“COHEN LEFEBRE!!! Get off your Playstation!!! You and your friend have been on it all day.” yelled Cohen’s Mum from the kitchen. “Go ride your bikes!!!”

I quickly raced outside, I could still hear Cohen yelling at his game.
“Hurry up Cohen!!!” I yelled at him hoping he would come. After what felt like a billion years Cohen rushed out from his house and I yelled, “ Race you to the end of the street!”

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“Wait what?” Exclaimed Cohen. “Okay then I’ll still beat you even though you got a head start!”
Cohen wasn’t even close to beating me, so yes I won the race.
“Hey Jeff.” Said Cohen. “ Wanna bike onto Balmoral Drive? We might not be allowed to but why not? This is the last day of the Holidays anyways.”
We were not allowed to bike onto Balmoral because our parents can’t see us from our street, they like to keep us safe.
“I dunno.” I replied. “I'm pretty sure we’re gonna get into trouble. Since there’s not much to do anyways let’s do it.”

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So Cohen and I sped to the end of the street and drifted right onto Balmoral Drive. Well not really, I was just exaggerating we didn’t drift because we were on bikes and we weren’t THAT fast.

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“Wait what?” Exclaimed Cohen. “Okay then I’ll still beat you even though you got a head start!”
Cohen wasn’t even close to beating me, so yes I won the race.
“Hey Jeff.” Said Cohen. “ Wanna bike onto Balmoral Drive? We might not be allowed to but why not? This is the last day of the Holidays anyways.”
We were not allowed to bike onto Balmoral because our parents can’t see us from our street, they like to keep us safe.
“I dunno.” I replied. “I'm pretty sure we’re gonna get into trouble. Since there’s not much to do anyways let’s do it.”

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So Cohen and I sped to the end of the street and drifted right onto Balmoral Drive. Well not really, I was just exaggerating we didn’t drift because we were on bikes and we weren’t THAT fast.

While we were biking Cohen was stupidly crossing the road when a nearby car nearly hit him.
“Cohen you idiot! Why did you do that? You could’ve gotten hit by a car AND we would definitely get into trouble.
“I just didn’t see the car.” Replied Cohen still in a bit of a state of shock.

“WOAH! Look at that house!” I said. There in front of us was a strange house we had never seen before. The house was really UGLY. It had cracked windows and some of them had wood hammered over them. The house had moss everywhere and an overgrown garden. So in short it was an ugly, abandoned house like all abandoned houses.

“ That’s ugly like my neighbours car.” said Cohen. “ Wanna go in there? You’ll be to scared ay?”
“Okay then. And also I'm not scared you probably are because you want me to come.” but really I was freaked out on the inside.
We slowly walked up the steps and one of them broke and fell but I moved my foot in time. We said nothing. As Cohen was about to put his hand out to turn the handle to the door, it swung open. It was pitch black inside. I pulled out my phone and turned on the torch.
“ How did you do that?” Asked Cohen.
“ Turn on the torch? Yeah that was easy I just dragged my finger down from the top of the screen and clicked the torch button. Simple!”
I shone my torch around and I saw these portraits of people.

They weren’t normal portraits, on these the faces they were blurred.
“ Cohen. Look at the portraits. The faces are blurred."
“Wow they actually are.”
THUD!!!
“ Did you hear that?” Cohen whispered.
“ Y-yup. I really think we should leave.”
Suddenly I felt something, whatever it was, it was holding onto my shoulders and Cohen was still carrying on ahead.
“ I’m going to make you pay for what you did and that is going to happen NOW!!!!!”

I woke up on my red couch back home. My mum was washing the dishes.
“ Mum I just had this horrible dream where it was the last day of the Christmas holiday and Cohen and I went to a house with this demon like thing that said it was going to end me and I woke up.

Mum turned her head. It wasn’t mum. It was...