About the Author: Natasha is friendly and enjoys hanging out with her friends.
John
I tried to scream as loud as I could, but it wasn't loud enough. Then I tried to open up my eyes, but it was too hard to. My dad ran into my room and tried to wake me up. It took him a little bit but when I opened my eyes my father was staring at me like he wasn't happy with something like me screaming in my dreams, even though I was. It had been like two minutes with my father looking at me, when he opened his mouth and said,
"John, you need to stop smoking all the time. It isn't good for you,"
I looked at my dad and said, "Well, I'm sorry. That is the only thing that makes me calm." He kept on looking at me.
I said, "Dad, just leave me alone, please." His head turned and he softly said ok. Then he got up and walked away, looked back at me, then looked away while he closed the door. I looked up at the ceiling and thought of how would it feel if I had a mother in my life, but I guess I will never know.
Sage
The wind was blowing and the rain was coming down hard. It felt like the earth was letting out all the sadness it had, while I was laying down in bed. Just the sound that the wind made when it hit the side of the house. I lyed on my side, when my phone lighted up. I looked at my phone to see who or whatever it got for as a notification. I turned on my phone and it was a snapchat from Nathan. I was confused because he normally doesn't text me in the middle of the night. There had to be a reason why he's texting me this late, unless it was John, but it wasn't. When I opened his snapchat all it was a black picture and the word hi. I didn't snapchat him back because I was so tired, also I had school the next day, so I put down my phone turned on the opposite side and closed my eyes, and tried to fall back asleep.
Nathan
Sitting in the cold, dark room that I thought was safe, but I have realized that it isn't anymore. I keep on looking at my phone for a text, but there's nothing. I stay in the place where I have been after John's dad dropped me off after hanging out with with his son. I turned on my phone and went on snapchat. In all honesty, I really wanted to text Sage, so I did. I sent her a black picture and the word hi to her. I turned off my phone right after it sent, because I never snapchat her in the middle of the night, and I'm afraid that she might think that I'm asking for something like other guys do to girls in our school, which is so stupid. I lay down with my phone in my hands, hoping Sage will text me back, but I didn't get anything until the next morning.
That next morning I woke up, got my shorts on and my t shirt on, grabbed my bag, and then headed out the door. I felt great and proud for some reason, I wasn't quite sure why, but I was. When I saw Sage walking down the road when I was on the bus, she saw my face on the bus and smiled. Then my bus stop I said in my head
"Why did the bus stop?" Then I saw Sage walk on and look right at me. Sage was my best friend since well, forever, I said to myself and then smiled. When she got on the bus I knew that she was gonna sit with me. Whenever she gets on my bus, sometimes in the morning and afternoon if me, Nathan, and her hang out after school which is like almost every day of the week.
She said, "Hey John. What's up?". I laughed and said, "Nothing much. Going to hell, what I have been going to ever since I was five." She smiled and laughed.
"Same!" I laugh like normal.
Once we got to school Sage and I went to go found Nathan because me, Sage and Nathan mostly do everything with the others, well not everything. Sage saw Nathan sitting down on the bench, reading under a tree. Me and Sage walked over. Sage laughed.
"Hey dude. You okay?" Nathan looked at her and responded, "Yeah guys I'm fine. You guys ok?"
Nathan never had a good childhood. Even now, he doesn't because his parents do drugs and I have seen marks on him from his father. I knew it wasn't good for him to be living there with all that stuff going on in his house, but Nathan told me that he doesn't want to leave because he knows that his father won't be happy, even his mother.
As the bell rang, Sage, Nathan, and I both walked into school together like brothers and sisters, even though we weren't. When we walked into history, Sage walked into Kate Upton- the most bossy, rude, mean girl you would ever meet. Kate laughed
"Watch where you're going, slut." Nathan and I looked at her, but didn't say anything. Then Kate looked at Nathan and asked,
"You got any drugs, drugboy?" While walking away laughing. Sage and Nathan were both speechless.
Around one o'clock, almost time to get out of this hell, I got a text from my dad saying, "I won't be home tonight again, I will see you tomorrow afternoon. Bye.” I didn't say anything else because I never answer him, mostly because he lies a lot about being home and so on. I put back my phone before my teacher saw me on my phone and take it. I take a look at Sage for a little bit, just to look at her beautiful, cute face that I just can't get over, then she looked at me and smiled, and I smiled back at the beautiful face of hers. Me, Sage and Nathan met at the park to hangout, like we always do. We were talking about our day, and our dreams while we were talking about our dreams, something popped in my head. I didn't want to say it because I was scared to say it for some reason, even though they were my best friends and my only true friends. Nathan said, "How about we do something fun and wild. Somewhere not here, somewhere else."
"Really?" Sage asked. Nathan responded, "Well, yeah!" laughing. That's when I said my idea. My idea was that me, Sage and Nathan go to a country, and go to the most haunted place we could find, and experience it and see what we can find. We could get away from here for a little bit this coming summer. Sage and Nathan looked at other then looked at me and said, "You really want to do this, John?
I replied, “Yes guys, we need to get out of here for a bit. It will be good for all of us." Both Nathan and Sage agreed to go.
When Nathan's father found out that he was going, he pushed Nathan's head against the wall near the door. Nathan's mother didn't do anything, she just kept sitting in the chair smoking and watching Nathan scream as loud as he could, then he hit his dad in the face really hard, then he grabbed his stuff and ran out of the door, while his mother was yelling, "Honey, come back!"
When we all met up, Sage was carrying a big bag with her.
"Yes, I know this might look like I have a lot, but there really isn't a lot in my bag," she said, laughing. I chuckle.
"Yeah, ok."
When she got in the car it was just me and her alone. I really wanted to tell her how I felt about her, but I was scared to lose her. 10 minutes later, we meet up with Nathan at the park, because Nathan texted me and Sage telling us that his father wasn't happy and hurt him and that he ran out of the house and wanted us to meet him at the park. All of us were in my old Ford that I got from my grandfather who passed away last year to get to the airport, to get to the place we wanted to go. Sage and Nathan acted like idiots in the airport while we were waiting for are plane like they normally do, and you know I didn't want to just sit there on my phone doing nothing, so I joined them. When we landed Sage's face was priceless.
Nathan looked at me, and said, “Dude, this is awesome!" I laughed, "You think?" Sage looked at both of us.
"Guys, calm down," and then laughed. Me and Nathan laughed too, after what Sage said. We got off the plane in Russia. For our big adventure.
Sage yelled, "Hey guys, come here!"
Me and Nathan looked at her, and then looked at other and went over to see what she wanted. It was food and it looked really good. An hour later we got a ride, to the hotel we all wanted to stay in and obviously it had to have a pool because little miss Sage loves to swim and wanted to get a hotel that had a pool. I couldn't say no, even Nathan was up with it and said,
"Yes, let's do it."
So, we got to the hotel, and all of our faces were priceles. We were all filled with excitement. Sage got our hotel room, and we went to are two bed hotel room. When we got in our room Sage said, "Oh my god!" Then put down her bag and opened it to get her swimsuit to go swimming downstairs. Nathan laughed.
"I'm so glad that you had this idea, John." I replied, "Same! Nathan, I'm really glad to get out of our town for a little bit. It’s going to be amazing!”
Nathan said, "Dude, I have a question."
I laughed, “Okay. What is it?”
Nathan looked at me and said, "Do you like Sage?" I was speechless, because I honestly didn't want people to know that I do like her.
I replied with, "Yes, I do," and nothing else. Nathan looked at me like he did too, and was Jealous that I liked Sage. Sage came back from changing into her swimsuit.
She laughed, "Why aren't you guys in your shorts? Don't you guys want to go swimming with me?" Me and Nathan looked at each other.
"Yeah, we're coming."
Sage looks at us and says, “Okay,” and then laughed, as she says, "Well, go get changed in the bathroom."
So Nathan and I changed into our swim shorts. Then Sage, Nathan, and I walked downstairs to the pool. After a couple hours of hanging out in the pool area we head back, when Nathan says "I'm gonna go to bed. See you guys tomorrow."
A couple more hours passed. Sage looked at me, then I looked at her. She asked if we wanted to go hang out alone, and I said sure. Once we got downstairs, Sage looked at me smiling like she was so happy and in love, but I know she doesn't like me like that. We sit down with our feet in the nice, cold water. We talked about more of our dreams and what we want to happen in are future. A hour passed while we talked and she looked up at me. She gets a little bit closer and I was starting to get nervous because I didn't want to mess up our friendship. I lean in close to her. Our lips meet each others and it was the most amazing feeling I have ever felt. I had never felt this alive until she kissed me. She laughed and that smile of hers was so cute, normal she says.
“I hope you know that I liked you for a while now, to be honest.”
I smile. “Really?”
She replied, “Yes. I know I should've told you a while ago, but Nathan was always around and I really never had time to tell you.”
My smile was probably so big, and most likely my face was red. She looks at me and pushes me in the pool. I laughed.
“Oh, its on.”
I pull her in to the pool with me after she pushed me in. We were laughing and having a great time. An hour passed, we walked back up stairs to our hotel room where we were staying. The next day comes around. That next morning Sage, Nathan, and I got our stuff, bought drinks for a trip to the Abandoned Military Hospital in Beelitz in Germany, we didn't want to get in trouble with the law, so we all decided to walk there even though it's would take a little bit. It took us a hour by walking the are desiacen. When we walked up to the big building all of our faces were priceless. I could tell that my own face was priceless just by the way the building was the most old, brown, ugly looking building I have ever seen in my life, probably the same for Nathan and Sage.
Sage said, “Well, what are we waiting for guys?”
Nathan and I look at other like what are we getting ourselves into?
Nathan replies, “I don't know. What are we waiting for?”
Sage laughs, “That's the spirit Nathan.” Nathan and I laugh
I said, “Lets go guys, and lets live our life for once.” Nathans yells, but not too loud.
“Hell yeah, guys.”
As we walk up to the back door, there was a strong rotten smell where we were trying to get in. We walked into the building with the rotten smell, with it following us like a dog stalking its prey. The smell wasn't going away until we got two minutes away from where we had come in to. And it was the only way to get into the Military Hospital. There wasn't stuff everywhere like what I thought. The only things on the ground was sticks and little pieces of the paint peeling off the ceiling. It was like dried flakes of skin; that's the way it felt when you touched it.
Later, Sage yells, “Hey guys, come here.” So, me and Nathan turned around the corner to see what Sage wanted from us. Sage is holding an old book.
Nathan asks, “Hey, can I see it please, Sage?”
Sage replied, “Sure.” Sage hands over the book to Nathan, so he can do whatever he wanted it for. As Nathan was about to grab the book, there was a loud BANG. We didn't know what it was. Then, Nathan said, “Well, OK then,” as he started laughing. He was opening the book, which was for staff only, but knowing Nathan my whole life, I knew he isn't smart enough to leave what's not his alone. He read the first words in the book. As Nathan read it, I got goosebumps. I could see that Sage and Nathan had the them too. I just think whatever Nathan read from the book was scary and crap. While looking into Sage's eyes, I could see the pain, and Nathan was scared for his life. I heard a scary yell in the building. Things started to move without anyone touching them.
I wake up from a nightmare. I thought it was real, even though it wasn't. I look around the room. Everything was the same. My dad walked in and yelled “Time to wake up.” I replied
“Okay Dad, hold on..."
"Just wake up!” my dad said.
“That girl outside waiting for you isn't gonna wait for you forever.” I jump out of bed as fast as I could with a smile on my face as soon as my dad closed my door. As I opened my door, I see Sage! Standing there waiting for me with the same smile as ever. I ran up to her and both our lips meet. It honestly felt like heaven when I kissed her, just like the dream I had. She looks at my head and grabs it with a smile on her face. We both walk down to school holding other hands. I had never felt so alive before she kissed me.