'The Other Shadow'

"The Other Shadow" My name is Cory, I have an adventure I would like to share with you... I live in Marshfield Wisconsin, I was born here, I have only been away from here a few times in my life...I am 10 years old... I live a rather boring life, I have no friends...I had an imaginary friend when I was younger, but as I aged Tina would stop coming around... sometimes at night, when I'm in bed she will return... Tina was an odd imaginary friend...she always kept her back facing me...it is very strange... At night when she does visit, she will stand in the corner of my room, she used to talk to me...but she stopped doing that a few years ago... She just stands in the corner, swaying back and forth...by the morning she is gone again... I attend Cedar Elementary School, it's a very old school in the center of town, I live a few blocks away... One morning I noticed a new girl in my class, she was very odd, she never spoke to anyone...I decided that day, I would make friends with her... So after school I followed this new girl home...I don't know her name, so I call her Lucy... I noticed Lucy had two shadows...her own...and the other...but the other was not a girl...it was a boy shadow...it terrified me... Lucy stopped in front of an old abandoned house...I was hiding behind a tree some feet away...Lucy slowly looked around...but she didn't see me...then Lucy proceeded to the back of the house and disappeared... This whole scene was odd to me...I didn't know what to think... My sister's, mom and dad mostly leave me alone...but my dad's Grandmother has lived with us for years...I usually talk to her...she just talks gibberish in German...my mom says grandma is lost in her mind... But I still talk to her...I think she listens...I hope she does... That evening I told her about Lucy and what happened... normally Grandma would not respond to me in any way...but tonight she did...it was a fearful response... "Poor Poor Dear Lucy" she kept saying this over and over...until I walked away... That night Tina was in the corner of my room, normally she swayed back and forth slowly...but tonight she was doing it rapidly...this action scared me... I fell asleep scared... For weeks I followed Lucy home each day... sometimes she would stop abruptly...then slowly look behind her...I was always able to hide when she did this... sometimes her boy shadow would stay behind for a moment....then it would catch up with Lucy .. The boy shadow scared me...it actually terrified me... Since the first day I saw Lucy...Tina has visited my room every night...swaying back and forth in the corner of my bedroom...I have gotten used to it...but it scares me all the same... One night Tina stopped swaying...the room grew very quiet...Tina whispered these words... "The Other Shadow Will Hurt You...One Day...Please Remember This Warning" Then Tina disappeared... The next day Lucy was not in school...this upset me... So I went to the abandoned house after school...after a few minutes I noticed Lucy looking at me from an upstairs window...she had a look of terror in her eyes... The boy shadow was behind her... Without thinking I headed for the back of the house...but I never made it inside... The next day...the janitor at Cedar Elementary School heard noises in the old gym in the attic...this gym had not been used in decades... He slowly step by step made his way up the old rickety stairs...he had only been up here a handful of times...and never alone...it was an outstanding rule at the school... nobody is to enter the old attic gym alone... But it was Saturday and nobody else was at school...just him...at the top of the stairs...he slowly unlocked the chains that were on the door... What he saw almost scared him to death...but not quite... The janitor passed out from terror... Monday morning they unlocked the doors to the old attic gymnasium... The janitor was still passed out...in the corner of the gym... hanging from the ceiling was the upper torso of a young boy...his head and lower torso were gone... When the Janitor woke up in the hospital, he was blind...that is still a medical mystery unto itself... The janitor recounted what he saw that Saturday morning... I saw two torsos hanging in the corner of the gym...one was in boys clothes...the other a dress... standing below them was a boy from another time...he had an evil grin on his face... The janitor didn't tell them about the other girl from another time standing in the corner with her back to him... rapidly swaying back and forth... They didn't believe his story of course, only parts... On the wall of the old gymnasium, there are three inscriptions... "I Am Dead...Lucy Teshek...1895" "I Am Missing...Tina Spenser...1912" "I Am Dead...Cory Spenser...1988" That night the janitor woke up...the room was quiet...he felt a presence in the room, a presence he had not felt since he was a boy... He said in a whisper... "Is That You??? The presence in the corner of the room, with her back to him... stopped swaying back and forth...it slowly turned her head... "Yes It's Me...Tina... The janitor wept a single tear... The old abandoned house is gone now, just an empty lot... In 1989 they closed Cedar Elementary School forever... It sat abandoned for years, but it is being used again...the old attic gymnasium is still locked...till next time... Sometimes people hear noises coming from the old attic gymnasium... The Boy Shadow Still Lurks Somewhere In Marshfield... The Last Sighting Of Him Was Outside The Charles Apartments... The person that spotted him, has slowly gone insane... Sweet Dreams...Stay Asleep...