Levine5

= = = Levine Group 5= Uninvited Guests By Callan, Maura, and Emily His heart was pounding. He was sure he had seen the doorknob turn. “Hey mom! I’m starting to decorate the Christmas tree!” Samantha said. “Start without me Samantha!” said Samantha’s mom. “Okay!” “I just don’t think we can afford getting Samantha another computer for Christmas, David.” “But it’s Christmas, Mary. We have to get her something.” “But we barely have enough money to feed ourselves, let alone getting any presents!” “Well maybe you should work harder, Mary.” “Well maybe you should get a job, David.” “Don’t tell me what to do, Mary. Haven’t I done enough around here?” “Quiet, David! You’ll upset Samantha. You know how she feels when we fight.” Mom starts to get upset. Downstairs, Samantha heard her parents fighting. //I hope they don’t get hurt.// Samantha thought to herself. Upstairs, she heard a yell, and then silence. Then, Samantha runs upstairs and finds her mother on the floor dead. She looks around for her dad but he’s nowhere in sight. She calls the police but all of a sudden she feels a pain in her side. To scared to turn around, she falls unconscious. Ten years later, a boy named Tom Golden moves into the same old Victorian house in Denver, Colorado in a small town called Winter, in the beginning of Christmas break. Tom is twelve years old. He’s a small, timid, curious, little boy with light brown hair and green eyes. He and his family, including his uncle, Fred Grey, moved in to the house without any knowledge of the family who was living there before they went missing. One day, Tom was invited to go ice skating with his friends, so he went down to the basement to get his ice skates. He heard a noise, and froze then continued when it was gone. He tripped down the stairs and crashed against the wall. When he hit the wall it was hollow at one part. He found what he needed, ice skates. He forgot about the wall and went up with the ice skates. A couple hours past and he decided to take a look at the hollow wall. He sees his uncle, Fred Grey, coming up the stairs from the basement with some papers in his hands. “What are those?” Tom asked`. “Nothing,” Fred said and walked past him. Tom let it go and went downstairs. Tom continues to walk down to the basement when suddenly he notices a small door with cracked edges that had not been there before. On the floor he sees scattered papers leading to a small window. The window is open.