Double Trouble

Loose loose,
catch the goose,
Never again will you see..
I can't keep it in,
And never have been,
Able to stay calm and be.1

I closed my eyes, it was just a movie, just a movie, it didn't mean anything, I heard a chuckle from my left side and opened my eye, I stuck my tongue out like a 6 year old and tried to focus on the movie again..2

"To scary for ya, eh?"3

"No."4

"Ya sure, we could turn it off!"5

"I'm fine!"6

"Uh huh.."7

I made a face at Blake, the jerk, I don't know what Abby saw in him, he is a jerk to everyone, he thinks he is better than them, he doesn't help people, he hates everything but Doritos, and he never takes a shower, I swear. Never.8

"J?" I jumped and looked around, who was that?9

"Did you call me Ab?"10

"Um..no.." Said Abby, running her fingers through Blake's greasy locks, and looked at me strangely,11

"Are you sure your OK?" She asked coming over to my couch and putting her arm around me.. "I mean, after what happened.."12

I looked at her, but I didn't see her, I saw my mom, smiling at me. "J babe?" She said, "You want to go to the park?" Then I heard my little 6 year old voice, "Yeah yeah yeah!" I said jumping up and down, feeling the braids on my head whip around and hit my face, "O.K. honey, lets go!"13

I came out of my trace, not wanting to see he next part of my flashback, I rested my head on Abby's shoulder, and she rubbed my other shoulder,14

"You can cry if you need to." She said. She had said that a lot lately, since my mom died, I mean, it's not like I'm six anymore but my mom was shot that day, when I was six; and went into a coma for 9 years.15

She died last month.16

"We should go home." Said Abby, waking me up a while later, I didn't even know how I fell asleep.17

"Aw c'mon, don't be a party pooper Ab!" Whined Blake, getting off the floor. "Stay here tonight." 18

Abby, being the strict Nazarene that she was, turned to him, "Funny. No. Sorry, I can't."19

"Parents suck." Said Blake.20

"Heck yeah they do." I said, realizing that I was crying.21

Abby looked at me, she wiped my face and held it in her hands, "It's gonna be ok." She said and helped me with my coat, I normally wouldn't want her to help me with things like that, but I had been so unhappy lately. My dad was the one who shot my mom, he then killed himself, the jerk. So..I lived with my moms younger brother and sister, they were twins, Jean and Reed. They were 25.22

Other than Abby; Jean was my best friend, she raised me. Even though she was only 16 when it happened, she said she wanted to do it, she always wanted to babysit me and take care of me, then when my mom got shot, she took the chance. And raised me while finishing high school and going to an on-line college. Then at 23 she and Reed bought an apartment and moved out of their parents house and brought me with them.23

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When we got to their apartment I gave Abby a hug.25

"Thanks."26

"Sure J" She said smiling, "Anytime."27

I started to walk up the path to the apartment, then heard Abby in the car clearing her throat, the really loud way people do when they are trying to get your attention.28

"Hey Jazz?"29

"Yeah..."30

"Do you think, um.. I should um..."31

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She cleared her throat again before turning back to me,33

34

"break up with Blake?"35

Whoa. That was sudden.36

"Look Ab, just because I'm depressed doesn't mean you need to break up with your jerky boyfriend."37

"Yeah, well, see! You think hes 'jerky'!" She said, raising her voice, " I don't want my best friend to dislike my boyfriend!"38

"Well, I don't want MY best friend to break up with her boyfriend because of me!" I said, starting to cry again, "You do what you want Ab, I'm going to bed."39

"Sorry." She said, turning her car off and getting out, " Can I stay over, you know, so you don't jump off the balcony.."40

"Abby!" I said, trying not to laugh at her attempt at humor. "You know I don't wanna be like my dad."41

She smiled, "Yeah yeah."42

She walked over to me and put her arm around my shoulders, we walked up to the apartment while she texted her mom to let her know she was spending the night.
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I woke with a jolt, I hadn't been dreaming, at all, but I thought I heard something, I got out of bed and almost stepped on Abby,43

"Ow!" She said, stirring in her sleeping bag, "What are you doing?" 44

"I woke up cuz' I thought I heard something." I explained, taking small steps and feeling like Sherlock Holmes in the movie 'Without a Clue'. I got to the closet and whipped open the doors, making a bag clutter to the floor.45

"Shh!" Said Abby, getting out of her sleeping bag and checking the clock, "Oh jeez J it's 6 am!"46

"Well good , I can just stay up then." I said, heading for my bedroom door, just as I was about to open it a stifled scream came from Abby,47

"Look!" She hissed.48

A deep red fog was coming in the room from the window, even though it was in the air it looked like blood in water. 49

"Do you see it?" She whispered50

"Yes." I hissed back. I took a step towards it and it recoiled, I reached into it and it moved with my arm, so I wouldn't touch it. I tried to smell it, I tried to lick at it, all the while seeing a white and confused looking Abby squatting on her sleeping back biting her nails.51

"J!" She hissed, "Jazz!" She hissed louder, "Jazaline!" She said normally, the fog made an awful low screeching sound as she said my full name, 52

"Jazz!" We heard from the hallway, in a ghostly voice, "Jazaline!" Said the voice, I was getting freaked out now, "Jazaline Bailey Complin!" Yelled the voice, it was getting deeper and deeper, "JAZZ!" It yelled getting to loud..the whole time the fog was writhing around, twisting and contorting, if fog can even do that, and making sounds like a squirrel being squished, then came the biggest loudest noise of all, 53

"JAZALINE! COME TO ME, NOW!" Yelled the voice, loud and menacing, so loud, with so much bass, it made the floor shake, and I saw the fog coming towards me, grabbing me and pulling me, 54

"J!" Screamed Abby, "Jazz!" She screamed, trying to reach me, every time she screamed my name the fog let go of me slightly, 55

"Keep screaming my name!" I yelled, but she couldn't hear me, the fog had created a barrier around me. But somehow she understood ,56

"JAZZ JAZZ JAZZ JAZZ!" She screamed at the top of her lungs, " JAZALINE BAILEY, JAZZ COMPLIN! JAZZ JAZZ JAZZ!" She screamed jumping up and down, the fog was going away now, but she kept screaming, "JAZZ! JAZZ I LOVE YOU JAZZ!" She had her eyes closed, she was grabbing her head and jumping up and down. I have to say, despite the turn of events, she looked like a lunatic doing that.57

Finally the fog couldn't take it anymore, it went away, creeping through the frame of the window and out, Abby was still screaming my name, not being able to stop, I was going to run to her and hug her, tell her to stop, but she stopped mid-yell. And clutched her throat, than I saw two white hands appear around her neck, choking her. The hands had blood stained fingernails, and slowly the rest of the body was appearing, I saw baggy orange sleeves, a blue vest, plaid pants, huge shoes a white neck, 58

"No.." I said, "NO! It can't be" I yelled running to Abby, grabbing the hands and trying to pry them free from her neck, I got them off for a second, enough time for her to gasp a breath, before they clamped back on, as I went back in to save my friend the head appeared, a white face, with red lips, colorful eyes, a huge crazy wig, and one of those horrible red noses.59

I let out a blood curdling screech and started flashing back, that day in the park, there was a circus, I saw a clown, he had orange sleeves and a blue vest, plaid pants and huge shoes. I saw him turn around, I yelled in joy, IT WAS MY DAD! I was excited, but he scowled at me, my mother pulled me away from him, we were walking away, and my mother screamed, fell to the ground, I thought she was dead. I saw my father with the gun, running away, he was running, I saw him shoot himself..I SAW HIM SHOOT HIMSELF! 60

"You. You Were DEAD!" I screamed at him, "YOU KILLED MY MOTHER AND NOW YOU'VE COME FOR MY FRIEND!"61

"The best way to hurt someone is to hurt their heart!" He said, with a sickening grin.62

Yes. YES! He had given me my plan.63

"Maria!" I yelled in his face, he immediately let go of Abby, she lunged toward me, I caught her and she was gasping and coughing, sputtering and heaving in air.64

"J.." She said, looking up at me with a washed out chalky face, I set her down on her sleeping bag and turned back to my so called 'father'.
He had regained his strength and started circling me, muttering,65

"Double double toil and trouble,
Cauldron burn and cauldron bubble,"66

"What are you?" I mocked, "Some sick mix between the book 'It' and 'Macbeth'?"67

He stopped walking for a second but soon continued. Saying..68

"By the pricking of my thumbs,
Something wicked this way comes!"69

"Yeah," Said Abby, standing up, "It's you!That's the something wicked!"70

He laughed a bone chilling cackle, "Ah yes, it is isn't it?" 71

He said,taking pleasure in his mocking, "You can't destroy me!" He said, louder this time, "My fog is gone, but I am 10 times stronger!" 72

"Two against one!" Mocked Abby, "We. Win." She said, and the look on her face made me sure we could.73

I looked at her, and she looked at me..she nodded, and we began our set change.74

We did Macbeth for our school play last year, we didn't get parts, but we got to change sets, there was a seen with a table and chairs, one night we set it up, and a few of the boys tied up their friend to one of the chairs, he was there on stage when the curtain went up and began the show all the same, tied to a a chair, he said his lines.75

I grabbed a chair from the corner, she grabbed the jump rope on the corner of my bed I kneed him in the groin, and we tied him up as best we could.76

"Wow," I said, "You didn't even put up a fight!"77

He snarled at me he stood up, though his arms were tied to the chair, his legs weren't, he began chanting another line from Macbeth, but I yelled my mothers name at the top of my lungs,78

"MARIA!" I yelled, he flew against the wall, and a picture fell and hit his head.79

"Maria!" Yelled Abby, but nothing happened, "I guess you have to do this one!" She said, shrugging her shoulders as if it was nothing. 80

I screamed my heart out that day, and every time I yelled her name, he faded, first his clothes changed to normal clothes, than his makeup went away, then he began to fade all together, until by
10 am, he was gone, then, at 10:03, he let out a sigh, a wheeze, and disappeared, and my mothers body came out of his, she came over to me and hugged me..81

"You set me free.." She said dreamily,82

" I...love..you." I managed to say.83

"And I, you." She said, and looking up at the ceiling, went up, where she84

belonged.85

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Just goes to show. Words have an amazing power, Abby broke up with Blake, I got happier every day, Jean and Reed wouldn't stop asking us what all the noise had been, and when we finally explained, all they said was 'kids these days. Humph.' But all in all...trouble comes in 2's, but double trouble, is from Macbeth.87