Danger by Esther Martin

I was walking along the cliff edge thinking about what had happened at school. My best friend owl (his real name is Al but we call him Owl) had experienced a severe reaction to garlic and my sister Penelope had called me a pig, other than that it was a pretty normal day.

I am Edward, I have a sister and 3 brothers. My friends like to call me Ed and I have a Mum and no Dad. My dad Steve died in a war in Florida in America.

When I got home I wanted to go to the cinema with my younger brother Charlie , but my Mum said we couldn’t because we agreed last week to go shopping, but if we did the shopping quickly we could go to the cinema at 7 o’clock. When we got home from going to the supermarket it was I0 minutes to 7. My Mum drove us to the cinema and said she would pick us up at 9.30 pm, not a minute later.

We went in and bought our tickets and sat down at the back . The film was called ‘Help, Aliens are Invading Earth’. It wasn’t the best film I have watched but it was alright. The film finished at 9pm so Charlie and I decided to go exploring outside.

One of Charlie’s friends had told him about the run-down buildings around the cinema and how they were said to be haunted. All the buildings looked the same to me - all with broken roofs and doors. We were about to go home when in the comer of my eye I saw a little shed with a man sitting outside.  I couldn’t see it very well as we were far away. I turned around to go back when Charlie said

"Can we go closer?"  I thought about it and said

"All right".

When we got closer to the shed the man had gone.

Charlie wandered away to the edge of the hill about 5 metres from the shed. I followed him overcome with curiosity. Charlie looked unhappy so I asked him what was wrong. He said

"It’s just I’ve never seen that little shed before but I’ve seen this cliff loads of times before". I agreed and said

"How odd!" I took a step closer to the edge of the hill to have a look down at the bottom but before I had a good look I heard a door open and heavy feet on the ground. I turned around just in time to see his face before he pushed me off the edge.

I felt myself falling, falling, falling and then I hit the bottom.

Where was Charlie? Where was the shed?

Had I dreamt it? Would I ever know?