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| Alarmingly Strange Stories |
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The Box |
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| . "You better take that to the office. No wait, better take it home and show your mom. She'll know what to…HEY LOOK, there's John. Let's show him!" He starts to shout, "JOHN, JOHN! Wait-up!" John stops, looks, and heads in our direction walking like a robot. He looks like my dad when he listens to that 'Funky-delic Music.' I give the box a good slap on the side and it shuts. Lewis grabs my arm and pulls me toward John. I just follow. We reach John and he's still walking like a robot, "Pull my straang, and I'll do my thaang…" I just look at him, I have no idea what he's talking about. "Pull my straang and I'll do my thaang!" Then I notice a little piece of string hanging out of his shirt pocket. Just then Lewis smiles and pulls it out. John proceeds to punch him non-stop, robot style. Then he picks the string up, off the ground, puts it back in his pocket and turns to me, "Pull my straang, and I'll do my thaang…" "I don't think so." I reply. "Shuddup, John!" Lewis is all excited now, "John, take a look at this! "Pull my straang, and I'll do my…" "Just open the box Bobby M. Go ahead, show 'em!" I give it three taps and John shuts up for a second. He stares inside then says, in a voice that would be a yell for a normal person but is just talking for John, "That's the funky shit!!! Let's take it and scare some girls!" He grabs my arm as starts running toward Tracy who's talking to Cindy. Lewis is following behind, he's a little chunky so he has trouble keeping up with John who's always running around up to no good. "John, Bob…wait. Don't you think we should take it to the office or something?" "Yeah, sure. We can do that later. Hey, Tracy! Take a look at this!" John yells. I open the box. "Oooh my gaaawwd!!! Gross! Where did you get that!" Tracy screams. She covers her mouth and runs away, "Eeeeeew!" The commotion stops a foursquare game…"What's he got in there?" A player asks. "I bet it's dog poop." Came a reply. "Yeah, John's with them. I bet it's dog poop!" "You wish!" Lewis says, "You've never seen this. Check it out!" I open the box and they scream and run away. Me, John and Lewis run off to the grass and plop down laughing, out of breath. I'm feeling better now. "I really should take this home you guys." "Ok, but can we take another look?" Lewis asks. "Sure." I tap it three times and it opens up. Both their heads tilt down as they study the contents more closely. "Cooool. I didn't notice that it moved too." John says. "I know, I can't believe it moves like that." Lewis replies. "I wonder where it came from." I whisper as I close the box and stand up, "Sorry guys, but I gotta go home and give this to Mom." . |
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