Who Is Bob?

By:  Robert Chauncey

 

 

One day Terry, a 12 year old boy, and his younger sister, Susan, was taking a shortcut home from school when it started to pour down rain.  The only place they could go and not get wet was the Old Kill House.

"Come on, Susan.  We can get dry in the Kill House."  Terry said running up the steps.

"I'm not going in there.  It's haunted," Susan said pointing to the old house.

"Chicken!"  Terry said flapping his arms.

"I am not!"  Susan said climbing up the steps after her brother.

"OK then, well - Let's go," Terry said opening the door.

They went into the house and ran into the decaying kitchen and stared out the half broken window  waiting for the rain to stop.  The eerie thing was the window was looking out over a graveyard.  Suddenly they saw a shadowy figure rise from one of the graves.

"There's someone out there," Terry said taking out his pocket knife.

"Where?"  Susan asked.

"In the graveyard.  I'm going to see who it is!"  Terry said getting to feet.

"Be careful."  Cried Susan.

"I will."  Terry said forcing open the back door and walking out into the graveyard.

Terry slowly walked through the graveyard and stopped at a headstone that was partially broken.  The headstone read:

R.I.P

ROBERT (BOB) KILL

1862-1904

 

Suddenly a figure rose up from behind the headstone.

"Who are you?"  Terry asked the figure who was in a rotting ski mask and a dirty old sweater, not really wanting to hear the answer.

"I am Bob Kill, the bringer of you death," the figure said in a gleeful laugh.

Without wasting any time, Terry plunged his knife into Bob's rotting skin, but instead of retrieving the knife, Terry just left it in Bob's side.

"Let's get out of here!"  Susan cried while she was running out the door.

"Yeah!"  Terry said grabbing Susan's hand.  "Let's go through the woods and down by the river.

They ran through the woods as fast as they could.  When they reached the river they started to walk instead of run because they thought Bob was dead.

"I'll kill both of you now!"  Yelled Bob darting through the woods.

"We'll hide in that cave over there by that rocky cliff."  Terry said grabbing Susan and darting for the cave.

"Oh no you won't!"  Bob said grabbing Susan from underneath another cliff.

"Leave my sister alone," Terry screamed charging into Bob.

"Ugh!"  Bob said being thrown up against the stone wall.

"I'm free!  Now let's get out of here," Susan said running from Bob.

"In a minute."  Terry said using all of his strength to ram Bob against the wall again.  Suddenly rocks began to fall from the cliff above.

"Get out of there, Terry!"  Susan yelled at Terry.

Terry jumped clear and ran to his sister.  Bob, however, was not so lucky.  He was quickly being buried by the falling rocks.  The only thing he did was stare at both Terry and Susan until he was completely buried.

That night when Terry and Susan finally got home, they went to bed with a few questioning glances from their parents.  They went to bed trying to forget everything that happened with Bob.  The next morning Terry and Susan's mom found Terry's knife on their front door steps!!!!!!!