April Fools Day - TJ Gonzales (red scrolls of magic .TXT) 📗

Their parents' bedroom closet.

It was dark in their parents’ walk in closet; the only illumination was the daggers of light coming through the slatted double doors. Jimmy and his sister were huddled together in the farthest corner, away from the menacing light. The screams for their parents as they raced up the stairs had gone unanswered--the strange sounds from downstairs growing ever louder. Their terror filled eyes were riveted on the closet entrance, the only thing standing between them and the unknown. Gaping, their stares were drawn to the pile of clothing at the other end of the closet--then suddenly the closet door opened.

Jimmy, Sara, and Aaron.

Both Jimmy and his little sister, Sara jumped in fright. To their surprise the door opener was their older brother Aaron. He had a large smile on his face and a large flashlight in his right hand. As Jimmy started to take a swing at his elder brother, a hand from behind Aaron grabbed him and knocked him to the ground. Attached to the hand was a bloody knife that dripped blood onto the pile of clothing at the other end of the closet. Jimmy grabbed Sara and they took off like a bat out of hell. Running back down the stairs, faster than Forest Gump ever could have imagined.

A strange noise that grows louder and louder.

To their fright, the strange noise became louder and louder. Jimmy felt that his heart was beating so loudly that he was astonished that he could still hear the strange sound. Jimmy screamed for his parents again. He took a chance to turn around and found Aaron running behind him. All three children ran to the kitchen in hopes of finding one of their parents. Aaron shouted to them to run to the porch and outside. All three hit the sliding glass door at the same time. Aaron unlocked and slid it open and all three ran to the barn.

A stranger wearing a hockey mask.

Once inside the barn, Jimmy locked the door and asked his older brother, “Who grabbed you and knocked you down”? Aaron told Jimmy, “I don’t know the person had a hockey mask covering his face”. Sara started to cry. Aaron covered her mouth with his hand and tried to comfort her and whispered in her ear, “You have to stop or the bad guy will hear us and come and get us”.

Mother takes a photo.

All of a sudden the three children heard someone bang against the door and saw a large butcher knife poke through the gap of the door where the lock was at. The three siblings quickly ran to the other side of the barn, where they found their mother smiling as she took their photographs with her 35mm camera. They then heard her say, “Okay Stan my darling, I believe they have had enough”. She then shocked her three bewildered children by saying, “April fools”.

An explanation.

Their father, (Stanley Smith), then unlocked the barn door, entered and removed the hockey mask and started laughing. The bloody knife was actually a plastic knife dipped in ketchup. Elizabeth Stanley stood up and explained to her children, that she was just teaching her children not what to do to their children on the First day of April, (April Fools day).

Too much information.

As all three children started to calm down, Sara asked her mother, “What was the strange sound that had frightened us in the first place”? Elizabeth told her children, “That the noise was a tape recording of scary Halloween noises that she had been given when she was a little girl and had kept for this special day“. Elizabeth Stanley told her children, “Her parents had done a very similar thing to her on Aprils Fools day when she was 6 years old”. Elizabeth told her children, “I was so frightened at the time, that I actually peed in my pants”. Aaron then stated, “Mom, I think that is T.M.I.”, (Too much Information).

Imprint

Text: TJ Gonzales
Images: TJ Gonzales
Editing: TJ Gonzales
Translation: TJ Gonzales
Publication Date: 02-09-2013

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Dedication:
This book is dedicated to Aaron. You can do anything.