Lost Children

Chapter 1
The mummy, the vampire and the skeleton girl

Chapter Description: Three orphans want to take revenge on this Halloween. But they will confront the unknown and the ghosts will grudge against their crimes...

It was Halloween.

Justin and Rick were a pair of rebel teenagers, and that was the perfect time for tricks and felonies. Only one disguise, a mask and a little fingement and nobody would recognize them.

Justin was nineteen years old, blond and slim big-handed boy, with a perpetual naughty smile in his face. Rick was nineteen too, light brown hair, well-built and handsome, but a little shy.

“All right, man, this will be the perfect night”, said Justin, fitting his teenage mummy custom. “We will take revenge on the school director; did you buy the spray?”

Rick was somewhat quiet, thinking. “It is Halloween, and it is the first time I don’t spend this night with my sister.”

“Oh, man, thinking again about Jenny?”

“...”

Justin raised completely disguised and spoke through his mummy-mask:

- I don’t have anything against her, but she’s only a little girl. She is too young to enter these adult-tasks.

Rick laughed low, and then stared at Justin, ironically:

“Are you still afraid from her”

Justin chilled, and then turned back.

“Oh, no, dude”, answered, trying to hide his fear. “I mean, she’s only... a little strange.”

“Maybe, but I think only I can understand her. And since our parents...”

Rick’s voice faded out, and his friend assisted him.

“Come on, boy, this is not time to get sad. It is the witching hour, your sister will be fine”, and Justin encouraged him, “but tonight it’s the perfect moment for our revenge.”

Rick agreed, and started to make-up as a gothic vampire.

Jenny was seventeen, and she was a tall and thin blonde girl. People always said she had something lurid in her pale skin and big blue eyes. In fact, Jenny was so shy and quiet, so mysterious.

But that was Halloween and nobody noticed that.

Jenny had worn her skeleton disguise, composed of a one-piece spandex suit with fluorescent bone figures. Her friends, Cassandra and Timberland were, contrastantly, disguised as a queen bee and Numbah Three, respectively.

“Jenny, please, don’t put that ghostly face”, adviced Cassandra, notably worried.

“Maybe the director has expelled you from high-school, but we’re still friends.”

Jenny’s face was totally indiferent, with her blue eyes open widely, and her mouth open in a perpetual scream.

One week ago, director had unfairly expelled her, accusating her of starting a fight. But everybody knew Jenny had never been at director’s like; Mr. Bergson had always seen her like a lost girl. The true was that Jenny, even being ghastly and unexpressive, was an excelent good student.

Her friends were too her roomates, on a girl’s dormitory and orphan house, and they only wanted to express her their support.

“We know you miss your brother, Jen” - continued Timberland - “but we know he’s always worried for you. He missed out on Halloween to keep on working tonight; he wants to pay your reassignament to a new school.”

But Jenny’s face was still a skeleton face.

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