C1 The boy outside the window..

INTRO...

It was an ancient building made of thick red bricks. It looked majestic standing firmly on the solid ground. ‘My Uncle couldn’t have built this' I thought as I fixed my gaze on the huge doors of the building- What the fuck! Was this really where I was going to be living?

A slight tap on my shoulder brought me back to reality. I looked up at my uncle; a young man in his early thirties, he was so fair that you wouldn’t even believe he was Nigerian. He was tall, muscular and had smooth shaven beards. He was handsome, but still chose to remain single.

“Welcome to my humble abode!” he said out loud, it was very dark and there were only two other buildings on that street. And the fact that his house was right in front of the woods scared me a lot.

“Can we go in now, Edward” I grumbled as I picked my small bag from the ground. I thought my uncle was living in the good, civilized parts of the US because my parents had told me that he was really rich, but here I was, standing in front of a house that looked like as if it had been built in the 90’s. He walked ahead of me, but not towards the stone door; it looked more like a garage door.

Edward brought out a key and unlocked the lock on the garage door, he then pushed it open with no stress at all. The garage was large, there were two cars at a far end; a Porsche and a Range Rover Sport, both very dirty and dusty. There was another car against the wall probably serving as the lock a small door. He went towards the old dusty car and placed his hand underneath it, he lifted it up high and shifted it away from the small door thereby paving a way for us to go into the house. I starred at him in disbelief, he just lifted a car without even breaking a sweat. He turned to me and smiled.

I shook my head, I couldn’t believe what I just saw. I dropped my bag and went towards the car, I squatted and placed my hands underneath it just as Edward had done. I tried very hard to lift the car but it just wouldn’t bulge. Edward laughed loudly and I looked away trying to hide my embarrassment.

“Let’s go in, Philip” he mumbled. I picked my bag slowly and walked in behind him.

The house actually looked worse than I had imagined it to be, it was plain with no furniture at all. There was a big window at an edge of the wall with a wooded table beneath it. The house was poorly illuminated as only one yellow bulb stood at the center of the living room. The walls weren’t even painted and it had no color. There was in fact nothing good to see in it. I did a little more surveying of the house before turning back to my uncle.

He smiled again; “It’s a nice place. I know, you don’t have to tell me” he said as he walked towards the stairs. He obviously knows I hate this totally! Who was he kidding- Who wouldn’t?!. I followed him from behind as he went up the stairs. We reached a corridor with doors at the two opposite far ends, he turned left and I followed him closely until we reached the door.

Edward fumbled with the handle of the door and pushed it open, he ushered me into the room.

“Go to bed, you have school in the morning” he said and shut the door in my face. I looked around the room, it was not so bad at least it had a bed, a hanger and there was a desktop computer at the edge of the room. I dropped my bag beside the hanger and hopped on the bed. I was exhausted and tired.

I tried to sleep but it was pointless. I wasn’t comfortable or it was probably because wasn’t used to the whole place. I sat up and stood on the bed, I pushed the window open and sat there staring at the moon. It was sickle-shaped but still cast it’s glare of light on the earth.

Sleep wasn’t still coming as I sat there staring at the incomplete moon up there in the sky. I heard a loud bang- It was probably the garage door. 'Was Edward going out? Where the hell would he be going to by this time of the night?' I asked myself. Seconds later I saw the shadow of someone going into the woods.

'Why would Edward be going into the dark and scary woods by this time of the night?' I thought.

'Psst! Psst!' The sound that brought me back to reality- Who could that be? I looked down and saw a young boy waving at me from the front of the garage door. When he saw that he had gotten my attention, he beckoned me to come.

I jumped from the window of my room and landed on the garage roof , I walked across it and jumped again landing on the ground. I stood up and looked at the boy. He looked pretty much 16 to me cos I was sure I was older than him with at least a year. He had these green eyes and deep black full hair.

He walked towards me, he had a very see serious and concerned look on his face.

“Hi, I am Luke Chester” he said with a deep voice as he extended his hands towards me. “Philip” I replied as I shook his hands warmly.

“You got any idea of where your uncle just ran off to?” he asked me. The expression on his face showed that he might know something about where Edward had gone to or probably what he was up to.

I shrugged.

“Your uncle just strolled into the woods at…” he paused and brought out his phone to check the time; “12:55pm. Look when I see things I can’t explain I like to investigate and find out things for myself”.

“Is there anything wrong with that?” I asked timidly, maybe he knew something about my uncle that I didn’t know.

Luke shrugged, he started walking towards the woods. 'Why would he go into the dark woods ? Was he that curious to know what my uncle was up to?' I wanted to know too but I couldn’t risk going into the dark woods, who knows what could be lurking in the dark.

Luke turned back at me and said; “Yo! Are you coming or not, Philip”. Christ! He was damn serious about going in there. I walked up to him and we strolled into the woods together.