1 The Project

"Hello my wonderful birdies." Mrs. Stone, our theater teacher, said as she passed out our graded work.

"Hi Mrs. Stone." I said, giving her a bright smile.

She returned the smile and gave me my paper with my usual grade. An A+.

After she finished passing out everyone's graded papers from the day before then she quickly turned around with an unusual smile.

"As you all know, Halloween is coming up and that means you all get to dress up as a new person or character-." She was interrupted by Josh the quarterback slamming his way into the classroom.

"Mr. Bowens, I will have you know that Theater is an important subject and-." He rolled his eyes and went to his chair, totally ignoring her.

Mrs. Stone glared at him then did one of her deep breathing rituals before smiling at us again.

"I have decided to spice this month up with a movie contest. You and three others in your group will make a scary movie, it will require a monster or monsters, someone or a small group of protagonists, and must be an hour long. You can make a monster up along with the character's names and appearances. You cannot copy off other people or from the internet for your story, and everyone must put in the effort, failure to listen." She looks straight at Josh. " or you cheat, then you and your entire team will fail this semester and be put in detention." She said,

"What does that mean?" Josh said.

"It means Mr. Bowens, You will be kicked off of the team and spend the rest of your semester in detention, so please try to do some of the work, it would be a shame if I had to let our star quarterback spend 3 hours in a class instead of practicing." She said with a smile.

He glares at her while I try to hold in a laugh.

"I would let you all pick your teams but due to what happened last year when we tried doing something similar, some of you did more than take a video." we all looked at Josh and the rest of the popular kids.

" So, I've taken it upon myself to pick for you." She said, earning back everyone's attention.

As she started to read off people's names I brought out my notebook and started writing down idea's.

My childhood best friend Sam leaned over my shoulder and I felt my face get a little hot before smiling and pointed to the "Hot Dog Man and The Kids" idea.

He and I started laughing together.

"Amy, Josh, Lily and Sam." Mrs. Stone said.

Me and Sam stopped laughing.

"Oh come on, the quiet girl and the gamer boy I don't care but, you didn't have to put me with the nerd." Josh said and smiled a little when people started laughing.

I sighed and put up my things.

"Josh never does any work, can we get someone else?" Sam said.

I smiled a little.

"No, you have to work with the people you have." She said and sat down at her desk.

Josh groaned and Sam didn't look too happy either as Amy and Josh came at our table.

I gave Sam's hand a squeeze under the table before discussing the ideas I had.

Well..tried to..

"We could do a zombie apocalypse-." I started but Josh interrupted.

"Lame." He said.

"Um..okay." I said and looked over my list again.

"We could do scary camping trip-."

"Boring." Josh interrupting me again.

I glared for a second before looking at the list.

"What about a guy who cooks kids-."

"Isn't that similar to Hansel and Gretel?" He said.

"It wouldn't be if you'd just let me finish!" I yelled making everyone look at us.

"Okay geez, you didn't have to yell." Josh said.

"Ms. Hasmik, please refrain from yelling otherwise I will have to put you into detention." Mrs. Stone said.

I felt fear go over me for a second but I tried not to let it show.

Josh grinned.

I sighed and continued to read off ideas.

"We could do something paranormal." I said.

"We need a haunted house then." Josh said.

"There's one on 5th street, it's abandoned and I know the owner, I can talk to her to see if she will allow us to do a school video." I said relieved that Josh finally was okay with something.

He starts laughing.

Several people in the class look at us for a moment before going back to there work.

"What's so funny?" Sam asked Josh.

"That she knows someone with a haunted house, I mean I knew she was a freak but I didn't know she was a creep either." Josh said then had the air knocked out of him when Sam kicked his chair underneath the table and his chair fell back.

When Josh got up he was so mad that his skin could of been on fire.

Before he could do anything the class bell rang.

He grabbed his stuff then got into Sam's face.

"Watch your back Samuel." He growled and stomped off.

"Oooo, I'm so scared." Sam said and helped me put my stuff up.

"Hey you wanna ride home?" He asked when I started zipping up my backpack.