Grave Discovery
My friend Jasmin and I came up with creative things to do, and we loved to go exploring. One day, I was staying at her house, and we decided to investigate the local graveyard. It was 5 p.m. and getting dark.
The graveyard was closed, so we had to jump the fence. We looked around the stones and spotted the Jewish graves; they were cut off from the rest of the graveyard. Jasmin had pointed out a gap in the brick wall surrounded by rubble and debris, which we scrambled through. We explored for almost two hours before deciding to make our way back.
Just for laughs, I decided I should climb in a tree and try to scare Jasmin. She was quite a few paces behind me, so I climbed the nearest tree and waited.
It had been ten minutes and my legs were starting to go numb, so I jumped down and called for Jasmin. I was more scared of something crawling out of its grave and coming for us than I was that she might have fallen. I glanced around to make sure there were no zombies.
I called for her a few times and finally ventured forth to investigate. As I walked past the locked gate, I saw a police car and an officer shining a torch my way. By this time I was getting panicked, so I ran toward where Jasmin had last been and called her name two or three times. Then I said, in a loud whisper, "Get your arse here, the cops are outside!"
That got her attention.
"Are you joking?!" Her eyes had grown huge and serious, and she looked very worried. I had to bite my lip to keep from coming back with a sarcastic remark.
"No, they're outside now, looking this way." We'd known that breaking into a graveyard was an offense, and if we didn't move fast we'd be spending the night next to tattooed men with no teeth.
We ran to the opposite side of the graveyard where the broken down wall was, tiptoeing through the graveyard and jumping over graves. Sometimes we tripped and fell on them; we had to roll and hide beneath bushes. It would have been very fun -- but when we got to the wall, there was no gap and no debris or rubble. The wall was completely intact.
Jasmin got a bit hysterical, as she does. We ran to the furthest point of the graveyard, where the oldest stones were and where we were cut off from view of the cops.
We stood for a few minutes, listening to see if we could hear the cops coming. We heard nothing, but when I looked over at Jasmin, I saw that her face was white and she looked shocked.
"What's up with you?" I hissed.
"I just heard a baby cry..." Her voice trailed off.
I mumbled something and turned to look for the police, to see if they were near. I wasn't bothered because we were in a residential area and it could have been a child in a back garden.
We again looked for the gap in the wall but still we couldn't find it. We knew it was there because we had both seen it.
We had to wait until the cops were gone, a good three hours, while the baby cried and we stared with wild eyes around us at the silent, creepy graveyard.
