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Chapter 1 - Prom Night
Scene 1: Shocked and Nervous
Walking into your Junior Prom should make you feel excited, bubbly, ecstatic, but for some reason you weren't feeling all that. Spending hours braiding, curling, and spraying your hair as well as fixing your makeup to the point of perfection had put you in a state of shock. You just couldn't believe that the night you had been waiting for all year had finally come. Until you walked through the double glass doors...
"Hey Ezra! You look amazing!!"
You were at a standstill,
"Hey guys, look who's here!"
Motionless and speechless.
"Ezra!!! You made it!!"
You had no clue what was happening.
"Is this Jaxon?"
So, you just played it off.
"Hey guys! Yeah, this is Jaxon. Jaxon, these are my friends."
"It's nice to meet you." Brianna, a girl I met the previous school year said.
"So, this is a party?" Jaxon worriedly spoke, nerves getting the best of him.
"It sure is! Hi, I'm Ella, Ezra's best friend! Sorry, I wasn't here when you arrived. You must be Jaxon." Ella held out her hand for him to shake.
Jaxon timidly grasped it and gave it a tiny wiggle. He immediately apologized after, but Ella reassured him that there was nothing to be sorry for.
Ezra could feel an awkwardness settle in, so she offered Jaxon her hand and pulled him onto the dance floor.
"I'm gonna be honest. I'm not very good at dancing." Jaxon confessed with a slight grimace.
"Oh yeah. Well, that's great! Cause I suck, too." Ezra gave a light hearted laugh which caused Jaxon to smile a bit. "We'll make fools of ourselves together. How's that sound?"
"That sounds great." Jaxon looked up when he thought he heard something, but shook it off as he and his friend danced to the music.
A little while later a slow song came on which the two teens were grateful for since they were wore out from all the songs before.
"Would you like something to drink?" A woman who looked to be in her mid-30s asked when she noticed Ezra and Jaxon walk by.
"Yes please." Ezra told her.
"How about you?" She asked Jaxon.
"A coke would be fine. Thank you." Jaxon stood a little off to the side while Ezra told the woman what she wanted. He was still hearing that sound, and couldn't quite figure it out. He decided he would ask Ezra about it.
Once Ezra was served her drink Jaxon went ahead and asked her.
"Hey, um, Ezra?" Jaxon was still a bit shy, but not as much as before.
"Yeah?" Ezra could tell her friend was still feeling a bit uneasy, so she tried her best to make him feel more comfortable. She attempted to be more polite and not as energetic as she normally would be. She wanted tonight to be fun for the both of them.
"I just thought I'd ask you if, um, not to be weird or anything, but have you been hearing like some sort of buzzing/whishing sound at all?" Jaxon prayed to God that his new friend wouldn't think he was weird or anything if she hadn't heard what he did.
"Now that you mention it, I think I did. I just assumed it was the stereo or the music or something." Jaxon's question had peaked Ezra's curiosity. It now had her wondering what it was and where it was coming from.
"Maybe we could check it out?" Jaxon suggested as he took the last sip of his drink.
Ezra had already threw hers away when she told him they could.
Scene 2: Investigation
"I thought maybe we should ask your friends if they heard it? Maybe one of them knows what it is." Jaxon advocated a plan of action to which Ezra agreed and the two of them followed through.
"I'll go ask Ella and if you're comfortable you can ask Brianna." Ezra sensed Jaxon was a bit iffy on asking Brianna, so she told him he could come with her while she questioned her friends about the mysterious sound.
"Yeah, I think that's a good idea. Sorry, I'm just not used to hanging around this many people." Jaxon apologized for the second time that night to which Ezra immediately reprimanded.
"There's no reason for you to apologize, Jaxon. My friends and I understand that you're not quite comfortable enough to be around all of us. You're totally fine. We get it." Ezra gave her friend a small smile to which he returned and the two of them continued on with their plan of investigation.
Ezra soon spotted Ella talking with Mason, her date, by the food. She told Jaxon to follow her and they headed over.
"Hey, Ella! Are you having fun?" Ezra asked as she examined the snacks on the table.
"Yeah, loads! How 'bout you? Are you and Jaxon doing ok?" Ella excused herself from Mason so she and Ezra could sit down and talk.
"Yep! We're doing great! I came over here, actually, to ask you a question. Well, Jaxon and I both did." Kiara waved at Jaxon to come over, and he did. He took the seat beside Ezra on the right while giving a quick greeting to Ella.
"So, what's the question?" Ella looked between her best friend and Jaxon with a quisitive expression on her face.
"Well, we were wondering if, by chance, you heard this sort of buzzing/whishing sound? I know! It sounds crazy! But, Jaxon and I both heard it and it's not coming from anything in this room. It's like it's supernatural or something." Ezra left Ella speechless by the end of her rant. She didn't know what to say exactly. Her best friend in the whole wide world basically just confirmed that she's crazy, but Ella wasn't about to tell her that.
"I hate that I'm not helping by not saying anything. It's just that, well, umm, I didn't hear anything. I don't think you two are crazy, but maybe there's an actual reason for this. Maybe your hearing is just better, or something. I'm not sure what else to tell you. I'm sorry. " Now it was Ezra's turn to be silent. Eventually though, she figured out what to say and her and Jaxon left to go ask somebody else.
"Maybe Brianna heard something?" Jaxon tried to stay positive, but it was proving to be a little difficult. He thought that if Ella hadn't heard it then no one else probably did either.
Ezra had found Brianna coming out of the bathroom, so she and Jaxon headed over to ask her if she had heard the sound that they had.
"Hey, Brianna! Having a good time?" Ezra strolled up next to her friend as the two of them and Jaxon casually walked around at the back of the party.
"Yeah totally! Tonight's been a blast! What about you?" Brianna glanced over at Jaxon then trailed her eyes back to Ezra once she heard her talking.
"We've had fun. We did a bit of dancing and then got tired and got something to drink. Jaxon and I actually wanted to ask you something." The three teens stopped walking once they made it to a secluded spot where they could chat freely. Brianna gave a nod of her head signaling them to go ahead.
"Jaxon and I have been hearing this weird sort of buzzing/whishing sound that we don't think is coming from anywhere in this room. We thought it was odd and decided to check it out, but we wanted to see if anybody else had heard it." Ezra looked over at Jaxon to see him staring off at something across the room. She turned her attention back to Brianna when she started to speak.
"I'm sorry you two, but I haven't heard anything unusual like that. Maybe it's coming from somewhere outside? Although, I don't know how you would be able to hear anything over all the music. Just don't let it ruin your night, alright?" Brianna gave Ezra a bright smile and headed back over to the dance floor.
Ezra returned her gaze back over to Jaxon to see him looking straight at her.
"I noticed you were staring at something. What was it?" Jaxon pointed at a wooden trapdoor clear across the room on the ceiling. "You think the noise might be coming from up there?"
"Yeah, I do. This might be odd, but it's giving me a weird vibe." Jaxon moved his gaze from Ezra back to the trapdoor.
"No, that's not weird. Not at all." Ezra's eyes transfixed onto the small door and curiosity instantly filled her mind once more.
"Why's that?" Jaxon murmured.
"Cause I feel it too."