Password From Beyond The Grave

• Safiyyah Adli, Grade 7
• Short Story
• 2015

"what's the password?"the melancholy voice echoed. Scott Harbor was rendered speechless.He scanned the graveyard anxiously, wondering where 'Rickert',the guy who was supposed to be having a night shift at the place was.Beads of sweat were filling up his pale face.God,he must be going crazy.Five minutes ago he was just getting off the bus from his office job at the Town Hall and now,here he was talking to the undead. Why did he ever decided to move here? Sharon had warned him about how the house is so close to a "so-creepy-it-turns-your-legs-to-mashed-potatoes-graveyard" but he had simply laughed. "Sharon,Hun,I just don't get why they would ever come back to life.Do they miss macaroni and cheese?" Scott grinned at the memory that resulted in her hitting him with her heels.He regained his confidence and yells rather haughtily to the grave,"look, whatever you are, I'm prepared. be it Mac and cheese, you're never scaring me." Just after Scott's assertive yell,a shadowed figure jumps out from behind a tree opposing him.He was more than ready to make a run for it,but he halts instead."Dude,seriously I just want the WiFi pass,I swear I just need to check some tweets and my shift will end anyways" Rickert smooths down his dirty blond hair that was blowing around wildly in the wind and faces Scott completely."You alright,dude? you look like you've seen a walking,talking corpse."