A story: What happened to Nebojsa N.?
It was a cold, dark night, the wind blew heavily and the tree branches tapped on the window. Juliet lay in bed as the street lights flickered and the lights went out. It was an eerie type of night in Rolishandar Dale. Juliet had to move houses twice because her parents got a promotion and she had to change schools. She now lived at #7 Kolidar Avenue. She lived near an eerie mansion and she didn't have many friends at her new school.
As the night grew darker the mansion started making creepy noises and Juliet couldn't sleep. Everyone at her new school said, that the mansion was haunted. No one lived in that mansion for over 40 years, and now the spooky house was making a noise. It was freaking her out. Juliet thought that she heard a person scream, so she sat up in her bed. Juliet turned on the lamp and thought she saw a person run out of the mansion carrying a bottle with liquid inside. She jumped out of bed, put her slippers and a robe on, and went to find a torch. She found it but it was useless. "They never work when you need them" she cried.
"Oh no!" she sighed as she put the torch back into the box. Suddenly cold fingers touched her hand. She turned around. Juliet giggled.
"Oh dear, Luke you scared me!"
Luke laughed, he was only five and knew how to scare his sister. Luke looked at her with his brown eyes.
"What are you doing? Why are you walking around the house at night?" he asked.
"I was just..."
"I'm telling mum," interrupted Danielle - her little sister.
"Why?" asked Luke.
Juliet looked at them with her eyes that said "GO TO BED!"
Luke and Danielle understood that sign and went to their rooms. Juliet went back into her room and looked out the window and saw a hooded man. Juliet knew it wasn't a boy because he was very strong, carrying a carpet in the middle of the night across the lawn of the mansion. Women couldn't do that, could they?
Juliet then made up her mind, it was a very, very strong man. The clock struck 12:00 and the noise was getting louder and louder. Juliet started sweating she took off her robe and went back to bed. But she forgot to take her slippers off. She took them off quickly. Juliet started drifting off but because the light was on she turned it off and closed her eyes.
"Juliet, Juliet, wake up!" - a loud voice woke her up. It was her sister Danielle. Danielle laughed and ran off, out of her room. Juliet stood up. Her legs were bright and her hands were pink. She screamed. Looking at her body, she yelled for her mum. Her mum ran into her room.
"What's wrong?" she questioned.
"Well I can see that you aren't feeling well, because your legs and ams are painted in red and pink paint." - her mum looked at her and laughed.
"PAINT?" she yelled.
"Who did this?" - Danielle laughed. Juliet knew she did it.
"You better run!" she yelled running after her sister.
Juliet went to eat her breakfast. It was toast, bacon and eggs. She sat down and ate it. Juliet finished her breakfast and ran out of the door.
"Mum, going to explore!" she yelled.
Juliet went to call her friend Cleo. She told her everything about the noise and the man. Cleo came right away. The two friends walked onto the lawn of the 'Haunted Mansion.' They walked in. The girls were scared, there was no doubt about it. On the inside their stomaches were churning.
"No turning back now." said Juliet looking at Cleo. It time to turn the handle and walk in.
"Ewww, gosh, whoever wanted to pain these steps red does NOT any sense of style or colour coordination." Cleo bellowed. But was it a red paint?
The walked in and the floor board were making wailing sounds. The mansion was making noise during the day. This was strange. During the day the house was quite on the the outside and loud on the inside. During the night, the outside world could hear 'it,' at least Juliet could here it.
"Can you hear it?" Juliet asked.
"Yes, I can, oh well what a sound, it hurts my ears." Cleo whispered.
"It sounds like crying," said Juliet.
"A house CRYING? That will be the day." laughed Cleo. "Juliet, don't you think your overreacting?"
Cleo didn't get to hear the answer because Juliet ran up the staircase and into the first room. That room had a giant hole right in the middle. The girls looked at each other and glanced into the hole. From the hole they could see the kitchen. In the kitchen they could see a broken stove, a kitchen top and the carpet that Juliet saw in the night. She ran down the staircase and rolled the carpet out. Inside was a... a... a... a BODY!.
"Okay, its a body. But I know that he didn't die from old age..."
"Listen Juliet, I know you like solving crimes, but really its nothing like 'who stole your socks'. Its a dead body, we've got to leave it for the experts," Cleo interrupted.
"You're right, lets leave it," smiled Juliet.
The girls ran to Juliet's house and told her parents. They called the police straight away. When the detectives arrived they took the body from the carpet and found one in the old wardrobe. That body looked like the face was burned. One of the detectives walked up to the girls and said:
"Hello girls, my name is Isabel Crampledaisy and I am one of the detectives working on this case."
"Hi, umm, where are you taking these bodies?" Juliet asked.
"We're going to the morgue and we're doing an autopsy for both the bodies. But I think I know what is wrong with the one that was found in the wardrobe, I believe she was stabbed and burned." said Isabel Crampledaisy.
"I also think I know who they both are. The one that was in the carpet was Nebojsa N. The one in the wardrobe I believe is his sister, Melanie"
The girls went home.
The next day, Juliet woke up earlier. She went to eat her breakfast. It was porridge and mango juice. Juliet wasn't fond of porridge, but who is? Her mother made it, so she ate it. When she finished she ran outside to enjoy the sunlight, but she could only see dark rain clouds making their way down to Kolidar Avenue. The rain clouds got closer and closer. Soon the sky was grey and unpleasant.
"Mum I think it going to hail." - Juliet called to her mother. Three... two... one... it started hailing and we are not talking about tiny little baby hailstones. We are talking about BIG FAT PAPA hailstones.
Just then Isabel ran up to Juliet and said: "Juliet, we know who did it and what happened!"
"What?" cried Juliet eager to know.
"It was Jonno Lengo, one of the actors in the movies "C YA L8TER". He murdered both fantastic actors, so he would be the best actor in the nation. We found that out because he is a terrific actor in PLAYING murderers, but he wasn't one himself. We found his finger prints on everything. And as I said he burned Melanie and then stabbed her. As for Nebojsa well, this was quite tricky to find because he poisoned him. We put him in gaol this morning at 10:00 when we saw the finger print test. What's strange is that he said that it was all him, he didn't defend himself at all. He also said he was happy to be put in gaol, because he murdered some terrific actors and he wasn't thinking about the future, not even his own," ended Isabel.
"So what you're saying is that it was because of his own greed and now he is happy in gaol! WOW what a strange actor..."
The case was solved and Juliet smiled to herself as she walked into the house.
Thursday, 07th of April 2009. Melbourne, Australia