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He had been going in and out of the building As she scanned the room, she came across
Tales from Year 10
The
Unexpected
Betrayal
A Story by Mosopefoluwa Oladipupo | Year 10 Volta
he cacophony of people’s voices, car horns,
and heels clacking filled the air surrounding St.
T Mary’s High School, but Madison couldn’t hear
any of it; her gaze was fixed on the house across the
street. The figure in the black hoodie was back again.
Tonight, she would figure out who he was and why he
would go into a house that had been abandoned for
nine years.
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every day for the past month but today, some- a book. It looked like a picture album but it
was odd - it wasn’t covered in a blanket of
thing flicked a switch in her brain. Now, she was
overcome with an uncontrollable urge to un- dust and cobwebs. It was clean.
cover the mask of the figure. She placed her hand on the book with the
intention to open it but then she heard a
the streets of the sleepy city. Madison’s legs A voice she hadn’t heard for nine years.
familiar voice behind her.
The plodding of her trainers echoed through
“You shouldn’t have come here.”
had started to quiver as she approached the
house but the force of determination pushed
She slowly turned herself around to see a
her forward.
hooded figure which revealed itself to be…
As she got closer, it got darker. She had forgot- “Dad?”
ten that the street lights near the house didn’t
work anymore and that made her even more
uneasy.
The gate of the house cried as she kicked it
open. She proceeded along the path with the
moon as the only source to illuminate her path.
Turning on her flashlight and drawing attention
to herself wouldn’t be the best idea.
She would have been much more frightened if
the structure of the inside of the house wasn’t
engraved into her brain. She didn’t need to but
she switched on her flashlight to prevent un-
foreseen accidents.
The atmosphere burst to life as the light shone;
a wave of nostalgia washed over her as she re-
membered her past in this house. It was over-
whelming - almost painful. This house invoked
many feelings of joy and pain. Although she
would have loved to stand here and reminisce,
that was not what she was here for.
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