The House in the Woods 1 It was like any other ordinary day. I was playing hide and go seek with my sister, Sarah. We are both 12 years old. My name is Derrick and the only reason I was playing this game was so I could run away from my sister and avoid getting in trouble. I was the hider, so I ran into the woods to find a good spot. I ran as fast as I could, and then froze. I saw a house, which seemed to be abandoned. “BOO” “Don't do that Sarah”, I said angrily. “I found you Ha Ha Ha Ha”, she said annoyingly. “Whoa, what's with the house”, she said. “I was running, and then found it right here in the middle of the woods”, I said. “Let's go inside”, she insisted. “Why”, I questioned. She took my special watch off of my hand and threw it into one of the windows in the house. The watch was special to me because it belonged to my grandfather. “That's why”, she said. We walked inside because I had no choice. “Sarah, the only reason why were going in here is to find my watch”, I insisted. She opened the door and we walked inside, it was dark but we could see from the sunlight outside. Inside the house was a long hallway. We walked forward and them something got tangled up in my hair. “SNAKE”, I yelled. I fell down and realized it was just a piece of string hanging from the ceiling. “Scardy cat, it’s probably just the light switch”, she said annoyingly. She pulled the string and a staircase fell from the ceiling. When it hit the ground a bunch of dust came at us. We walked up the stairs and when we got to the top we saw boxes filled with jewels, gold and diamonds. "Why do you think priceless items would be inside an old abandoned house like this", I questioned. Before we could say another word we saw the front door open and two men walked inside. We both hid behind two boxes. The two men went into the attic. One of them poured a sack of diamonds into one of the boxes. "Wow, this was a great idea to steal from the"... And then Sarah’s cell phone rang. The men grabbed us both by the shirt, carried us down the hall and threw us into the basement. They shut the door and locked it. "When we see them leave, we should smash the window with something in here", I said. I looked around and saw a rock in the corner of the room. "There gone", Sarah said. I picked up the rock and through it out the window. We carefully climbed out the window and ran towards the men. When we caught up to them we kept quiet so they wouldn't hear us. We followed them until they we saw them walk into City Hall. We peeked inside; we saw lasers The House in the Woods 2 The House in the Woods 3 guarding a safe. The robbers were stealing from the safe so they must have got passed the lasers. I still had that rock with me so I threw it at one of the lasers. A bunch of sirens came on and police came running in to grab the robbers. We told the cops where the rest of the jewels were. From then on, nobody ever stole from the town again.