User blog:AustinDR/There's a Man in the Woods

(The story starts with Lincoln and his ssiters looking at his computer. They were on YouTube, browsing; after a while, they come across a video entitled "There's a Man in the Woods.")

Lincoln: Sounds interesting. Want to watch it, guys?

Luan: It's not going to be another story about us?

Lincoln: Doesn't seem to be so.

Lynn: You'd better be right Lincoln. You wouldn't want something bad to happen to your computer.

Lincoln: (cringes at remembering the last time his computer wass destroyed several times.) Well, here we go.

(He clicks on the video, and it starts up. They see a tall, skinny man walk out of his apartment door, and he walks over to his car.)

Lana: Wow, he's really tall.

Lynn: Must've been a basket ball player at some point.

(They continue to watch.)

Man: There's a man in the woods.

Lori: Uh...okay. How would you know that?

(They silence themselves when the man began to speak again)

Man: Before the story started, the school was still respectable.

Lincoln: Oh, I get it, he was a teacher!

Lola: Ha. Since when is school ever respectable?

Lana: Quiet, Lola, he's talking again!

Man: My students used to skip down to the hill, to the honey suckle, pluck a couple, and collect their nectar 'till they picked their fill.

Lana: So I'm not allowed to eat out of the trash can, but this guy's fine with them eating flowers?

Lisa: Actually, they're just eating part of the flower.

Lana: Hmph!

Man: Except one obnoxious kid; Sid.

Lori: Already hate this kid already.

Man: Who just watched them eat the flowers, while he seethed and scowled,

Cause he couldn't bare to share his sweet treats throughout our recess hours.

Lola: What a brat!

Lana: Remind you of someone?

Lola: Why you....

Lincoln: Guys, guys, let's just continue to watch this video in peace, please?

(They nod their heads begrudgingly)

Man:

I remember Sid saying:

"There's a man in the woods"

That's how the rumors began.

Luna: Little liar!

Leni: Ru-mor?

Lynn: It means saying something that isn't true.

Leni: Oh.

Man: Of course Sid had spotted "Him" first.

Lori: This kid is literally the worst.

Lynn: I want to kick him in the face with my soccer ball.

Lola: Well, I would invite him to tea, and give him the cup with the chip in it!

Man:

The poor kids. He got them immersed in his speil about a serial killer

Whose gun barrel glint hid said peril.

A visit to the nurse, or worse a hearse waiting beyond the dale.

The children saw him everywhere.

"Look! Over there!"

"That man had... Batman ears! We-we swear!"

Luan: Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na Batman!

(She laughs)

Man: "An... And crazy yellow eyes."

Luan: Doesn't sound like a mellow fellow! Ha! ha! Get it?

(The other siblings sigh. They turn their attention back to the computer screen.)

Man: "We saw something rusty! His shotgun? It must be!"

"I saw a lady's severed thigh!"

Lucy: This story just got interesting.

Man: Trust me.

Every word I heard was absurd.

Yet each day Sid would stray down

Way past the playground

Who else was brave enough to save us from the killer's next plot.

Lynn: Um...hey, buddy, the woods are bleeding. Think you should take a look at that? No? Okay then.

Lucy: Even Mother Nature is vengeful.

Luna: Dudes, I am really starting to despise this boy.

Lincoln: You and me both.

Lucy: I wonder if Sid will die.

Lori: Die? But the story's made up. This snot nosed kid made it all up to get those honeysuckles.

Lucy: Sigh, you're right...

Man: The rest of the lot would stop back at the black top.

Sure that any closer they were bound to be found deep in the woods, left to rot.

I pleaded for the kids to think, and learn to be mature,

But after a few more rumors doomed my attempts to prove the school was secure:

Their fear was undeterred. And when the buses drove them all home, the parents finally heard.

Luna: Oh no.....

Man: Everything just blew up. I received a wall of emails and calls full of shrieks, wails, and all,

From terrified families who’d heard word of the murderer, and didn't like my lack of action at all.

What was I supposed to do? Comb the whole forest? Yeah, right. Would you?

Lynn: No.

Man: That means I didn't care? That’s not fair! The stories that worried you weren't true.

(He gets out of his car, having parked it by the entrance of the woods.)

Lincoln: Wait, if he stopped at the woods, and he says that there was a man in the woods, does that mean....

(The girls shrug their shoulders.)

Man: Of course I would feel regret, had there been a real threat and I ignored it,

And some poor kid got kidnapped while the kids were napping.

But you couldn't admit that your good little kid would formulate a fib so you ignored what I said.

Your little angels could never cook up such incredible creations!

Lola: Well, actually, we kind of are able to get away with a lot of things when we make up stories to Mom and Dad.

Man: An overactive imagination, maybe, but my kid could never lie!

How dare I… Accuse a child of being dishonest?

Just monstrous!

Luna: And there were no sightings of this killer?

Man: The parents were displeased, and when the PTA took action, they dismissed me from the classroom.

Leni: Why'd he get fired?

Lisa: I don't know, sister unit, I don't know.

Man: Like THEY knew what was best for their kids!

Do you know how difficult it is to get a job when a bitter mom slanders your rep with child neglect from the outset?

Lincoln: Well, a majority of us don't work....so, I guess?

Man: NOW WHO'S IN CONTROL OF YOUR CLASSES!?

Leni: I'm scared now.....

Man: Single file lines.

SINGLE FILE LINES.

Luna: Woah, woah, dude, chill out. I hate that boy too, but calm down.

Lynn: Oh god, the music just picked up.

(They see the former teacher abusing drugs and alcohol.)

Lana: Lincoln, turn the video off!! I'm scared!!

Lola: Me too!

(They grab onto each other in fear.)

Man: ''Little vile swine, a killer by the pine, really? ''

Are you blind?

Will you find your spines?

Sid.

A child decides to fill our minds with lies and the next thing you see is people treating me like I’ve committed crime.

I WAS IN MY PRIME! Those kids were lucky to have me.

Do you see what you did?!

Leni: Please stop!

Man: But I can play along.

Lincoln: Play along?

Man: I can be good.

Leni: Well, thanks goodness.

Man: You hear that, Sid?

(They see the teacher in the woods, with Sid, plucking some honeysuckles, before being alerted to who was there. He looks up in fear. The teacher reaches into his coat, seeming to pull something out.)

Man: There's a man in the woods.

(The siblings were shunned. They couldn't speak for a few minutes; slowly, each one started to speak up.)

Lynn: Well, that's what that kid gets.

Lisa: While I wouldn't say that no one should die, I'll make an exception on this one.

Luna: I don't know how to feel on this; on the one hand, the kid deserved to be punished, but I also don't think that killing Sid would've solved anything,

Lori: Yeah, the teacher won't be getting his job back. Sure, the boy ruined his life, but he's a murderer now....

Lucy: I called it.

Luan: I would make a joke about this, but I don't feel like it's appropriate. I mean, geez....

(Leni had her eyes covered.)

Lori: Leni, the video's over. You can open your eyes now.

Leni: Oh, thank goodness. That was a terrible video.

Lola: Eh, I still felt givin gthe boy the chipped tea cup would've been better.

Lana: Or sticking bubble gum in his hair.

Lincoln: Well, that was...an experience....welp, I guess that's it for today.

(The siblings start to walk out of the room. Lynn stays behind and looks earnestly at the computer screen)

Lynn: I still think that the kid deserved it.

(She then walks out of the room.)