Who? Where? What? When?

Submitted into Contest #93 in response to: Set your story at a party that has gone horribly wrong.... view prompt

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Funny Mystery Suspense

FRIDAY!! It was finally Friday, the end of the week, the start of the weekend, and most importantly the day I was having a party. Everything is going to be perfect, it will be the best party of the whole school year! I had a swimming pool, lots of food, games, and music! All I had to do was get through this one last day of school, the 8 hour long school day. Sounds easy? Well, it's not. I could not focus at all today, but it was worth sitting through all those boring classes because it was finally party time. I wanted my party to last extra long so I asked my mom to decorate, set up the food, and set up the music for me. All of my friends and I went straight to my house after school. We were all excited and knew how perfect it was going to be...until we arrived at my house. The front of my house was covered in eggs and there were forks all in the front lawn. We were astonished, who would have done this? We decided it was just a joke and left it to go in the back, where the party was. My mom stopped us when we were walking through the house and told us to not go into the backyard because she heard something out there. We thought she was joking so we went out anyways. The only thing I have to say about that is how much of a mistake he had just made. The pool's toys were on the roof and the pool was only half full with water. If you think that's crazy just wait there's more. The water that was left in the pool was a disgusting green and it was slimy. The speaker was no longer here and nobody knew where it was at. The worst part of all is that the food was almost completely gone. Empty pizza boxes thrown everywhere, bags of chips all over the ground, every bottle of drink was spilled. There were leftovers left all over the ground and mashed up. I was so embarrassed and could not have thought of anything worse that could have happened. My party was ruined. I started crying and ran up to my room. My friends followed me up and they comforted me. We all really wanted to know who did this. We decided to set out for a mission to discover who this awful party crasher is. We got all the materials we needed and set out. We each grabbed a flashlight and a notepad to write down clues. Oh and If I haven't mentioned it my house is right by the woods, so that's where we looked first. We saw nothing for a while, but then we found a napkin that looked exactly like the ones I had. We picked it up and found some chips that I also had at my party! We got so excited, but it was also nerve wracking at the same time. There was a trail of a bunch of items from my party. We continued to follow this trail for hours. We were finding more and more clues getting closer to solving a mystery. Until the trail ended and led us to absolutely nowhere. We hit the end of the road, nowhere else to go. We decided to take a break and sit down for a while because our feet hurt from all the walking. While we were sitting it turned dark and got kind of scary. We then heard footsteps. They started off quiet and slowly got louder and bigger. it sounded like they were coming towards us! They were happening faster and faster and faster. Then music started playing and the footsteps got louder. The longer we waited the clearer the music got and the louder the crunches of footsteps got. We were terrified. You will never believe what we saw. A BEAR! The footsteps came from the bear and it was holding MY radio, eating the food from MY party, and the bear was dripping wet. The bear WAS the party crasher!!! He must have smelt the hot pizza and came out of the woods to find it. When he got to my house he fell into the pool and splashed out all the water. When he tried to climb out he freaked out and threw all the pool toys into the air and then they landed on the roof. Then by the time he got to the food he ate it all and was mad from falling in the pool that he threw the extras everywhere. I guess he liked our music and took the speaker too. That explains everything that happened in the backyard. But a bear can not put forks in the lawn and throw eggs all over the front of my house. If he did not do that, then who did?

Fun Facts about me and this story:

I do not know what else to write but I thought the story was funny. I came up with it on my own. I wrote this kind of fast but I enjoyed it. I do not usually enjoy writing; it is super boring to me and I tend to struggle but this came to me quite easy. I hope you enjoyed my story. It is fictional of course. I based it off of things I enjoy. I always enjoyed a mystery to solve. They just seem super fun to me. I also like being a little bit scared. I also love comedies so I figured if I am going to write, it has to be about something I am interested in. I am right below my word minimum which is 1000 words and I honestly think that is kind of a lot for the type of story I wrote. It is supposed to be short, sweet, and to the point. I do not like when things are over explained and you can tell it is just so people can reach more words because it looks good for them. I am at minimum word count now though so have a great day and I hope you enjoyed my story.

May 10, 2021 22:58

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