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=__Midnight Strikes__ =

Amanda happily skipped down the heavily populated sidewalk as her sassy pink dress fluttered at her heels. Blond pig tails bounced with each bounding leap as she grew nearer and closer to her friend Angela’s house. It was late and her mother was soon going to discover Amanda’s my little pony bed sheets vacant of a tiny figure but Angela and Amanda had planned this late night sleep over months before when school had just let out for the summer and she wasn’t going to turn back on their plans now. Suddenly with a light twinkle in her beautify, innocent blue eyes she remembered a short cut threw an alleyway that was often used when Angela walked home from school. So with a confident stride she neared the alleyway. However <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 115%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">after reaching the mouth of its allusive quality Amanda realized it looked nothing like it did after <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 115%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">school. And with a cautious and shaky step she entered the dark, alluring alleyway. Garbage was <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 115%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">piled on either side of the gray brick walls and it seemed so vacant of human life that even the <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 115%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">wind that cooled Amanda’s delicate neck seemed to disappear. With another timid and hesitant <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 115%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">step she drew farther into this terrifying mouth of the city and looked wide eyed from side to <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 115%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">horrifying side. Only one light flickered at the end of the alleyway and gave the uncomfortable <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 115%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">sense of going out. Amanda looked down at her Barbie wrist watch and just as she read the <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 115%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">bright blue numbers shining, “12:00 a.m.” the light exploded into darkness with a blood <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 115%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">curtailing scream soon fallowing.