It was the same cold windy night just like the last. I sat shivering in the dark, staring off into the distance. I wasn’t tired at all so I just sat in my room staring into another world. I glanced at the clock on my side table. It was already 11:30. I tried falling asleep again because I knew I would fall asleep during class at school the next day if I didn’t. I now lay staring at the ceiling.
My alarm goes off and I'm still laying there without any rest. I get ready for school as fast as I can and run upstairs for breakfast. The TV was on and I sat down with some cereal.
I was eating when suddenly a voice reported “There is some evidence that might tell us about his death. We have just discovered that a gang that calls themselves “The Midnight Howlers” might be involved with the mystery of Edgar Allan Poe”.
I stare thunderstruck at the screen that now shows a picture of Poe.
‘This gang is still around today, new and more brutal men and women are in this group.”
All of a sudden I hear the bus coming down the street and grab my bag and run out the door. Not hearing anything else the TV said after that.
I wait for the bus for a few seconds and wonder about the news I just watched. I then sat in my uasal seat on the bus and started wondering. I wondered what kind of clues there were to his death and what it had to do with the “Midnight Howlers”. I wondered why it was just found today and not the night after he died. I then noticed that everyone was getting up from their seats. I must have been playing in the clouds because I hadn’t even noticed we were already at school.
I got off the bus and started walking to the front doors when Lily came up to me.
“Hey Polleen what’s up”, she said in her usual peppy voice.
I then told her what I had heard on TV this morning and she gasped.