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It was Sunday, the morning of my 12th birthday. My daddy was passed out in his hammock on the porch, his mouth hanging open, a half-drank jar of shine underneath his hammock. A flock of flies had come through the punched out window screen and was buzzing around his head. He’d clean forgot it was my birthday, never even bought me a present like he used to do before my mama left us.



I was feeling awful sorry for myself, setting in that old wicker chair watching him. I recollected when my mama was alive on my eleventh birthday, the big chocolate cake she’d made, how all them kids had come over and played pin-the-tail-on-the-donkey. My mama died in a car accident one month later.



I was thinking hard about her when I heard this voice whispering inside my head. It was a young gal’s voice that I’d never heard before.



“Charlie Bob,” she called. “Come see me. Im at the old Bodine house.”



It scared me, hearing someone talk inside my head that way, because lately I’d been under a heap of strain doin all them chores for the rent money. My daddy had promised me that he’d quit drinking and get a job, only he never done it.



“Charlie Bob, did you hear me?” she called again, louder this time.



Popping straight up in my chair, I waved the flies away from my face and looked around, seeing if one of my friends had snuck up on me. But wasn’t nobody on the porch, except me and my daddy.



“Im waiting on you, Charlie Bob,” Her voice was sweet and ripply like a stream running downhill. “Got a nice chocolate cake for you. It’ll be a party just like your mama used to have.”



This time I jumped clean out of my chair. “Hush up ” I yelled at my head.



It didn’t do a nickel’s worth of good, yelling at my head that way. She kept on calling me until her voice wasn’t sweet no more “Hurry up, Charlie Bob, I’m waiting on you,” she sang over and over again until I figured I’d go nuts.



“Hush up, whoever you are. If you’ll quit nagging at me, I just might go out to that old Bodine house.”



Right away, she was quiet. I’d just told her I might go out there to hush her up. I wouldn’t go out to the old Bodine place if she jumped out of my head and handed me a hundred dollar bill. That old house was back in the swamps. Most of the roof had fallen in and nobody had lived there for fifty years. Way back before I was born, some rich feller bought it. He tried to make it over like new, but some of his workers got sucked down in quicksand and the others caught fever. He gave up on the place and willed it to his heirs. They let the house set there all this time, mainly on account of nobody would buy it.



I wasn’t about to go out to that creepy old house, but I figured I had to tell her something. Slipping out of the screen door, I headed for the middle part of town acting like I was still thinking about going out to that Bodine place so’s to fool her.

im sitting here in school with buffy, shes pretty cool. i was joking around with her and asking her to join VR, she denied it. but hey, i already got like 7 referals, and 1 indirect one