Personal Narrative: A Short Story

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I woke up and stumbled out of bed to go get a bagel and some coffee. When walked through the dark room the floor seemed to be creeking more than it usually did each step. But it didn't sound like a creek it sounded more like a bang. But I let it go and made my bagel. When I was done buttering my bagel it slipped onto the floor so I had to make a new one. I picked it up but didn't bother cleaning the floor yet incase I did it again. I toasted my new bagel and buttered it without any accidents. When I finished eating I cleaned up the floor. When I was down there I noticed there was a large crack under the cabinet about an inch wide. And then I remembered I had a carpenter coming today to fix that cabinet since it wasn't opening. I could …show more content…

It finally rang and I jumped up to go get it. It was a small kid asking to do a fundraiser for his school. So I bought some things from him then he was gone. As he was leaving the man's truck pulled up. I let him in and he got to work. He said there was no way it could have jammed so bad. So I gave him permission to cut the door off. When he cut it off there was a ladder going under the ground to a very bright room. And then we saw the lock that had been holding the door closed. Neither of us knew how a passage to underground had appeared there and who put it there. He asked me how long this door has been stuck for and I told him I noticed it when I got home from vacation. Somebody must have broke in while I was gone and made that. We just looked at each other and paused for a second. It was almost like we were reading each other's minds. Neither of us knew if we should go down there or …show more content…

We made eye contact for a short period of time. Then he turned around and walked away. I sat there for a second looking at the dead man in front of me and just thinking how the saw in his neck had saved my life. I went back up and my carpenters van was gone. He had just left like that. He didn't even grab his stuff. He was gone. I had no idea what I should now do. I had just almost died but I didn't and now there was a dead man sitting under my home. I wasn't about to call the cops and do this correctly and legally. I decided to just get a huge amount of cement and fill the hole, with the body in there. But first I had to get rid of the bombs. I figured that I could just fill it with cement and leave the bombs in there. But I wasn't sure. I did it because how would they go off if nothing was there to do it. So I filled the hole with cement and repaired the cabinets. Everything was good as