Claudia Baffour-Ansah
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The Alleyway
As I walked through the labyrinth that was my neighbourhood, I adjusted my headphones and lowered the volume of my music to focus on the sounds that I could hear around me. The sounds of dogs barking on the terraces of moulding flats...Pounding of footballs on the fences of back gardens...The static of the radio blasting reggae music on a Thursday afternoon. I was almost home, I just needed to turn this corner safely and it was a short 3 minute walk from there, but then I heard the scuffling and grunting of teenagers play fighting in the alley way. Calmly, I thought 'Okay, maybe I should just turn back and go the long way home. After all, I was not that late home...right?'. As I started to turn around slowly a familiar voice called my name from the corner, and the sounds of scuffling stopped. 'How had anyone seen me?' I thought. My older brother's friend came jogging around the corner and proceeded to greet me with a fist bump. Nervously I replied "Hey what's going on?", and he of course assured me that he and his friends were 'just playing around'. Soon his friends joined the conversation and they all seemed so cool, I felt my shoulders loosening and my posture became more relaxed as I was sure that these people were...safe.
By Claudia Baffour-Ansah5 years ago in Horror
