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Chapter 2

  FIRST DAY

  "Hey NERD", Emily looked up from her work and saw 3 girls surrounding her, they had brown, cruel eyes stared down at her, they put sheets down in front of her, "Why don’t you do our homework for us if you love it so much", Emily looked at the stacks of paper, "I am sorry but it’s your homework, you do it". The three girls looked at each other and nodded, "Oh smart ass eh?" said the one on the left, "You do it or otherwise you will pay for it" said the one on the right," and it will be very entertaining for us", Emily was frightened and got up trying to run away but they grabbed her by the collar and laughed, “Aww, little rabbit trying get away” ”Is this your notebook?” Emily looked in horror at the pad the bully had in her hand, she looked like she was going to rip it up, "Please no" the girl tried to get away "Oh you care about this, oh you probably won’t mind if I rip it up then", then a fist met the bully's face "Leave her alone bitch", a girl with a hat punched the main bully, she held the side of her face and ran out of the classroom with the two other girls. "Hey are you ok?" Emily looked up at the girl, she had rare blonde hair, hazel-blue, coloured eyes, she had an Australian hat on her head and a sweet smile, she held out her hand "Yeah, thanks" and the girl helped her up. "Thanks again with that" "Hey no problem, we haven’t been properly introduced, my names Amia what’s your?", Emily smiled too she knew that this girl was good, "Emily", ”You’re the girl that wanted to sit next to me, sorry about that I ain’t the most social one” Amia rubbed the back of her head”, ”No problem, everyone has their moments, hey can we go to the Oak tree I’m bored”. Amia and Emily sat next to each other in every class and they talked to each other every week-day, but there was one thing that Emily found about the Oak Tree that Amia didn’t see.

  They knew each other for a couple of years up to Year 8, Emily wanted to meet up underneath the Oak tree "Hey can I show you something., knowing that we have been friends for some time" Amia was pretending to be surprised ,"Wow, I have never heard someone say that to me before", Emily looked at the top of the Oak Tree, "Well, it’s now your first", the girl walked around the tree expecting its every branch, "Do you see that lever up there" Amia looked at the lever on the top branch, "What the fuck is a lever doing on the tree, I never noticed that", Emily explained "I have been researching on the school history and it was said that there used to be a secret military base here, but when I checked the school there were no signs...",Amia put a derpy face on, "Hence the name 'Secret'", Emily ignored her, "I looked around and found this lever, but I could never reach it and I ain’t the best gymnast" ,Amia knew what she was going to say, "You want me to pull that lever, knowing that I am the best gymnast in the class", Emily nodded, "Alright then, don’t blame me if I fall and break my ribs”. Amia stepped back from the tree, ran up the tree and grabbed the nearest branch and pulled herself up, Emily stared in awe, “How did you do that?!"Amia smiled, “Gymnastics does have its positives" she pulled the lever and a trapdoor behind the tree opened up. Emily and Amia looked down the trapdoor, it was dark "Its lucky I have a flash light”, Emily turned on the light and looked at the room below the tree, at first it just looked like a mole hole but when Emily fully shined her light, there was more to a mole hole.

  Skeletons were spread out on the floor, Emily covered her mouth as if she was going to be sick, Amia walked down the steps "Amia what are you doing?!", Amia turned around to her "Look, you wanted to show me this, might as well explore" Emily rolled her eyes and went down the steps as well. There were shelves full up with paperwork and books, the desks were in rows with matching chairs, a table that people used in war was in front of the desks and roots hanged from the ceiling then a body of a women was also hanging from the ceiling, a rope around her neck, Emily couldn’t face it and vomited in the corner of the room, Amia just stood there and looked at the women, she didn’t have a face but she knew that the women was sad, the woman caused suicide, ”How are you not feeling sick when looking a that” the girl kept glaring at the women ”I don’t know” Emily began to step up the stairs "Come on Amia, let’s get out of here", "Wait, why don’t we use this, I mean, it’s a waste of a base", Emily stared back if she was mad, "Amia are you crazy we can’t do that, especially when there’s.... you know... dead people", "But Emily, I know that you ain’t the one for dead people, I can clear out that and give them peace at least, we can tidy this up and use it to our advantage", Emily sat on one of the chairs, she thought about this for a moment, it wasn’t actually a bad idea, and it will give the people here a grave "Amia you are the craziest person I have ever met".