Chapter Two: The First Day of October

“Willy,” said Mr. Artor.

There was no response. You could not find him anywhere. Now since it was his first time in middle school, not a single soul in the whole building knew his phobia of October and everything else except snakes..

Now if you knew about a normal boy playing hooky you could probably find them at the movies or at GameStop. But here's a catch for you, Scaredy Willy is not normal.

Now you could find Scaredy Willy where you can find him every year on the first day of October. The place where he called safe, the place where he sleeps and the place where he keeps his supersonic snake. It was his room. Now you may be wondering what's not safe about movie theaters.

Well here are Scaredy Willy reasons.

1.The germs. The movies have a lot of germs on the seat.

2. What if the screen falls? Dumb question right? Well not for Scaredy Willy.

So his mom has left for work expecting him to have caught his private bus.

(He is not rich, it's a small yellow car called a bus.)

The school called his mom and his mom said

“I thought he left the house.”

Scardey Willy never left the house that day.

The cops rushed to Willy’s house. “Ma'am, when was your child last spotted?” The cops asked.

“Well I spotted him leaving the house this morning,” she lied. Ma'am for this to work you have to make sure you are absolutely telling the truth about everything you say. I’m sure I saw him leaving the house she lied against. Ok Ma’am.

Well I guess we will walk down the street and see if he was spotted by neighbors. “Ok” Willy’s mom sobbed. The cops left the house, and Willy heard the whole conversation, so he was furious at his mom for lying to the cops.

He thought to himself, ‘Do you not see your son?

He jumped out the window and ran off to the woods...