Journal #14

Hmm. Let me think.  The time that I was most scared would had to have been when I was at my friend's house for a birthday party.  This was about six years ago, and my friend decided to have a sleepover for her birthday.  When four of her friends and I got to her house, we did ll the birthday things like: opening presents, singing "Happy Birthday", eating cake and ice cream, and playing silly games.  Once it got dark, my friend thought it would be a good idea to 'ding-dong ditch' some of her neighbors.  Ding-dong ditching is where you go quietly up to someone's front door and once you ring the doorbell, you run and hide.  All six of us started walking down the sidewalk to one of her neighbor's houses.  The house we decided to ring the doorbell of, was old with missing shutters.  I am not one for scary things, so being out at night with no flashlight is pretty scary.  As a group we decided which person would go up and ring the doorbell, while the rest of us hid.  The person that was chosen was the bravest of us all and enjoyed the thrill of being scared.  She quietly sneaked  up to the front door, pressed the doorbell and then sprinted down the front stairs and around the house to where we all were standing.  As soon as she reached the group, the front door was opened by an older lady.  She had white hair and was in her bath robe.  We were all focused on making sure that the elderly woman did not see us, that we did not even realize that someone was behind us.  All we heard was, "BOO!"  Of course, we all screamed and ran as fast as we could back to my friend's house.  Luckily, the old woman had shut her door before we were freaked out.  The person that scared us ended up being my friend's dad!