*This is from the first Halloween tale from my story “31 horrific Halloween tales”. This story and the Halloween tale was inspired by the fact that I used to think the phrase “Liar, liar, pants on fire” was “Liar, liar, head on fire”. I know better now, but I’ve decided to make a story based on this mistake of mine. Gacha Club character designs are on my wall. Enjoy!
Introduction
Lisa Hudson never liked arguments. Watching people fight only for both to lose. Relationships being destroyed. Opinions sword fighting other opinions in a meaningless battle of “Who is the right one”?
Ever since she was in second grade, she despised them. She wished to just burn those arguing away.
Well, she got her wish.
This is the story of Lisa, the fantastic fire girl.
Chapter One
Lisa sat alone in her school bus, drawing in her notebook. It was the first day of second grade and she looked like a loner. She didn’t care, though. She liked drawing.
She smiled at the drawings. They were pictures of people singing around a bonfire. A camp club. The fire was warming them up. Everyone was safe and happy. Nobody was fighting or being mean to each other.
It was different from the kids yelling at each other in the bus. It was different from the world around her.
It was perfect.
The bus stopped. Lisa stuffed the notebook back in her bag.
Time for school.
Chapter Two
She walked inside the school with a purpose. One purpose:To get to class. Yes, every kid was going to class. But every kid had at least one friend with them.
Lisa wanted friends. She really did. The only reason she didn’t have any was because she feared the person would argue and yell and-
“Hey Lisa!”
Lisa stopped in her tracks. She wasn’t used to someone calling her name. Maybe the person was calling a different person named Lisa.
Then she felt a tap on her shoulder.
She turned around.
Another girl her age, with long blond hair and blue eyes smiled back at her. The girl was wearing such a pretty pink dress.
“Want to go to class with me?” She asked.
Lisa wasn’t sure what to make of this. No one spoke to her. No one ever asked to go to class with her.
Yet here was this girl, asking if she wanted to go to class with her.
How could Lisa not accept?
“Sure.” Lisa said.
The girl smiled and took her hand.
Together, they skipped to class.
Chapter Three
The two girls sat next to each other when they entered the room. Some of the kids gasped. Some of them snickered. Others didn’t really pay attention. The teacher herself looked like she was hiding back surprise.
But Lisa only smiled.
Finally, she had a friend!
Finally, she had someone who would be nice to her!
Finally.
Chapter Four
Lisa was trying really hard to pay attention to the teacher, but she was too busy thinking about how she finally had a friend to really learn anything.
The girl slipped something into her hand.
Lisa looked down. It was a note that read as followed:
“Sit next to me at Lunch! - Alina”.
Lisa smiled to herself. Of course she would sit next to her.
Chapter Five
It was Lunchtime. Lisa was looking for the table with Alina in it. So far, she didn’t see her. There were too many kids.
A hand shot up from one of the tables. It was waving.
The hand was connected to a body and the body was…
“Alina!” Lisa cried out in joy.
She ran over to the table, almost bumping the others.
Chapter Six
“So why are you being nice to me?” Lisa asked.
“Because I want to be your friend. Nobody talks to you and I do.” Alina replied, biting into her Oreo cookie.
Alina reached into her Lunchbox and handed Lisa an Oreo.
“For me?” She asked.
Alina nodded.
Lisa smiled and accepted the cookie.
She had a best friend!
A real best friend!
Chapter Seven
Day after day, year after year, Lisa hung out with Alina. Their friendship grew. The two were inseparable.
Now, they were both mere teens attending High School.
Now, they were so much older.
Now, things would be very different.
Chapter Eight
Lisa’s phone buzzed on her nightstand. She was still half asleep, but she reached for it anyway.
It was a text from Alina, asking her to meet at the playground.
It was still very early in the morning, so Lisa didn’t see the point.
Regardless of that, she’d go anyway. She was her friend, after all. She couldn’t ignore what a friend wanted.
Chapter Nine
Her pajamas did nothing to keep her from the October chill. Her sneakers burned like fire under her running feet.
Lisa finally entered the playground.
Alina was there.
So was her little sister, Lynette. In fact, she was talking to Alina.
Lisa clenched her fists.
What was Lynette doing here?
Chapter Ten
“Hey, Lynette.” Lisa said, walking up to them, trying to hold back her inner…jealousy? But why should she be jealous of her little sister? It wasn’t like Lynette knew anything.
“Hey.” Lynette said, smiling like all was alright.
“What’s wrong, Lisa?” Alina asked.
“How do you know her?”
“Oh, Lynette?”
“Yeah.”
“We met yesterday at school. I told her to meet at the playground, like you. I’m glad both of you could join!”
“What do you want us for?” Lisa asked, raising an eyebrow.
“To burn down the school.” Alina said, eyes glittering with evil.
Chapter Eleven
“Why on Earth would we do that?” Lisa asked. Lynette seemed to share her disbelief and horror, as she backed away from Alina.
“Don’t you ever get tired of the same thing, day in and day out? Lesson after lesson after lesson? Don’t you want some excitement in your life?” Alina asked.
Come to think of it, Lisa did want something exciting in her life. Besides, the school only hurt her in the end. No one but Alina truly cared for her.
“Yeah. Let’s do it.” Lisa said, eyes glittering with the same evil.
A shame Lynette was still reluctant.
Chapter Twelve
It wasn’t that hard to sneak into the school. Their security was never taken seriously, because who would want to break in a High School that only housed two-hundred kids?
The girls were in the basement, Alina taking out a red lighter from her skirt pocket.
“Liar, liar, pants on fire.” Alina said, smiling.
Lisa frowned. She had heard the saying differently.
“It’s “Liar, liar, head on fire.” Not “Liar, liar, pants on fire.” But that’s okay. We don’t need to make a big production out of it.” Lisa faked a grin. She couldn’t bear to argue with Alina right now, but she said it wrong. Since Lisa was a good friend, she had to correct her.
“Lisa, what I said is right, because that’s what everyone says.”
“No, you’re wrong.”
“I’m pretty sure that I’m right.”
“Alina, just admit that you’re wrong.”
“No. I’m not wrong.” Alina said, glaring at her.
Who was this girl who pretended to be her friend? This monster? This creature from He-
“Guys? Can we just go home now? I don’t feel so good about this.” Lynette said from the background, distressed.
“Go home? Go home? Lynette, didn’t you tell me just yesterday that you felt suffocated by the work being given to you?” Alina asked.
“Yes, but-“
“There should be no hesitation. Burning down the school is our only option.” Alina said.
“That’s rid-“
“Lynet-“
“Stop!”
Chapter Thirteen
“Stop.” Lynette repeated, tears glittering in her eyes.
Lisa and Alina turned to Lynette.
Lisa didn’t feel great about the argument, and she missed her bed, but they just got in the school. They were so close. So close to burning all their troubles away.
But now they all just stood there, staring at one another.
Lynette took out a coin from her pajamas’ pocket.
“Let’s flip a coin.” She said, certainty in her eyes.
Lisa and Alina only looked back in confusion.
“What?” Lisa asked.
Chapter Fourteen
“I think we should flip a coin.” Lynette said.
“How is flipping a coin going to help anyone?” Lisa asked, raising an eyebrow.
“It will get us out of this situation. Who wants heads and who wants tails?”
Lisa thought for a moment. Did she really want to burn down the school, like Alina suggested? Where would she go? How long could she keep it a secret?
And she would be hurting everyone at the school. Where would the other students go? Where would the other teachers go? What would happen to the community?
Maybe burning the school down wasn’t the best choice.
“I call heads. Heads for leaving.” Lisa said.
“Leaving? But Li-“
“Lynette is right. This isn’t a good idea.”
“Fine, okay. If you want to be such a wuss, go ahead. I call tails for staying.”
Lynette nodded her head at both of them, as if they were soldiers in a war and not three teens deciding over a coin toss whether or not they should burn down the school.
Lynette flipped the coin.
Chapter Fifteen
The coin fluttered in the air, like a silver butterfly. Then, it stopped fluttering and instead, twirled in the ground.
It twirled and twirled and twirled and twirled…
Tails.
It landed on tails.
“I win.” Alina smiled.
Lisa lost.
Her very school would be burned to the ground. To ashes.
To nothingness.
Chapter Sixteen
“Alina, let’s think about this for a second. Do you really want to burn down the school?” Lisa asked.
Alina grinned even wider at the question.
“Of course! How many times do I have to tell you that this is what I want?”
“Alina, please!” Lisa pleaded.
Alina laughed and shook her head pitifully at her.
“School isn’t a “safe learning environment”. It’s a place where you get bullied, you get judged for how well you do on something, and if you don’t do it right, you’re cast out into the sha-“
Lisa didn’t know what happened. Lisa didn’t know why it happened.
She only backed away from Lynette and Alina, their heads on fire believing that it was her fault.
Chapter Seventeen
Lisa ran up the basement stairs, the one sane thing she could think of doing. The entire place was being engulfed in flames, the flickering orange monstrosities trailing behind her like feverish, frenzied ghosts.
She crawled to the floor once she made it out of the basement. Her entire vision was covered in flames. Just flames. She couldn’t see the exit. Everything was this burning inferno.
Lisa sighed heavily, desperately crawling towards the door. Her vision was getting cloudy with her tears. She couldn’t see the way out.
She didn’t even have the strength to move anymore.
Everything was fire.
Everything.
Chapter Eighteen
“Lisa? Lisa, hello? Are you okay?”
“Lisa?”
She didn’t know who was speaking to her. She didn’t want to open her eyes. She didn’t want to respond.
But she knew that she had to speak up. She had to open her eyes.
Lisa, with much difficulty, opened her eyes.
She was in some blaring, bright white room. A hospital room, she thought.
“I…not…okay.” Lisa managed to gurgle out.
Why was the light so bright? Why did she feel so hot? Couldn’t someone turn the lights off? Couldn’t someone turn down the heat?
Everything was so hot and bright…
Chapter Nineteen
What was that loud beeping noise? Why didn’t it stop? Why did it keep on be-
The sound stopped.
Lisa opened her eyes.
She was lying on her bed, staring at the ceiling, her hand on the alarm clock…
Wait.
Wasn’t she at the hospital? From the fire?
Lisa shot up from bed.
Everything was the same. Except that none of the photos that decorated her mirror had Alina or Lynette in them.
It was as if they had never existed.
But she was friends with Alina for years! She squabbled with Lynette for many more!
She looked down at her arms.
No burns.
Yet, she remembered the fire so clearly…
Chapter Twenty
Lisa walked downstairs, to the breakfast table.
There were her parents, sitting at the table, eating breakfast.
No Lynette.
It was as if she didn’t exist.
“Guys? Where is Lynette? How am I burn fr-“
“Lynette? Who is that?” Mom asked.
Lisa couldn’t believe that they were really doing this right now. This was so not cool of them.
“This isn’t funny, guys.”
Her parents exchanged a worried look.
“Sit down, honey.” Her Mom attempted to reassure.
“I don’t understand! Me, Alina, and Lyne-“
“Who is Alina?”
“My childhood friend! You guys, stop. There was this fire at my school…I started it…I’m sorr-“
“Fire? What do you mean by a fire? Lisa, are you feeling well?”
Why did Mom ask those questions? Why was Dad just looking at her?
What was going on?
Epilogue
She went to school. No signs of Lynette or Alina.
But these teens named Charlie, Elli, Maybelle, and David claimed to have been her friends for years.
She did remember them. At all. Because they never existed. Only Lynette and Alina existed.
They were in the way. They were pretending to be her friends.
She had to burn them to oblivion, just like she had accidentally burned away her dear sister and only real friend…
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