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Modern Story “I will allow you to go to over Mackenzie’s sleepover as long as you promise to watch PG-13 or younger”, my mom yell up the base of the stairs from the kitchen. “Yes, sure mom. Fine”, I say desperately trying to get her off my back, “what else would we watch anyway, it’s not like we would even know what’s going on in an R rated movie anyway.” “I’m serious Samantha. You’re much too young to be watching those kinds of movies.” I looked at her innocently and smiled without being too disrespectful as I descended down the staircase. I sling my pink duffle bag over my shoulder and head out to the minivan. I open the door to the front seat, slide in, and pull out my phone carefully typing the address into the Waze address …show more content…

My face falls, “isn’t that R rated? We can’t watch that.” “You can when your parents are upstairs and you have the Netflix password,”’ she chuckles, “why you scared?, she mocks. “Uh…no I just don’t want to get into any trouble.” “You won’t, trust me it’ll be fine,” she leads me to the couch and we sit down, shoving popcorn into our mouths as we stare at the screen. My body clenches as Carolyn walks into the dark room alone, ominous music plays in the background. I turn and close my heads before I can see the rest, but I can hear her pitchy scream the whole time. That night, the movie plays over and over in my head and the darkness in the room scares me even more. I turn on the flashlight on my phone and sleep with it on under the cover of my sleeping bag, protecting me from the creatures of the night who plague my dreams. Without much time left in the morning to hang out, my mom comes to pick me up. I’m still not myself yet, but luckily she doesn’t say anything until later than night when I climb into bed with her, scarred of the nightmares to come. “You watched one didn’t you,” she says sleepily when she notices my presence in the

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