Two Friendly Witches - 1. Unexpected Visitors

by Michael De Leo

and Leyton quickly followed her. They had heard a noise. Someone was sneaking around outside their house. Who was it? What was it that was creeping around their home? They were shaking and very very frightened. Leyton was not as frightened as the two witches, so he walked over to the window to see if he could see anyone.

  The window had no curtains, and as soon as Leyton stood in front of it, he screamed and ran back to hide behind the couch with the two witches. The three of them were shaking and very, very frightened.

  “What did you see?” whispered Alicia.

  “It was an ugly monster,” Leyton whispered back. “The monster was coming towards me and when I started running towards the couch, I saw the monster run off.”

  Everything was quiet except for the chattering of Leyton’s teeth. Ten minutes had passed since he had joined the two witches behind the couch. He was still horrified at seeing the monster outside the window. Leyton whispered that what he had seen through the window was so horrible that he was certain that it would eat them all up.

  Phoebe tried to persuade Alicia to creep up to the window to see if the monster was still there.

  “Do you think I am crazy?” Alicia remarked. “You go!” She added.

  They then started fighting amongst themselves and each tried to push the other towards the window.

  “Stop it!” Leyton said. “I will go again.”

  His legs were shaking, and his teeth were still chattering as he peeked around the couch to look towards the window. On his hands and knees, he then crawled towards the window. He eventually reached the window and now had to stand to look outside. He was frightened. He raised his head slowly, and as he was doing this, he felt something warm running down his legs. Leyton was so frightened that without realising it he had wet his pants. He continued to raise his head so he could see outside.

  Leyton suddenly bolted back towards the couch, let out a shriek and started shouting that the monster had got him. The two witches had to hold him down to stop him waving his hands and feet all over the place. He continued screaming and shouting. “The monster got me! Please help me! Don’t let the monster eat me up.”

  Alicia and Phoebe tried frantically to calm Leyton down. He continued to kick his legs uncontrollably and accidently kicked Phoebe in the mouth. Phoebe realized that it was an accident and although in great pain, just laughed. Alicia also laughed and then so did Leyton.

  All of a sudden they remembered that whatever frightened Leyton was still out there. This caused them to huddle together again and shake with fear.

  Alicia then quietly asked Leyton to try to describe what he had seen. At the thought of this Leyton once again started to kick his legs wildly and at the same time covering his eyes with his hands.

  “I don’t want to think about it!” he shouted.

  “There, there,” Phoebe said calmly. “Don’t be afraid, we will not let the monster get you, but we need to know if the monster is someone we know. Please try and tell us what he looks like.”

  Leyton sat up and with a terrified look began to describe what he had seen. As he did so, tears streamed down his face.

  “The monster is ugly and horrible,” he said shaking uncontrollably. “He has a plain face, with two small eyes, a little nose, a little mouth, two small ears and a thick crop of neat hair on his head,” he added.

  The two witches agreed that the monster that Leyton had just described was truly creepy and neither of them wanted to ever come in contact with him.

  “A plain face, two small eyes, a little nose, a little mouth, two ears and a thick crop of neat hair on his head,” repeated Alicia. “He sure is a horror!” she added.

  All was quiet for several minutes then Phoebe burst out into uncontrollable laughter.

  “Why are you laughing?” Alicia shouted. “Here we are, about to be eaten up by a monster and all you can do is laugh!” Alicia added.

  Phoebe then laughed louder. She grabbed Leyton by the hand and dragged him towards the window. Leyton covered his eyes not wanting to see what he had seen before. Alicia was close behind, and all of a sudden also burst out into uncontrollable laughter. Leyton slowly uncovered his eyes and looking towards the window immediately realised what had caused them to laugh. What Leyton had seen outside the window was his own reflection.

  As ugly as he looked, Leyton was certainly not a monster and then also burst out into uncontrollable laughter and started rolling backwards and forwards on the floor.

  “I am such a silly duffer!” he shouted over and over.

  As Leyton rolled on the floor, he hit the table and a heavy glass vase rolled off and landed on his head. The vase knocked him out for several minutes.

  When he came to, he saw two scary witches looking down at him. At the sight of these two witches, he screamed with fright and fainted. When he came to, he screamed and fainted again. For the third time, he came to, screamed and fainted.

  What had happened, was that when the vase rolled off the table and hit him on the head, it caused his memory to return and the sight of the witches horrified him. For the fourth time, he came to, sighted the witches, screamed and fainted once again.

  The witches could not understand what was happening. Alicia slapped his face gently to try to bring him to his senses. This did not work. Leyton just kept coming to, screaming and fainting over and over.

  While all this was going on, Leyton’s friend Blake had sneaked into the house through an open window in one of the bedrooms. Blake had returned to rescue his friend Leyton. Although Blake had earlier run off, he was really an incredibly brave young boy. Here he now was determined not to leave without Leyton.

  Blake rushed into the room and started shouting nonstop as he ran backwards and forwards in front of the witches.

  “Out of my way! Out of my way!” He shouted over and over, hoping that this would startle the witches so as to give him sufficient time to escape with Leyton.

  While this was going on, Alicia looked at Phoebe, at the same time indicating with her circling finger to her head that this young boy was obviously a little bit crazy.

  Phoebe stood up, walked towards Blake and calmly said, “Boo!” This caused Blake to faint.

  When he came to, he continued to shout. “Out of my way! Out of my way!”

  Phoebe looked at him and calmly repeated. “Boo!” Blake fainted once again, and this continued happening over and over.

  Eventually, the boys were completely exhausted, and they went into a deep sleep. Alicia and Phoebe tried to wake them by gently shaking them, but they were way too tired to feel anything.

  Suddenly, Phoebe turned her head towards the door. “Someone is knocking at the door,” she said. They immediately knew who it was. There was only one person who visited them. It was constable Bob, the police officer from the village.

  They were both very excited to see their friend Bob and they rushed to the door to greet him.

  “Hello constable Bob, come in,” Alicia said excitedly.

  “Hello, my lovelies,” constable Bob responded.

  Constable Bob looked like all the other people of the little town and Alicia, and Phoebe felt sorry for him, but they were careful to make sure that he didn’t notice. After all, it wasn’t his fault that he wasn’t as beautiful as them.

  As they walked inside, constable Bob saw the two boys sleeping soundly and said “Hello! Hello! Hello! what are Blake and Leyton doing here?” Constable Bob knew the boys because, as the town's police officer, he made sure that he knew everyone who lived in the town.

  Alicia and Phoebe explained how it came about that they were here. They started from the time that the boys were seen kicking the ball. The explanation should have taken no more than 5 minutes but as unbelievable as it may sound, fifty-five minutes later, Alicia and Phoebe were still telling constable Bob what had happened.

  So engrossed were they with their explanation t
hat they had not noticed that constable Bob had fallen asleep sitting up on the couch. As they talked, they were also waving their arms and unfortunately for the constable, Alicia accidentally hit him in the face. The hit was quite hard and it caused him to wake up with a start.

  When constable Bob realized that they were still explaining what had happened, he shouted, “Enough! Enough! I don’t want to hear another word! The boys live in the house next to the school, so I will take them home.”

  Constable Bob picked up the still sleeping boys one at a time and took them to his car. He then turned to Alicia and Phoebe and with a warm smile said, “See you in a couple of days.” Noticing their concerned looks, the constable added, “Don’t worry, I will make sure that they get home safely.”

  Constable Bob was about to drive off when Alicia rushed out waving at him to wait. “Constable Bob, how rude of us, you can’t go away empty handed. Please take this,” She said. It was a jar of cockroaches. Constable Bob took the jar, smiled and waved as he drove off.

  Blake and Leyton remained in a deep sleep until later that evening. They stirred briefly but then turned over and