Summary Of The Scary Story

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The Scary Story One day Luke, Jr. was driving home from basketball tryouts and was listening to music in his car. The breaking news came over the radio and it was about someone is on a killing spree in his neighborhood. Luke lives in Thousand Oaks, California, a wealthy neighborhood. His parents, Cynthia and Luke Sr., are famous. When Luke arrived home, he immediately notified his parents about what he had heard on the news. Luke’s parents told him not to worry that they have guns in their closet and to go ahead and watch TV. Once he turned on the TV, he couldn't get any reception. It was just static on the TV screen. He noticed that there was a little white figure at the top of the TV screen that seemed to be getting closer and closer to him. The closer it got to him, he could actually start to see the color of the hair and it was black. He also noticed that it was a female. He could see her face, body, hands, and eyes. …show more content…

His parents told him it was a joke that one of his brothers were playing on him. So Luke went upstairs to his brother’s room to see if they were playing a joke on him, but they were heavily involved in playing “Madden 17” and had no idea what he was talking about. Luke Jr. asked them to come down to the living room and look at the TV to see what he was seeing. They didn't know what he was talking about. They were completely confused about what was going

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