English Assignment: A Narrative Short Story - Creepy House Mystery

This English narrative short story, titled 'Mystery of the Creepy House,' follows Cynthia, a 17-year-old student, and her friends Amanda and John as they move into a new house with a creepy history. The story unfolds with a series of mysterious events, including a sudden power outage, John's strange behavior, and a chilling encounter at a nearby abandoned house. Cynthia experiences a terrifying prank orchestrated by her friends, revealing the mystery behind the creepy house. The narrative explores themes of friendship, fear, and the power of imagination, using descriptive language and suspenseful plot elements to engage the reader. The story also includes references to books and journals about short story writing and its impact on students.

ENGLISH NARRATIVE :
SHORT STORY

Mystery of the creepy house (1000 words)
My name is Cynthia, I have had some of the most thrilling and horrific experiences in my
student life. It was 2013, I was 17 years old. My life was going very smoothly, as I was good in
studies and also participating in my school's women basket ball team. I had two best friends
named Amanda and John. Everything was going very smoothly in our lives. In the month of
September, we decided to move in a new house. It was in the outskirts of the city was located in
a very widely spread society. The house we moved into had a beautiful garden, it was very well-
built. I was very excited to move in this house. As soon as we settled in I invited my friends over
the very next day for a small party. It was just a small pizza party. My mum and dad went out for
dinner for celebrating their anniversary (Hasanah, 2019). While we were enjoying our pizza.
Suddenly the lights went out, and panic started flowing through our veins. It was night
without any moon and the lights didn't seem to return any soon. John asked me “ Hey Cynthia
what sup with the lights” I told him, “May be, the fuse behind the house is not right”. In between
of two ladies John wanted to prove himself a bit brave, He said to us, “ Don't you worry, I'll get
the light back as soon as possible”. It was a dark scary night full of silence, John went in the
back yard of the house with a little confidence.
After a long wait of like 30 minutes we were asking each other why isn't John back yet.
Amanda said lets go and check him. We had a single torch because the other one was with John.
As we reached the John had already gone. Then what we saw was a little disturbing to the eyes.
The house behind us where no one lived had lights coming out of it. Even I was shocked and
was staring at that house. Amanda asked me “where do you think John is”, I said “ I have no
clue, Lets get back in the house, its too dark out here.” So without John we went back to our
house. It was surprising for us to see that the lights were back. John was sitting on the couch
having pizza. We were relieved but as we found John, but the question was how was he back
before us. He was behaving little weird, definitely something was wrong. Just then the door bell
rang, I was a little confused and worried as who could it be.
The gates opened I saw my father, He said their plans got changed, so they returned. Few
moments late Amanda said we will be leaving, John didn't say a word and towards the door he
started moving. I knew something was wrong with him, but I was not so sure before he had
opened the door. At the last moment he looked at me with a weird and creepy smile, at that point

I knew something isn't right. I was unable to sleep the whole dam night, his creepy smile kept
popping in front of my eyes.
The next morning I was feeling very sleepy but I couldn't miss the school. The surprising
fact was John did not come to school. We discussed a little about this fact, John not coming and
behaving differently was giving me all kinds of anxiety. Amanda, however was not affected by
this and was trying to avoid such conversations. After the school I for some reason decided to
come from a different route. In this route the creepy house which was visible from my backyard
came in the way. That place felt a bit weird and I could feel the chill of that place. It can be
because it was old house closed for a long time (Huda and Doyin, 2019). While, I was walking
past the house I saw my heard someone shout my name. I ignored it, though maybe it were my
thoughts disturbing me. Once again someone shouted my name, Cynthiaaa...
I got scared, but I knew this sound was coming from within the house. I decided to knock
the door. As I was going to knock moments before me hands touching the gate, I opened
automatically. This left me in shock, and I saw someone sitting on a chair. The persons face was
towards the other side. So I was not able to see who it was. Slowly, I started approaching the
person sitting on the chair. The closer I got more familiar he looked. Once I was their, I
recognized who it was, Johnn! I screamed. I couldn't believe that he was over here. He was
unconscious, so I used some water I had in my bag to wake him up. As soon as he woke up, He
looked very shocked. Wondering and asking were I am, After a while she said lets go, I will give
you some medicines. John say, “No I cannot leave. I wanted this to end like this.”
I was completely shocked to what I heard. Very slowly I started taking a few steps
backward. Just before I could reach the gate. The gate closed very hardly, this scared the hell out
of me. I was crying, due to fear I was covering myself with my bad. Then John got up and started
walking towards me. He said, “its time I took my revenge”. The closer he got I started having
goosebumps and shivering. I cried and requested him to leave me alone. Right before he was
about to launch an attack on me, I closed my eyes. In my mind I though I'll die, but 10 to 20
seconds passed by and nothing happened. So I opened my eyes, I saw Amanda and John standing
in front of me. I asked them are you guys dead as well. They started laughing, and gave me a hug
as nothing had happened. It took me 10 mins to realize that I was pranked with my friends in the
worst way possible. I was so mad at them I didn't talk to them for a couple of days. This was how
the mystery of creepy house was solved (Puspitasari, Karyati and Ningsih, 2019).

REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Hasanah, N., 2019. The Influence of Short Story on Students Writing Skill at Eight Grade of
SMP N 4 Sekampung East Lampung (Doctoral dissertation, IAIN Metro).
Huda, M.M. and Doyin, M., 2019. Short Story Text Writing Learning by Creative-Productive
Model based on Verbal Creativity of Eleventh Graders of VHS. Seloka: Jurnal
Pendidikan Bahasa dan Sastra Indonesia. 8(2). pp.32-38.
Puspitasari, A.C.D.D., Karyati, Z. and Ningsih, R., 2019. RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN
SOCIAL INTERACTION ABILITY AND WRITING SHORT STORY
ABILITY. Hortatori: Jurnal Pendidikan Bahasa dan Sastra Indonesia. 3(2). pp.100-
103.