Bobby's Troubles: A Narrative Fiction

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Bobby was heading to his job for the day and heard a girl scream behind the building. His partners, Molly and Dave, heard the scream to and headed to the back of the building. Molly saw Bobby and said “did you hear that to.” Bobby replied and said “yeah, I heard it in my car while I was coming.” All three of them searched around and didn’t find anything. Bobby’s job was to go to haunted houses. They only go if the house owner reported it to them. Dave said “let's just go back to work and see if we got any complaints.” They all approached the building and went back to work. As usual Bobby went home and prepared dinner for himself and did some work, then he slept. The next day he made breakfast and searched for his car keys. He finally found …show more content…
The next day I had to go back to work in a sad and gloomy mood and got up and approached my work. My manager stopped me while I was on the way to my desk and said “do you know what had happened to Dave.” I replied and said “no sir, I have know idea of what had happened to him.” The manager said that “Dave had killed himself and something had gotten into his brain, his wife also said that he was acting weird while at home.” I said “this is not what I had heard from Molly because she said someone killed him.” The manager said that “the police wouldn’t say anything so they just told her the wrong news.” I said that is horrible to let them lie to us about someone that works with us and is our friend. Later on today we got a call from Dave’s wife and she said that weird things had been going on in her house and she thinks that’s why Dave had killed himself. I asked her “did Dave go anywhere recently and do you know where.” She said “yes he went somewhere, but he didn’t tell me where he was going but he wrote down an address on a piece of paper.” I told her i’ll call you back in a little.” I discussed this with Molly and my

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