Strangers In The Dumpster-Original Writing

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“Hey did you guys hear that,” whispered Gilbert. Kris, Arnold, Gilbert, and I heard a loud screech. We all thought that there was a cat probably outside, so we did not pay that much attention to it. It was about 6:30 PM, and we were home alone using our phones and cachinnating in my room.
Like about twenty minutes later, we heard a holler. It was getting weird because we heard it close and all of us were petrified except for Gilbert, and he was not scared at all. We thought that it was him because he was just was just cracking up. We all calmed down, and we kept on talking and laughing. It was midnight, and we heard a loud cry in the attic. This time all of us were panicking because it was not a cat, or Gilbert it sounded like a girl suffering

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