The Abnormal House; by Jillian

I was walking at the beach with my friend and her family. I felt the sand slipping through my feet as we walked towards Sills Gully.

We finally stopped to watch the sunset. My feet ached from stepping on pointy rocks. A group of bats swooped down from above the bluff (for it was at least 7:00.) 

I noticed smoke, a large gray box and a pile of bricks on top of the bluff. It was really a large gray house with an old brick chimney, but the smoke? Smoke was coming out of the chimney even though it was summer. I wonder what was burning in the fireplace.

The house looked very old. I pointed to it. My friend looked at me, then to where I was pointing. She looked at me like I was crazy but she knew she saw what I saw.

There were absolutely no lights on but I saw out of the corner of my eye a person in the window. My friend saw it too because she said  ”did you see that?”

 It was now chilly out and the moon was up so we all decided to leave. I took one last look at the house. There was no smoke and no person. Was I seeing things? Why didn’t anyone else see it besides my friend? I will never know.