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Red Ants (not fully complete)

December 16, 2022
By Anonymous

 In the early morning, hours before school started, Khara woke up, dressed in her school uniform, put her sneakers on, and transferred her previous homework in her bag. Now almost ready for the journey from the her house, to Mew’s, then to school, and now get her usually unready brother,

“GET UP PHON, WE HAVE TO GO” she yelled when coming out of her room,

And heard no response, after looking through the door to his room she realized he was not there and pondered where he could be, she searched around the rooms of her house, then saw Mæ̀(mom) praying at the altar

“Where is phon” 

 and as Khara walked outside she saw her brother sitting and petting the neighbor cat while recording drawing something on a notepad but as she walked closer she saw that the cat was being eaten by bright red ants, the cat looking dead as hell, its skin was melting off the bones leaving little visible bits of its little cat skeleton as it was continuously being covered by the red ants,

“EWW GET AWAY FROM THAT” Khara screamed,

her brother hastily stud up and backed away from the cat, quickly closed his notepad and cramped it in his bag,

“I was just looking at it” he said with a nervous expression on his face 

“WHY ARE YOU LOOKING AT THAT, YOU'RE GROSS” she yelled 

“I just found him like this” Phon replied

“What the flip, what ever, we have to meetup with Mew and everyone and get to school or they will leave without us” Khara said, 

So they both left and walked to Mews while Khara wondered what Phon could have been  the notebook, also feeling that something was different about him. 

As they both arrived at Mew’s house, They got on the back of Mew’s dad's small red truck with everyone else Miw, Nanno, Somchai, and Oui arriving late as usual.  Khara noticed that Phon was’nt as talkative as usual, not even making jokes, sharing what he saw with Oui and Somchai on they way to school. 

At the end of the school day they all waited for everyone to meet up by the front of school to leave but everyone but Oui diddent arrive

“Where is Oui?”, Khara do you know where he is?” Miw asked everyone

“I didn't see him in class scene he went to the bathroom this morning” Khara ancered 

Everyone realized that noone has seen him all day and he disappeared  

“You think we should look for him?” Somchai asked 

“Maybe his dad got him, I mean I saw that he had wired marks or bruises and maybe he asked to go home?” Nanno said 

“Marks?Bruises?’ Somchai questioned

“lets just go find him, we need to go” Mew said 

Everyone started to go around the school looking for , Khara went inside with Phon and Miw

“I guess you should look around the boys bathrooms” Khara said to Phon and Miw, they agreed and went to the the first bathroom, nothing,

“Lets split up y’all” Miw said

“Ok” Khara relied 

the next area, but then Phon called Khara in the closet under the school stairs

“Why inside the closet” Khara said 

“I-I found a skeleton” phon said uneasily

Khara peered inside of the closet and saw the skeleton with a school uniform on, tucked in a fetal position on the floor of the closet with the same bright red ants from the dead cat in the morning, 

“Eww, not the red ants again” Khara said               

“OWW!!!” Phon yelled as he fell on his back

“What's wrong?” Kara said with a concerned face as Phon slowly stood up, Khara noticed his hand immediately had a reaction, it swelled but in a second went back to normal “

“WHAT HAPPENED TO YOUR HAND” Khara said 

“A a-ant bit me, im fine tho, you should go get the others i'll keep watch of this” Phon said to Khara . As Khara looked around walking to where everyone usually meet up and saw some 


The author's comments:

this is about a girl in south east Asia who lives with her mom, and brother 


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