Shirley is a 6th grade teacher at PDS. In all of her twenty years of teaching there, she had never experienced such a weird and confusing night. It all began on October 10th at the class sleepover to celebrate Tori’s eleventh birthday.Tori was so excited about the class celebration at school that she couldn’t even talk. Finally, it was her birthday! She was on her way to get her sleeping bag from her locker when she saw her friend Anna. Tori took out her purple, waterproof sleeping bag, and plopped it down right next to Stella’s. Looking out in the learning commons, she saw her vanilla frosted cake. Yum! There was a  black, hairy spider next to it! Gross! Tori turned away, and started to talk to Stella.

“Can I please get a drink of water?” Tori asked her teacher. She went skipping through the hallway to the water fountain. While she was drinking, she felt a pinch on her neck.
“There’s that spider again!” She said out loud. Tori started to hear footsteps in the hallway, it was Petra.
“Hi Tori!” Petra said, and then her mouth dropped open.
“What? Why are you staring at me?” Tori questioned.
Slowly, Tori’s hands were turning transparent, and then Tori was gone. All that was left where Tori was standing, was a black, hairy spider.

Meanwhile, Anna was at her locker. She very excited to start the class sleepover. She opened her locker, looked in her mirror and saw her freckled filled face and straight long red-hair. Anna smelled of freshly cut grass and roses. On her locker whiteboard was written, Anna’s Locker, Future Female Naturalist! Anna got her green flower-print sleeping bag from her locker and then put it on the floor in the corner of the classroom. Everyone was thrilled about the party, bouncing off the walls.

“Look, a spider!” Anna blurted out. Anna pointed at the wall, but the hairy black spider had already disappeared.
“Don’t you have illusions?” Sam asked.
“How do you know it wasn’t just a vision?” Ella questioned.
“I’m not sure,”Anna replied.
Embarrassed, she sat down on her sleeping bag “Anywho, where’s Tori?” Anna asked eager to change the subject. No one answered. Anna heard a noise from above her. She saw a big spider coming down from the ceiling straight toward her. The spider dropped down and bit her on the ear, she started seeing weird things

Amelia walked by Anna. Anna was carrying her sleeping bag. “Hi!” Anna said. Amelia didn’t reply. She walked right by her, not caring.

Amelia was stressing out because she had forgotten to bring her sleeping bag to the party. She went to Shirley and asked, “Can I go call my dad to bring over my sleeping bag? I forgot it.”
“Sure, go ahead.” Shirley replied. Amelia walked into the hallway. She took out her phone and dialed her house number. As the phone rang, she felt a something crawling on her arm. She brushed it off, and when she looked at what it was, she saw that it was a hairy black spider.
“Ew ew ew ew ew ew!” She screamed. “GROSS!” Amelia waited in the hallway for her dad to arrive. While she waited, she went to the bathroom to fix herself up. She took out her brush and started brushing her wavy brown hair. Amelia put on her purple eyeshadow. It brought out her hazel gleaming eyes. She was Jealous that all she got last week for her birthday were cupcakes and Tori got a sleepover. Amelia stood there longing for the days when her mother was alive. Her mother was always singing and her father was always happy with her around. Not everyone liked Amelia, some people thought she was stuck up. Others thought she was really cool.

In fifteen minutes, Amelia’s father had dropped off her sleeping bag. He gave her a kiss on her head and walked away without a word. Amelia headed back to the learning commons. She put her sleeping bag down and headed over to Rebecca, Charlotte, and Molly.
“Hi,” she said.
“I wonder where Amelia is?” Rebecca questioned.
“I’m right here!” Amelia shouted with frustration.
Slowly, The memories everyone had of Amelia, started to drift away. None remembered Amelia any more.
“Who’s Amelia?” Charlotte asked.
“I, don’t know,” Rebecca replied.
“What? Guys, stop it!” Amelia was so confused and scared. She touched Molly.
Molly shivered. “Wow! Someone just walked over my grave.”
“Guys! This is NOT funny!” Amelia was close to tears. She walked over to her sleeping bag and took out her mirror. And she couldn’t see herself. And no one would ever see her again.

As Curt came into the classroom in his football pajamas, with his football shaped pillow, he spotted his best friend Julian lazing around and playing on his Mac book pro.
“This party is soooo boring,” said Julian in a long drowsy sigh.
“Dude, chill out the party hasn’t even started yet!” Curt argued.
Julian picked himself up and told Curt, “Let’s go to your locker. I can’t take this party anymore!”
“Guys, put a sock in it!” grumbled James indignantly.
“O my Gosh, that guy is annoying, and negative. ” said Curt, and followed Julian out of the learning commons to his locker.  As the two boys walked through the rooms, they heard clips of their classmates rumored conversation like,
“I wonder where the girls went,” and
“ Where’s Amelia, she wanted to play a game!”
“ Just a sec, I gotta go to my locker!” said Julian all of sudden, and he rushed into the the hallway.
“Fine,” muttered Curt under his breath. Then, Curt spotted a small black spider crawling up his arm.
“What . . . OWWWW,” Curt felt a burning sensation in his stomach. It felt like it was shrinking. POOF! He was turned into a book! His least favorite things in the world. Julian came running up to the small red book on the floor.
“I HATE BOOKS!” Shouted Julian, “Hmmm, I wonder where Curt went?”
Julian put the book back in a bookcase, then went off to the party to find his friend.

Jake went to get a drink of water. he didn’t really like being at the party but it was better than anything else he was going to do today. As he walked he remembered the people that had disappeared like, Amelia, Anna, Tori, and Curt.  It was kind of scary.  But he took no notice. He was a boy of the age of eleven, his blue eyes looked like the sea, his brown hair like chocolate, he was about 5 feet tall. And he had a scar on his upper left arm. It was from when he and his dad went to Costa Rica, they were attacked by a snake hidden under a rock. His father died that day so now he lives with his mom. When he got to the water fountain he began to drink. When he finished the spider crawled out of the vent in the side and slid down his neck. He felt a sting and then he started to foam at the mouth. In a moment he dropped dead… never to be seen again.

Shirley got the class together to have a quick meeting, after dinner. Then she counted how many people were in the class.
“11” Shirley said out loud. “11? Hm…Yeah I guess that sounds about right…” Shirley said, trying to remember if there were supposed to be more kids than just 11….

Slowly, the memories of all of the missing kids faded away. The class of 16 turned into the class of 11. “Goodnight everyone!” The children would say as they laid their heads down on their pillows.
The remainder of the class tried to fall asleep as the hairy black spider peered down, looking for it’s next victim…