What Happens Now?

Author's Note: In this short essay, I wrote a prediction on what would happen if the 3:15 story continued. From my prediction, I claimed that terrible envy would approach. My prediction is very logical and something that someone would not expect. My prediction may seem very long, but it's a long prediction that will give you the chills. A new frightening, evil shadow awakens.  

Here is what I predicted:

As Cody took home the heavy golden hook of Clarence Buchanan, he stared at it, wondering how he got a gold hook. When Cody got home, he entered his house and set the hook on the table. Cody grabbed a big pot, got some water and brought it to a boil. Once the water was boiling, Cody turned around, grabbed the golden hook with a firm grasp, went back over to the pot and carefully set the hook into the boiling hot water. Immediately after Cody set the hook into the pot, he felt a burning sensation in his head. He could hear Mr. Buchanan's voice, saying, "I told you to leave my golden treasure in my coffin, buried with me!" Over and over again, Cody could hear Mr. Buchanan's voice  repeating the same phrase until Cody had enough.

About 10 minutes had passed with the continuous pain of Mr. Buchanan's voice. Finally, Cody screamed, "Enough! I'll give you your treasure back!" He turned around, grabbed a towel and carefully but quickly, grabbed the gold out of the pot. As Cody was taking the gold out of the pot, he felt that there was no point. Cody took the gold out and saw that it had been melted into a solid, brick piece of gold. It was no longer the hook of Mr. Buchanan. Cody cried out a horrendous scream and started to panic. Since Cody was to foolish to leave the hook in the gave, he now destroyed Mr. Buchanan's golden hook. From what Cody had seen and what he had done to Mr. Buchanan's hook, Cody dried off what now was a golden brick and walked out the front door of his home with the golden brick and a shovel, to do something he has never done before. Slowly walking away from his house, Cody went where he buried Mr. Buchanan, Cody took his shovel had started digging out Mr. Buchanan's coffin. Later on, Cody opened the coffin of Mr. Buchanan and looked at the golden brick one last time. Gently and ever so sweetly, Cody placed the golden brick into the coffin of Mr. Buchanan, returning the once golden hook, to a golden brick back to its rightful owner. Once the brick was placed in the coffin, Cody knelt beside Mr. Buchanan and said, "I'm so sorry Mr. Buchanan that I took your golden hook. I am the most selfish person you will ever know. I realized what my actions were and I plan to not continue on with what I have done. I am returning your gold back to you and will never again steal anything." Taking one last look at Mr. Buchanan, Cody closed the coffin door shut, sealed it and buried Mr. Buchanan once more. Cody felt a warm feeling inside of him and heard another voice. "Cody, thank you for returning my gold. I appreciate you apologizing and now my hook is safe with me. Never again will you steal from me." As happy as ever, Cody realized that Mr. Buchanan had said "hook." 'But I turned his hook into a golden brick.' Cody said to himself. As fast as possible, Cody dug out Mr. Buchanan's grave once more, opened it up and saw the golden brick. It was no brick anymore, it was turned back to Mr. Buchanan's golden hook remembering the time when Mr. Buchanan's hand got crushed. Cody felt Mr. Buchanan getting his hand back, safe and sound.

In my prediction, I predicted that Cody was going to take the hook and melt it down into a golden brick and then realize his guilt and take it back to Mr. Buchanan's coffin and put the golden brick back into the coffin and return home. My prediction was wrong. The part where Cody was going to take the hook and melt it was correct but he didn't have the chance to do it. There were distractions that prevented him from melting it. The shadow of Mr. Buchanan.

In the end, as Cody is getting multiple distractions, a terrifying monster appears that doesn't show its face. The hook is by Cody's neck, slowly making its way to the back of his collar. Once it was there, a shocking ending that no one would expect. A strong pull into complete darkness and within the coffin, the golden ring that Cody Miller had stolen in the beginning of the story was hanging on the hook of Clarence Buchanan inside the coffin.