The New Twist Ending to The Children's Story "Don't Go In"
'They can't do that!' protest Shawn. 'Maybe they can,' his mother spoke. 'And you only had one week of summer left.' 'Mother, are you kidding me!' blurted Tina. 'One more week of freedom is a huge amount!' 'Then I guess something will have to be done if kids don't learn how to stop terrifying the town. I'm going to go cook dinner.' Their mother left the room. 'Shawn, this is all my fault,' she spoke once her mother left the living room. 'Not really. It's not like you knew there was a monster.' 'Yeah but still. I can't believe that kids are this hyper. It's like they can't control themselves.' Shawn pondered that thought over dinner as they walked downstairs and sat at the dinner table. He raked his mashed potatoes with his folk and didn't touch the chicken. Only moments later he didn't want food. 'I'm not really hungry. Can I go up to my room?' he asked. His mother nodded. He sat on the edge of the bed and flipped the TV on. "In local news store owners are outraged at what appears to be children on a rampage. Parents are urged to watch their children's sugar intake during the summer season." "Mom!" yelled Shawn. His mother came into his room. "Honey, you're suppose to be resting, not watching TV." "But Mom! There's a local report on the TV about kids going crazy just like Tina said!" "I already told you, it's from all that chocolate. Lord knows how you managed to afford all that." Shawn knew that wasn't it. The monster was in all of them. Some more than others. Shawn knew what he had to do, he just hope he wouldn't get caught. Later that night... "Shawn, this is crazy. What if Mom finds out we sneak out at night?" "We'll have to take that chance. Everyone ate that chocolate has the monster in them and the monster only comes out at night." "So that means what?" asked Tina. "We've got to remove the monster from within." "How do we do that?" she asked. "We fry them!" "And you thought I was insane!" bellowed Tina. "We can't fry kids, that's crazy!" "We have to melt it out of them. And the only way we can do that is if we get them in the sun!" "And then what?" she asked. "It'll melt out of them. Man, for being the older one you don't really pay attention!" "This is too much!" she exclaimed. "Don't worry about it Sis! You just help me rally everyone up. Tomorrow it's going to solve the town's craziness!" Tina had major doubts, but she wasn't going to allow her brother to go alone. The next morning Tina and Shawn got up at the crack of down. Carefully they crept past their mother's bedroom and down the stairs. A smirk spread across Shawn's face as he saw the sun gleam off little pieces of Mica on the ground. "I'm just helping you 'cause you're my brother. This is your deal now. And for the record I still think you're nuts!" "I'm gonna be the hero!" he proclaimed. "Whatever," she replied. They started to walk downtown where they find all the ones who ate the chocolate going crazy. Like a wild pack of animals going after a piece of meat. Dumping flowers off the stands at the local flower show. Others taking the water hose and spraying each other. "Hey!" hollowed Shawn. "You guys want some candy!" Instantly they turned around and started to run towards Shawn and Tina. "We don't have any candy!" whispered Tina. "I know," he whispered back. "Where?" asked one boy once they all reached where Shawn was standing. "If you stay here for a little bit, I'll give you all a bunch of candy." "What is this, some kind of test?" snapped another boy. "Uh, yeah," stated Shawn. "Think you guys can handle it?" "Of course we can handle it you fool! All of Shawn's friends stood in the hot sun determined to prove they could handle the heat. A women walked up to Shawn. 'What are you doing to these kids?' she asked. 'Nothing ,' Shawn replied. 'I don't like the look of this.' The women proceeded to a police officer. 'Uh oh, we better do something,' stated Tina. 'What seems to be the problem officer?' Shawn asked once the officer came over. 'This women claims that your torturing the kids behind me.' 'No we're not. Their my friends and we're just playing a game.' The officer turned his head around to the kids direction. 'It looks like you're giving them sunburns.' 'Really, we're playing a game. There's nothing to be concerned about here,' Shawn insisted. 'I'm keeping my eye on you,' the officer stated. 'Shawn, this is a bad idea. We're going to get into trouble!' 'No we aren't! Give it ten more minutes!' 10 minutes later... Sweat was consuming everyone's foreheads. The children's neck and back ached from the burning sun beating down on them. "Hey man! I'm getting burned!" "How do you feel?" Shawn asked. "Annoyed! I don't want any candy! I wanna get out of this sun and now!" "Me either," every one of Shawn's friends spoke. 'Shawn, look at their skin!' shrieked Tina. Shawn looked over to see their skin was peeling a gross brown peel. 'What is that?' 'It must be the chocolate. It was burned out of them.' 'Oh my gosh! Look at those kids!' the women stated. 'Officer, Officer!' she cried. 'Shawn do something! We're going to get into trouble, hurry!' Think of something!' Shawn started to panic. 'Peel yourself!' Tina screamed. 'Yeah, peel yourself!' he stood in disbelief that he hadn't thought of that. Carefully Shawn's friends started to peel away the dead chocolate layer of skin. 'What's going on?' asked the police officer. 'Nothing sir. Some innocent fun.' The police officer looked at the dark peelings on the ground. 'Clean this up!' He then turned to the crowd that had gathered around. 'There's nothing to see here folks. Please go on with what you were doing.' "We did it!" Shawn exclaimed. "We cured them!" "I guess." "You guess! Of course we did! Now except for being all sweaty, every thing's gonna go back to normal." "I'm glad this is over. This school year is going to be a relaxing one after this summer." "Yeah, but don't forget. There's always next summer," Shawn stated. 'Don't even think about it! This was too close for me! We're never going back to that farmhouse ever again. Understand?' 'We'll see,' Shawn smirked.
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