Out of Control

You're walking down the street on a bright yet cloudy day. You turn a corner and come across a warehouse you've never seen before. You notice that its *[[curtain door is open]]*.

You look inside and see two kids your age are hanging out with one of the employees of the place. You walk in and the others welcome you into their [[conversation]].

You join in. The employee was just bringing up how they got new shipments earlier that day. He gestures to some large boxes that he then carves open. Inside are [[deflated balloons]].

"That's weird," he says. "We've never had something like this come before." He pulls out a few balloons and notices that they are shaped as random cartoon characters. "Hey, do you kids want these?" he asks. [[❒ "Totally!"]] [[❒ "No, it's okay!"]] [[❒ "For how much?"]]

You run over with the other excited kids. Each of you reach in and grab a random balloon. You watch the other kids blow up their balloons first. "I got Tweety!", one says. "Mine is Spider-man!" said the other. "What is yours?" You blow up your [[balloon]].

The other kids run over to the boxes immediately. One of them comes up to me after grabbing two balloons and says, "C'mon. You don't want to miss out on this. Free balloons!" "Blow it up!" yells the other in excitement. [[❒ "Do I have to?"]] [[❒ "How about you blow into it?"]] [[❒ "Alright. Alright."]]

"You can have them for free," he said. "Here, have one." He handed me a very wrinkly balloon. I couldn't make out what character it was supposed to be, so I blew into it. I notice that the other kids got happy characters from Looney Tunes and Marvel, but mine is strange for a balloon. [[❒ "Anyone want to trade?"]] [[❒ "This is new."]] [[❒ "Do you guys see this?"]]

"Ummm... mine is Slimer from Ghostbusters," I say. "That's pretty random." Suddenly, you felt your balloon move. "What the heck." [[It moves again]].

"No, we don't even know who that is," one of the kids say. "That's Slimer from Ghostbusters," says the employee. I raise it up and say, "Oh yeah," and then I notice its eyes look towards me... "Uh. Did anyone else see that?" I ask. "See what?" the employee asks. Suddenly, Slimer moves again [[by itself]].

"I don't think I've ever seen a Ghostbusters balloon before," I say. "What kind of party would need a Slimer balloon? It's pretty far from Halloween." Just as I'm saying this, one of the kids point out that they saw it blink. "Yeah, right," I say while holding the balloon up. Suddenly, it moves [[by itself]].

"Mine is Slimer from Ghostbusters," I say. "I used to love that character. I would try to make as ugly as a face as his." I raise the balloon next to my face and make a goofy smile. "Do I look like him?" Everyone else looks stunned. "What? You look like you've seen a ghost," I laughed. [[Slimer laughed too]].

"Just do it," says the kid. I didn't like the look of the mouth piece. Plus, I was just handed this by complete strangers and just got put in a situation where I have to put something in my mouth... [[❒ "How about you blow into it?"]]

"I'll do it," says the employee. He blows into it and hands it back. "Look, you got Slimer from Ghostbusters." "Alright then," I say, half-interested in the balloon. All of a sudden, the balloon started tossing back and forth [[by itself]].

You look at the mouth piece questionably, but blow air into it anyway. After tying the end, you see that yours has Slimer from Ghostbusters. "Uh, why would someone want him on a balloon?" Suddenly, it moved [[by itself]].

"Cool!!!!" yells one of the kids. "He's real!" I let go of my balloon and Slimer just starts flying all over the room. They start chasing the ghost, but I am completely freaked out by it. At the same time I see the employee shutting the curtain door of the warehouse, but I do not want to stay here. I bolt out the door and run to *[[my house]]*.

"What's happening???" I ask while letting go of the balloon. It starts flying all over the room and knocking things down. We all break out running, but soon they split up away from me. Slimer had decided to target me! I had to get out of there. I head towards the door and run straight towards *[[my house]]*.

As I'm getting close to my house, I turn my head back and saw what I was fearing most. Slimer managed to also escape the warehouse and was not too far behind me. I'm frantically trying to pull out my keys. I look up and see my sister through the living room window and figure she can just [[let me in]].

I turn my head to face the balloon. Slimers eyes looked directly at mine. I immediately let go of it while screaming. "It's moving [[by itself]]!"

"What's wrong with you?" she yelled at me. "That's what's wrong!" I say while pointing my finger to Slimer still flying towards me through the window. "What is that? And WHY did you bring it here?" she yelled louder. [[❒ "There's no time to explain!"]] [[❒ "I had no choice!"]] [[❒ "Doesn't matter. Let's hide!"]]

"We have to go get Mom and Dad and hide!" I shout. "Are they here?" "Yeah," she says, looking very confused about what's going on. "Then let's go!" We both run through the hallway and into our *[[parents' room]]*.

"A balloon turned into a ghost and started chasing me, okay? There was barely time to think. All I know is that we have to hide from that thing." She looks very confused. "Mom and Dad aren't going to believe this," she says. "Are they here? We have to tell them! Let's go!" I grab her by the hand and pull her to our *[[parents' room]]*.

"You have to tell me something!" she shouted. "What's going on there?" we hear from the other side of the house. "I'll tell all of you what's going on. We just have to hurry," I say. I pull her hand and run to our *[[parents' room]]*.

Here, we find our dad watching t.v and our mom working on her laptop. "Was that you banging like a lunatic outside?" my mom asked. "Look, I was chased here and I think our lives are in danger," I say very seriously. They were not expecting to hear that. Both got up and reached for me and my sister. For a second I feel comforted, but that doesn't last long as I see Slimer outside [[my parent's window]].

"What is that?" my dad cried. "That's what followed you?" my mom adds. Slimer smiled harder then flew straight upwards. "Now where is he going?" my dad asked. [[❒ "We need to worry about where we should be going!"]] [[❒ "I don't know. Maybe he just wanted to scare us and leave."]] [[❒ "As long as it's away from me, I'm happy."]]

"You're right," my mom said. "We need to leave." She led us all towards the garage where we each got in the car. She turned it on, took a deep breath, and opened the garage door. Sure enough, [[Slimer was there]].

"Yeah, I don't think so!" my sister cried. "He is for sure coming right back." "If he is, then all of you need to go and hide in the garage," my dad said. "I'm going to stay here waiting for him." "C'mon, kids. Let's go lock ourselves in the car," my mom followed. I didn't like leaving my dad behind at all, but my mom, sister and I headed to the *[[garage]]*.

"I don't think he'll stay away. All of you need to go and hide in the garage," my dad said. "I'm going to stay here waiting for him." "No way," my mom said. "We have to stick together. C'mon. Let's all go and lock ourselves in the car," my mom replied. It looked like my dad knew that there was no time to resist, so we all headed to *[[the garage]]*.

We head inside and lock ourselves in the car. I feel like it's not going to do any good because it's a ghost we're hinding from. After waiting a minute or two, I can't help but wonder what is happening in the house. I start to really [[worry about my dad]].

We opened the door into the dark room. I was the first one to step inside, so I flicked the light switch. "SURPRISE!!!" a huge group of people in party hats [[shouted]].

My dad turns on the vaccum on his back and that makes Slimer turn around right away. It is no use for it to try to escape because my dad is able to suck that ghost right into his machine. As soon as it is entirely sucked inside, my dad turns it off. Unlocking the car, my mom runs to him and gives him a [[tight hug]].

I bang on the door like a madman. After waiting a few seconds I yell, "TAKE YOUR TIME, SUNRISE!" She finally opens it and I shove my way *[[inside]]*.

As if she hadn't just taken a moment to relax, my mom yelled at the top of her lungs at sped into the ghost. To all of our surprise, that made Slimer bounce off and fly miles away. All of us looked at each other then straight forward again. "I let you go out alone one time and this happens?!? You're never going out on your own again."

"Maybe we shouldn't have lef--" I start to say when my dad came bursting into the garage. He was wearing some large vacuum-like machine on his back and was pointing it to Slimer [[behind him]].

"What did you just use?" I asked. "It's just a leaf blower put in reverse! Can you believe that? I figured that I had to do what the Ghostbusters did. It was the only thing I could think of," he said. "I can't believe that worked," replied my sister. "That's crazy. I feel like I have seen it all today."

I've never been more shocked in my life. "What's going on?" I ask with a very shocked face. "Remember how you said the other day that you've never had a surprise party thrown before?" my sister said with a proud smile. "Are you serious...," I say upset. "Now you've had the craziest surprise party of your life. You're welcome."