I was going to start the X-Files episode recaps Saturday night but, unfortunately, didn't get a chance to. So I will be starting them tomorrow instead. I'd like to do them Monday, Wednesday and Saturday but I'll just have to see how it goes. If that is too much I will at least aim for Mondays and Fridays.
I'm also reading Dracula by Bram Stoker and doing some tweets of my thoughts. I have read it before (a lot) but it has been a while so most of my thoughts will be fresh coming to it. If you'd like to follow along my Twitter account name is : https://twitter.com/GraceKimball5 (PickingOnStuff@GraceKimball5 if the link doesn't work).
Anyways, on with The Locker!
Last Week:
Marlee made a friend and got assigned a locker that blew death-breath in her face when she opened it. She also heard screams and felt like she was being strangled to death. I've never understood that expression. For instance, I've never heard of anyone being strangled to life. But I digress.
Chapter Three:
Marlee come back slowly from The Dead Zone, understandably a little freaked. She almost faints and realizes that it isn't her new friend Noreen holding her up but Hunky Tyler. For some reason, in the midst of her freaking out she notices a mole behind Noreen's ear, Noreen's shoelace, Tyler's possibly formerly broken pinky and a faded scar on his wrist (more proof that Tyler's emo). None of which really means anything but Marlee being about to faint. They talk a bit about her going to the school nurse even though Marlee insists she's ok, even though she really, really feels like crying. Funnily enough, Tyler actually believes her and they go outside to get some fresh air.
We get a little hint that something like this has happened before to Marlee. The vision, I mean. Noreen starts babbling to try to make Marlee feel better. Marlee appreciates it and attributes her nausea to the smell coming from her locker. Tyler and Noreen exchange Meaningful! looks. Marlee tries to laugh it off but they're still staring at her. Which has got to be a little awkward.
Anywho, Noreen says she didn't smell anything and Marlee insists that there's no way she could have missed it. So they all go back into the school to check it out. Tyler takes a sniff and makes a hilarious joke about "the gym socks that wouldn't die!"
Noreen scolds him for it and then they all take turns sniffing The Locker. Which has got to look a little weird. And apparently no one notices these kids aren't in class yet.
Anywhat, they talk a little bit more about the smell and Tyler theorizes that maybe the smell came from the nearby Biology lab. Noreen tells a fascinating story about a friend of hers that walked by the lab and fainted on a goldfish bowl and got cut. Tyler makes a lovely (sarcasm) joke about the poor fish that got squashed because she was a 'heavy' girl. Nice, Tyler.
To drop the subject Marlee agrees that the smell could have come from the lab even though she knows it didn't. Noreen frets a bit about gas leaks and Tyler makes a joke about anything being possible. Like him turning into a werewolf and running around naked looking for a vet. Don't get excited. No werewolves. Noreen makes a joke about Tyler's naked-ity giving her nightmares. After he leaves, however, she says he looks pretty damn good. Well, then.
Anywhere, Marlee suggests they get to class and Noreen talks up Tyler some more and tells that she knows he looks good because she caught him skinny-dipping with a bunch of guys at the cabin. Huh. Marlee's not really listening, however, because she can't stop staring at The Locker. But, she does thank Noreen for not laughing at her and thinking she's a freak.
Marlee thinks that maybe the last person to use the locker left something nasty in it and Noreen is oddly specific on when that particular locker was last used. Marlee wants to know what the deal is. Noreen doesn't really want to say but it turns out that The Locker had last been used by a girl named Suellen Downing who disappeared the previous fall. No one has used it since then. Dun dun dunnn!
End of Chapter
Good cliffhanger and we'll find out more next week. What could Marlee be talking about, I wonder?
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