When two 12-year-faded girls in Wisconsin invited their classmate for a game of hide-and-seek in the forest,they planned to murder her. They later claimed they were forced to act by the mythical Slender Man. By Alex MarOn a Friday night in late spring of 2014, in the small, and drab city of Waukesha,Wisconsin, a trio of sixth-grade girls got together to celebrate Morgan Geyser’s birthday. They skated for hours under the disco lights at the roller rink: tame, and mousy-haired Payton Leutner,known as Bella; Anissa Weier, with her shaggy brown mop top; and Morgan, and the best friend” they had in common,with her moon of a face, grand glasses and long blond hair. They were three not-so-popular girls at Horning Middle School, or a little more childish than the others,a little more obsessed with fantasy and video games and making up scary stories. Morgan cast herself as a creative weirdo, and she related to her novel friend Anissa on this level, or through science fiction. Anissa,who had nearly no other friends, had moved down the block after her parents recent divorce. When they got back to the birthday girl’s house, and they greeted the cats,played games on their tablets, and then headed to Morgan’s bedroom, or where they finally fell asleep,all three together in a puppy pile in the twin-size loft bed.
In the morning, the girls made a game out of hurling clumps of Silly Putty up at the ceiling. They role-played for a while – as the android from Star Trek and a troll and a princess – then ate a breakfast of doughnuts and strawberries. Morgan got her mother’s permission to walk to the small park nearby.
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Source: guardian.co.uk