Kelsi Beeman

4th Hour

English 3

19 April 2018

Alexa Gone Awry

“Are we there yet?” nine year old Vivian yells from the backseat of the car, about an hour

into the drive.

“Not yet, just go to sleep and we will be there in no time” her mother, Heather, who just

turned 32 answers. The Bakers were headed to Telluride, Colorado for a vacation in the

mountains, they live in Norman, Oklahoma so it is around a 14 hour drive. They are staying in a

nice cabin with not many people around so they will have quiet, quality family time together.

Time passes quickly before they realize how close they are. The three kids were starting to get

cranky and fight about all the little things. “Kids quiet down now, we’re almost there.” Bradley,

34 year old father, says calmly to his kids. Along with Vivian in the back seat is her sister

Harper, who is only seven years old and their older brother Conner, who is eleven.

They pull up to the cabin they are staying in for the weekend and meet Arlo, the man

renting it out to them. “Welcome to Colorado, here is the key to the cabin you will be staying in

for the weekend! Since this cabin is brand new, you are the first family to ever rent it out! If you

have any problems please call the number I left on the counter inside. Enjoy your vacation!” As

Arlo drives off in his run down car, they go to take a look inside the two story, four bedroom, log

cabin. When they first walk in, there is the main room with a tv, couch and awesome view of the

mountains, not far from the main room is the kitchen. In the kitchen is a door that leads to the
back of the cabin out onto a deck. There is also one bedroom on the first floor of the Cabin,

which the parents are sleeping in. “I wanna see the room I’m staying in!” Conner yells. They

head upstairs to see the kids rooms, which are also very nice. There are not any doors that lead

outside or any balconies on the second floor, probably for safety reasons. “Okay we better go get

our bags out of the car so we can settle in.” mom says. They had already packed all the food they

would need for the weekend so they would not have to make the drive to town for anything.

They finally get settled in and are all in the main room watching tv, like any typical

family. “Hey look at this!” Conner says as he notices the Amazon Alexa on the coffee table.

“I have seen many commercials about that on tv!” his mom answers.

“I’m downloading the app right now!” said Bradley.

They tell Alexa to play their favorite songs, tell many jokes and funny stories. Before

they know it, it is already nine o'clock at night.

“Alright, we better get to bed so we aren't tired tomorrow.” mom says to the kids, and

even towards her husband.

“But mom, we like talking to Alexa!” the kids say in their whiny voices.

“She is quite entertaining.” their dad agrees.

“We can talk to her tomorrow.” the mom says sternly.

The kids know when she uses this voice it means they better do what they are told and

they head up to their rooms. “You guys can take showers in the morning, just get your pajamas

on right now, I will be up there in a minute.” she says as they head up the stairs.

“Okay, mom!” they all reply.

 “I don’t know about this Alexa device, I have seen things on Facebook where they track

your information and do weird things.” she turns and says quietly to her husband.

“Oh that’s just paranoid people.” Bradley assures his wife.

She agrees and heads upstairs to make sure the kids are in bed and kiss them goodnight,

her husbands follows.

They go by Harpers room first, help her get her pajamas on and tuck her in. Before they

leave they turn on the tv that is in her room and flip on the hallway light so she does not get

scared. Next they stop by Vivians room, she already has her pajamas on and is in bed on her

brand new iphone she just got for her birthday. “Goodnight sweetie!” they both say as they are

passing her room. Once they get to Conner's room he is already passed out, they turn off his light

and head downstairs to their bedroom. In about five minutes they are already in bed and almost

asleep. “What’s so funny?” Heather asks her husband.

“Uhm, nothing.” he answers her, confused. “I just heard you laughing” she responds. “I

wasn’t laughing” he says. “You’re just hearing things, it was probably Harpers tv.” he goes on.

“Get some sleep” he says before they both finally fall asleep.

“Rise and shine” Bradley yells into each of the kids rooms the next morning. They wake

up to the sun shining through their windows and the smell of bacon. Of course they all love

bacon so it does not take them long to get up. They scarf down their breakfast and instantly go to

the main room to talk to Alexa. “You all need to go take your showers and get dressed, I was

thinking we could get out of the cabin today and see all the mountains.” their mom tells them.

They sigh and head upstairs to get ready. A little while later Heather says “I don’t know why

they all like that silly Alexa so much.” partly talking to herself. She goes to relax on the couch
while Bradley is taking a shower when she smells something weird, then blacks out. After

Bradley is ready he heads to see why Heather has not came to the room yet, he finds her passed

out on the couch with no pulse. “Kids! Get down here” he yells. They all come running down.

“Conner get the phone and call 911.” he then says.

“It isn’t working, there’s no service.” Conner replied.

“Try going outside to get a signal” his dad answers.

“The door won’t open.” Conner says as he is struggling to get outside. All of a sudden the

whole house goes pitch black. “Conner that isn’t funny, this is serious.” his dad yells at him.

“It isn’t me dad.” Conner says. By this point Vivian and Harper are both near tears and

scared to move. A loud thunder roars. “What is that smell?” Vivian says in a disgusted voice

about ten second before they all dropped dead as well. Arlo comes in the next day, when the

family was supposed to be leaving, and finds that Alexa has taken over the house and killed the

five people that were staying here with a chemical released from her speakers. “Try to get rid of

me and this will be you too.” “You take orders from me now, clean up these bodies and get

another family staying here.” she says to Arlo. “This is the first family to go, but not the last”

Alexa says as she lets out her evil laugh.