Okay, let's fill in the blanks with the past simple form of the verbs in brackets:
- It was Halloween, so we
- decided to tell ghost stories.
- Jenny told the first story and
- Peter went next. When it
- came to my turn, a nasty storm
- began.
- It scared me and
- confused my friends as we couldn't see anything and we
- didn't know what was going on. Peter
- struck a match and we
- noticed that Jenny wasn't there. Then we
- heard someone laughing in the kitchen and the lights came back on! Jenny came back into the room and
- said, "No need to be worried. This isn't a haunted house, it was just a power cut!" We all
- felt very silly!