“Grandma, did you have a best friend?” Said my granddaughter, who was standing on the right of her closet friend. I couldn’t blame her for asking such a obvious question, she was only 6 after all. “Of course I did!Her and I went on all kinds of adventures.” I said as my brain started to reminisce on the old memories. Old was right, I knew this girl from ages 3 to 23. My granddaughter’s friend chimed up “Mrs.Jones, tell us some of the cool adventures!” She said. “Hmm… I don’t know. Rose, your mother should be here any minute. I don’t think you have the time to listen to my story’s.”I knew my daughter would be here soon to pick up these girls soon, but then the Rose gave me her puppy eyes and I simply couldn’t say no. “Fine,but only a few…” I said before I told them what felt like hundreds of stories of amusement parks, sleepovers, and calling late into the night on our family’s land lines. “Now girls thats all we have time for your mother will be here any minute now.” I said as I started to gather the girls belongings. “Grandma,she seemed nice why aren’t you still friends?”. I debated my response “Well…” I started “she and I differed in opinions, she wanted to start a career and I wanted to start a family. So, we went our separate ways.”. “Mrs.Jones, what was her name?” My girls friend asked. “It was…” I paused, my voice thick with the realization. “ I have forgotten…”

I watched as the sun fell beyond the horizon. The color hugging the sun that caused this gorgeous spectacle, was a bright color that resembled the shade of a rain coat. This color blended so perfectly with the next that reminded me of a maple leaf as it fluttered to the ground in the middle of autumn.As the color spread across the sky it darkened to a shade that resembled a rose or even a bold lip.Before I knew it the colors sunk under the horizon following the sun, with it my awe.

I heard my mom curse under her breath as she opened the fridge and surveyed its contents. “Is everything ok?” I said lifting my eyes from my sketch book, “Its fine, I only forgot the main course for tonight’s dinner party.” my mom said her voice stricken with sarcasm, jokes aside this was a problem. Everything was lying on this dinner party. My moms boss had said that rather than have a meeting-regarding my mom getting a much needed and deserved promotion- in his office, he said he wanted to have a nice dinner party with his wife, my mother, and I. Well to be fair he all but said it, he dance around the idea for at least 10 minutes. “I’ll run to fry’s real quick, its no problem.” I said as a got up from the table, “ Are you sure?Its already dark.”. I simply nodded my head, slipped on my hoodie, and grabbed the “key chain of doom” that my mom insisted I carry. The key chain had a bunch of item to ether escape something or injure an attacker. I unlocked the front door and stepped outside before my mom could change her mind in letting a 15 year old go to the store alone.I walked with my head down and hood up, in the fastest pace I could that wasn’t confused running. The whole way, shadows danced in and out of the sides of my vision making me more paranoid than I was typically. Wow, didn’t know that was possible. Before I knew it I arrived in the fry’s parking lot. I slipped off my hood and stopped dead in my tracks. There were three large men dressed in all black looming near the door. I debated my opinions on soon decided my mom would rather have her daughter than some ham, and quickly pivoted and started to walk back home. I heard the mens heavy foot steps on the asphalt behind me I started to speed up to a run so did they. My brain tried to think of the closest, and most populated place to go and get help. I ran to the mall, a full two miles. No idea how but I did. I saw a woman walking with her kid. She must have know what was happening because she trapped me in a hug then placed her hands firmly on my shoulders “Rebecca! I am so glad to see you! Hows your mom?”. I was certainly not named Rebecca and she didn’t know my mom ether.

I felt the cold, breath of Mother Nature graze upon my face as I sprinted through the tall,dense, brush that fronted the home of which I was so desperate to reach.

“Luna!Luna, are you ok?!” I screamed my 16 year old sisters name, the more I heard silence the more my heart fell.

I heard my little sister release a scream that struck fear into every inch in my body. Her scream forced my legs to run faster than I knew was possible.I threw open the white, wood door that was the last barrier between me and the only person I had left.

“Luna!No…” I felt my voice fail me as I collapsed to my knees. The tears I was holding back flooded my face with the forced of a waterfall. I thought I had to hold my composure so that when I reunited with my sister…if I reunited with my sister I could console her not the other way around.

My sister was lying in a lake of her own blood. The sources of this gruesome mess was the stab wound in her front.

“Hey Sis…wha-whats up?” My sister spoke softly, such a simple action required so much of her energy. I see what she was trying to do. My sister has always been one to see the glass half full, if she could not find a positive spin on something bad then she would try to distract us both from the problem. I decided that for once I would play along, for her sake.

“My heart rate, how about you?” I mumbled in a chocked voice. At this she chuckled in a pain stricken voice. I watched her chest as it rise and sunk in perfect harmony with each breath.

“Bye Sis, see you in a few decades.” She mumbled. Before I could respond her breathing slowed to a stop. She was gone.

“I’m telling the truth…you have to believe me.” I said well shifting in the restraints in the interrogation room.I know what I saw. It lock eyes with me, I felt ice shoot through my entire spine. It was real. “Miss, you have to understand how hard it is to believe that you spotted a “Monster”. Monsters aren’t real.” The policeman remarked in a tone implied that he was speaking to a child rather than I. He wouldn’t believe me no matter how much I protested against his demeaning statements.So instead I simply started to grind my teeth and locked my eyes on the concrete floor. Just then a tall, thin ,man came in through the large metal door-the gray color different from the floor that I was watching- but only slightly. The man didn’t even introduce himself nor did he look up, his face was shrouded by the large, black, hat he had on.

He started talking in a raspy voice that was thick as molasses, “Did the monster resemble a skeleton in the face with eyes that had a chilling absence of both the iris and pupil, with thin, slender hands with a slight green tone?”

I stared in disbelief with a dropped jaw. “Yes…how did you know?”I answered. He took of his hat and looked up. His face identical to the person ,no thing I saw earlier.

“AAAHHHHHH” I screamed loud ,it practically shattered the one sided glass to my left.

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