The Doll Lover

6. I hear the wind, I see the light

Upstairs

I walk into the room and suddenly I hear sounds coming from the basement. "Are those girls serious?" I walk out and smash the door closed behind me. "The first one who makes a sound will be next." I walk off the stairs and towards the basement door. I hear them talking about regular lifes. Their lifes. I open the door and stand at the top of the stairs for a few seconds. One of the girls screams and I decide she's next. That annoying little woman! I walk down really fast and push away the other two girls. I grab her arm and pull her with me. The other girls just sit there in terror. Good. I pull her with me, and close the door behind me. I take her to a room and push her on a chair. "Now let's make you a pretty doll. My pretty doll. Not the perfect doll, not yet, but definitely a pretty one." Her eyes open wide and she wants to get away. I push her back into the chair and make sure she can't get away anymore. Then I grab one of my knifes and start working. "My knifes bring all the dolls to the yard oh yah my knifes bring all the dolls to the yard mhm." I cut her mouth in a smile and she starts to scream. I laugh manically and push her to the ground. She falls hard and doesn't wake up anymore. "Good." I walk outside the room, towards the closet. "Which colour suits you best? Brown eyes are perfect with a green dress. Or nah? Let's just try it on shall we!" I walk back with a mint green dress and white shoes. "Yes they will suit you don't you think?" I hang the clothes on the wall and help her up, then I free her and start taking off her clothes. "You are beautiful but not good enough." I grab another knife and cut away some of her fat. Then I put the dress on and look at my creation. "Beautiful!" The blood flows through the dress and I get mad. "NO! NO! NO! Look what you did!" I grab her and trow her against the wall. Then I start kicking her and hitting her face. "You ruined all my hard work you.." I close my eyes and fall on the floor. I put my face in my hands and start crying. Then I hear the cracking of the floor. My hands fall down and I look up. My new creation has just woken up.

In the basement
After she's finished with everything I just look at her with my mouth open and my eyes wide and my hands shaking. "But you've been here for so long.. how did you survive? Why hasn't he killed you yet? Wha- what is your name...?" She puts her finger on her lips. "Ssht listen." I listen and can't hear anything except the sound of the wind. "What?" I whisper. "Can't you hear it?" I look at her. "Hear what?" She points at the door. "Can't you see it?" A little bit of light comes through the door. "See what?" She looks me in the eyes and smiles. "I hear the wind, I see the light, I sat here all my life but never heared a sight. Don't you hear the door is open, don't you see we're free? We can run to our homes and live, don't you agree?" My eyes grow big. "Why the frick frack did you just rime all of that are you like a fairy or a witch or idk man why." She slaps herself. "That's the thing amazing you right here? Come on!" She stands up and grabs my hand. "We can go now." I nod and we slowly, and very silent, walk up the stairs. Once we reached the top she opens the door, very slowly. The door cracks, and as soon as the space is big enough, she stops. She first pushes herself through and then helps me. I look around me and try to fill my mind with all the things I'm seeing. We're in the hallway and the front door is a few feet away. She pulls me with her but I pull her back. "wait." I whisper. I hear a man crying. Not a man, him. Why would he be crying? "Can't you hear him" She looks at me. "Who?" I roll my eyes. "Him." I point at the stairs leading to the first floor. "He's crying." She looks up and back at me. "Why would you care, let's go!" She wants to walk away but I pull her back again. "It stopped." We look at eachother, and then up. We hear somebody trowing something, somebody smashing to the floor and the sound of something breaking. Then the door opens and we see him walking out of the room, on his way towards the stairs. His blue shirt is covered in more blood and I look at the girl next to me. He opens his eyes and looks me right in the eyes. His face expression is emotionless but his eyes are still red. A smile fills his face as he takes a step closer to the stairs. I feel pain my hand and know she's scared too. "Run." He says, and we run.

We don't let go of eachother, we don't wait for him, and we definitely don't want to die. She opens the front door and I follow her outside. We run into the woods and I can hear him pulling the door open and closing it behind him. I hear his footsteps getting closer. "Tell me your name." I say as we run. She turns her face and I can see what she wants to yell at me. Something like: "seriously? Now!?" I nod and she sights. "Why!?" I look around and he's getting closer and closer. I nod at him. "That's why." She looks at our feet and then at the sky. "I can't tell you." I let go of her hand, but she holds mine tight. "Tell me. Please." I'm so exhausted. She looks behind us and back at me. "I don't think you can handle this. Not now." I look at her and hold her hand again. "I don't think there is any better moment then now." She nods and turns left at a tree. I almost fall but recover and follow her. I don't see him anymore. "My name... well... please don't leave me here." "I won't. I promise." I look behind us again as she runs towards an open field. "I can't see him any where. I think we lost him." She nods and runs slower. "My name is Anabelle Felusius." I let that sink in, but keep running. We almost reach the end of the woods, the begin of an open field. And there he stands, a knife in his hand and a smile on his face. "I see you made a friend, Anabelle."