The Downside

Chapter one

"Mom help me, I can't get out of here," Hazel said with worry. "I'm scared and I want to go home." She looked around and yelled once again, "I don't want them to take you away from me, please, help me."

"Mommy? Where am I? Where is mommy?" She couldn't help but panic because she didn't know what was going on or what was happening. "Maybe mommy is playing hide and seek, and I was the one counting," Hazel said.

"1," she said, but all she could hear was someone whispering in your ear, "2" now she could feel someone touching her neck, "3" all she could hear was heavy breathing from the back of her, "4" she could feel something crawling on her leg.

"Mommy is that you?", do you not want to play anymore?"

It was quiet and dark, she didn't know what to do, she felt as if someone was watching her and she didn't know if it was her mom or if it was someone else, "mom should I continue counting?" she said.

"5", she felt dizzy as she was about to pass out, "6" she couldn't feel her feet as it was numb "7" she could feel pain from her chest.

"Where am I?"

Waking up from a terrible nightmare, heavy breathing, but when she looked around she didn't recognize the room, it was unknown to her so she called for her mom but no one answered...

"Mommy?"

She started to get off the blue bed that she was laying on and started to make her way toward the purple door that was in front of the bed but a few inches away from it...

When she got close to the door she hesitated to open the door because she didn't know what was behind it. She decided it wasn't a great idea to open the door and she wanted to look around the room to see if she could find anything.

"8, Would they take me away from you?"

The room was big with pink-walled paper and a white dollhouse that was by the purple door. There also was a brown nightstand beside the blue bed.

She wasn't a smart 7 year old but she knew girls her age liked playing with dolls but she didn't. She liked playing outside and picking flowers and hanging out with butterflies.

"Where is mommy?"

She walked to the purple door and pushed her ear on it to see if she could hear anything behind it but there was nothing...She finally decided to open the door she didn't see much, only a dark hallway that had a small amount of light that came between each walk.

"Mommy where are we? "

She kept walking until she couldn't see the pink room. She felt as if the walls were closing in on her, but she didn't want to go back to the room because she just wanted her mom.

She came across a wicket gate that had white stone. She noticed that the tile on the floors changed, "is this the exit?"

But between the gate was a very dark hallway, no light just dark, but "do I want to risk it all" she said in a soft tone. She was starving but she couldn't find anything in the pink room and this was her only way out.

She was scared, but she kept walking because she felt as if this hallway was leading the way home, well that was what she thought at least. She felt as if she had been walking for hours but in reality, she only walked for 30 min, she was getting sleepy and she was really hungry.

She wanted to take a break but what if her mom was waiting for her, she didn't want to waste any time being close with her mom.

She took a break for a minute to catch her breath but in the corner of her eyes she saw a light, she got up from the ground to walk directly to it to see what was the light coming from. She started to run toward the light, she felt as if it was feeding on her and she needed to know what it was, as she made it she stepped in front of the door that was halfway touching the roof.

Again she was a curious kid even though she knew it could be something dangerous but she wasn't thinking that at the time, she didn't care if her mom was there she just had to find something to eat because she felt her stomach was eating itself up.

When she opened the door to feel a small breeze touch her cheek going all the way to her nose smelling like fresh food that came out of the oven, "is this a dream?" Hazel said, when she looked around the room it was like a normal kitchen you can probably think of but with colors.

As she made her way to the black table she saw a bunch of food on top of each other she looked very concerned for the person who made amount foods that are sitting in front of her, she couldn't properly think straight

All her favorite foods were there and she didn't think twice to dig in. It was like a dream come true, everything she wanted was there, Hazle was getting very sleepy so decided to go back to the pink room so she started collecting some food that she was going to bring back to the room.

As she walked back to the room she started walking slower as she took every step, she was very tired from walking earlier so she didn't want to walk back to that room but she managed to leave the kitchen.

It was even hard for her to walk because she was carrying everything in both of her hands, time was going slow for her. It felt like it would be forever before she reached that pink room.