Dollhouse

Chapter 1

I woke up to sunshine pouring in through the bedroom window of the holiday cottage.

 It was going to be another hot day. I yawned and sat up in bed, careful not to disturb my little sister Rosie. 

Her long dark hair was spread over the pillow. I brushed it gently back, revealing her sweet, heart-shaped face.

 As I moved across the room, Rosie moaned in her sleep. Her lashes were long and dark against her soft cheek, but I could see the teardrops they still held.

 It had been like this every night since we'd arrived at the holiday cottage last week. A nightmare kept waking her – bringing her into my room, where I'd have to stroke her hair to get her back to sleep. Later, I would wake to find her crying in her sleep soft whimpers that broke my heart

I closed the door tightly trying to not wake up the poor girl as Rosie hadn't got much sleep in a long time due to the nightmares.

 I was unaware what the dreams were about as she refused to tell a soul but neither did mum or dad.

 They didn't really care about the dreams they thought it was just some silly nightmares but deep down I knew it would of have to been bad because I'm the only one that really understands my younger sister. 

We are only 6 years apart but I know her more then she knows herself. We are going back to my home town tomorrow so I want to spend as much of my time here as I can today. We have to wake up at 4:00am so Mum said we had to wake up early so we can have a good nights sleep. 

"Morning jazzy darling" Mom speaks in a soft tone. 

She calls me Jazz/Jazzy I don't get where she got the nickname from but my names Jess not even close to jazz?! She just came up with it one day. 

She offers me a piece of toast as the sunshine rays through the windows. 

I snatch the plate out of her hand and place it on the table. I Put water in the kettle and boil it as i make myself a coffee.

 I wait a few seconds as mum springs a conversation out of the blue. "So what was you doing downstairs last night" She asks. 

Well in my head I knew that I was downstairs raiding the cupboards trying to stay up while drinking heaps of coffee.

 I get flashbacks from it and feel sick not wanting to drink my coffee anymore. "I was down here looking for my phone" I reply in a rush

 "At 4 in the morning?" Mum questions and lifts one eyebrow while placing one arm on the counter.

 I start to panic because i ate my mums chocolates and she'd get MAD if she found out I ate them.

I hear footsteps from upstairs and a loud bang along with it. 

"Let me sort that stupid boy out first" mum huffs and walks to the bottom of the stairs "Young man its 8 in the morning your sister and dads still sleeping" she shouts up

 "Your one to talk. Look who's screaming at me right now" My brother snaps back. 

My brother is a year older then me. He's only 15 and about six foot tall. He's always in some kind of baggy clothes

 "Evan don't u snap back at me!" mum says while walking up the stairs so she doesn't have to scream so loud 

He says sorry in a low tone and pushes mum out the way while walking down the stairs.

 "What's up with you today" I say while smirking as now i got myself out the mess with the whole Phone thing.

 He ignores me and drinks my coffee. He spits it out because its cold and then takes a bite out of my toast.

I look around and try to find something i can throw at him. I look on the table and see a pen. I aim it right at his head and throw it. 

I miss. 

Before he can throw it back mum comes down with dad and a little Rosie slowly following behind. "Everyone get ready we are going to a waterpark" Mum says while jumping up and down happily

 "Are you fucking serious" Evan says in a cocky tone and laughs because he thinks mum was joking. 

"She's being serious" dad spits out while lifting his glasses up after a bit of an awkward silence.

 "Yay I'm so excited" Evan says in a Sarcastic tone. He walks up the stairs to get his clothes. Rosie finally comes out and runs into my arms. 

I think she's scared of at Evan some times. Im not.

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I wake up in a slanted corridor.

my eyes blur. I rub them and my eyes focus.

I lift myself up and question where I am. I walk down the corridor "Hello?" there was no reply though. "Anyone there?" I yell out.

No reply. I hear footsteps echoing down the corridor. Then..

Something touches my neck and pulls me in.

"Jess wake up" Mum yells from the front of the car. I lift my head up and breath heavily. "Everything okay?" Dad asks. I didn't reply i look around me in the car and we pull up to the waterpark

we all walk in and pay as I go into the changing rooms and slowly start to take off my clothes.

I get changed and walk out of the changing rooms.

I wait for Rosie to get changed and wait outside the changing rooms. She comes out and we run to a slide. "Rosie.." I pause because I'm wondering if I should ask.

"Yeah Jessie?" She says in a bubbly tone. She calls me Jessie because it reminds me off her favourite character from toy story which is her favourite movie. When we was younger she would force me to watch it with her on repeat.

"What do you dream about. You know like when u dream what's it about" I ask her in a light tone as we walk up the stairs to a waterslide that's the "Main attraction" of the park but its just some twisty slide.

"I cant really explain it. He told me not too tell anyone" She explains "Who the hell is he" I stop her on the middle of the stairs and hold her hands. I come up into her face. "Who is he" i whisper.

"The man that lives in the house" I pause for a second. "Rosie Is he living in our house?" I ask

scared of what she will reply with. "He lives in the house in the woods. The one back at york"

i lift one eyebrow and a little boy about 6 tells us to hurry.

We walk up to the top. "You have to wait until this persons finished and the light turns green okay?" The Man explains. "Okay sir" Rosie Jabbered.

I sit at the top of the slide and sit Rosie on my lap. "Ready?" The man asks. I don't reply. "Go "the man says.

I let go of my feet and slide down. Rosie screams "Yay this is so much fun" She says with a smile on her face. We dive into the hot water and i feel a layer of water hit my face. But something else happened.

Like a maniac I struggled to regain control, Thrashing until my limbs gave out and the light about the surface drifted away leaving me numb in the darkness of the water. But the pool wasn't that deep? How was I drowning?