The Grey Area

The Grey Grave

It was dawn when the little girl woke up. As the child weakly pushed herself up, using her overgrown nails to hold on the bottom of the cliff that she laid against. As she stood up she looked at the water that she was near, she saw her own reflection in the dark, ever moving sea.

She was a very tiny child, and very thin too, she was in an old blue shirt with faded lettering that could only spell 'liv', she had nothing on her feet, and wore loose grey short. She had muddy brown hair, and brown eyes, her eyes where big, puffy, and red, as if she was crying the night away.

As she finished checking her reflection, she used her hand to help guide her to a lower part of the cliff that was able to easily climb up. As she scalded the edge, she was able to murmur on the top side as well as rustling and stamps of feet.

Once she got to the top she saw them, two people, a man and a woman, leaning over something and hugging each other. The little girl walked over to them and tapped the lady's shoulder, the woman jumped a little and whipped her head around to look behind her.

'Olivia,' she whispered, as she looked around with a hopeful look in her eyes. But the light that was once in them dimed as she come to realized that no one was there.

'Judith, honey, shh, it is alright, I'm right h-here,' stammered the man as he comforted his wife, Judith, as he as well took a quick look behind them, to only put his attention back on his wife once he saw nothing.

The woman, Judith, went back to how she was before, only worse now, as she started to ball her eyes out. 'Oh, John,' she cried as she took hold of her husbands hand, 'john.'

The little girl looked at the couple confused, as they looked familiar, and she felt like she should know them, but she couldn't remember, she couldn't remember anything she realized.

As she look up and pasted the couple she realized that they were kneeling at a grave, as she looked closer she saw writing the said 'her lies Olivia Gilbergh loving daughter, sister and more forever rest in peace' as she looked lower, on the ground, she saw a picture of a girl, that was vaguely familiar to her.

That is when it happen, she got a pain in her head, and saw bright colours, that is when she realised that she got her memorised back, and she smiled in happiness, until she look back down at the grave and heard that couple behind her still mourning for their daughter, and that is when she laughed, she laughed her heart out as she realised that her name was Jennifer Griphed, and that she was the one that killed this couples daughter and caused them great pain. Only for her to then realized that if she was her and not their daughter then that the one in the grave was not there daughter but her instead.

She cried tears of amusement as she looked out into the dark grey sea as she imagine how their daughter Oliver must be, seeing her own body stuck at the bottom of the ocean, all alone. As she smiled.