don't be afraid

People often say truth is stranger than myth and they could never be more right.

It all started on the day my mother got married to Mr. Bailey Davis, he was one of the most renowned people in Salem, Oregon. I say was because he is now dead. My mother got me up that unfortunate morning with a subtle scream in my ear.

"Get up Morgan we need to pack! We have about 3 hours till the chauffeur gets here!" oh did I mention he was rich?

I roll out of bed, passed my mother who had a smug look on her face, and into the bathroom. After a quick shower, I got out and stepped from the steamy shower into the hot bathroom. I looked into the mirror, I didn't look like anything special, I had bright red hair with icy blue eyes and a very pale face. I put my hair into a single braid and put a minimal amount of make-up on and stepped out of the room.

I made my way through my room and down the stairs into our very small, very average kitchen.

"Mom, are you sure you want to go through with this? I meant there is still time to back out...." I sigh as I walk to the fridge, I didn't like bailey very much because he seemed to dislike children (of course I am not a child I am of the very mature age of 15) and he even has one of his own her name is Liliana, Lilli is 7 years old and a little weird.

I run up to my room after my mom gives me a very disappointed look, and I start to finish the packing as I put the last article of clothing in the box there was a loud honk from the front of the house.

"Morgan get your butt down here it's time to leave!" my mother yelled from the bottom of the stairs. Sometimes it's hard to think of her as my mom seeing as how she acts like someone my age. I flew down the stairs like I had wings and left the only place I truly knew as home.

We all got in the car and took off down the highway and after 20 minutes of silence my mother looked at me with a big smile.

"I can't believe this is finally happening Morgan we are finally going to get the life we both deserve, and you will get a little sister and I get another daughter!" she squealed in excitement.

I look up at the huge house we are slowly approaching, and gasp the house looks like one from a Halloween horror movie, it had dark gray columns holding the porch roof up, and it had gargoyles on all of the balconies. When I look to the farthest window on the grand house I see a very pale face of a girl looking through it, my mother must have spotted the girl too for she gasped and went very pale. Bailey stepped out of the house with a smile in his face.

"Ah Morgan, Janie how good to see you again" he said with that stupid smile still on his face.

"Bailey who is that little girl standing in the window?" my mum asks.

He looks up to the window and we see the little girl was no longer there. He looks at us as if we had lost out minds. I look at my mom with confusion in my eyes, she just shrugged and turned to the house and they walked in the door. I was left to stand out on the door steps, I went in the house and took a good look around; it had a marble stair case going to the second floor, the main foyer was large and it had an empty, cold feeling that I didn't like one bit, like no one actually lives there. I walked in the direction I assumed was the living room and with a fee wrong turns eventually found it. I looked in and sitting on one of the many couches was a little girl whom I recognized as Liliana, baileys daughter.

she sat on the couch staring at the wall with a vacant look in her eyes until she looked at me. She looked at me with cold eyes as if I was the reason for her unhappiness, and yet I don't even know why she was unhappy. I walked away up the stairs to what bailey had said was my room and opened the door. it was down a long hallway with no pictures on any of the walls. As I walked through the doorway I looked around at the room, it had dark navy blue walls and the bed was small with a pink duvet on it with 3 pillows. The walls were bare and dirty and the floor looked as if it hadn't been vacuumed in years.