The lost

Chapter 6

I crawl slowly through the space, feeling claustrophobic. The walls touching my shoulders, unable to squint even more to not touch the walls. I crawl slowly, but surely, when I hear Mrs. Smith saying something: "I think Asha is planning something, be sure that she doesn't do anything stupid". I quickly suck in a sigh, to not breathe and start crawling once more. I finally feel the light breeze on my face, I am close.

I start crawling a little faster. Until I hit my head against a hatch, a wooden hatch. I slowly open it, to see where it leads... The outside.

I sat with my legs dangling on the edge. I look after the swing set, and now I just must do the leap... I suck in my breath and make a sigh. Then I jump forward... I caught myself catching at the wooden part that holds up the whole swing. My bag almost falls up, just because of that leap, and right when I jumped the hatch made a loud noise. I quickly poll myself up, but quickly notice that Mrs. Smith is standing there... and looking at me.

I am about to jump over the fence when she says: "Do you really want to do it?". I slightly hesitate and nod my head slowly.

"Then do it, jump", she continues.

I hesitate even more, holding the strap of my bag. But when I looked over the fence, I saw a shadowed figure. He made a gesture telling "come here". I look back over to Mrs. Smith, and she continues once more: "Do you want to leave the place where she died? Isn't that so disrespectful?"

"Who is she?", I ask while hesitating. Please don't mean Hilda, it can't be her, no... It ca-

"Hilda", Mrs. Smith answers me, with a smirk. She raises up one of her hands, like you do when you are about to take someone's hand. She continues: "Come Sweety, don't you want to meet her?"

I slightly nod, but then look at the shadowed figure. It started coming closer and closer to the fence...