The pink ribbon

Chapter 1

Ever since I was born, my mom would buy this ribbon for me and put it on me because she thought it was cute,and I agree. but recently this bow has only been popping up in bad situations or when something bad is about to happen, I've been realizing that maybe just maybe this bow is a curse, see for example this one time I was out on a walk to the store when I saw the exact same pink ribbon in a patch of flowers, and I thought "oh that's cool someone had the same ribbon as me" and suddenly I heard a scream, next thing I know there's a masked man running down the street chasing a girl with a knife, I froze in fear, next thing I know the next morning, on the news there was a case of a girl that was murdered late at night, I was mortified, another time was when I was at school, there was this girl that walked past me with that same ribbon in her hair, I was talking to one of my close friends and suddenly she fell to the ground, she was having a seizure.  I have told my mom about this suspicion but she always seems to brush it off and change the topic, when I ask her she just says there isn't a "ribbon" and I'm just hallucinating, but I know I'm not. After that I thought that I might be crazy, so I decided to try and forget about the ribbon and move on from it,  but that was not a good idea, because one night I saw the ribbon laying on my dresser as if it had been waiting for me, I put it in my drawer to get my mind off of it but the next morning when I woke up it was back on my dresser, I started to get more paranoid, after that I saw the pink ribbon, but this time it was everywhere, in shops, shoes and Even on tv commercials, it was as if the ribbon was haunting me, I decided to investigate, I went to my local library and looked for any kind of book that had a reference of a pink ribbons and curses, I found a book about local legends and suspicions and one of the legends talked about a cursed ribbon and it brings misfortune to the ones who possess it, the description matched my ribbon perfectly, I took the book home and showed it to my mom, her reaction was strange, she responded by saying I was worrying to much, and it was just a silly story, i couldn't shake off  the feeling that she knew more then she was letting on, a few nights later I had a dream, a dream that my mom was tying the the bow on my wrist and whispering in an unfamiliar language, a woke up with a cold sweat in the middle of the night, the next day I confronted her "mom why did you give this ribbon to me!" I said curiously, and than the stared at me for a second, "okay I'll tell you" she said "the ribbon was given to me by my grandma, it's been passed down for generations, it's meant to protect us but it comes with a price" she said, "a price?" "Mom?" I said eagerly, "what kind of price ?!".. I said.