Rings of Rosie's pockets of posies ashes and ashes we all fall down

Henrys turn to sing

*1 year before Nancy goes missing*

"Come ooooooonnnnnn, we always do this." I say in an exaggerated tone trying to sound sad in a funny way. "Fine but only because it's traditional" Henry said fake pouting.  It was Friday and me Henry and manny are going to go and play our favorite nursery game. We got there at exactly 5:00 so we went to our little spot over by the edge of the woods ne'er the abandoned school. 

We sit in a circle and start the game. "Ring around the Rosie's." I start "pockets full of posies." Manny says "ashes ashes." Says henry. We grab hands and all start to sing "we all fall down." We all say. I sit down and start to laugh with manny but Henry doesn't laugh. 

"Henry are you ok?" Manny says the concern showing in her voice. "This is honestly so stupid," he says. I look over at manny who has tears threatening to spill. "What's with the sudden change Henry like we've been doing this for years?" I ask. I'm so confused does he hate the game. 'HE CANT' i think. 

"I guess this is just kind of I don't know..." he said pausing for a second. He looked like he was hesitating. "I guess it's kind of childish." I look over at manny and then back at Henry. He looks at me like he's trying to figure out why i look so surprised. "Oh-" i say trying not to sound disappointed.

"Well that's—ok i guess.." manny says sounding sad. I look at her and she is crying silently, i look back to Henry and he just shrugs, "i can still play but i have a job and i need to actually live." I nod at him and he looks at manny. "Manny—I—I'm sorry, I didn't mean to hurt you." 

"You know what no, if you want to stay here." Manny started "manny," I say trying to calm her down "no," she put her hand up to stop me from talking. "If you want to stay here then maybe you should stay here." Manny said she got up and started to walk away "but I-" Henry said starting to follow her. "No Henry let her go, let her walk." 

He turns to face me and then starts to cry into my shirt. We sit there for a while maybe an hour, then Henry gets up and starts to head to the parking lot. "Henry where are you going?" I say slightly concerned. "I'm going home you should to." He said. He sounded emotional and as i tried to grab his hand he just disappeared. I jump back and look where he was just standing. "What just happened, HENRY WHERE ARE YOU!!!!" I shout retrying to figure out where he went.

Right as I'm about to start crying these two guys appear in front of me. "Hi I'm Lucifer this is my boyfriend Michal the author sent us." The taller one says. "Wha-who-how...wait like Lucifer from the Bible?" I stutter. "Oh author are we late?" The shorter one says he isn't much shorter than the tall one who said his name was Lucifer but I'm guessing that's Michal. 

"Ok so this is...awkward.." Lucifer says. "Yeah ummm." Michal says. He snaps his fingers and then disappears. "Ok what the actual fuck?!" I say to no one. "Ummm sorry I'll have to talk to them latter lets just forget this happened." *Erases memory* 

Henry walks away towards the parking lot and i stand there. Once he gets into his car and drives off I collapse to the ground and start to cry. "Why me why is my life falling apart?" I yell out into the void of the now darkened sky. 

I stand up and start to walk home when i get to my house i go straight upstairs not even bothering to talk to my brother. He mumbled something along the lines of "i bet you don't even know the true meaning to that nursery rhyme."

I go upstairs and then cry myself to sleep in the pillow. Once i fell asleep i had a weird dream. It-it was about Henry. He looked back saw me and ran i heard myself say "its your turn to sing Henry" but i said it in a different way then my normal voice. I didn't sound like myself. 

Henry ran but he fell down on a rose left in the middle of the hallway. I pulled a knife out of my pocket and knocked him out with the back of it. I dragged his body into a room and put it on a table. I tied his hands and ankles down. He woke up and started to say something about not wanting to play anymore. 

I grab the knife from the table next to him i saw it had so many more things like a revolver a saw and some weird liquid. "I'll give you one last chance to sing." I say in the dark voice that i used in this messed up dream. Henry was quiet and then i used the knife of him. I started by cutting his fingers off one at a time. I could feel myself smile as i watched the blood spill. I then went and grabbed the saw off the table.

I went over and cut off his leg then his hand. I then went back and picked up the bloody knife, i put it up to his wrists and cut maybe 5 inches deep i heard the screams and panic in his voice. "Why are you doing this Nancy!" He screamed and i looked at him and smiled a dark evil smile. He looked up at me and i saw the light in his eyes start to leave. I smiled and then after he stoped breathing i spoke. "Ring around the Rosies pockets full of posies ashes ashes we all fall down." After that i woke up and screamed so loud that everyone in the neighborhood could hear me.

I then looked at my hands and clothes they were covered in blood but I wasn't hurt. Did i do something? How could this happen? My older brother came bursting into my room but then the blood was gone. He bombarded me with questions "are you ok? What happened? What are you looking at? Are you hurt?" He said clearly worried. I then look into his green eyes and tears start to stain the bed sheets. 

He grabs me close to his chest and i just cry i cry until i fall into unconscious. The last memory i have is the words that still echo in my head "we all fall down."