screaming season

rosie

I pulled down the attic stairs and carried the box of dolls up, i was getting a little too old for dolls and my little sister never liked them. I put the box up on a shelf and noticed there was already a doll up there, it wasn't one of mine, I had never seen the doll before. I pulled it down from the shelf and stared at it, it looked old and worn, it had lifelike green eyes and a purple dress. I almost put it back on the shelf but as I looked in its eyes there was something lonely behind them, I knew loneliness all too well so I hugged it to my chest and brought it down to my room, what was the harm in keeping one doll in my room? That night when my mom checked on me she stopped in her tracks when she saw the doll, she had a look of fear on her face. "Where'd you get that?" My mom asked. I turned towards the doll and looked back at her. "I found it in the attic, was it yours as a kid?" Mom nodded and rushed out the door. I spent the night trying to figure out what mok could be so scared of before eventually falling asleep. The next day I gave the doll a name, I called her Rosie because she just looks like a Rosie. I tucked her into my bed before packing up for school. I tried to get there early so I wouldn't have to see abby but Abby found me anyway after fourth period. "Hey bitch" she called as I ran through the halls hoping to lose her. I was too slow, Abby caught me by the handle of my backpack and I toppled to the ground. Abby laughed and poured a smoothie from the cafeteria over my head as I lay motionless on the ground. She took my backpack from me and dug through it pulling out my homework from last night, she scratched my name from it and put it into her own backpack. "Same time tomorrow okay nerd" she kicked my arm and as she walked away someone helped me up to my feet. "You should tell someone" said the strange girl. She looked a little too small for seventh grade, but I was small myself so I didnt question it. "I tried,they don't do anything and it just makes it worse" I got a better look at my savior an realized she looked identical to the Rosie doll, same eyes, same cheeks, every feature was the same, except for the dress, this girl wore a grey hoodie and black jeans. "Well we should do something, you didn't deserve that" I shook my head. "We'll just make everything worse if we try to do something, Its better to leave it alone" the girl gave a creepy grin before answering "whatever you say bestie"
I stared at her, I had just met this girl and she had referred to me as bestie..
I figured she was just exceedingly friendly and didn't think much of it.
That night Abby got into an accident, she wasn't dead but she was in the hospital, someone had hit her car as she was riding her bike. Later I had a nightmare, Rosie was in bed next to me and she was whispering about how Abby got what she deserved,and It would be worse if she hurt me again.
In science class we were paired up with new partners, I was okay with this as my current partner wasnt that fun to be around, he was serious and silent. My new partner was this girl called Alice, Alice was funny and kind and we quickly became friends, I was happy to finally have an actual friend besides some old doll, as we were talking about our project I turned towards the window and the girl from the day before, the one who had helped me up after abby pushed me down, was staring at me and Alice, she had this angry look on her face, or maybe it was jealousy. A week after Alice and I became friends we were as close as can be,I finally invited her to my house and she stared at the doll in my bed. "I've seen that before" she said with a hint of fear "I've had nightmares about it every night since I met you, it tells me it wants to hurt me, it tells me to stay away from you, i thought it was just a dream" she turned to leave. "It is a dream" I said as I put my hand on her shoulder, I didn't want her to leave, she was my only friend. "I have to go" Alice ran out the door, I didn't follow her, I knew I would see her the next day at school. I didn't though, I didn't see her the next day or the day after, but I did have the nightmares. Rosie tells me that she's lonely and doesn't want me to leave her, she wants us to be best friends forever, and no one is going to get between us. I don't talk to the kids at school, I have Rosie,and Rosie is enough, Rosie will always be my bestie, forever and ever