Girl + Camera

a walk on the grey side

that night I walked down my street to the house, it was there but the car wasn't. I walked into the house and called for tommy. he didn't answer. I frowned, I was disappointed I had so many questions. it was a small house, a bathroom, living room, kitchen, and two small rooms. I walked into tommy's room and sat on his bed. everything was just like it was the day before. I squeaked as something grabbed my foot from under the bed. I let out a scream and jerked my foot away. I jumped off the bed, to see tommy crawling out from under the bed. "Tommy you scared the shit outta me!" I yelled. Tommy immediately started to tear up, I realized I had yelled at him. "I'm sorry I didn't mean to frighten you" I say and walk closer to him. "they say it's not good to curse." tommy said. I give him a confused look, "who's they?" I ask. tommy sat there and didn't even look at me. "who's they?" I ask again. tommy looked up at me, and teared up again. "they would get mad at me if I told you" he responded. "why was there a car here the other day?" I asked him. "they were visiting" he responded with. I was now annoyed. who the fuck were 'they' ? why couldn't tommy answer me. this was making me mad. "tommy do you know who I am?" I asked. "you're Mandy you told me yesterday" he said. "just making sure you remembered." I said. "want to play a game?" tommy asked. "what kind of game?" I replied with. tommy got up and went to his closet. I remember there was nothing in there besides grey clothes. I got up and went into the closet a few seconds after him. he was gone. just like that. I checked every part of that closet, he wasn't there. I sat down and felt like crying, I was so confused! I just wanted answers. "do you give up already?" I heard a children's voice say. it was tommy, he was at the entrance of his room. "where did you go?!" I asked. "hide and seek" he said. "but you went into this closet.. how did you get over there?" I asked. tommy looked down at his feet, "they would get mad if I told you" he said. I didn't want to upset tommy so I stopped with the questions. I looked at my watch. 10:47? holy crap I have school tomorrow, my mom is probably worried sick! "I've got to go" I told tommy. "but we just started the game" he said. "I'll be back tomorrow." I said with a smile and walked out the door.