Tenderness

✫ Chapter 3 - Endlessly ✫

14/7/1996

It's been a few weeks since the accident. I haven't seen her around . Waking up just brings me down. I miss her. My bed feels half empty without her. I'm such a lovesick fool, but i'm not giving up. I'm not giving up on you, Autumn. 

15/7/1996

I just got home from Sunday church. As we were driving home, I saw her, swinging in the rain in her usual place. She looked pale in her face, she looked as if she saw a ghost. 

Later that day i decided to check up on her. I crossed the street and knocked on their front door. Nobody answered so silly me decided to go through the backyard. I don't know what i was thinking, the gate was obviously going to be locked. I didn't think, I climbed the gate and jumped down the other side. I was dumb enough to land on a Rose bush, because it was wet from the rain and all of the thorns I looked like something chewed me and spit me back out. I walked around the flowers and past the dog house. I noticed something strange. There was a dog house but no dog. There was also a gardening shed, i noticed there was an empty sloth for a shovel. I knocked on the backdoor once, it opened on it's own. This house is actually really creepy. Without thinking i went inside the house. It was pitch black. I tried to find a light switch when suddenly, the door closes shut. I run back to the door in hopes of it not being locked, but guess what. Yup! It was locked. This is terrifying me, I can't see anything. I'm walking up the stairs. I fell three times already. I've reached the top. I kept hearing someone singing. It was a lullaby. I kept going closer and closer to the music, i could see a bright light in the distance. I could hear the singing getting louder and louder. I stopped in the hallway, right in front of a half open door where the light was shinning from. It was a Russian lullaby. My dad is half Russian so he taught me the language when i was little. The song is stuck in my head;

[English]

Tili -tili -bom
Close your eyes now
Someone's walking outside the house
And knocking into the door.
Tili tili bom.Night birds shouts
He has already made ​​his way into the house
For those who can't sleep..
Tili-tili-bom.
You hear someone nearby?
Lurking around the corner
Looking straight at you.
Tili-tili-bom.
Night will hide everything
He's sneaking for you
And is about to catch you.

I could feel a cold breeze. I heard footsteps as soon as the song ended. I turned around to see if someone was behind me and in that moment, someone or something hit me with a heavy object.