Blood Moon

Every Year on for my  birthday I make a dress. I started doing it when I was 4 and my mom couldn't buy me a dress. So we decided together to make the dresses instead. She died on my 14th birthday. I buried her under the large cherry blossom tree in the cemetery where the abandoned church is. She would always take me there saying "Iris this is my tree and someday when this tree dies your tree will grow." When she would say that I'd always get sad because I never wanted the cherry blossom tree to die. Now I'm going to turn 18 and I' going to spend it in the cemetery under that cherry blossom tree.

The dress that I made this year is a black silk dress. It flows as it goes down. I was planning to make my famous carrot cake and chocolate covered strawberries. I was planning on wearing my others ring this year. She wore it every where she went and she gave it to me before she died. Its very precious to both me and her.

By the way my name is Iris Balladeer and I go to RedWood High School. I work at Belle's Dress Shop and my birthday just so happens to be on a red moon. A red moon is when the full moon is out and a sort of eclipse happens which makes the moon appear as if its red. I'm pretty lucky that it happens to be on my birthday because it only happens every 500 years. There's a legend in this town that goes like this

The moon cries blood and a bride shall be chosen. A beast will awaken and a monster shall come. The monster bears crimson eyes and the beast bears blue. One comes for blood the other for love. Beware the night of the Blood Moon or they will come for you. A girl will be taken. A life will be lost.   A dress. A ring. A life. A death. All will be decided on the Blood Moon.

Everyone in this town believes that silly myth so every 500 years on the night of the red moon they all hide in their basments not one daring to come out. I don't believe in such sillyh things besides if it is true then I have nothing to lose. God will ultimately decide my fate.