Scary Stories (Shadows of the night)

The wicked sisters

Sara Follocks woke up to hear her sister Felicity's yelling.

"Aaaah! That wretched girl, look mommy at what she's done to my hair,"she heard her stepsister scream from the other room.

Sara heard footsteps coming down the stairs into the basement; her bedroom and the next thing she knew was that her cheek was stinging. She rubbed the place where she was slapped and looked up to see her stepmom glaring at her.

"What the..." she started. 

"You ugly, little piece of filth. Your dirty little gorgon!" Screamed her stepmom spraying spit all over her face "Don't you dare deny it, I know you ruined her beautiful hair. My poor angel, my dear Felicity now has to go everywhere with that ridiculous hair because of you!" With another vile look her stepmom took off muttering curses under her breathe.

Sara wiped the tears from her eyes and started rolling up her sleeping bag. How dare they treat her like this? How dare they think she would do such a thing! She had lost everything, her mom, her dad, she didn't deserve this kind of treatment. Ever since her dad had died she had been forced to live with her dad's cousin aka her stepmom. Although she wasn't really her stepmom she was forced to call her that ever since she had landed up in this godforsaken place.

Sara picked up her sleeping bag and climbed up the stairs, to the living room. As soon as she entered she stopped at the sight of Felicity's hair or what was left of it. She was completely bald except for five hairs sticking out in the middle.

She stifled her laughter and went towards the cupboard behind the dining table Felicity was sitting at.  

"Awwww!" Felicity groaned. "Have you heard of a shower, you dork? Your sleeping bag stinks. Oh and by the way don't think I've forgotten about what you did to me. I'll will get back at you, you little pig."

Sara ignored her as usual and put her sleeping bag in the cupboard. Who could have done it she wondered. I wond...she suddenly caught sight of Felicity's brother David grinning in the corner of the room. Of course, who else!

Sara took the bowl of porridge which her stepmom made for her every morning. She looked longingly at the mountains of pancakes and honey felicity was having. She sat on the ground and cried as she ate the revolting porridge. Why did she have to have such a horrid life? Why did she have such a horrid life?

After she was done she went back to her room, but as she stepped on the top rung of the steps she suddenly lost her balance and tripped. She tumbled down the stair rollling and she could feel pain shooting up her body and fire crawling on her. She banged her head on the last rung of the stairs and immediatly she could feel her head and her whole body exploding. Then suddenly the pain died. Her eyes widened in shock with the fact that she couldn't feel anything. Before she could register what had happened she heard her stepmom screaming her name.

She skipped up the stairs and was about to go into the living room when an idea struck her. What if she pretebded Then maybe mom might care for her once. The more she dwelled on her plan, the more confident she became. She immediatly put her plan to action.

She tiptoed towards the back door, opened it and then walked slowly towards the tiny abandoned well in the backyard. She picked up a stone near the well and threw it in the well. It made a loud noice due to the fact there was little water. Now all she had to do was wait it out here.

Almost immediatly she saw her aunt's head pop out from the window to investigate what was going on. When her mom couldn't see anyone, she shrugged her shoulders and went back inside the house.

Sara almost cried! Her brilliant plan had failed. Suddenly she heard footsteps coming towards the backdoor from inside the house. She crouched down and peeked to see her sister carrying her sleeping bag.

"God! I can't bear the stink anymore" Felicity said loudly. "Her whole room smells of it!" Her sister moved slowly, groaning as she carried it towards the well.

Sara's head was going to burst with fury. How dare Felicity throw her sleeping bag. She couldn't do anything about it incase her plan was ruined. She would take it out of the well after Felicity was gone.

Felicity walked towards the well and stopped when she was about a foot away from the well. She put the sleeping bag on the bucket and reeled it down. Then she went back in the house.

Sara immediatly jumped up and grabbed the rope attached to the well. Slowly she started to reel the rope. She groaned with pain but continued reeling it. For some reason the sleeping bag was really heavy. Finally she manged to take it out of the well. She wiped her sweat and shook her sleeping bag a bit. Something was definately in the bag, she could feel its contents. She held the zip and slowly revealed the contents of the bag. The fear was evident in her eyes and she could feel herself going crazy.

"No, it can't be!" She said aloud because inside the bag was her own face looking back at her.