Diane!

Thats Your Daughter

She did go home. But when we reached there she had already left from there.. She had done some serious damage. 

As we entered the house a gush of water came spilling out. She had flodded the cottage. 

Jean and Craig rushed inside in search or her. Afraid that she might have drowned herself.

"Avril!" Called jean " where are u honey?"

But there was no answer. We rushed into her room , the door was a little ajar. We went inside but the room was empty. Her books were all over the floor.. The glass pieces still lying on the floor , there were clothes lying on the floor burnt.. All her wall paper torn.. And bloody hand marks all over the place... 

Everybody was at their wits end. We rushed into Marks old room.. The condition was pretty much the same there too.  His room was a mess. On his walls something was written in blood.

"I hate you, you ruined my life."

But where did the blood come from. Just then lizelle shrieked. She just discovered where all the blood came from.

"Squidge!!!! Oh no oh no, this can't be happening" she whispered.

"What?" Yelled jean.

"She-she killed him.."

"Who? Who did she kill Lizzie?" Asked Craig as he walked up to where lizelle stood to see what shecwas talking about. 

"Nooooo!" Burst out Craig. Falling at the foot of the bed. He sobbed uncontrollably. 

Yes, she had killed Squidge.  

Their pup.. They had bought him just a few weeks ago. Her dad loved that dog. 

It wsnt a pretty sight.. "Why is she doing this? Why??" Shrieked Craig. 

Just then they heard something. It seemed to be coming from under them.

"What's that? What's that Craig?" Mumbeled jean.

"I-I don't know. It seems to be coming from the basement. Hurry let's go."

We all rushed down the stairs.. As we neared the door.. We heard a shrill voice.. It seemed to pierce our ear drums. 

We pushed open the door to find Avril standing in front of a queen sized mirror. Only she looked nothing like Avril. She looked more like - like someone else.

She had snipped off all her hair till the ends were ragged. Her mascara was smudged all over her face.( Why was she wearing mascara anyway? She was like 12.) There was blood all over her hands and clothes. 

She turned around startled as she heard us coming in. "Stop! Don't come any nearer!"

" Honey, please drop that knife it could be dang-"

" I said stop right there. If you come any nearer I'll kill your daughter" avril spoke as she pointed to the mirror.

"My daughter." Stuttered jean. " But your my daughter Avril, what's gotten into you.

" Nonsense !" Laughed Avril." Me? Your daughter! I'm not your daughter." She snapped. Then pointing toward the mirror she said "That's your daughter."

"But Avril, that is you." Said jean

"Quite! Be quiet I say. Can't you differentiate between your own daughter. I tell you Im not her." 

"If that's not you, then who are you?"

"I am Diane! "

"Diane"

"Yes, i am she who helped your daughter when you and your husband abandoned her. I am she, who stood by your daughter when none of you would. I loved her and cared for her more than any of you did. I never once judged her the way you people always seemed to do. I was her world and she was mine. I tell you, she was my best friend. I truly loved her. I dont expect you to understand though cause u were blind enough not to understand her, so how would u understand me?"

"If you love her so much, why do you want to kill her?"

"Cause she told on me. She told about me (she said pointing towards me) to that woman. I told her not to tell anybody cause i knew no one would believe us. And i was right, no one did believe us. Just because of her one silly mistake. Look where it's bought us now. So now im going to destroy her. She is going to pay for her mistakes. If she had just understood that keeping quiet was the best option all this would never have happened."

Her words stung their faces. 

"Please dont do this. Why are you harassing our family. Why have you latched onto us?"

"Cause you all don't deserve to live anymore. Do you get it?"

As jean distracted Avril I mean Diane  with her talks. Craig sneaked around her and snatched theknife out of her hand.

"No! Give that back to me you Jerk!" she screamed. But Craig held her firm as Jean bound her hands and she lead her up to the house and into the drawing room and strapped her to the chair.

She kicked and screamed , but all went in vain. So i walked up to confront her.

"Who are you? What do you want?"

"How dare you? How dare you do this to me?"she yelled.

I walked up to her and smacked her hard right across the face. At this point Jean became hysterical. 

"What do you think your doing Doctor?Slapping Avril like that. "

"Dont you get it Jean? This is not Avril."

"So then" i asked the child again. "Who are you?"

"I am Diane you freakin idiot!"

"What do you want from us?"

"To see all of you dead. To destroy all of you and take over Avril's life."

"Leave us alone and get out of our lives."

"Not before i complete what i need to do."

"And what exactly is that?"

"Are you deaf? Which part of ' I'm gonna destroy you' do u people not understand?"

Just then the doctor we had called rushed into the room. Avril screamed and shouted and tried her best to free herself from the Doctor's grip. 

"Let go of me you old Oaf! No.. Please.. let go of me. No dont do this to me.." she wailed and howled.

But alas , the injection was too strong to fight off and soon the child relaxed and fell asleep."

Mark cradled her in his arms as she held onto his hand. He really felt for his sister. He weeped like a child. H e carried her up to her room and laid her down on the bed.Her grip on his arm was too tight, so he sat down beside her. 

I lead Jean and Craig out of the room with lizelle , leaving Mark with Avril. I knew this was the hard part. Telling the family of Avril's condition. 

This part had always been hard throughout my years of practice and it was not about to get any easier. It had to be done. So i gathered up my courage and Patience and told them all about Avril's condition..