My English Essay

English essay part 1

I am woken by a sudden loud noise coming from upstairs, in the attic. I toss and turn to try and get back to sleep but nothing, then another bang sounded from upstairs. I reach out to my phone which was on my bedside table checking the time, and of course, exactly as it has been for the last week, 3am. It's no use I'm not getting back to sleep, so I get up and head to the kitchen. My parents are telling me it's just my mind playing tricks, with all the stress and anxiety of moving into a new house, but I'm not sure if that is the case... I mean one week at the exact same time every night I'm being woken at 03:00 in the morning by loud, terrifying noises, and the fact that it's coming from the attic just makes it worse.As I was walking past the staircase that leads you to the door to the attic I felt a wave of unease run through my body, heh...weird. In the kitchen I make myself a cup of coffee, and head back to my room, I get ready and grab my keys, I need to go somewhere and calm down. 20 minutes later and I arrive at the beach, it's my safe place, It lets me think, you know, the sound of the waves as they crash against the shore, the sun rising at dawn, the sand slipping through my fingertips as I sit and stare far into the water, letting my thoughts take over. Not realising that I've been sitting here for hours, I hear cars, and people talking while walking to who knows where. I look over then look up to the sky to see the sun shining brightly above us, I take my phone out my pocket and its 7am. I've been here for 4 hours. I go to Starbucks, and get a caramel frappe then start to head to my parents house. On the way back to my parents house I start to think about what or who could be doing something at 3 oclock in the morning to wake me and instead just head back to my house. I'm going to have to go into the attic and find out what is going on. Back at my house I unlock my door and make my way towards the attic, I notice in the door there are keys, I twist them, and the door jolts and unlocks, I slowly open it and look to the side to try and find a light switch, which there is, I try it and just my luck it doesn't work. I take my phone out my pocket and use the flashlight. I walk in, eyeing my surrounding, when in the far corner I see a box, with paper or card in it and a teddy bear. I walk over and crouch to see some of the objects in the box, there are some

letters, and pictures, but they all look very old, especially the bear, the bear is falling apart! I take the box downstairs and on my way out lock the attic door again, I walk into the dining room and analyse the box and objects inside. I read some of the dates on the letters, they are all from 1943, during world war 2, I look further into the box, and find all sorts of letters, I took out some photos and notice there was 3 kids and their parents, in the background is the house, but I notice that at the attic window in the house, there is a black figure, staring out as if it's looking directly at the lens of the camera. The date on the picture was the 27th June 1943, I look at many more and every month there was a new picture on the exact same date, but one of the people would be scratched out in the photo, it eventually became to the point where there was no one they were all marked out but the black mass was nearing the camera. By November 27th the black mass was out within the gardens, I stopped looking at the photos, and continued analysing the box. I took out the teddy bear, and looked back at the first photo, the wee boy in the photo was holding the teddy, I looked at the set of photos, and figured he was the 3rd to be crossed out.

As I was looking at the ragged old teddy, I noticed a piece of paper sitting in the pocket of the bear, I opened the paper to see a letter, a letter that the small boy wrote, the note read:

"To lexis,

Mother has gone missing, I told her about playing in the attic with you, I wanted her to come meet you, but you weren't there, I even told her the code, so if she ever wanted to meet you, she could, its 84051...right? Anyway my tea was ready so I couldn't stay there for long to wait until you came back, so mother told me to leave, and she could meet you another day, mother said she would stay there and clean up the attic a bit, but she never came back out from the attic, I don't know where she went, she didn't believe me about the magic metal box, you know where you live, she said I was silly, silly for

thinking you live in a metal box, apparently its called a safe, maybe its to keep you safe so Lilith cant get to you, you know the one who you said took your family? Why did you leave?,

Anyway, I miss you and I want to see you again!,

Love Calin "

After reading the letter I was so curious of who Lilith was or who lexis was and what safe she apparently lives in. I quickly walk back up into the attic to place the box with some of the other letters and pictures, out of the way. As I opened the door, I felt a breeze run across my right arm, I look over to my right, and notice a thin sheet of fabric, covering something, I walk towards It and pull back the sheet... there lying behind the sheet was a safe, I remembered the code that Calin was talking about and tried it, and it actually worked, I opened the safe door slowly, just to be cautious, and found that it was another room, well actually maybe something different, it looked like a whole new world. I walked in and it looked just like our world, it reminds me of a parallel universe, where everything is the same, but there was something odd about it. I continued to walk around, I realized we were on the same street as my house, but everyone who lived here looked well...old fashioned. I keep walking, none of the cars look the same they all look very old, as if they couldn't even get as far as five miles. I stopped outside my house when I see a boy at my door, holding something very similar to what I've seen before...the teddy bear.

I walk up to the small boy, who looks no older than 7 years old, and taps his shoulder. he slowly and very cautiously turns around. He looks exactly like the small boy in the pictures. I eye him up and down, he is wearing the exact same clothes from the third photo; when he got scribbled out. I'm guessing he is Calin. I was about to ask him if everything was okay when he blurted out "Lilith is coming!"

Calin slowly turns around as a dark figure appears in the door way. I looked up to see it standing there, a lady, darkly dressed reaching out to Calin. Calin looks back at me one more time and whipsers "get back to the safe before Lilith takes them all." He then touches the woman's hand and suddenly they

disappear. Not even thinking twice, I open the front door and run up the stairs and to the attic door. As I reach the attic door and unlock it I notice in the far corner of the room, is calin, a little girl who I think is lexis and a woman. The woman from downstairs, Lilith... I notice Lilith starts to head towards the other end of the room, exactly where the safe is. As I run so many thoughts and emotions run through me I quickly reach the safe and poke in the code as it unlocks i very speedily walk in and shut the safe door.

That!, That was not just any normal safe, no...no way!, confused on what genuinely just happened I pick up my phone and call my boyfriend. Minutes later my doorbell rings, damn he didn't take long to get here.

I open the door,  to find not only is it not my boyfriend but its Calin! "Calin, what are you doing here?...how are you here?" Calin didn't answer instead he looked me dead in the eye and said slowly, as if he is trying to make everything clear to me " don't take them through, they will never come back, she will take them, and replace them. Don't take them through!" He then took the handle and shut the door. Not many minutes later, Stiles shows up. I don't bother to speak, instead I just slowly walk through the halls up the stairs and just sit on my bed.

Stiles comes in really confused, he tries to get me to speak,but no words go into thought, I don't say anything I just blankly look at him no emotion, and lift my arm to point at the attic door, he follows my effortlessly risen hand to see the door open and a slight light shining through.