Maria finds a music box (other story's included)

Maria

The year was 1960 in Liverpool, England it was a beautiful autumn when a girl named Maria was walking in the deep forest just out side of Liverpool, the leaves were falling off and the trees looking ready for winter to come, the animals were collecting food and building homes to prepare for the snowy winter days. Maria loved winter, how the snow would glisten and fall from the sky and how the beautiful night sky would show the sparkling stars, alas Maria wasn't allowed to go out often as her father would sexually, physically and mentally abuse her daily, her mother was killed after her father got drunk and beat her to death on her 3rd birthday, that was 4 years ago and now Maria is 7 and still getting beaten, she was shy and quiet and very jumpy, this made bulling in school worse as they would scare her with monster masks on and beat her whilst wearing them. Maria wanted to run away but knew she wouldn't get far as she would run out of food or water or have no place to go.

Whilst Maria was thinking she didn't notice the fact that she was walking deeper and deeper and deeper into the forest, the more she walked faster the more it started to get darker, noises that scared her soon got louder and louder as she started to run as fast as her legs would run, rustling and howling filled the air as growling sounds got closer until...

She fell. she fell into a hole so deep only a ray on sunlight could be seen. Maria looked around in fear as all she could see were branches shaped as claws reaching out to her, her sea blue eyes started to get watery as she fell on the floor curled up in a ball and cried her eyes out. After a while of her crying she slowly got up from her position and looked around to see if she could get out from the hole, but what she saw wasn't the same, there were no claw shaped branches but instead a beautiful cave with pink and purple as well as white flowers lined the wall with green vines, it looked like a fairy tale, with ought a second thought she ran into the cave wondering what was on the other side, her mind raced with thoughts as she ran quicker.

However her thoughts stopped as she saw a little box on a podium (or something that looked like one) in the middle of a room with a door behind it, a ray of sun shined down on the box as if the havens were begging little Maria to open it, she didn't want too but her curiosity took over as the carefully took the box and examined it. The box is a rectangular shape and painted light pink with a wind up key at the back of the box, on top of the box was a pink peppermint candy surrounded in other colourful sweets behind it, Maria carefully wined up the key on the box, the tune London bridge is falling down played as Maria wondered why this was left here, once the tune stop playing she noticed she could open the box too, she wondered what was inside and as her curiosity got the best of her again she opened the box to revile....nothing. Nothing was in the box were something should of been , a wave of disappointment washed over her as she closed the box and headed for the door. As she opened the door all went black and she woke up in the forest.

As she woke up she looked around, it was the same forest, same place, 'it was all just a dream..' the thought as she frowned in disappointment. Maria was sad at the fact it just a dream, as she was lost in thought a loud shout was heard at the start of the forest where her father could be seen yelling for her. Not wanting to get beaten again she ran as fast as she could trying not to trip over anything as she ran.

Once she met her father, he forcefully dragged her along to her room were he locked her in there until the sun rose up in the morning. Maria sighed and got ready for bed, taking of her ragged dress and carefully putting her soft cotton pyjamas and quietly getting into her creaky rotten bed. before she was able to fall asleep, 'London bridge is falling down' was sung throughout the room it scared her as much as it made her fall asleep because of it, soon after the song Maria drifted of to sleep.

Maria woke up in the forest, it was different, it was dark, animals with sharp pointy teeth, horrible sounds, disgusting smells and disturbing sights, the trees were black, the grey grass was reeked with blood, the sky was dark red and stars were black, the flowers were dead and so were all the other plants. Maria heard growling only to revile a huge black creature, she stared up at the monster, it had one eye on its head surrounded by other eyes, before she could think she ran as fast as she could hearing the monster not far behind her, she ran faster than she ever could, running for her dear life, she took a sharp turn before falling over a branch, the monster was running fast on its hand and feet, the head was upside down and eyes were bleeding blood, it charged at her revelling its sharp teeth as it opened up its mouth wider to eat, before the monster could eat her, Maria woke up, shaking with cold sweat dripping from her forehead. A while later after her calming down, she saw a pink pepper mint on the side of her bed. Maria slowly reached for the pink sweet that glistened in the moons light, she slowly grabbed and lifted it and brought in to her were she examined it, 'its safe to eat right?' she thought as she opened her mouth and put the delicious looking candy in her mouth, it was delicious, it tasted of strawberry's and cream and other delicious flavours she could taste, before she knew it the sun rose up.