November Writing Challenge

Something Was Off

 looked around the family room. It was Christmas, but everyone was acting strangely. I couldn't figure out why though. At first I though all the adults were acting weird around us kids, but I've realized that it's just me.

I excuse myself and make my way to the bathroom. I close the door and take a deep breath. I can hear hushed voices through the door but can't make them out.

I splash some water on face, hoping I was just being paranoid.

I flushed the toilet and washed my hands, hoping that would convince people that I wasn't really going crazy.

I walk back into the family room and now people are really acting weird.

My dad, who never drank, was drinking a beer. Actually now that I was paying attention everyone was drinking, and no one in my family ever drank. Something was off.

"What is going on?" I ask, gathering the courage to finally ask.

"W-What do you mean?" My mom asks, trying not to be worried.

"You're all acting super weird. What's going on? Did something happen?"

No one answered me.

"Come on, seriously?"

"Listen, there's no time to explain, but-" As my mom was about to explain something, we were rudely interrupted.

Men barged into the house in military clothes. I scream, surprised but no one else seems surprised.

"Elle Winters!" One of the men call out. "Elle Winters were are you!"

I slowly raise my hand.

"What's going on?" I ask.

"We're going to have to take you into custody miss."

"For what? What did I do?"

"Nothing, we're preventing you from doing something."

"What the hell. You can't do thing."

"I'm afraid we can."

I was grabbed roughly and was being pulled out of the house. I begged my family to help but no one moved. My mom started to cry but she didn't do anything to stop them.

What was going on? Why was I being taken. This didn't make any sense...

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It's really short today because I'm exhausted and have a headache. My brain no compute.