House of the Dolls

Chapter 2

They arrived home in the nick of time and they were so happy that they had gone but they was sad that they couldn't have stayed longer.

"Can we please come to this one?" Maribela asked Juan Luis's family when they heard about the second ball in House of the Dolls in all of Muncea Harbor.

"No!" Carmelita snapped.

"You would only humiliate us." Zoe said.

"Just like that stupid, living human in the underworld did." Sophia said.

"Living girl?" Maribela asked.

"Yes that little tramp stole our baby brother from us!" Sophia said.

"Rumor has it that two friends went to a creepy ball in the underworld." Carmelita said.

"Really?" Maribela said.

"Everyone was saying how beautiful she was when the truth was she was just as ugly as you are." Zoe complained.

So as expected Juan Luis' family left without them but once they were gone a ghost woman appeared again turned the skeletons into a carriage, horses, driver, and footman. Once again turned them into beautiful ghosts dressed in 1930s ghostly evening outfits.Then once again sent them off to the ball.

She smiled, their hands joined and once again they began dancing. Later Maribela asked him to join her in the cemetery garden. He saw it was eleven o' clock but she figured there was no harm in staying just a little longer so she agreed. The garden was full of gorgeous flowers and it had marble fountain of shimmering water. They sat by the fountain and gazed at each other.

They heard the clock strike twelve.

In their haste to get away she tripped on the stair way and dropped one of her slippers. Ignoring her missing footwear they hurried into the carriage only to find that it had returned to the shape of a corpse while the coachman, footman, and horses had returned to being souls. They then changed back into mortals and ran back home.

First Sophia tried it on but her foot was much too long. 

"See it fits!" She said struggling to shove her foot in.

"Yeah I don't think so." Davi said.

"But it does fit! See?! See?!"

 "Ma'am please return the slipper."

Zoe was next but her foot was far  too wide.

"It's my slipper." She lied trying in vain the cram her foot into it.

"Ma'am please take it off." Davi said.

"No it's mine. Ugh! Why won't this stupid thing fit!"

"Because it's not yours now take it off!" 

"Mother is there any other maiden in your house hold?" Juan Luis asked Carmelita.

"There's no one else sire." She lied.

"Um...May I try it on?" Maribela asked from the fireplace. 

"Who is that?" Juan Luis asked recognizing her voice.

"No one sire!" Carmelita lied.

"Woman do not lie. Who is she?"

"She's just a dirty little nothing."

"Mother it takes one as to know one as they say." Juan Luis said annoyed. "Bring her here."

"Must I?"

"I'm ordering you to."

At those words Maribela walked into the room and despite her poor attire Juan Luis knew it was her. He smiled.

"I'd know those brown eyes anywhere." He told her. He had her try on the slipper, her foot easily slid in making it a perfect fit. 

The two of them were happily married and spent everyday falling more and more in love with each other. As for Juan Luis's family as punishment for their never ending cruelty ghosts decided to blind them until they could learn to be kind and good.