Short Stories

Dream

Aria wakes up from her nap, 'we are still driving ugh' she thought to herself. She turns to her mom in the drivers seat, "How much longer until we are there?"

"We have about another 30 minutes, why?" Her mom relpys

"I hungry and i dont want to sit in the car anymore."

"Im sorry sweet heart, theres nothing i can do right now. We have some chips in the back."

"Okay." Aria reaches in the back seat where her little sister sits fast asleep with her head leaning on the car door.

The 30 minutes pass and they pull up to a bunch of house all different colors, pink, purple, blue, yellow. There are no cars, no stores, just colorful houses. It smells sweet like pies, cakes, and cookie. There are kids running around everywhere playing with each other, parents are BBQing and having conversation. They pull up to the mayor's house, its a big beautiful pink house. She sees them pull up and mets them outside.

"Riley, wake up we are here" Aria slightly shakes her sister awake. They get out of the car. Arias mom Grace shakes the mayors hand.

"Welcome Ms. Niomie" The nice lady in a navy blue suit with black pumps says to Grace. "Thank you, Madame mayor"

The mayor lets the small family in her home. Aria goes to check her phone and notices that there is no signal in this small town, she puts her phone in the car and locks it so she doesn't have to carry it and it doesn't get stollen. Grace and Riley go out into the back of the mayors yard and starts to make friends. Grace in talking to all of the adults about what its like living in the town and how the children have changed after moving into the town. The adults tell her that the children seem much happier, they are more successful and life is just over all better. Riley meets up with the little kids, they play tag, they swing on the play ground set, they offer her candy and Hershey flavored chapstick. Aria however didnt want to move to this town, she already had friend back in there own town 8 hours away. She finds a red ball and starts bouncing it, a while passes ans the ball falls down a set of stairs after Aria stopped paying attention to it.

"Fuck" She whispers under her breath, she looks around to see if anyone is watching. After observing her surroundings she slowly walks down the stairs. Its all cement walls and metal shelves full of supplys. She turns the corner where the ball went and sees a girl. Shes blonde, has messy pigtails and is wearing a dirty pink dress.

"Are you okay" Aria asks in a shakey voice but the girl doesn't respond, she just stands there in one spot. So Aria grabs the ball she was playing with and heads up the stairs, as shes at the top of the stairs she turns back to look down and the little girl is standing at the bottom. Aria gets freaked oit and goes to the mayor. " Theres a little girl down stairs i think shes hurt."

"Oh thats just lilith she supplys us with what we need" the mayor says to Aria with a smile on her face. She looks behind Aria to see lilith walking towards them. The mayor says "excuse me a moment" before walking over to lilith grabbing her by the hair and dragging her down the stairs. Aria goes to her mom and tells her tjat she wants to go. "Let me finish my conversation and we will" Grace responds, Aria nods and walks over to her sister. "Riley we are going to leave soon" She says as Riley is lathering tje Hersheys chapstick on her lips. Riley complains but doesn't argue. Aria is about to walk in the house until she sees lilith running towards her. Everything turns into slow motion.

Aria trys to yell put liliths name to get the mayors attention to get rid of her but she kept choking on her letters. Finally she gets the word out. She sees the mayor slowly trying to get lilith as she is running toward Aria in wrath. Just before the mayor grabs lilith the door slams shut. The motion stops.

Aria take a few deep breaths, the door opends slowly by its self bit no body was in there. No one was in the town. She was all alone.

The End