Thriller Short Stories

The Angel

   "Mom, please, don't leave me!" I exclaimed.
    "I'm sorry, Hunny, I must go to the quarry," Mom hushed in a motherly voice.
    She left me to stay home alone when I knew there was something bad, an omen. After she left, I heard a loud, booming sound, declaring that there was a mine that went off.

    I suddenly woke up to see a blackened room, my room, with my heart beating so fast it may jump out of my chest, and its rhythm is now pulsing in my ears.
    As I looked around, I see my cat laying on my bed in a deep sleep. My heartbeat still beats ever so fastly, and I start taking deep breaths. Remembering back to my nightmare, I feel a lump in my throat. If she did not leave, I would not be here now alone and on the run at the age of sixteen. I have no family; no job; no nothing; though I do have a greedy cat.
    My neighbors know I was left alone to die from a terrible accident, so they kept me in their house to keep the child services away. The child services used to search for the ten-year-old blonde haired girl that lost her mother, but after three years of searching in every nook and cranny in every house, they claimed that I left or died.
    Today, it is the sixth anniversary of my mother's death. I look at my alarm clock that flashed in red 13:13; the exact time she died.
    Taking a deep breathe once again, I hear a scratching noise on the grimey, old window. The noise is so loud that I think that someone is trying to break in, so I grab the nearest object I see, a baseball bat that my mom gave me when I used to play tee ball. It continues to scratch the window, creating a screeching sound as if a finger nail is scratching against a chalkboard.
    "SCREECH, SCREECH, SCREECH," the window continues to create this sound.
   I walk up to the window and say, "Hello? Is anyone there? Tanya, is that you? If so, stop it. You're going to wake up Mr. Fluff." Mr. Fluff is my orange striped tabby cat. I see nothing there but the dancing lights of the cars going by my small little town. After waiting in silence, I put down my bat and lay down on my bed.
   Suddenly, the glass shatters and scatters on the floor surrounding me but not hitting me.
   I see an angelic, bright light shining in front of me, and in the middle of the light is this beautiful woman in black army boots. Though, she does not have any makeup on nor a dress or skirt like most women do now. She reminds me of my mother, the fragrance of homemade chocolate chip cookies fill my lungs as the woman walks eloquently towards me.
   "Jamie," she smiles lightly and happily. "I have been waiting for you. We need to go back to the quarry."
   Those few words hit me like a bullet striking through a heart. This is my mother; this is her ghost, and she has come to get me. She has come to take me home to the quarry where she died, and where her remains will stay forever, buried in an everlasting burning coal mine.
   "This can't be real. You are dead, Mother. You died six years ago on this exact date," I whispered in a shocked voice.
   "Yes, Jamie, I am indeed dead, but I am here now to take you home to see paradise, to see happiness. Though, you must leave Mr. Fluffy behind," she chuckles at those last few words.
   "Mom," I hesitate. "you aren't here now. You are just a figment of my imagination." Now, I see that Mr. Fluffy has not moved since this figure has showed up in my room. His stomach has been moving up and down before, but now, he is sleeping in dead sleep without any movement.
My mom once again laughed but this time in her full, hearty laugh that has caused so many smiles.
   "Child, child, sweet child. We are going to the quarry to see each other forever. Don't you want to be together forever?" my mom exclaimed.
   I do want to be with her, but this feels like a wrong, just like when the day she died. "No, no, no I don't want to be with you. You aren't real. You are fake. You want to kill me, or have you already killed me?" I asked.
   My mom once again chuckled but in a deep voice that only a man can do. "Child, you honestly think you can defeat death? Well, no, child, no one can defeat it." Suddenly, her figure turned into a taller, paler figure with a bald head. He laughs again making the ground shake violently. It is not even earthquake season, and this finally persuaded me into believing that this must be a demon, not my mother.
   "Child, you shall die tonight, and, no, you will never see your mother again," the demon exclaimed, and then clicked his finger, which caused a black carriage with black horses to appear from thin air.
   He said, "Get in." and with a click of his fingers, again, a force of sudden wind pushes me toward the carriage.
   He chuckles again and then hops onto the front of the carriage and grabs the reins. With a loud noise that sounded like, "Hi-yah," he whips the reins and the horses run into the air and through the walls of my bedroom.
   I could not do anything. His powers forced me to sit in a upright position. We fly across  town and towards the highway until we start to go underground into the a cave-or what I think is a cave. The abominable and abnormal heat is so high that I start sweating.
   The carriage stops, and he commands, "Get out now."
   I listen to him, and after I get out, he pushes me toward a silver body of water, a river filled with perturbed souls.
   "Jump, child," he hushes.
   I scream back, "No!"
   Instead, he pushes me in, and I start screaming from the souls dragging me down, weakening by the second.
   Above the river, I hear a chuckle and then, "That's what you get for violating the rules!"
   What rules, I thought, but before I could say anything, I saw my life flash before my eyes.

   Mom is hugging me.

   Dad is leaving the house with a bag slouched over his shoulder.
Mom is screaming behind him, saying, "I'm sorry! I still love you!"

   Mom is dying.

   I am dying. My life is over.

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Hello! It's been at least a week? Sorry about that.
Well, this short story isn't exactly a thriller until the end.
At first, I was trying to make it light-hearted, and then realized that this would be great for a plot twist.
Then, I also realized it is really long. Oops.
Well, I hope you liked it!

Stay indecisive everyone! <3