Hannah woke up with a start, she pulled down the covers and sat up. She hadn't learned how to tell time yet, but there were only three numbers so it must have been early. She had school in the morning, but she'd heard something and couldn't sleep now... what if the monster in her closet had escaped? She wandered over to the closet, reaching up on her tiptoes to grab the knob. The closet door creaked on its hinges as it swung open and Hannah fell back, her long brown hair falling over her eyes as she toppled. When she got up again the monster was still there, his fluffy ears still loosely stitched on and his soft teeth stuck out of his silly mouth.
"You stay right there," she told him sternly. "I need to find mum."
She wandered out into the hallway, wondering why the lights were still on, daddy always said he wasn't made of money, though what that had to do with lights she wasn't sure. Curling her toes on the hallway carpet she walked towards her mum and dads room, the door stood slightly ajar. The light from inside the room suddenly went out and a man came out in a black robe and a ghostly mask... there was red all over them. He stopped dead in his tracks upon seeing her.
"Is my daddy in there?" she asked, moving towards the doorway.
The man caught her arm and she could hear his heavy breathing.
"You're not to go in there. You hear me girl" he panted, crouching down beside her.
Hannah put her hands on her hips as her mummy did when she was cross with daddy.
"I'm going to see my daddy!" she stated, pushing past the man and opening the door, he grabbed her arm, but too late.
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The cabin in High Wood
TerrorHannah's childhood was traumatic, but, having put it aside a long time ago she's on a last farewell trip with her friends before college. Has the past really been buried or are things finally catching up with her?
