Manika

1. Run

Mari

There was once a little girl named Mari.
She and her family owned a carnival. But ever since her younger sister died because of an unknown sickness, she was never a cheerful little girl anymore. For her 4th birthday, her parents gave her a doll. She promised to never lose it, in memory of her sister. One day, she had nothing to do in their carnival, since her parents were busy with some work. So she explored the enormous carnival with her doll. She was riding a merry - go - round when sonething caught her eye. It was a place called "House of Mirrors" which was also surrounded by a yellow caution rope, which she never seen before. Then she remembered what her parents told her the night before to never go in there because it was a dangerous place full of monsters. But she wanted to go anyways, because of  her curiousity. After that ride she quickly ran towards that place. When she switched the lights on, they just kept on flickering. So she decided to just turn them off, since she had a tiny flashlight with her. When she turned it on, she saw a huge mirror infront of her. Because of  the dust covering the mirror, she wiped it away then she saw her face with a funny look. She laughed so hard that her flashlight fell and got broken, because of its cheap price. She started to become scared and ran as fast as she could to the exit. As soon as she got there, her doll got stuck on a hook. She didn't want to leave her doll there, so shw tried pulling her out. But how hard she tried, she couldn't get her out. When the doll's dress was already loose, she pulled her out. But before she could even run away, someone took a hold of her hand. But when she tried to look back to see who was there, she didn't see anybody. She ran back to her parents and asked them if she could go home with her aunt, since their house was just nearby.

When they got home, she rushed to her room and put het doll on her bed neatly. When she sat down in front of her dresser, she saw someone on the mirror. It was a girl combing her hair. She recognized the girl's face.

It was her sister.

"Rose!" She exclaimed. "How did you get here? Aren't you supposed to be in Heaven?" Rose, her sister, did not answer. She didn't know where Rose was supposed to be in right now because of the black circles under her eyes, her dirty long dress, bruises on her face, and her smell of a dead person. She just ignored that since she didn't know how she died. So she thought she fell of a cliff and was never found again and died there then went to Heaven. When she was about to hug her, she (Rose) disappeared. She heard footsteps coming upstairs, pressuming it was her aunt. But when she opened the door, nobody was there, again, like what happened earlier. When she was about to get her doll from her bed, it wasn't there anymore. When she looked under her bed and everywhere her room, she couldn't find it. But when she realized about the footsteps earlier, she thought that some mysterious ghost took it. So she went downstairs and asked her aunt if she saw her doll, but she said no. So she tried to look for it, but she couldn't.