I ran quickly to my mom smiling cheerfully. I stopped by her and grabbed an apple. She was making dinner for papa, me, her, and mawma. She had cheese melting deliciously over the noodles, and the smoked sausage was sizzling.
“Mama!” I shouted excitedly.
“Yes, my honeybee?”
“Papa said i can make the new scarecrow!”
“Oh that's just lovely!” She exclaimed.
I smiled and called for mawma. Then i went to find her after she didn’t come when I called for her. I searched in the living room, my room, mama and papa’s room, then I went to her room. I opened the door quietly and saw her butt peeking out from under the bed. I laughed quietly as she was crawling back out.
“Mawma, what are you doing?”
“Why hello baby, im getting your scarecrow stuff out,” She claimed, looking back with glitter on her face.
She grabbed the box that she was under the bed for and chased me down the stairs and into the barn. She put the box down and placed me on her hip. She turned music on and started to dance, making me laugh.
“C’mon Mawma let's get to work!”
She laughed and placed me on the stool and we got to work. We made a mess with it but we finished. He had a small hat with a friendly face and had a tan jacket with a white shirt I had stained with juice.
I ran in caring the scarecrow showing papa. He smiled and picked me up and mom placed our plates on the table. Papa fed me first so I didn't burn my mouth. I was only 3 but i was pretty smart just not so with food. After we were done eating we all went outside and put the scarecrow up. The moonlight hit it perfectly showing the gold and silver glitter they hid on the scarecrow. They all shared smiles and papa gave me a pat on the back. I smiled at him and fell in the grass.
I was swooped up by mama and she ran inside as papa chased us into the house.
“C’mon now let's get you to bed,” mama said ruffling my hair.
“Mama,” I grumbled, “ I don't wanna go to bed!”
“You’ll be as tired a bat,” mawma stated.
I sighed defeatedly and went to my room to get dressed in pajamas. I slipped on a pair of dinosaur pajamas and plopped down onto my bed. Papa walked in softly and tucked me in quickly. He kissed my head gently and mama walked in and kissed my head too. They walked out and closed the door quietly. I laid my head down and closed my eyes waiting for sleep to wash over me.
An hour after falling asleep I woke back up. There in my room stood the scarecrow it reached out as the old wood creaked. The head mawma painted and stuffed tilted slowly. It creaked every step it made towards were i lay. It finally grabbed my leg after it stood there in silence after reaching my bed. I struggled with pulling my foot back but i couldn’t. I cried for mawma, papa, and mama. They all ran in and stopped dead in their tracks. Mama started crying and mawma just stared. Papa set out a sling of curse words as the scarecrow stared at him.
“ReMeBeR mE?” the scarecrow asked in a scratched voice.
No one answered back just the cold hard silence.
“Oh ReAlLy, JaCk?” it questioned, “YoU’rE nOt GoNnA iNtRoDuCe Me To YoUr LiTtLe HaG!”
Papa just dropped to the floor and mom stared back at the scarecrow.
“He KiLlEd Me FoR yOu!”
“NoW i’M gOnNa KiLl YoUr OnLy SoN!”
The scarecrow yanked me up to it and yanked my head back to where I stopped breathing. My mom yelled out and dad yelled curse words. Mawma cried and screamed, baby, mom cried out my poor honeybee.
