The Boy With The Melted Eyes Part 1

The Keeper

After a couple of hours of unpacking and getting my room set up, I'm finally almost all the way done with everything. I look around to find my phone so I can check the time, I press my home button and see that the clock says 3:15 p.m., '' Hmm, okay I think this is enough for now, I'll get a shower and head out to the store''. I undress and grab my towel, 'feels good to be able to walk around naked' I think to myself with a big smile on my face, I get down to the bath and admire myself in the mirror. Natural brown curly hair all over my head, pretty light brown eyes like my dad has a slim build and nice light brown skin like my mother with her tiny nose and full lips.

I turn to start the shower and when I twist the hot to on brown water starts to come on, '' ugh'', I blurt out. I let it run for a while until the water is clear, ''guess that's what happens when your house uses well water'', I say to myself. I jump in the shower and do a quick wash up so I can head out before its dark. I get out and go to the mirror I brush my teeth because I had been drinking coffee all day and I'm sure my breath doesn't smell too hot right now.

I put my head in the sink and I spit, I put my head back up and in the foggy mirror, I can see what looks to be a figure of a child standing behind me in the doorway. I turn around fast startled by what I just saw or what I thought I have just seen in the mirror, I step out of the bathroom into the hallway, hairbrush in hand, like that, would be much use if someone decided they wanted to attack me. I look around and then I call out ''it's okay you can come out, I won't tell your parents that your here,'' but I hear nothing I rush down the hall to my room and throw on the first thing I see, a pair of jeans and a t-shirt hanging out of a half-opened drawer.

I walk around the house but I don't see anything or anyone for that matter. So I grab my shoes and my keys and I head out, Snowbell should be fine without me for a couple of hours. I turn on my GPS and search for the closes market, and one pops up about twenty minutes up the road, so I set the directions, buckle my seat belt and I head down the road to the store. After twenty minutes of singing and driving, I had finally arrived at this cute little shack that they called a grocery store. There it sat in between a bank and a barbershop, I park and get out and make my way to the store.

Once inside I grab a basket and head through the store with three aisles and four freezers, I grab a couple of groceries, a bottle of wine, and some incents since my house had kind of an old smell to it. I go up to the counter which had some candy on it, I look up and smile at the older Caucasian lady with long white hair and a red sweat on, and she smiles back at me. Also at the counter was an older Caucasian gentleman who had been talking to the lady before I walked and when I walked into the store. The lady starts to grab and bag my things then she says '' you must be the younger lady who moved into the Mills home twenty minutes up the road.''. I smile and nod. Then I say '' yes I am, my name is Vanessa. How are you?''. She smiles back and says '' well I'm Mrs. Amdale and this is me and my husband's store he's out making runs right now, but I'm sure you guys will meet one day.''.

Then she looks over at the man standing at the counter and says '' Oh and this is Mr. Harris he's the groundskeeper for your new home, and he has been since what happened there''. He shoots her a look and she quickly tells me my total, I look over at him and I smile, he nods at me and quickly turns back to Mrs. Amdale like he was trying to make sure she didn't say anything else. So I brushed it off for the moment but I was curious to know what she meant by that, and I was sure going to be asking first chance I got. I tell them both bye and I head out of the store.

On the drive home I couldn't help but think about the child I had seen outside my house that day and the shadow I had seen behind me in the mirror after my shower. Then I thought back to what Mrs. Amdale said at the store 'after what happened there', did something happen in my new house? The guy didn't mention anything he just said it was an old family house, was I seeing a ghost in my house or am I just overthinking the whole thing? Maybe I'm just overthinking. I shrug and then turn the music up and sing until I'm back in the driveway. I grab the groceries out of the car and I head towards the front door as I head to the door I look up and see Snowbell sitting in the front window staring at me. '' Oh, you missed mommy huh?'', I say as I unlock the door.