The Red Castle

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Nicole reached her parents house like she said she would, of course after she finished her phone call she knew they wouldn't be there. Nicole smiled at how stupid her parents had been, she knew they hadn't changed one bit. She channeled her inner locator and found them, sill old folk they were hiding at that old drive in.

She liked her new speed, she could run faster than she used to be able to, she ran to the drive in and walked up behind her parents.

"Boo,"

They both screamed and tried to run away. She grabbed her father first broke his neck and then ripped out his heart and threw it at her mother.

"You can't run, you know I'll catch you," Nicole smiled "do you want me to kill you the same way you killed me or do you want me to rip your heart out?"

Nicole waited a few seconds "oh wait I have an idea, I can do both!"

"No p-please, Baby, I never wanted to h-hurt you,"

"Please you stared into my eyes as you watched me die, there was joy in your eyes then and there is none in mine now." and at that she ripped her mother's heart from her chest and plucked her eyeball out, "I can't wait until the police get here, how are they going to explain a girl who has been dead for fifteen years killed her parents," she started to laugh like a maniac, how her parents had taught her to be.

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The library has always been a special place in Hazel's heart, it was her safe place, her second home away from her own and her friends. Most kids made fun of Hazel when she was younger for going to the library four times a week, some of them met her parents and stopped teasing but then there were still some who didn't realize the whole story was different to what they were seeing.

She had learned the habit from pretty early on, to go to the library even if she didn't want any books she would just go there randomly, most times with her mother, sometimes not. Her mother had brought her to the bookstore ever since she was born, since her mother went so often no sense getting your child a babysitter when you could just bring them right? After five years Hazel stopped making a fuss of going, it wasn't like anything was going to change, so up until this point, at sixteen years old she has a habit of going to the library.

When her mom used to go to the library she set up play dates for Hazel, usually with Hailee, Lexi, and April. So that the parents could have a break from keeping their kids busy and talk with each other.

Of course the other girls' parents aren't as strict about going to the library so it never became a habit and were able to quit once they could stay home alone.

"Guys come on, I think we should tell our parents about this, I mean we flipped at school without even knowing! It has to become a matter of our parents soon," Hazel exclaimed "and besides they know a bit more about the Nicole since they were able to remember her when she was alive unlike us since we were only 2,"

"Yes but they will think we are crazy, I mean have people ever heard of someone coming back from the dead that was actually dead? I mean I saw the body, we all did, it was in the papers for crying out loud. You can't fake that death especially since everyone in the town knew about her had seen her and thought they had known that she was an only child, to bad her parents killed off her little brother, but still if she had a twin we would be the first to know because for some reason our parents are obsessed with them," Lexi replied out of breath.

"But don't you want to tell someone?" Hazel asked looking in through the library window staring at their parents.

"I think we all do," Lexi paused, "but this isn't something we can just go around and tell people, do you really want to be sent to a mental hospital?"