The Apartment

Goodbye

As I pack the last few things into my old red suitcase I look around my room to remember all the memories I had made. By the big teddy bear, that I've had since I was two, I remember my dad playing peekaboo with me and hiding behind it to make me think he had disappeared. On my bed I remember my mother sitting with me whilst reading me bedtime stories. All happy memories, at least those are the ones I wanted to remember. I always push one to the back of my mind, I woke up in the middle of the night thirsty, as usual, so i get up to go and get a glass of water. As I walk along the creaky floor boards I thought I heard strained breathing but I just thought it was a pipe making a noise. When I'm back in my room, after getting a glass of water, I tuck myself back into bed and try to fall asleep when I hear a door creak open. I was petrified. I take a peak through my blanket and see my wardrobe door open and blood spilling from it and a woman hanging there. I scream in terror. My mother and farther rush into my room, I look back to find the door closed and the floor spotless.After that my mother drilled into me that it was a hallucination and to make nothing of it, but I couldn't ever shake the feeling that I was being watched since that point.

That was six years ago and have learnt to deal with it. I hear my mother call my name

" Isla your going to miss the train if you don't hurry up."

I zip up my suitcase and carry it down stairs. I see my mom standing in the living room doorway tearful I rush to her to give her a hug; we embraced tightly I didn't want to let her go and she didn't want to let me go. We retreated and I started to cry. She wiped my tears away and reassured me,

" Your father would be so proud of you."

I bring myself together and set out of the house.I get to the bottom of the front garden gate were I turn around and wave goodbye.