The death of Sally Williams was a tragic one that hit the quite & peaceful town of Sunny Bay hard. Sally had always been a sweet girl and known to all the locals as a very polite and adorable 12 year old, With long wavy brown hair, green eyes that sparkled in the sunlight, who always wore her favourite pink dress and carried her beloved plush teddy bear everywhere she went.
It was a sad day when her body was found at the local park with her clean pink dressed now covered in bloody along with her beloved teddy bear. Her death was no accident, it was reported on all news channels, radio stations & Newspaper that poor Sally had been murdered, not by a stranger but by her own uncle who was trying to cover up his secrets.
As the trail of her murder went on and all news reporters covering it, the reason behind her death become clearer and more disturbing day by day.
Sally's uncle was sentenced to life in prison due to his actions against his niece & after a while, the town of Sunny Bay began to go back to normal….or so they thought.
"Come play with me"
Shara eyes shot open to see the ceiling above her. The room dark but the light of the full moon sneaked through her blinds to create twinkling light in her room. Share placed her hands over her eyes and rubbed them to get the sleep out of her eyes before she surveyed the room.
No one was there. she stared off into the distance remembering the wonderful dream she was having about her crush. They walked through a beautiful garden holding hands and smiling as the light of the sun shined down on them both.
They walked all the way to seat that overlooked the lake they told funny stories of the times they had together and all the good memories they had and hoped to create. They slowly got closer to each other for the important first kiss but before they shared their Shara could savour her dreaming moment, She awoke to the 4 words of come play with me.
Shara thought to herself, maybe if she tells him how she feels maybe he would feel the same way back or maybe she would get hurt from his rejection and Shara couldn't bare the thought of that happening. Her heart could only take so much hurt and her heart has already dealt with so much already.
Shara collected herself before she decided to look at her clock on the bedside table for the time.
"It's only 4am" she groaned as she flung back hitting her head on the pillow.
She swore she heard a little girls voice and that's what woke her up in the first place but she shook it off and assumed it was just something from her dreaming state while asleep, she closed her eyes and drifted back off to sleep, hoping to go back to her dreamland in her head before she had to be up for the first day back at school in 3 hours.
As Shara fell back into a deep sleep, little did she know that a small figure watched from one of the corners of her room. A girl in a bloodied pink dress, kept her gaze from her green eyes fixed on Shara as she slept.
She gripped her plush teddy bear tightly as she diverted her gaze to the stuffed animal.
"He will want us back soon" She said to her teddy.
She looked back up at Shara one last time before she disappeared in an instance, leaving behind utter silence & a cold feeling that Shara would feel when she woke up in the morning.
Shara was not the only one in her household to be awake at 4am in the morning. Over in the next room her sister sat on her laptop going through old pictures of her & her ex boyfriend.
Tayla hated how they broke up & the fact that they broke up felt like a knife was being wedged in her heart. She thought back at the moment they broke up, the clouds were grey, the wind threw her hair up in the air as she uttered the words 'it's over' to the guy she still cared about deeply.
She remember his face changed, his always happy go lucky attitude changed into a kid who lost their favourite toy. His face showing the effect but holding back the hurt & pain that she had just inflicted on him.
The wind on that day seemed like it was avoiding him, as his dark brown hair stopped flowing in the wind and instead stayed flat against his body. His brown eyes that she adored so much become unbearable to look at him, knowing she was doing this for her own reasons and that none of this was his fault.
He blamed himself, she saw straight through him, she wanted to tell him that but could not bring herself to utter another word, and even if she had tried, her voice had no sound anymore.
Tayla would only take one last look at him before she turned around and walked away. Away from him, away from his caring ways, away from the person she would never get over.
Tears begin to fall from her eyes as she clicked over to the last image on her folder to view. A picture of them both laying on the couch cuddling, with her blanket over the both of them, the same blanket she sleeps with now. Tayla remembered the show they were watching when they took this picture. a Comedy show where they had to act out certain things that the host will say or audience suggest, it would turn out to be hilarious over the top acts which would leave them both in stitches after laughing so hard. The day in the picture was the day they decided to binge watch the show as they both had the house to themselves for the day. The thoughts haunted Tayla.
She closed the laptop, wanting to forget that she decided to look at the pictures that she refuses herself to delete as they hold so much happiness but also so much pain. She wasn't ready to let him go, not yet.
Tayla placed her laptop beside her bed, laid her head on her pillow and covered herself with the same blanket she had saw in the last picture.
As she shut her eyes, all she could see was his face, not the face she had seen on the day she broke up with him but the face of the last happy moment they shared.
