Hi! I love horror films, so I'm writing a horror piece! This is a mixture between my two favourite horror films, The Orphanage and Dark Water. The mains characters are, of course, Helia and Flora, But to warn you, wait, no, I can't give anything away... They have a child called Carissa. She is eight years old, and has shoulder length brunette hair. Enjoy!
Disclaimer: I do not own Winx Club, The Orphanage, or Dark Water.
Unexplained Questions
"Right. What do we think of this house then?" Helia looked at Carissa with hope in his eyes. Him, Flora and Carissa had been wandering around with an estate agent all day. The estate agent was getting extremely bored with all the disagreements Carissa was having with her parents. At every house Carissa had shook her head, it was like the houses disagreed with her. Carissa wanted to find a very special house, which called to her, telling her that it was the house for her.
"I can't tell from just standing outside the house, we have to look inside!" Carissa took Helia's hand and tried to pull him in, but with a struggle because Helia was so strong. Flora just giggled and pushed Helia on. The estate agent rolled her eyes, she didn't care about what house it was now, she just wanted them to agree and get it over with. The entered the large house, and emerged in a medium sized hall, with a small chanderliar hanging from the ceiling with dust and cobwebs all over it. There was dust everywhere else as well, on the fireplace, on the railing for the stairs, and also hidden in dark corners. Carissa looked slightly interested in this house, but Flora looked slightly unsure of it, as did Helia. Flora was stepped towards Carissa.
"Scary, huh?" Flora hugged Carissa from behind.
"I know," Carissa skipped off.
"Wait-"
"Don't worry Flora, there is nothing in here that could harm her, nor is there anywhere she could get lost," The estate agent spoke calmly, making Flora relax a little. Flora was a very protective mother, she didn't want anything to happen to Carissa, and loved her with all her heart. Carissa ran back.
"Its yucky here..." Carissa spoke rather rudely.
"Carissa! Shh..." Helia said quite firmly.
"Why don't we take a look upstairs, this house has very large rooms," The estate agent started up the steps, followed by Helia, Flora and Carissa.
Upstairs, there was quite a large hall, with doors all along it. The doors were an old green, and the paint was curling away to reveal rotten wood. The carpet was a dirty brown colour and smelt like an old, strong smelling aftershave. It made Carissa feel sick.
"Can I go and explore?" Carissa liked to explore more than anything else in the whole world. She smiled at her parents with hope.
"Go on then, but be careful," Helia gave Carissa the permisson and she instantley flounced off. Helia smiled at Flora, while the estate agent went back downstairs because her phone was ringing.
"So what do you think of this house then?" Helia smirked.
"I love old houses! This place sure needs a lot of work, but its a great price!" Flora smiled, then kissed him on the cheek.
"Your right about the work bit, but your also right about the price," He looked around, "It does need a lot of work..."
Meanwhile, Carissa was exploring the bedrooms. The master bedroom was very grand, but somehow dim and damp. By just looking at it, you would feel like the past of it was very sad. It made Carissa sort of scared, but she didn't run off, because she wasn't that kind of child, if she was scared she would stand her ground because she liked the exciting sentsation. She decided to go to the next bedroom, which was a little down the hall from the main one. She opened the door, and got splinters from pushing the rotten wood. Inside, there were twelve single beds, six opposite eachother against each side of the wall. Underneath each duvet cover, there was a small bulgde. Carissa threw off one of the duvets and found a china doll, about the size of a nine week old kitten. It had green glass eyes and a white and navy blue sailor's outfit. The clothes were clean, like there was someone waiting for the night to go to bed and hold it while falling asleep. It made Carissa shiver ever so slightly. She threw the duvets off every other bed, and found more china dolls, every one of them was different. Carissa laid them out in front of her on the floor and started finger them. Each of them had a name on the back of them in red: Acorri, Abrielle, Azzo, Cecilio, Biagio, Armide, Arrigo, Ettore, Fantasia, Fiamma, Furlo, and Galilia.
Carissa was so silent, she felt a slight drip hit the floor. She flipped her hair round and stood up to investigate. There was a small drop of dirty red on the floor. She looked up, and saw a red leak in the ceiling. It was such a brown-red that it looked like a scab she would get if she fell over and scraped her knee against gravel. Carissa frowned, there couldn't of been a leak from the upper floor because the house only had two floors, and it couldn't have been fom the rain because it was the hottest day so far of summer. The leak seemed to grow ever so slightly, like someone was controlling it, someone was communicating to her with it... Flora came in.
"If we moved here, this would be your room, look how big it is! It was a bedroom for twelve other children your age before," Flora smiled and kneeled next to her.
"What happened to the other children?" Carissa was now very interested.
"I suppose they moved away, or grew up..." Flora frowned, "What are these?" She picked up the doll that said Galilia on the back of it.
"These dolls were underneath the duvets of each of these beds, if the moved away or grew up, why would they just leave them here?" Flora bit her lip and shook her head because of the confusion.
"I don't know, do you like the house then?" Flora changed the topic.
"It's great!"
"I'm glad we've finally found something affordable that you actually like, sweetie!" Flora gave her a warm hug.
"C'mon, lets get back to Helia and the estate agent," Flora pulled Carissa out of the room. Once the got back, Flora took Helia away so they could talk for a minute, then came back with smiles on their faces.
"We'll take it!" Helia said warmley, reaching into his pocket for his check book.
"Exellent!" The estate agent took the check and drove off.
"Lets go pack!" Carissa dragged Helia to the car, Flora giggled once more. When they were driving off, Carissa looked at the roof above the bedroom where she had found the china dolls. She could have sworn she had seen something, something flashing red, because it was moving so quickly.
"What the-" Carissa said quietly.
"What?" Flora looked round from the front seat.
"Oh, nothing..."
