"Why do you try to be my mom, your not? I hate you!!! I never want to see you again!!!" Elaine screamed at the top of her lungs.
"That's just fine!!! I wish I never would have taken…umm Elaine, what's this next line, you kind of scribbled it." Elaine's Godmother said to her. They had been practicing some scenes from Elaine's new play.
"Oh, that's 'you'" Elaine told her Godmother Julia.
Okay, from the top?"
"Nah, I need to do my homework, but how about tomorrow?"
"Sure Elaine that sounds good." Elaine turned and ran up the stairs as Julia said this. Julia now, more than ever, was not convinced that Elaine's inspiration for her new play, had come, as she said, from a movie she saw on TV. She thought now, that her play had come from her feelings about her.
You see Julia is not Elaine's real mother she is her Godmother. Elaine's real mother and sister were killed when Elaine was 4 years old. The really sad thing was that Elaine was there when her family was killed, and she stabbed the murderer. Julia sighed and went back to her housework.
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"There!" Elaine sighed as she finished the last page of her English essay. She sat back on her bed, and thought about the next scene for her play. She yawned and decided to instead take a quick nap. As she drifted into sleep, she thought about how nice Julia was for helping her with her play, and had a lingering thought in the back of her mind, about her real parents. Normally Elaine didn't dream but today as soon as Elaine fell asleep, she began to dream.
She was sitting on her bed, reading, when the doorbell rang. She sighed as she got up to go answer the door, but to her surprise, heard her sister, Maggie, answer the door instead. "That's good," she thought, "now I can finish my book." She was about to sit back down, when she heard her sister scream. She ran to the door, and found that she could not open it. She kicked and scratched at her door, while she heard one final lingering scream, and her sister's body fall to the ground. "Why, isn't Mommy getting up? She must have heard Maggie!" she thought wildly, when she heard her mom's door open and her mom say, "What the hell is going on around here!" "Oh my God! I'm going to kill you! I'm going to…" but she never finished. The next thing she heard was another body fall. Elaine was desperate now. she grabbed her mirror and broke it with her foot. She ignored the throbbing pain in her foot and proceeded to take the biggest piece of broken mirror and wait. Soon she heard the sound of footsteps climbing the stairs. She readied herself to lunge. The footsteps got closer, and closer and soon enough, the door opened. A man was standing in front of her, but she couldn't see his face, then she attacked, and felt the sickening feeling of the piece of mirror sinking into the man's flesh. As he fell, she ran, and right in front of her was her mother and sister, both dead. With a strangled cry she ran out the door, and into the night. When she turned around for a last glance at the house, she found the man standing right behind her…
"AHHHHHHH NOOOOOOOO!" Elaine screamed with tears running down her eyes.
"Elaine, what's wrong!?" Julia asked frantically as she came into her room.
"It was the dream again. The same horrible dream!" Elaine sobbed.
"Oh, honey, it's okay. You know that man will never come after you. You killed him, remember?" Julia said trying to comfort her terrified and sobbing Goddaughter.
"Then why didn't they find the body? Julia, you know as well as I do that he's not dead. And, I've been meaning to tell you, I've been having another dream. This one is about you. Now, you know that my dreams usually come true, so I want you to be careful, okay?" Elaine said frantically.
"It's okay, I will dear, now go back to sleep."
"Okay, and Julia, I love you."
"I love you too Elaine," Julia said, and with a last look at Elaine she left. Elaine looked around and saw that there was a small fire on her desk. Elaine raised her hand and cloud appeared and rained on the little fire until it was put out.
"I hate it when that happens," Elaine muttered and turned over to try to go back to sleep.
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Elaine couldn't get back to sleep for the rest of the night. She tossed and turned, and finally got up to look at her dream notes. Although her dreams were few, they were usually always of importance and Elaine kept detailed notes on all her dreams. Elaine flipped through her dream notes until she found the one she was looking for.
Dream: I am in the kitchen. Julia and someone else is in the dream. Something is wrong with Julia though, she is lying on the ground, and I know she's dead. The man is laughing and I know he killed her. When he turns around, I can't see his face and then I wake up.
Analysis: I think Julia is in danger. I have to be careful with her from now on.
"What can this mean? Oh Julia please be careful," Elaine whispered into the night.
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"What do you think about making cookies today?" Julia asked as Elaine came down the stairs for breakfast.
"Yeah, sure," Elaine said obviously tired.
"Okay, well, I'll get the ingredients," Julia said searching through the cabinets.
"You, know, I think I used the last of the flour for your birthday cake," Elaine yawned.
"Yeah, your right, no flour. I'll go to the store real quick and get some more. You want to come?"
"Nah, I'll stay here, and get the rest of the stuff ready," Elaine replied.
"Okay, honey. I'll be right back. Love you," Julia said getting into her car.
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"Okay, everything is ready," Elaine said when she had finished putting the sugar in the bowl. "Where is Julia, it doesn't take that long to get flour". As soon as she finished saying this the phone rang.
"Hello, Smith residence." Elaine said.
"Hi, Elaine, it's Julia. I met this guy in the supermarket, and he asked me out to coffee. Would you hate me terribly if I accepted?" Julia's voice said from the telephone.
"No, of course not! Go ahead, have a good time, I have some stuff I need to do anyway."
"Thanks Elaine, I love you, bye."
"Love you too, buh bye," Elaine said, "Hmmm, that's kind of cool, that Julia gets to go out tonight. She deserves it after having to put up with me for 10 years.
Elaine busied herself for four hours by working on her play. At about 5:00 p.m. she started to get a bit worried, when the phone rang again.
"Hello, Julia?"
"Yeah, honey, it's me. Daniel, you know the guy I went out with, asked me to dinner. Is it alright for me to go?" Julia asked.
"Yeah sure, that's ok," Elaine said.
"Okay see you later, honey, bye."
"Bye."
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It was three hours later and Elaine was sitting at the kitchen table reading, waiting for Julia. She was starting to become worried about her. She knew that Julia was very capable of taking care of herself, but still. Elaine was just thinking about calling Julia's cell phone, when the door opened. She looked up and saw Julia and the guy, Daniel, come in. The guy's back was turned to her, but when he turned around, Elaine wished he hadn't. Elaine let out a piercing scream, and threw the chair she was sitting in at him. She finally was able to put a face to her constant nightmare, for now she remembered the face of the man that killed her family and he was standing in her kitchen.
"Elaine! What is wrong? What are you thinking?" Julia said furious.
"Julia, it's him! It's the man that killed my family! Run!"
"I don't think so," the man said getting up, "Nobody's going anywhere." Elaine stood cowering in the corner, as Julia picked up the fallen chair, and went to beam the man upon the head, but he was too fast. He pulled some sort of stick from his pocket and muttered the last words Julia would ever hear: Avada Kedavra.
Elaine let out a scream as she saw Julia's body fall to the ground, dead. She stood up and went towards the man, her adreniline pumped body, and her anger filled mind, were ready to take on Ghanghis Khan if she had to. When the man turned around, Elaine hit him square in the face with her fist. Daniel was not expecting this and got the full force of the blow. While Daniel was getting his balance back, Elaine ran. She ran as fast and hard as she could. She didn't hear any pursuit, but was scared just the same. She kept running until daylight, not stopping to take one breath. As exhaustion came over her, she felt herself slowing down. She finally stopped when she tripped over a large rock in her path and fell, she didn't bother to get up.
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