As Coraline laid over bed she thought about the past 16 years of they life. When she was five she saw her uncle die in 9/11 when she was 9 she met her friends In Michigan, when she was 11 she moved to Oregon, met Wyborn and defeated the other mother. When she was 13 she learnt how to play bass, when she was 14 she met the 2 exchange students from England and Australia which the schools bus driver thought was Austrian or is was just simply his accent.
When she was 16 she became a seamstress and sewed garments for people. And now she was going to turn 17 the next day. Coraline looked at a wedding dress that she recently made and felt really sad because Genevieve's parents (the Australian exchange student parents) were splitting up and she might be moved back to Australia. And she also thought about Wyborn's grandma getting older and that when she dies he will have to be moved to an orphanage. She thought about all the other terrible things that have happened in her past life. She tried to think about happy things but it was hard too.
The most devastating thought was when her father died when Charlie and Coraline went out on a Sunday drive when a group of terrorist hit their car and made it roll if the cliff. Coraline got out in time but her father didn't. The funeral was sad and his death was hard to get over but she managed. That day was also the day that she got a lot more closer to Wybie as he opened up to her and said that's she's not alone, he didn't say anything else though. Still, it was more devastating for Mel, she didn't eat, sleep or talk for a while. It was very hard for them two.
So as Coraline saw snow trickle down her window she started to feel sleepy. As she fell into a deep sleep and as she went into the land of complete happiness...her nightmare has just begun.
In the morning she ate breakfast but not all of it as she didn't feel exited as she would have normally felt on her birthday, but instead felt an empty hole inside of her. She had been having visions of the other mother and every so often she saw a spider woman with button eyes at the corner of her eye. She didn't know whether it was just her being paranoid or the fact that she's returned. "Mum, have you ever felt like you weren't alone?"
"Well, of course I have, you're always around aren't you?"
"Yes, but when I'm not around, when I'm hunting for crystals in the Koran's cave with Wybie and Joseph or when I'm shopping with Genevieve."
"Actually, yes I roughly remember seeing a spider woman, with big, black button eyes at the end of my bed yesterday, but that was after we watched Women In black with that Harry Potter guy-"
"Daniel Radcliff." Coraline interrupted "Yes, Radcliff, Anyway, after that movie, it was understandable."
Coraline was shocked after that, she knew it wasn't hallucinations she was really back and was out to get her. Coraline couldn't eat anymore cereal so she left it there sitting on the table. Coraline put on an random Black English coat that she found at the back of her wardrobe the year before and found that she really liked it. She put on stockings and some dark, navy blue jeans on top and black doc martins. She went outside in the snow to find Wybie pulling something. He's converses were muddy at the bottom, his jeans were slightly ripped and his parker had a bit of snow on it. Yet he was still smiling. "Happy Birthday! As per-usual I brought you a big present."
"I wonder what it is this year?"
"Do you...do you want to open it?" Wybie said with a smile. "Yeah!" So Coraline bent over and un-rapped it "A TELECOPE! THANKS WYBIE!"
"I thought you might want it since you really like astronomy."
Coraline walked over and gave him a big hug. A long one, I'm talking, like, a long 2 minute one. "Er, you can let go now."
"Oh. Right, yeah." Said Coraline. "Listen, I need to talk to you about something, remember that other mother thing that YOU DIDN'T BELIEVE ME ABOUT?"
"Look if I told you to go ask a cat about a spider women with button eyes and cracks on her face, you would freak out too."
"How do you know she's a spider woman with cracks on her face?"
"Er...lucky guess?"
"Right. Anyway back to the subject. I reckon she's well 'returned' My mum's seen her, I've seen her! And, well, you're the only one who knows about this and I need you to help me." Coraline said. "Well, we need to start somewhere Coraline." Suggested Wybie
"How about the library." Said Coraline
"Demons for dummies? You have got to be kidding me." Said Wybie "It was all that I could find." Coraline replied.
"Ok, Slender man, rake, Baal, Bali, Banshee Ah-ha! Beldam!"
"How do know what it's called, Wyborn?"
"Er it has a picture of a button next to it?"
"Hmm. Pass me the book." So Wybie passed the book to Coraline. "It says:
A beldam is an old lady particularly, an ugly one. But the Beldam is a demon from which there are only one in every country. It's eyes are replaced with buttons. It lures children in a particular house which the child is staying in whether its temporary or a permanent shelter. Children often refer them as their "Other mother". The beldam is also part of the operator group which is lead by 'Slender man' (See page 34)" Coraline thought this piece information wasn't very useful since she knew all of this already, except for this...Slender man. "Wybie, what's slender man?"
"Well, remember that game that we played a couple of years ago when you had to walk around in a forest at night collecting these pages without running into this guy with no face and a tuxedo?"
"No."
"That game that made me scream like a girl and you piss your pants."
"Oh, right yeah!"
"Well, that's him."
"Oh, shit, he's real?"
"Well if this 'Beldam' is real, I'm pretty sure he or she or shim is."
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