Chapter 11.
"There.....I see something." Colt finally said pointing a few steps ahead of them at the grass. The two boys ran forward and picked the item up. "It's his watch!" Tum tum said taking it from his brothers hands to look at it himself then he stuffed it in his pocket. "I wonder how much stuff he dropped?" Tum then asked as the thought crossed his mind.
"Heeyyy maybe he wants us to follow these things?" Colt said suddenly looking around making Tum tum panick. "What do you mean? That creepy girl might be out here?" He asked whirling around looking in every direction. "I don't think so, but I wouldn't put it past her to just be hanging out watching us." Colt grabbed his brothers shoulder making him stop spinning in circles like a loon. "We better move quickly it's lunch time now we've been out here forever and if it gets any later we won't be able to see."
"And that's not good for anyone." Tum said nodding to agree and they walked deeper into the woods.
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Maria was lying on top of Rocky now possesively kissing him when he mumbled something in between and she backed away from him angrily looking down and asked. "What did you say?" Rocky knew that would work. "I said...E- Emily." There was a break in his voice because of the drug and he started to sit up again, but she pushed him back down. "I told you not to say her name around me." Maria said nearly threateningly.
"That bothers you doesn't it? Me loving someone else when you want me so badly- well I'm right here Maria do your worst but I assure you, you're no Emily." She growled low in her throat like a dog and grabbed his neck but he didn't seem the least bit scared as he continued to grill her. "Emily, Emily, Emily...did you know I gave her a nick name?" He added with a smile.
"Shut up!" She squeezed down harder but he held her hands from tightening and went on. "Emily is the worlds greatest girlfriend. She's sweet and nice and kind everything you'll never be in your life." Tears fell down her face as her hand reached down into her high boots and pulled out a dagger. "Shut up or I'll kill you!" She shouted standing on her knees over him letting his neck go.
"You know what? I don't think you will." He said with a cocky smile. "Because you won't have anything to hold over Emily head and then you wouldn't have me- course that's giving you waay to much credit."
The girl was panting hard grabbing at her hair shrinking away on the bed saying, "No, no, no, no...." over and over again. "What's the matter Maria are you jealous......jealous because even when I'm dead I'll love Emily and you...you will still have nothing." The girl bared her teeth and reared the knife up-
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"Emily," Eleanor was saying as she sat down at their usual table. "What happened that night Rocky broke in?" Emily was sipping her milk and looking blankly out the window but Eleanor grabbed her chin and turned her head to face her. "What? Tell me..."
Emily sighed out a shaky breath and looked at her. "Fine, he strangled me okay? The guy that loves me strangled me. He kept calling my a stupid cow and said that he loved Maria and if I tried to keep him away from her he'd kill me......" She paused looking at the shock on her best friends face. "Still think I'm crazy for letting him go?" She then asked breaking the silence.
"It doesn't sound like him maybe he was sleep walking." She threw out as an explaination. "Right, sleep walking more like sleep wishing he were with that stupid twit. Elle you don't understand you weren't there, you couldn't- couldn't feel the grip if his hands around my neck hard and pressing his nails into my skin, look he scratched my ne-."
"Wait a minute," Eleanor said stopping her next sentence. "nails digging into your skin? Rocky doesn't have finger nails he bites them as a bad habit remember?"
"So." Emily said turning away from her again but she pulled her attention back. "So? Do you really believe that someone without finger nails could scratch your neck?"
".....I guess not." She replied and her friend nodded. "Exactly."
"Well yeah Elle if he didn't do it than who did?"
"Maria....I'm not sure how but she must have done it, we can go to her house after school okay she lives with her mom no one else I think she should be able to tell us something."
"We're waisting our tiiime." Emily said and got up to return her tray. 'Don't worry Em' you won't loose your boyfriend.' Eleanor thought with a smile that faded into a concerned look.
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Back at the shack in the woods the knife is a breath away from Rocky's neck as she looks down at him. Their eyes are on each others and Rocky notices something off in them. "Say something else," she started. "I dare you." Rocky looked down at the dagger and blinked his vision back up to hers. "....Who are you?" He asked quietly and she grinned. "You mean you don't know? You took my diary, thought everything you wanted to know would be in there."
"But I don't understand, you're talking to me right now aren't you?" Rocky said, blinking hard trying to keep himself awake. "I guess I could tell you, since you don't have very long to live anyway." The strange girl said getting off of him and walking across the room. She began to pace back and forth holding the knife like it were made of pure gold and she didn't want anyone to snatch it from her.
"If I were to talk to you normally, my lips would move but no sound would come out of them." She stopped and looked at his face knowing it would be shocked yet confused. "Mmh hmm. I was born a mute Rocky, do you know what that means? Huh?" Rocky nodded his head then opened his mouth to speak but she cut him off. "Don't ask. The reason why you can hear me talking now is because of my gift." She said and started pacing again.
"But if you can talk as a mute anyway doesn't that make you like everyone else?" Rocky asked. "Of course not!" She shouted at him rushing up to the bed shouting down into his face. "If I were normal could I do this-...." She broke her sentence off and closed her eyes. Rocky watched in horror as a snake slid into the room up the bed and around his leg; normally he wasn't afraid of snakes but it wasn't the snake it was the fact that it was poisonis. His mouth dropped and he sat very still watching it and then Maria opened her eyes and watched laughing.
"You see?" She bent over brushing the snake into nothing more than a crease in the sheet he had at his ankles and he looked amazed but scared at the same time. 'You can hear me speak through my mind...everyone can.' She said to him in thought and he had heard her- which explained how she never moved her lips sometimes when she spoke. "But what about-..." Rocky began but she cut him off again. "My aunt Marrissa? Stupid bitch....she's always in my business telling my new boyfriends this and telling my new boyfriends that I hate her." She flopped herself down on the bed and grinned at Rocky slyly.
"You wanna know how I do it don't you Rocky? You want some of my power." She said, but Rocky shook his head backing away from her nearness. "Maria this all doesn't make any sense. What happened to you? You can trust me, just tell me....." She looked into his eyes and they seemed honest enough so she made herself comfortable at the top of the bed with him and sighed. "Fine, I'll tell you everything."
He seemed releaved that she could still be this calm but he didn't let his guard down for a second, because if he did she might pull something sneaky again. "When I was young I was born without a voice, mine was damaged at birth I tried everything I could to talk but nothing worked." She tossed her hair out of her eyes as though she were tossing the thought along with it. "I went through life hated and laughed at by other kids- at home- at school all of them.....My own mother hated me because I was ruining her good reputation being a retard."
"You're not retarded." Rocky said cutting in but she held a hand up to him for silence and she went on. "That woman locked me in my own room, told me I'd only eat and sleep in here and when company is over not to show my face, but Coren, my beautiful talkative sister," she huffed a disgusted laugh. "she might be beautiful but she's dumb, I've seen her around town with her dumb ways and her hunched over walking she looks like an idiot."
'Poor girl, she seems so full of hate.' He thought and she turned and smiled at him saying. "You have no idea." Patting him on the leg she went on with her story. "So basically she snapped at me whenever I did something wrong called me ugly and weird head, and Coren always stuck up for me- as if she had any empathy......I eventually got tired of doing being put down so I tried to learn how to speak but nothing was working, then one night I prayed to God to find a way to help me have my life the life I deserve and this is what I woke up with."
"You mean, speaking? I don't-..." He trailed off shaking his head and she smiled patting his hand. "I woke up with this gift, I could project my thoughts to other peoples brains....at first I could only do it to one person but then as I focused my power a little better I could project it to a whole group." She paused waiting to see if he'd say anything but he didn't.
"Well you can only imagine how my mom reacted.....she screamed and brought me to the hospital to see if it were humanly possible for me to talk like this because when I project to people I move my lips so to them there's no difference, you see?"
"But if you can do that then how are you different?" He asked. "It's not the same, you don't understand.....when the doctor said I shouldn't be talking my mom freaked out, she thought I was playing a trick on her....a sick one, but uh she learned to except me for who I am until....." she trailed off. "What?" He asked not meaning to rush her.
"Until I killed my boyfriend- well, I wanted him to be my boyfriend haha. I kinda asked him he said no special ed. freak and walked away. My mom put me in the special ed. classes at school and everyone knew- but you see I was smart I wasn't in need of special care and those people aren't special they're nice actually, but I didn't want to be one of them and I found David the boy who rejected me and I ran him into an on coming car and he was killed."
"Maria you-......" She held up a hand to silence him. "Sshhh. Don't tell me about that sorta thing I already heard it before....well, my mom was sick of me and my ways so she called my aunt to come and get me and here I am, life sucked here no big difference until I saw you.....you were so beautiful, they way you walked, talked, ate, slept...." she made a quiet laugh and added. "Showered."
Rocky scrunched his eyes in anger to that but she laughed and pulled his head down on her shoulder to rest even though he tried to resist he heard her voice say, 'Just relax.' but deeper in her mental. 'Okay Maria.' He said mentally to and she smiled. "Thank you."
"Well as you can tell my abilities got stronger and so did my crush on you....I saw you stick up for countless people even if they wronged you....and I wanted that I wanted to be with that because I myself couldn't do it. I saw how you were when that dumb cow Emily lost her memory you didn't crack a tear and how you were when your stupid brother was getting on your nerves..." 'Does she mean Colt?' He wondered and she nodded. "Mmh hmm, I do....any how I thought that there was a chance for the two of us, you'd understand me and my pain you'd love me but you were always around her." This time she said it with furiosity.
Outside Colt and Tum tum have reached the cabing and they heard a girls voice. "That sounds like her, come on we'll sneak in." Colt said and Tum tum nodded following him around to the side.
"I wanted to be with you Rocky but Emily stood in my way....but now there isn't going to be any Emily to stand in my way." "What are you gonna do to her?" He asked. "Nothing. It's what I'm gonna make you do to her." She handed him her dagger and pulled him up off the bed to sitting postition. "You're going to go to school..." She paused then smiled continuing. "and kill her."
Rocky shook his head and her eyes narrowed in anger. "If you don't then I'll kill you myself!" She grabbed the dagger from his hand and lunged at him. He moved out of the way getting his leg slices by the point of the blade. "Ow!" He said pulling it up to himself hugging it for a second because the girl kept swinging and he ahd to get out of the way. "You can't run from me in here or the woods!" She shouted as he got off the bed.
She ran after him with the dagger held high into the air pointing downward waiting to stab him. He grabbed the door knob but it wouldn't pull open. The dagger came down at him but he grabbed her wrist to prevent it from happening they struggled against each others wieght and he won, pushing her against the wall. She curled into a ball and started pounding the side of her head with her fist.
"I'm a good girl....." she said lowly. "I'm a good girl...." she continued to chant. "I'm a good girl, I'm a good girl, I'm a good giiiirl!!!" Rocky cocked his head and looked at her, but when he walked over to her she threw the dagger at him.
He moved out of the way instinctivly and it stuck sharply into the door. "Maria I-..."
"Don't you touch me- stay away!" She shouted and he backed up a foot then walked up to her again. "You're worse then everyone else!" She screamed when he was closer. "I thought you'd love me I need it too!"
"Maria I don't fall in love with people because they're in need. I love them because I love them it has nothing to do with who's a bigger tragety." He replied but she shook her head. "No." She breathed out hard. "No, no, no." And with that tears streamed down her face and Rocky knelt down and took her into his arms hugging her. "It wasn't supposed to be this way." She cried out. "Ssshhh, don't cry." He said caressing her hair, but she shook her head. "Nooobody looooves me."
"That's not true Maria, don't say that." Rocky said but she continued chanting it. "Maria stop it, it's not true."
"Nooobody loooves me." Her tears fell down harder and her voice was picking up. "Nobody loves me, nobody loves me, nobody loves meeeeee!!!"
The door to the shack opened and Rocky backed against the door bumping into his brothers. "What's going on?" Tum tum asked. Maria was on the floor pounding her fist to her head and screaming in tears. "Mamma? Where are you?" She said. "What's she talking about?" Colt whispered.
"Maria?" Rocky said ignoring the both of them. "How come you don't love me? You love Coren, why not me?" She was saying, staring in the boys direction. "She was always the favorite even if I wasn't special." Rocky walked over to her and put his arms around her, she latched on to him as though she would die if he let go. "A,B,C,D..." She said rocking in his embrace. "Rocky is she okay?" Colt asked joining him on the floor. "I don't know." He replied.
"Two plus two is-...." she sighed out cutting herself off. "Don't go no, mommy I need you......." Her breathing was hard again and she got up from his grip pushing him aside and ran from the shack. They attempted to follow her but when they got outside she was already gone as though she had vanished. "Where did she...go?" Colt asked looking around. "I don't know, but I think she's better off there...come on, lets go home." Rocky said and they started back through the woods with Colt leading the way.
Things were quiet as they picked their ways through the dense trees, but something ran a chill up there backs as they went because they could feel cold eyes watching there backs- was it Maria? Or maybe an animal? Whatever it was it wasn't coming out.
The End?
"There.....I see something." Colt finally said pointing a few steps ahead of them at the grass. The two boys ran forward and picked the item up. "It's his watch!" Tum tum said taking it from his brothers hands to look at it himself then he stuffed it in his pocket. "I wonder how much stuff he dropped?" Tum then asked as the thought crossed his mind.
"Heeyyy maybe he wants us to follow these things?" Colt said suddenly looking around making Tum tum panick. "What do you mean? That creepy girl might be out here?" He asked whirling around looking in every direction. "I don't think so, but I wouldn't put it past her to just be hanging out watching us." Colt grabbed his brothers shoulder making him stop spinning in circles like a loon. "We better move quickly it's lunch time now we've been out here forever and if it gets any later we won't be able to see."
"And that's not good for anyone." Tum said nodding to agree and they walked deeper into the woods.
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Maria was lying on top of Rocky now possesively kissing him when he mumbled something in between and she backed away from him angrily looking down and asked. "What did you say?" Rocky knew that would work. "I said...E- Emily." There was a break in his voice because of the drug and he started to sit up again, but she pushed him back down. "I told you not to say her name around me." Maria said nearly threateningly.
"That bothers you doesn't it? Me loving someone else when you want me so badly- well I'm right here Maria do your worst but I assure you, you're no Emily." She growled low in her throat like a dog and grabbed his neck but he didn't seem the least bit scared as he continued to grill her. "Emily, Emily, Emily...did you know I gave her a nick name?" He added with a smile.
"Shut up!" She squeezed down harder but he held her hands from tightening and went on. "Emily is the worlds greatest girlfriend. She's sweet and nice and kind everything you'll never be in your life." Tears fell down her face as her hand reached down into her high boots and pulled out a dagger. "Shut up or I'll kill you!" She shouted standing on her knees over him letting his neck go.
"You know what? I don't think you will." He said with a cocky smile. "Because you won't have anything to hold over Emily head and then you wouldn't have me- course that's giving you waay to much credit."
The girl was panting hard grabbing at her hair shrinking away on the bed saying, "No, no, no, no...." over and over again. "What's the matter Maria are you jealous......jealous because even when I'm dead I'll love Emily and you...you will still have nothing." The girl bared her teeth and reared the knife up-
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"Emily," Eleanor was saying as she sat down at their usual table. "What happened that night Rocky broke in?" Emily was sipping her milk and looking blankly out the window but Eleanor grabbed her chin and turned her head to face her. "What? Tell me..."
Emily sighed out a shaky breath and looked at her. "Fine, he strangled me okay? The guy that loves me strangled me. He kept calling my a stupid cow and said that he loved Maria and if I tried to keep him away from her he'd kill me......" She paused looking at the shock on her best friends face. "Still think I'm crazy for letting him go?" She then asked breaking the silence.
"It doesn't sound like him maybe he was sleep walking." She threw out as an explaination. "Right, sleep walking more like sleep wishing he were with that stupid twit. Elle you don't understand you weren't there, you couldn't- couldn't feel the grip if his hands around my neck hard and pressing his nails into my skin, look he scratched my ne-."
"Wait a minute," Eleanor said stopping her next sentence. "nails digging into your skin? Rocky doesn't have finger nails he bites them as a bad habit remember?"
"So." Emily said turning away from her again but she pulled her attention back. "So? Do you really believe that someone without finger nails could scratch your neck?"
".....I guess not." She replied and her friend nodded. "Exactly."
"Well yeah Elle if he didn't do it than who did?"
"Maria....I'm not sure how but she must have done it, we can go to her house after school okay she lives with her mom no one else I think she should be able to tell us something."
"We're waisting our tiiime." Emily said and got up to return her tray. 'Don't worry Em' you won't loose your boyfriend.' Eleanor thought with a smile that faded into a concerned look.
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Back at the shack in the woods the knife is a breath away from Rocky's neck as she looks down at him. Their eyes are on each others and Rocky notices something off in them. "Say something else," she started. "I dare you." Rocky looked down at the dagger and blinked his vision back up to hers. "....Who are you?" He asked quietly and she grinned. "You mean you don't know? You took my diary, thought everything you wanted to know would be in there."
"But I don't understand, you're talking to me right now aren't you?" Rocky said, blinking hard trying to keep himself awake. "I guess I could tell you, since you don't have very long to live anyway." The strange girl said getting off of him and walking across the room. She began to pace back and forth holding the knife like it were made of pure gold and she didn't want anyone to snatch it from her.
"If I were to talk to you normally, my lips would move but no sound would come out of them." She stopped and looked at his face knowing it would be shocked yet confused. "Mmh hmm. I was born a mute Rocky, do you know what that means? Huh?" Rocky nodded his head then opened his mouth to speak but she cut him off. "Don't ask. The reason why you can hear me talking now is because of my gift." She said and started pacing again.
"But if you can talk as a mute anyway doesn't that make you like everyone else?" Rocky asked. "Of course not!" She shouted at him rushing up to the bed shouting down into his face. "If I were normal could I do this-...." She broke her sentence off and closed her eyes. Rocky watched in horror as a snake slid into the room up the bed and around his leg; normally he wasn't afraid of snakes but it wasn't the snake it was the fact that it was poisonis. His mouth dropped and he sat very still watching it and then Maria opened her eyes and watched laughing.
"You see?" She bent over brushing the snake into nothing more than a crease in the sheet he had at his ankles and he looked amazed but scared at the same time. 'You can hear me speak through my mind...everyone can.' She said to him in thought and he had heard her- which explained how she never moved her lips sometimes when she spoke. "But what about-..." Rocky began but she cut him off again. "My aunt Marrissa? Stupid bitch....she's always in my business telling my new boyfriends this and telling my new boyfriends that I hate her." She flopped herself down on the bed and grinned at Rocky slyly.
"You wanna know how I do it don't you Rocky? You want some of my power." She said, but Rocky shook his head backing away from her nearness. "Maria this all doesn't make any sense. What happened to you? You can trust me, just tell me....." She looked into his eyes and they seemed honest enough so she made herself comfortable at the top of the bed with him and sighed. "Fine, I'll tell you everything."
He seemed releaved that she could still be this calm but he didn't let his guard down for a second, because if he did she might pull something sneaky again. "When I was young I was born without a voice, mine was damaged at birth I tried everything I could to talk but nothing worked." She tossed her hair out of her eyes as though she were tossing the thought along with it. "I went through life hated and laughed at by other kids- at home- at school all of them.....My own mother hated me because I was ruining her good reputation being a retard."
"You're not retarded." Rocky said cutting in but she held a hand up to him for silence and she went on. "That woman locked me in my own room, told me I'd only eat and sleep in here and when company is over not to show my face, but Coren, my beautiful talkative sister," she huffed a disgusted laugh. "she might be beautiful but she's dumb, I've seen her around town with her dumb ways and her hunched over walking she looks like an idiot."
'Poor girl, she seems so full of hate.' He thought and she turned and smiled at him saying. "You have no idea." Patting him on the leg she went on with her story. "So basically she snapped at me whenever I did something wrong called me ugly and weird head, and Coren always stuck up for me- as if she had any empathy......I eventually got tired of doing being put down so I tried to learn how to speak but nothing was working, then one night I prayed to God to find a way to help me have my life the life I deserve and this is what I woke up with."
"You mean, speaking? I don't-..." He trailed off shaking his head and she smiled patting his hand. "I woke up with this gift, I could project my thoughts to other peoples brains....at first I could only do it to one person but then as I focused my power a little better I could project it to a whole group." She paused waiting to see if he'd say anything but he didn't.
"Well you can only imagine how my mom reacted.....she screamed and brought me to the hospital to see if it were humanly possible for me to talk like this because when I project to people I move my lips so to them there's no difference, you see?"
"But if you can do that then how are you different?" He asked. "It's not the same, you don't understand.....when the doctor said I shouldn't be talking my mom freaked out, she thought I was playing a trick on her....a sick one, but uh she learned to except me for who I am until....." she trailed off. "What?" He asked not meaning to rush her.
"Until I killed my boyfriend- well, I wanted him to be my boyfriend haha. I kinda asked him he said no special ed. freak and walked away. My mom put me in the special ed. classes at school and everyone knew- but you see I was smart I wasn't in need of special care and those people aren't special they're nice actually, but I didn't want to be one of them and I found David the boy who rejected me and I ran him into an on coming car and he was killed."
"Maria you-......" She held up a hand to silence him. "Sshhh. Don't tell me about that sorta thing I already heard it before....well, my mom was sick of me and my ways so she called my aunt to come and get me and here I am, life sucked here no big difference until I saw you.....you were so beautiful, they way you walked, talked, ate, slept...." she made a quiet laugh and added. "Showered."
Rocky scrunched his eyes in anger to that but she laughed and pulled his head down on her shoulder to rest even though he tried to resist he heard her voice say, 'Just relax.' but deeper in her mental. 'Okay Maria.' He said mentally to and she smiled. "Thank you."
"Well as you can tell my abilities got stronger and so did my crush on you....I saw you stick up for countless people even if they wronged you....and I wanted that I wanted to be with that because I myself couldn't do it. I saw how you were when that dumb cow Emily lost her memory you didn't crack a tear and how you were when your stupid brother was getting on your nerves..." 'Does she mean Colt?' He wondered and she nodded. "Mmh hmm, I do....any how I thought that there was a chance for the two of us, you'd understand me and my pain you'd love me but you were always around her." This time she said it with furiosity.
Outside Colt and Tum tum have reached the cabing and they heard a girls voice. "That sounds like her, come on we'll sneak in." Colt said and Tum tum nodded following him around to the side.
"I wanted to be with you Rocky but Emily stood in my way....but now there isn't going to be any Emily to stand in my way." "What are you gonna do to her?" He asked. "Nothing. It's what I'm gonna make you do to her." She handed him her dagger and pulled him up off the bed to sitting postition. "You're going to go to school..." She paused then smiled continuing. "and kill her."
Rocky shook his head and her eyes narrowed in anger. "If you don't then I'll kill you myself!" She grabbed the dagger from his hand and lunged at him. He moved out of the way getting his leg slices by the point of the blade. "Ow!" He said pulling it up to himself hugging it for a second because the girl kept swinging and he ahd to get out of the way. "You can't run from me in here or the woods!" She shouted as he got off the bed.
She ran after him with the dagger held high into the air pointing downward waiting to stab him. He grabbed the door knob but it wouldn't pull open. The dagger came down at him but he grabbed her wrist to prevent it from happening they struggled against each others wieght and he won, pushing her against the wall. She curled into a ball and started pounding the side of her head with her fist.
"I'm a good girl....." she said lowly. "I'm a good girl...." she continued to chant. "I'm a good girl, I'm a good girl, I'm a good giiiirl!!!" Rocky cocked his head and looked at her, but when he walked over to her she threw the dagger at him.
He moved out of the way instinctivly and it stuck sharply into the door. "Maria I-..."
"Don't you touch me- stay away!" She shouted and he backed up a foot then walked up to her again. "You're worse then everyone else!" She screamed when he was closer. "I thought you'd love me I need it too!"
"Maria I don't fall in love with people because they're in need. I love them because I love them it has nothing to do with who's a bigger tragety." He replied but she shook her head. "No." She breathed out hard. "No, no, no." And with that tears streamed down her face and Rocky knelt down and took her into his arms hugging her. "It wasn't supposed to be this way." She cried out. "Ssshhh, don't cry." He said caressing her hair, but she shook her head. "Nooobody looooves me."
"That's not true Maria, don't say that." Rocky said but she continued chanting it. "Maria stop it, it's not true."
"Nooobody loooves me." Her tears fell down harder and her voice was picking up. "Nobody loves me, nobody loves me, nobody loves meeeeee!!!"
The door to the shack opened and Rocky backed against the door bumping into his brothers. "What's going on?" Tum tum asked. Maria was on the floor pounding her fist to her head and screaming in tears. "Mamma? Where are you?" She said. "What's she talking about?" Colt whispered.
"Maria?" Rocky said ignoring the both of them. "How come you don't love me? You love Coren, why not me?" She was saying, staring in the boys direction. "She was always the favorite even if I wasn't special." Rocky walked over to her and put his arms around her, she latched on to him as though she would die if he let go. "A,B,C,D..." She said rocking in his embrace. "Rocky is she okay?" Colt asked joining him on the floor. "I don't know." He replied.
"Two plus two is-...." she sighed out cutting herself off. "Don't go no, mommy I need you......." Her breathing was hard again and she got up from his grip pushing him aside and ran from the shack. They attempted to follow her but when they got outside she was already gone as though she had vanished. "Where did she...go?" Colt asked looking around. "I don't know, but I think she's better off there...come on, lets go home." Rocky said and they started back through the woods with Colt leading the way.
Things were quiet as they picked their ways through the dense trees, but something ran a chill up there backs as they went because they could feel cold eyes watching there backs- was it Maria? Or maybe an animal? Whatever it was it wasn't coming out.
The End?