Chapter Two:
Everything changed the night Mommy and I shared the same thought. She told me never to repeat it, so I cannot tell you what it was.
I was in the hall, and Mommy was brushing her hair in front of her mirror. She turned and looked at me, and smiled. "Hello, Samara."
I didn't say anything because I was tired. That's when Mommy had the thought. She backed up against the wall and started screaming, and I just looked at my reflection. I didn't like my reflection. I backed away slowly, trying not to look at my face…
Mommy just kept screaming…
That's when Daddy moved me into the barn. I had a bed, my music book, a little chair, and my TV. My wallpaper had horses on it.
!I hate the horses!
Most of the time I would sit in my chair and watch the flies on my TV. But one day, I found a tape in my TV's VCR. It was blank, but the static looked different. It was brighter and louder, and it sounded out the horses.
Once, I climbed down the ladder that went down from my room to the stables, and went to visit the horses. When I was looking at West, his eye stared into mine and we shared the same thought. I saw the horses running into the ocean before my eyes and his. West started running around in his stall and screaming, and pretty soon Mommy and Daddy came into the barn to see what was going on. Mommy looked scared and Daddy was mad.
Daddy never left my ladder up after that.
Mommy went away for a while. I didn't see her again until the day I scared Daddy.
Daddy was giving me my supper, and I was sitting on my chair, watching the flies on my TV. He asked me if I wanted water, and I said, "Everyone will suffer." I don't know why I said that. I just said it. I guess it was because I was sad for Mommy.
Later, Daddy took me to the hospital where Mommy was. I had a doctor that talked to me about scary things. Once he took X-rays of me, but they came out as images…of things I dreamed about.
Once, in my hospital room, I could hear horses. I don't like the horses. They were screaming, stomping, and making a racket, and I couldn't sleep. I heard horses a lot after that.
My doctor asked me why I couldn't sleep. I didn't tell him because he would not believe me about the horses. I got mad at him because he was asking me too many questions. My medicine was making me feel sleepy and sick. I looked up at my doctor and he screamed and fell off of his chair. His face looked funny. Nurses came in, hooked me up to some weird wires, and gave me more medicine. Later in my room, I got really sick and threw it all up.
After a while, Mommy and I got to go home for a while. When I was asleep, the horses broke out of their stalls and ran into the ocean like in my dreams.
Mommy and Daddy did a lot of yelling that night. I could hear them, even with my TV on and the barn doors shut. Mommy was crying and Daddy was shouting.
Daddy came into my room and drug me to the car. He said that we were going on a vacation.
We went to Shelter Mountain Inn. Our cabin was small and dusty, but outside was a pretty well where I could stand and sing the song that my music box played…it was also a song I remember…
…My real mommy used to sing.
Round we go,
The world is spin-ing,
When it stops, it's just begi-nning,
Sun comes up,
We laugh and we cry.
Sun goes down,
And then we all die…
One day when I was singing by the well, Mommy came up behind me and said things that made me want to cry. I was scared. I didn't want to go back to the hospital. I wanted to stay at Shelter Mountain Inn forever, and ever, and ever. If only Mommy were not afraid of me, and Daddy loved me.
I was about to turn around and hug her when she put a dark trash bag over my head. I wasn't sure what was happening until I started to feel woozy. I struggled trying to say, "Mommy, you're hurting me!" After awhile, I just stopped struggling.
Mommy hit me on the head with something and I felt dizzy. I fell asleep for awhile, until I suddenly felt the sting of cold water against me. It hurt me so badly that for a few minuets all I could do was float there, with my eyes closed.
When I opened my eyes, I could see where I was. THE WELL…Oh, why would Mommy put me in the well? I could see a dark figure at the top of the well, but it was hard, because light was shining around it. But I knew it was Mommy.
I just let myself float underwater, until Mommy started to push something over the to of the well.
(mommy. Mommy! MOMMY!)
The hurt and confusion was too much. I started crying and trying to climb up to the top of the well, but it only hurt me. My fingers hurt……
Author's note: Sorry guys, more later!