Anna sat in the living room with her family, and Rachel. They was watching a movie together. Rachel and Steven was whispering about the upcoming party for Steven.
She looked over at Anna. Anna was watching them from her seat. "Anna? you look lost in thought. Are you ok?" Rachel asked worriedly. Alex looked over at her sister from her own seat.
Anna shook out of her thoughts. She had been thinking about how her mom and dad use to snuggle the way Rachel and Steven were doing at the moment. She nodded. "Yeah. I was just thinking. Sorry for staring." She said looking away.
Anna stood. "I'm going outside. My head hurts." She told them all. "Are you ok? Do you want something to help with the pain?" Rachel asked sitting up. Anna shook her head no. "No I just want to get some air is all." Anna told her.
Rachel nodded watching Anna leave the room. They heard her footsteps going to the kitchen before a door opened and closed.
Anna walked down to the boat house. Why did she see her mother here? Why did she see her mother in her room. Why was she dreaming of what happened?
She slowly opened the main door. Looking around the empty room. She sighed and closed the door. Why did she come here?
"Anna." She froze hearing a scratchy voice whisper her name. She turned not seeing anyone there though. She decided to leave But when she turned to leave, a chard hand grabbed her wrist.
She yelped and jerked away. She tripped over her own feet and fell. She started gasping for air as fear filled her. She backed away, her back hitting a wall.
In front of her a chard, smoking body was crawling towards Anna. Anna couldn't move anymore. She couldn't scream.
She watched as small noises escaped her as the burned body of her mother start standing.
The body was crunching as it moved. It was a horrible sound to Anna.
Her mother's arm lifted and pointed outside. She screamed. "Murderer!" She shouted loudly. Anna watched as her mothers head looked down and screamed. Making Anna scream.
The door was shoved open. "Anna!" She could hear the voice in the back ground. But it sounded so far away. She felt hands grab her and she jerked out. She turned to see Alex looking at her worriedly.
Anna looked around and saw that her mother was gone. She looked up at her sister. "Are you ok? You was screaming." Alex said worriedly. Anna was trying to catch her breath, and calm her racing heart.
She let her sister help her up off the ground. "What happened?" Alex asked. "I saw mom... again..." She told her sister. Alex looked at her baby sister. "What do you mean you saw mom?" She asked.
"I mean I fucking saw mom! She was here! She wanted to tell me something! To warn me!" Anna said turning to jerk the blinds back to see that Rachel was watching from the house's hill.
"She pointed right at Rachel." Anna whispered. Alex looked at Anna before looking up at Rachel who was turning to go back into the house.
"Ok now I'm scared Anna." Alex whispered. Anna looked at her sister. "What did mom say?" She asked. Anna told her the one word that was told.
"Murder."
Anna and Alex sat in their bathtub together like old times thinking back on what happened last night. "It makes since... She was the one who went in and out of the storage room in the boat house. Mom got hot and cold randomly, and the heat box was in the storage room. She doesn't have an alibi for the explosion... and she ended up in a open relationship with dad soon after? It doesn't add up." Alex said.
Anna looked at Alex as she became a detective in her own mind. "That is crazy.." Anna said. She couldn't think that Rachel murdered her mother. "I'm the girl who saw our dead mother multiple times." Alex snapped, before her face went soft.
"Sorry Anna... I shouldn't have said that." Alex said. Anna looked away and nodded. Alex sighed. "But you need to think about it." Alex said.
"Maybe I am crazy Alex.. Maybe it was all a dream.." Anna tried to make better sense of what happened. Alex gave her a look.
"Anna you was wide awake. I saw you. I was there. You wasn't dreaming." Alex told her sister. Anna looked at her sister so brokenly.
"Maybe you should tell dad what has been going on?" Alex said. Anna gave her sister a crazy look. "Tell dad? He will really think I'm crazy." Anna said.
"I'm not giving him anything to use that could get me sent away again. I can't go back." Anna continued. Alex looked at her sister sadly. She could tell that Anna was so scared of going back to the hospital. Scared to be labeled as insane.
"Dad would most defiantly send me away if he found out I saw mom twice here." Anna said shaking her head .
Alex opened her mouth but was stopped when the door was knocked on. It made the two jerk their head over to see a blonde blob in the bathroom door window. It was Rachel.
The sisters looked at each other wit worried and shocked eyes.
"Did she hear us?" Alex whispered and Anna shook her head. "I don't know?" Anna whispered back. "Girls? Are you both in there?" Rachel asked. Rachel didn't really wait for the sisters to respond.
"I'm going to the mainland to go shopping. I was wondering if you guys wanted to go with me? We can get lunch and our nails done." Rachel said. Alex gagged and rolled her eyes. "Yeah. I'm going threw a giant hangover... So maybe another time...But Anna really wants to go." Alex told Rachel with a grin at Anna.
Anna gave her a shocked look.
"No." Anna whispered to her sister. "Come on..I'll go searching around her things, you keep her distracted." Alex told her. "Anna? You wanna go?" Rachel tried, happy to hear that the youngest wanted to spend time with her.
Anna sighed, and rolled her eyes.
"Just give me a moment." She said giving Alex a look. "I just have to find something cute to wear." She told Rachel. It made Alex grin.
"You little suck up." Alex whispered.
Anna sat beside Rachel in the passenger seat. Anna looked around the new car. This was Rachel's convertible. The roof was down and Rachel was driving fast.
Rachel was smiling happily. She was so happy Anna was with her. She figured Anna needed some attention. Rachel had noticed that Anna hadn't been sleeping well. And with what happened last night..
Rachel and Alex got worried about Anna. Rachel followed Alex outside, then when they was about to go back in, they heard Anna's screams. Alex ran to help her sister, so Rachel just stayed on the hill just incase.
"Your dad hates it when I drive this fast. So let this be our little secret ok?" She asked. Anna gave a nod. "Our little secret." Anna told her.
After the two got their hands and feet done, the two went to the little diner in town. Rachel got an omlette with a hot tea, and Anna got a soup and sandwich with a coke.
Anna gave their waitress a small smile as she was given her drink. Rachel smiling at the girl in front of her. Such a pretty child. Rachel knew that she didn't notice how men looked at her. But Anna was so innocent that she didn't think anyone noticed her.
Rachel use to be the same way growing up.
Anna looked over at Rachel who was watching her, while playing with her pearl necklace.
Anna focused on the necklace, which Rachel noticed. "Do you like it?" Rachel asked with a knowing smile. Anna blushed embarrassed at the fact she was staring. "No need to be embarrassed sweetie." Rachel told her.
"There pretty." Anna said, which made Rachel nod. "It was a gift from one of my old patients when I worked at a nursing home. Actually a year before I started being a in home care nurse. She thought of me as a daughter and wanted me to have something to remind myself of her." Rachel told her as she stopped playing with the necklace.
Anna nodded.
"Sounds like it was a good job." Anna added as she went to take a sip of her drink.
Rachel chuckled a bit. "Anna, I wiped people's asses for a living." Rachel told her. Anna nodded. Rachels looked out the window. "It did have it's perks." She then smiled at Anna.
"I got to meet your mom, you, Alex, and your father. You're mother was so beautiful Anna. She spoke so highly of you all, mostly you Anna. She loved this necklace as well. I let her ware it when your father wanted to have lunch with her. She would brighten every time I put it on her neck." She told Anna leaning foreword.
Anna gulped a little softly, as she looked at her hands. Anna looked over getting distracted by three children sitting at the bar. Two boys, and one girl in between the boys. The three turned in their seats at the same time, and when they faced her, Anna felt her heart drop.
It was the children in the woods. The ones from her dreams. The little girl had milk in her hand. She held a dead pale finger up to her dead colored lips. "Shhhh" She told Anna, before dropping the cup.
When the glass broke on the ground the pure white milk turned dark blood red that bubbled and boiled. It made a horrible sound.
"Anna." Rachel said softly, scaring Anna a bit and it made her look at Rachel. Rachel reached over and took Anna's hand.
Rachel took the girl's hand in a motherly way.
"We all have things in our past that we're ashamed of. But I don't want you to feel ashamed at what happened to you." Rachel said.
Anna squirmed a bit uncomfortable at the woman's words.
"I have don't some stupid things as well... But I want you to know that we all care about you. So if you need to talk to someone. If there was something you feel scared to talk about to your dad or me or even Alex. I just want you to know that I wont judge you, and that I want you to come to me." Rachel said honestly.
Anna nodded. "Thanks Rachel." She told her.
Rachel smiled, and let the girl's hand as their food arrived.
As the two ate, Rachel perked up. "Oh I forgot to tell you Anna. Doctor Lector is coming to the party tomorrow. And he said that he will be happy to take you on as a therapist." She told her. Anna nodded.
"Ok... Do you know him?" Anna asked. Rachel smiled and nodded. "Oh yes. He was my mentor. You will like him. He's very good at his job." Rachel told her.
Anna started eating her food looking out the window. Rachel saw that Anna wasn't going to communicate anymore. So she went back to her own food.
