She sat down on her bed and picked up the silver chest. What she noticed on the front, below the painting of the pearl, shocked her.
If it is the key you search for, look in the least expected place.
"Look in the least expected place. Huh. My toilet?" Ann thought. She knew that a toilet would be the least expected place to put a key, but it didn't seem quite right.
"My refridgerator? Nah. Oh! I know! I'll go look under the sofa!" And with that, Ann was running down the stairs into the family room. Watch your feet, Ann. Watch your feet. Ann told herself. She slowed down just enough so that she wouldn't trip on her own feet.
Ann crept up on the sofa and lifted the cushion. She moved her hand underneith it and felt around for anything that could resemble a key. "Hey! I found a quarter! Definitely going towards the inline skates I want." Ann said to herself as she tucked the quarter into her short's pocket. She moved her hand underneith the cushion some more, hoping to find a key. She managed to find a stale goldfish cracker, a penny, and two arcade tickets. "I've been looking for these blasted tickets for a week! I wonder how they got under the sofa?" Ann wondered. "The least expected place. I give up! How can I search for something and not expect it to be in the place that I looked for it? I think this whole thing is a scam. Gah. All this running aroung is making me even hotter." Ann said as she slugged into the kitchen and towards the freezer.
She opened up the freezer and pulled out a green ice pop. She tore open the wrapper and and bit down on the flavored ice. She slowly walked up to her room, ice pop in hand, wondering what the heck this little silver box was that she was so desperately trying to find the key for. "I think this is demonic. That's what it is. Satan't playing a trick on me with dark magic and I won't stand for it." Ann was a christian and when she saw someone or something perform magic, and not just slight of hand, but real magic that no one else could ever do, she knew that it was the work of a demon and she stayed away from it. But for some reason, Ann didn't know why, she felt strangely drawn to finding the key. Her skin didn't crawl when she touched the box like it would when she saw something evil, and that's what surprised her.
Ann took another bite of her ice pop and walked back into her room. She walked over to her bed and fell back on it. Letting out a long sigh. She turned her head to the side and looked at the silver chest she believed was Satanic. "Dear Lord, why is this thing in my room? And why does it have to be MY room?" Ann talked to God. She looked at the same line of words that had appeared on the chest magically while she wasn't looking. "This is weird. This is really, very weird." Ann said to herself. The key hole didn't even look like a key hole. She got up and walked over to her dresser and looked at everything on it. Nothing on her dresser looked like a key. Ann looked at a silver necklace that had a forest green, glass butterfly pendant on it. It was her favorite necklace, but she forgot to put it on. So she undid the clasp and put it around her neck and fastened it. She admired the necklace and smiled. Her sister gave it to her for her thirteenth birthday a couple months back.
Suddenly, the same feeling she had when she first touched the box hit her. Her heart rate sped up and she started shaking violently. Her stomach felt like it was rising and falling and she started hyperventylating. She wondered if she should call an ambulance, but that's when her butterfly pendant started glowing. She looked at the silver chest with wide eyes. The crystal music note and the pearl painting were glowing as well, and the key hole even brighter. "God, what's happening? What's going on?" Ann didn't like this feeling and it was starting to frighten her. She slowly walked over to the silver chest, the feelings getting stronger with each step. I'm going to die. Ann thought. With a shaking hand she lifted the pendant on her necklace and looked at it. She then looked at the key hole and her eyes widened even more. She looked back at her pendant, then back at the key hole. She did this several times before taking the necklace off. Ann finally realized- the key hole was the outline of a butterfly. Ann's jaw dropped and she gasped. This certainly wasn't expected. This was the least expected. She looked at the pendant once more and moved it towards the key hole. Her hand shook even more and then the pendant lifted off her hand and locked into place. Ann couldn't talk at all, she was so shocked, so she just let out a little squeak. The chest opened slightly and Ann reached out to open the chest.
"Okay, Ann. Here is what you've been waiting for. To find out what's in this box." Ann closed her eyes as she opened the chest. Once the chest was all the way opened, Ann opened one eye, then the other. Her jaw hit the floor and she gasped. What she saw in the chest wasn't what she expected.