You opened your eyes to find the familiar darkens of your room, the light of the full moon shining through your window. Glancing over at your clock it reads '12:55 a.m.' You groan at the fact that it was still the middle of the night but then you remembered what had happened and how your aunt said that a spirit would be visiting you. You thought that this was all just a dream and that nothing would really happen. But even so you decided to see what would happen anyway.
You looked over at your clock again, it was a minute from 1 o'clock and you just smirked. You see it was all just in your head, there was no way that your deceased aunt came to tell about some spirits and changing and crap that is just a load of- BING!
Your clock blared out signifying that it was 1 o'clock. Once the clock died down a burst of appeared throughout the room blinding you. You covered your eyes as the light grew brighter and brighter, and just like that it vanished followed by the sound of footsteps coming closer to you.
"Um, excuse me but do you happen to be Ms. (Y/n)?" You froze at the sound of a male voice. Slowly looking up you see a man with black hair and dark brown eyes. The man seemed to be Japanese or something. You nodded at his question and he smiled slightly.
"Um, who are you and what are you doing in my room?" You asked. Could this be the spirit she was talking about?
"Hello Ms. (Y/n) I am the spirit of Christmas Past but you can just call me Kiku, and I am here to help you. Your aunt told you that I was coming did she not?"
"S-she did..." So it wasn't a dream after all. Great, just great so it turns out that you weren't dreaming after all.
"Take my hand." He said as he stretched an arm out for you to take. You stared at his hand before looking up at him as you narrowed your eyes.
"Why? What happens if I do?" The spirit just sighed as he leaned forward and grabbed your arm. Everything once again lite up and you were surrounded by pure white when a cold gust of wind blew directly into your face making you shiver.
As your surrounding started to become more clearer you found yourself in the suburbs. You looked around when you noticed what house you were standing in front of. Your eyes widened and you stood there silently. Kiku was standing next to you as he too looked at the house.
"T-this is...This is my..." You stuttered not believing what was in front of you. Kiku nodded and gently smiles.
"Yes, I believe that this was your old house when you still lived with your parents." You didn't answer, you were still trying to process all of this.
"Shall we go inside?" He said walking over to you. You turned to him to say something but you found yourself already inside.
You heard little footsteps coming close. Afraid that someone would see you, you hide behind a nearby plant.
Kiku shook his head and crouched down next to you.
"It's OK, you don't need to hide. They can't see either one of us." You looked at him for a bit before standing up again when a young girl around the age of 5 ran past both of you.
The little girl had (h/l) (h/c) and sparkling (e/c). That little girl was you. You gasped as she zipped past you to the front door. You closely followed her until you heard a familiar voice coming from behind you.
"(Y/n) calm down. I know your excited from your last day of school but slow down." Your mother said.
Your mother walked right through you causing you to gasp, as you looked up your eyes widened. It has been years since you had last seen her. You had been so busy and so many things had happened to you that your memory of what your mother and your father looked like was fuzzy. In fact most of your memories were fuzzy since that day.
She looked at lot like you, or at least you looked a lot like you. She had short hair that was the exact same color as yours, her eyes were gently and loving as they looked down at you. Her smile could light up a thousand watts as it made you feel warm inside. You hadn't felt this way in a long time, nor have you ever seen a smile that perfect before.
Your father came out next as he watch the both of you with a smile on his face. You had always thought that he was the best father in the world.. The way that he would speak to you and would always play with you. Even if you would make many mistakes he would always tell you that it's OK to make mistakes since everyone does it.
You watched them all laugh and smile happily as they all walked out the door.
Sadly that was short lived. You knew what would happen next. That we the last time you ever saw them smile again, the last time you all joked together...The last time you would ever see them again.
You closed your eyes from a second before feeling a drop of water hit you. You looked up and saw that you were outside again. The sky was cloudy as it began to rain. Looking over at Kiku again, he turned his attention toward a large group of people.
You looked all around and noticed you were standing in the middle of a cemetery. The same cemetery were your parents were buried.
You looked at the group of mourners and slowly and hesitantly made you way over, Kiku following you closely.
Making your way past the people you see two caskets being lowered into the ground, as a young girl was screaming her parents names. She wore bandages that were carefully wrapped around her head and she had cuts and bruises.
You remember this. Your parents burial. This was one of the only things that you could actually remember. The crash caused you some brain damage and you had a hard time trying to remember stuff. Even today you had memory problems, it wasn't as bad as it was though.
As the younger you continued to scream, there were to kids beside her as they tried to calm her down. They were the same age as her, the girl on her left had blonde hair and a ribbon in her hair. Her green eyes watched as her friends parents were finally lowered into the ground and they began to fill it in.
On her right was a young boy. He had blond hair and emerald green eyes and thick eyebrows. He continued to comfort the girl as she bawled her eyes out.
They were once your old friends.
You, Lily, and Arthur were inseparable. You would always hang out with them at school and after, you would all go camping together, had sleep over parties. All of you did everything together! You really missing those days where you were so care free and was able to laugh. Once it was over your friends hugged you goodbye and left with their parents.
As more people began to leave, your younger self was all alone sitting there staring at the tombstones of your parents. Your eyes were red and puffy as you continued to sob but nothing came out. Your tear were all dried out and your voice hoarse from screaming and crying. The rain began to pour down hard as you continued to stare at your parents graves.
Unknowingly someone comes up behind you and blocks the rain away with their umbrella. You look up at who it was. You quickly wipe your eyes with your sleeves and look back at their graves. The woman sighed as she crouched beside you umbrella still in her hands.
It was your aunt Natalia. You both sat there for a while before she spoke up and told you how she was going to raise you. You were shocked at first but didn't say anything.
You lived with her for a few months until you were able to talk to again. You occasionally hung out with your friends and was finally able to smile and laugh again. Even though it wasn't as bright as before it was something. You lived with her for 6 years and felt truly happy again.
On one Christmas Eve, at the age of 12, something was different about your aunt and the way she treated you. She would often tell you that you can't go over to Arthur or Lily's house anymore or that you have to practice your speech or on your piano she bought you a year ago.
That was also the year that that she told you that Christmas was nothing but a waist of time, just as much as having friends. She would often yell at you if you messed something up or interrupted her when she was busy.
You began to change, physically and mentally. At the age of 13, you began to grow colder towards your friends and treated them as if they didn't matter. That was went you told them that their bonds of friendship were severed and that you never wanted to see them ever again.
You started to study more and your aunt would teach you about business and economy. But then she became ill...
She died when you turned 14. Even though she could be rude and yell at you a lot as well as made you leave your childhood friends. She was the only family you had left.
After her funeral that was when you completely changed. You no longer smiled or laughed like you use to. You focused more on education and running your aunts business all at the age of 14. Many people wanted to take it over but in your aunts will it stated that she wanted you to directly run it as well as giving you all of her money fortune.
Many people fought over this obviously not wanting a "mere child" to run such a wealthy company. In the end you ran the business, many people could believe that a child could do such a thing but you managed to make the company one of the wealthiest ever.
When you found out that your old friend Lily's family went bankrupt and became poor you offered her a job to work as a maid in your mansion. She was shocked to find out that you wanted her to work for you but she happily accepted the offer.
As for Arthur, you kept your distance from him. You had most classes but you never spoke to him. Must to your dismay you began to form a crush on your old friend which made you angry beyond all reason.
Not many people liked you and began to be afraid of you. They were afraid that if they made you angry they would become poor and live out on the streets.
So you, as well, as them kept your distance.
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You slowly saw everything fade away back into what seems to be your room. You were sitting on the edge of your bed looked down at the ground trying to prevent any tears from falling.
Kiku takes a step closer to you as you look up at him, he bows to you.
Once he looks at you he gives a small smile.
"It was nice to meet you Miss. (Y/n), but seems my job here is done now. Goodbye." And just like that he disappears right in front of you.
