Chapter 2: Something Small and Precious.
The next morning Ren got ready for school and went down stairs.
'Good morning Ren, have a good sleep?' Her mother asked sweetly. Ren ignored her, grabbed a slice of toast and ran out the door. 'I wonder if it was something I said.' Ren was running to get to school with a sudden urge to learn. She went past Mimi's house and continued the rest of the way with her.
'Hey, Ren, what were you writing in your diary yesterday?' Mimi asked curiously.
'Oh! It was nothing really.' Ren replied as she waved her arms madly in front of her to clear a path to get to the train. Mimi quickly followed and took a seat next to Ren. Ren and Mimi took the train to school every week, except when it would rain, then Mimi's mum would drive them. Mimi let out a sigh.
'I hope today isn't boring!' She said. Ren looked at her in surprise. 'Boring? School isn't boring!!!' 'Oh! Yeah' she replied with a lie. They soon reached their stop and got off. They then walked the rest of the way to school, but when they reached the school gates Ren had received a call from her mother saying that the school was broken into the previous night and no students were needed that day. Mimi and Ren waited until they were picked up to be taken home. As soon as they got dropped off at their houses they lazed around, well not Ren she was cleaning the whole house spotless.
'Ren, don't you think you're going a bit over board, there?' Ren's mum asked sipping a cup of coffee.
'No! Why would I be? It's just cleaning.' Her mum just stood in the kitchen staring at her.
'Well if it's what you want to do.' She said in reply, letting out a sigh. It wasn't long before she cleaned the whole house and for her to get bored. Ren went out hoping there was something for her to do outside. She took a walk to the park and sat on a bench, watching what would pass by. She sat there for at least an hour until she heard something. Something small, something hurt. She began to look for what had been making those sounds. Then she found it a small bluebird was injured in the bushes.
'Aw poor thing, you must have been attacked by a nasty old cat.' She said as she picked the bird up as if it were so fragile it was to break. The little bird laid there in here hands as it grew weaker and weaker.
'I'd better take you home so that nasty cat can't harm you anymore.' She said as she left the park to go home. She held the small bird in her arms as she walked home. There was a scream, but unlike any scream Ren had heard before. She started to walk faster, but the screaming sound came closer the more she walked. Ren was getting scared and began to run, but she wasn't fast enough. The thing that was screaming caught up with her. She saw it's face, it's twisted moaning, death like face. Looking at it made her sick, but she kept wondering 'Why aren't there people around? Why weren't there children at the park? What's going on? This place should be huddled with people at this time of day!' She stared into it's face, it stared back. She stepped back slowly, it stepped forward. It followed every one of her movements, she was trapped.
The next thing she knew she was at her house, the bird was gone and so was her fear. What had happened to her she didn't know and no one else did either, because that's what she thought.