Evie waved good-bye to her friends after the trip to a McDonalds. She unlocked the door to her house and sat down in the barren sea of discarded wrapping paper. It was nine something and outside was dark as the sky. Midnight mewed at her as she curled around her arm. "Good kitty," She said, it purred. She put the bear she got for her birthday down and started to clean up the mess. "Ugh, you guys." She complained smiling," You guys are a bunch of slobs." She laughed, putting the paper in the recycling box along with the bottles and cans of soda they had. Evie yawned as she took a look around her now clean apartment and wiped a tear away from her eyes. It began raining outside, thunder roared as lightning streaked across the sky. She picked up the gift Terry gave her and opened it. She laughed as she pressed the button on Joker's back.
"Hehehehe, sometimes you need to watch your back." He cackled. Evie laughed, Joker was the funny but dangerous criminal in those comics she read. She pressed the button again, "Seriously, look behind you." he said. Evie stopped laughing. She pressed it again, "Look behind you, will ya?" He said. Evie turned around and saw her bear staring directly at her. Its eyes like daggers piercing her skin. She thought that a doll can't be talking like a human, it can't think.
"Must be from the food." She thought.
"You might think." a voice rang out. She shuddered; the voice was cold and hard. It sounded like a man's voice, but it couldn't be.... She was in the house alone.
"Okay, calm down Evie. You a little jumpy now, you're hearing things." She told herself. Thunder roared, she jumped from the grounded and grabbed her toys and her bear as Midnight followed her. She went to her room and turned on the lights. The white light shined down upon the purple walls surrounding her space as she put the toys on her desk and the bear on her bed, it limped to one side and fell. She picked it up and straightened it. Midnight mewed again, "Okay, midnight. Let's go, I'll let you have some milk before we go to sleep." She said leaving the room, the lights turned off. She turned around and reached for the light switch. Off, on, off, on, the light wouldn't shine. "The fuse must've blown or there's an electrical problem. That's it. Nothing to worry about." She said. She began walking to the kitchen, she turned into the hall. She stopped in her track, Joker was there. She bent down and grabbed the toy. "How'd you get out here?" She wondered. "Must've dropped him." She thought. She walked to the kitchen; she poured the milk into a bowl for little midnight as she began to lap it up with eagerness. "You're so cute." She cooed the little kitten. The phone started ringing, "Hello?"
"Hey. It's me, Guy." The voice said over the phone.
"Oh hey Guy," She said, "What's up?"
"Nothing, I just called saying you owe me 25 bucks for the meal." Guy said.
"No fair! It's my birthday!" She yelled. A thump was heard in Evie's room, she walked towards her room to check it out. "Hey, Guy. I heard something in my room. Give me a minute," She said. Evie reached for the light as it turned on. She saw her toys standing in a circle with her bear in the middle of the room. "Guy, you won't believe this. My gifts, your bear and Terry's batman figures arranged themselves in a circle in my room." She told him.
"Are you serious?" He asked. His voice became shaky.
"You all right? You sound a bit.....unwell." She asked.
"No, I'm fine." He told her, "I gotta go. See ya tomorrow. Bye."
"By-" she heard the line go dead. "Ugh, call me then hang up without me saying anything. Weird." She said. Evie bent down to pick up the toys. She grabbed the dolls then laid them down on the desk again. This time, she found a note.
You'll soon fall into the darkness.
She turned towards her window. It was locked, and she hasn't seen anyone come through the door so.... Where did the note come from? She heard her kitty screech in the kitchen, she dropped the note and the toys and ran into the kitchen. She gasped when she saw Midnight near the other side of where she was standing. Her bear was there, it stared at her with its cold eyes. Evie's eyes grew big as she stumbled to get her kitty and rushed into her room. She slammed the door and locked it. She slid to the ground breathing heavily. Sweat dripped from her forehead as she turned her head to the desk. Thunder roared as the lightening screeched across the sky. The lights went out. Evie tried to reach for something, anything but accidently knocked Joker on the floor. The force of the ground pushed the button on its back; it told Evie something she rather not hear.
"Hahahahaha, This time.... The Joke's on you."