Everything within the house was quiet. Unable to sleep she slowly climbed out of bed. Tip toeing across the floor towards the door she reached out with her senses. Both of her grandparents were in their bedroom asleep. Not knowing how soundly they slept she pulled open the door gently before sliding through the gap. Creeping stealthily down the hallway she stopped in front of the front door. Laying her hand upon the knob she tried to turn it but it wouldn't move.
The door was locked.
Moving her hand from the knob to her head she brushed her hair back as she thought of what to do next. Unable to think of anything she began to walk back to her new bedroom but stopped outside of a door when something tugged at her. Emanating from the door she had stopped at was a feeling she had felt before. It was a feeling that haunted her whenever she thought upon the person that had ruined so many lives through senseless murders and lies.
The room was Lily's.
Resting her hand on the door handle she was assaulted with images. Biting hard on her lip she tried to remove her hand but something seemed to take over as her arm pushed down on the handle and the door swung open. Her legs and feet pulled her into the room as she tried to turn away. As her feet dragged her into the centre of the room the door closed softly behind her.
Light filled the room. It was no longer night but morning. As she looked around she could see pictures on the wall drawn by a child, some were merely scribbles while others seemed to take more form and shape. A large chest stood beneath a window on which gel shapes had been stuck. Poking out from underneath the lid of the chest were toys of different kinds. On the small bed to her side a well loved teddy bear was tucked up in blankets until its owner came to play with it again.
She felt the door open behind her and a little girl ran in, passing through her body. She heard a man's voice and he too passed through her, covered in a sheet and making ghost sounds.
"Lilijana! Where are you?" The voice beckoned beneath the sheet.
The little girl laughed as the man in the sheet found her with searching hands, grabbed her hands and lifted her arms upwards. Her feet left the floor as he allowed her to somersault forwards and then backwards. As her feet touched the ground again the man flipped the sheet off of him and onto the girl. As the man turned around and began to run away, Robyn saw his face.
It was her grandfather.
There was no mistaking who the little girl was as she peeked out from beneath the sheet to see in which direction her father had run. As both passed through her the images in the room began to change.
The scribbles on the walls were gone, replaced by more advanced sketches of magical forests and mystical creatures. The old chest still remained but its lid was shut tight. On the bed lay the same old teddy bear but it was laid carelessly on top of the blankets.
She could hear voices approaching, one sounded angry while the other had the tone of someone trying to quell the anger. Moving from the centre of the room, Robyn placed herself against a wall. She watched as two girls came into the room. One of the girls was an older version of the one she had seen before at a younger age. Her looks were more prominent now and her eyes seemed cold despite her youth. The other girl was unfamiliar but it was easy to tell that she was the one trying to pacify her friend.
Robyn's mother.
"Lily! You're being stupid!" The girl moaned, aggravated at her lack of success at making her friend see sense. "I only said I thought your brother was cute."
Lily stormed past her friend as she slammed the bedroom door shut. With all of the grace she carried in adulthood she walked back over to her friend. A familiar expression crossed her face before she laid a slap across her friend's cheek.
"I told you not to repeat it!" Young Lily hissed, her face mere millimetres from her friend's.
Both girls turned around as someone knocked on the door and opened it. Robyn could see her grandmother standing in the open doorway, she was much younger and Robyn could tell that she had lost none of her beauty with age.
"Is everything alright in here girls?" Yuliya asked suspiciously.
From her place by the wall, Robyn could see Lily snaking a hand round to her friend's back. She raised her hand to her friend's hair and knotted it in her fist, squeezing it hard as a strong indicator that her friend had better answer in the affirmative.
Lily's friend took the hint.
"Yes, Bana Yuliya. We're ok. Me and Lily were playing a game."
Yuliya looked from Lily to her friend, "Are you sure, Agna? Your father returns later tonight, I'm sure your mother would like to celebrate his return with you. If you've changed your mind about staying over I can ask Sportacus to take you home."
Agna's eyes began to water as Lily squeezed her hair tighter. She could only manage a weak smile and a nod to say that she wanted to stay. Dissatisfied and with eyes still burning with caution, Yuliya left the room.
Robyn could feel Agna's pain as Lily ripped her hand from the girl's hair, taking a massive clump with it. Agna's hand found the sore patch and she rubbed it as she turned to face Lily, her brown eyes full of hurt and confusion.
"What is wrong with you?" She whispered.
Lily smiled her classic, dangerous smile. "Not as much as is going to be wrong with you if you tell anyone about this."
"You're a bully Lily. You've always been a bully. You're a bully and a liar. I know you lied about how Fraans got hurt when he fell from the tree we were climbing. He won't ever walk again and it's your fault. You pushed him out of that tree. Didn't you?"
"I did. I pushed him and I watched him fall. You better hadn't tell anyone or the same might happen to you or worse." The threat in Lily's voice was clear.
A terrified Agna began to panic. Her hand dropped from her head to her side and she went to scream and run away but Lily was quickly upon her. Lily's hand clamped over Agna's mouth and the two girls struggled. Both lost their footing and Agna's head connected with the wooden frame of the bed. Dazed, she stopped trying to scream and watched helplessly as Lily reached up and took a pillow from the bed.
Robyn was helpless to stop the situation as Agna seemed to break from her daze and went to scream before Lily covered her face with the pillow. Agna's hands tried swiping at Lily's face as she fought to push her off but Lily didn't move. Their movements became more desperate as her legs began to kick out, her body trying anything to remove the object blocking her airway. Eventually Agna's movements ceased.
She would move no more.
Hours seemed to pass in a matter of seconds as Lily got up from where she had sat herself on the floor drawing. Going over to Agna's lifeless body she pinched herself until tears formed in her eyes. Taking a deep breath in she screamed.
"MUMMY!"
