it was recess in school cornelia was heading towards the nurse's office hey cornelia was banging on the door a muscular man came out looking down at her his gruff voice was drawing the ladies eyes in towards them he kinda looks like a bodybuilder cornelia looked him up and down she figured if she had to fight him he would most definitely toss her around like a boxing bag in short cornelia was intimidated by him

hello miss what brings you here? looking up at the taller man cornelia gulped he was missing an eye, well I feel kinda sick cornelia adverted her gas away from him the one eyed man seemed puzzled by her behaviour what is it ? he ask well your eye is kinda gone

the man pulled out a mirror out of his bag observing him self yes indeed his eye was gone oh the man said I must have forgotten my glass eye cornelia was interested by

this you have a glass eye ? cornelia has never met someone who own a glass eye in truth she always thought they looked cool cornelia wanted to buy one one but she realised it was useless for her because she didn't have a missing eye

yep now you say you feel sick can you be more pacific? yes I have a bad head ache I think it would be best if I go home cornelia was talking to him like she was in a meeting she wasn't here to mess around the faster she goes home the faster thing will go back to normal

you don't need to go home silly the man spoke like he was talking to a small toddler who asks something obscure, cornelia glared at him , one because he wouldn't let her go home and two she didn't like him calling her silly if she was older he wouldn't treat her like a child no he would treat her seriously and let her home ! cornelia wondered if she'd looked like her sisters would people treat her differently would they be nicer would they not talk down to her?

the man walked into his room and came out with three pills and a bottle of ice cold water cornelia looked at him she tried to dismissed her thoughts giving him a second chance after all she had met worser people before, she shook her head and snatched them from his big hands t-thenk you Mr? Hulkton the man spoke, my name is Hulkton

cornelia watched him he did kinda look like my older brothers favourite marvel characters what was his name agen? it started with a H ... hunk? ...hook? cornelia waved the man good bye and went outside still thinking she saw one of the kids wearing a shirt with a green man on it? like a light bulb something clicked in her head the hulk that was it

in the playground cornelia looked at the playing children around her, walking around she couldn't see her friends she sat by a tree near the bars that cage us In this stupid place

she never had a problem fallowing the roles but something about not being able to leave over the bars made her feel like she was trapped maybe it was claustrophobia? no she never felt this way before

taking a deep breath to cool her nerves she looked up at the tree, her eyes went wide when she saw seventeen? no nineteen squirrels looking down at her most of them were eating acorns some were whispering to each other and the rest simply just looking at her like she was the most intreasting thing that ever existed, cornelia rubbed her eyes and looked up agen

they were gone? was I just imaging things cornelia started at the branch that the squirrels were once sitting at

hey ladie do you have any food? cornelia felt a furry paw stroking her cheek. cornelia jumped up from shock behind her was an army of cute squirrels all the children of the playground stopped their playing to watch them, did-did you just talke? cornelia murmured the animals looked at each other then back to her a light brown baby squirrel spoke up well due idiot now do you have any food or not?

n-no wait a minute how am I understanding you and how are you understanding me? cornelia looked back at the squirrels but they have retreated back up the tree

she stood there for a while oh blast it all!! cornelia slipped through the bars when the teacher wasn't looking and ran as fast as her skinny legs could take her, she was going home

cornelia rushed inside her house like she was being chase she ran upstairs to her room she tried to open her room door but it was blocked by something? she burst through the door and a mountain of letters covered every inch of her floor, what the heck?! she swimed through the letters and tried to get some sleep hopefully, when she wakes up she hoped all the letters would go away and that she would be mentally stable agen

hours had passed and cornelia felt something wet on her face her eyes jolted up to see a racoon linking her AAAGGHH!! cornelia yeeted the racoon at the mountain of paper and ran out of her room like her life depended on it, cornelia locked her bedroom door and tried to go into her siblings rooms but they were all locked feeling bored and tired cornelia decided to go up in the attic

sitting on the old couch she looked through the baby picture and grimaced damn we were ugly why would anyone take a picture of this in the picture cornelia was hugging her older sister but she had three pony tales smeared make up and a ballerina costume throwing the picture on the couch she got up and walked over to the wall where her dad's old bookshelf stood looking at the dark green books one of them stood out from the rest the book that stood out had gold writing and silver snake that curled around the golden roses on the cover, the book was black and the title was the DUCKLING FAMILY HISTORY cornelia flipped through the pages of old people a key fell out and bounced off the floor

confused but honestly intrigued she picked up the black key and searched the attic to find the door the key opens she had always loved to play mystery games with her family and friends it wasn't as fun investigating alone but she guess it was better then nothing

she looked all over the attic but she couldn't find the door ,taking a break she leaned on the bookshelf, the shelf slid across the room leaving cornelia to face plant on the floor getting on her knees she looked at the bookshelf in shock she had spend half an hour searching for the door and it had been in front of her this entire time! her pail ckeeks had gone a bright red from frustration and she got up to see a creepy looking door cornelia hat'ed anything that even remotely reassemble horror or creepy things so much so that when it came Halloween she would were a helmet packed a walky talky three flash lights with extra batteries and hair spray in case she got attacked nothing ever happened of course but it never hurt to be prepared and what if something did happen huh? how would she protect her siblings or call for help? People may call her paranoid and by people she means jack cornelia was really annoyed with Jack he's only one year older then her but he acts like he is so much more mature'er then her which he wasn't!

she looked at the creepy door it was strange though it was scary she wasn't scared by it infecte she was memorised by it slowly she walked over ,she felt like she was under a spell sure sometimes she would get caught up by her own curiosity but she was always able to draw away when she needed to turning the key and opening the door she could see rocky stairs that went up in a spiral? where do the stairs go and how are they going up?cornelia thought wasn't she in the attic how did they go so far up

cornelia walked upstairs and the door behind her shut it startled her at first but she quickly got over it hopping back into her trance

little did she know someone had gotten a phone call from the school and was currently driving home