Anna was sitting in her therapists office. Dr. Chamberlin was listening to her as she retold him about the night of the explosion that killed her mother.
She kept having the dream.
It came in bits. But lately she has been getting longer dreams. Which meant that she was remembering more from that night.
Chamberlin told her that it was probably best that she didn't remember everything. That sometimes the mind suppresses memories to keep a person safe.
He then told her that he felt that it was safe for her to go home. She was so happy to be going home. She ran to her room to pack.
She couldn't wait to got to her home. She couldn't wait till she could hug her dad. To hug her sister.
She was packing when someone from the room across from her walked in. With her hands in her robe pockets.
"Pretty little Anna. You're leaving us?" Anna looked at the woman. The woman was walking closer to Anna. And with speed, the woman grabbed Anna's wrists pulling them out to see the scars on the younger girls wrists.
"Do you really think they fixed you?" She asked. "There was so much blood wasn't it? Tell me how red the water was." She grinned at the young girl a twisted grin. Anna struggled and freed herself from the older woman's grasp.
"What are you doing in here? I told you to leave her alone. She needs to pack." A nurse said coming and grabbing the woman and gently leading her out of Anna's room.
The woman looked back at Anna as if the fact that the younger of the two was leaving this place finally dawned on the older one.
"But who will I tell my stories to?" She asked as she was put into her room.
Anna waited till the woman and nurse was out of her room before grabbing the rest of the her things from her room's desk.
She took the pictures, on the board above the desk, down and went to put them in the bag. She then grabbed her books and put them in as well. This bag had her important things in it, the hospital said they would send the rest to her home.
Anna looked out the window, and to her happiness, she saw her father on the stairs in front of the institution she was in. She smiled brightly and waved at her father when he looked up and waved at her.
She held up a finger to tell him that she would be down in a moment. She then grabbed her bag and looked at the door in front of her old room
The older woman from earlier was watching Anna threw the open door. "I'll miss you My Pretty Little Anna." She said before shutting the door.
Anna walked away, ready to leave this place behind.
Anna ran out, dropping her bag and hugged her dad. She missed him so much. Sure he came to visit her. But now this hug, this was the first hug she had being free at last.
She missed his hugs.
Before her mom got sick, Anna and her dad were extremely close. She was very close with both of her parents.
But when her mom got sick. Things weren't the same.
Rachel was her mom's nurse. Both Anna and her older sister Alex both didn't like her. they could see that Rachel was attracted to their dad, David. And David seemed to be attracted to Rachel, even though he was married.
Then when Anna's mom died in a horrible explosion. The explosion that poor Anna couldn't help but dream about it. Her mind trying to remember it.
Anna was trying to go home after sneaking to a party with Alex when Anna was fifteen. She had been making out with a boy from town named Matt. He was sixteen at the time. He told her he loved her and that he brought a condom with him.
She knew that he was drunk and she wasn't going to lose her virginity to him. He already took her first kiss.
Anna pushed Matt off her and started walking away. Ignoring Matt and Alex calling her name. She remembered walking home threw the woods. The party was about two miles away from her own home.
She remembered feeling that she just wanted to go home. That's all she wanted. To go home. That something was wrong.
She saw that there was some trash bags. Confused, Anna walked over to them. She guessed that she could take them back home to put in the bin. But as she was about to touch them, they fell apart. She looked at what came out.
She froze seeing three bodies of children, mangled in horrible ways, they had to be at the age of ten or eleven at the oldest.
She covered her mouth, she yelped as the head of the only girl out of the three rolled over to face her with a sickening crunch.
"Don't go home." The girl said, and blood drained out of her mouth.
It terrified Anna. She couldn't make a sound though. It was like her voice was gone from her body. She started running home.
She thought she could call the police.
When she finally broke threw the forest she was at her home. Anna could hear her mothers bell. The bell Rachel put on Anna's mothers wrist so that if Rachel or anyone was around and she needed something, they could hear her calling for help.
Anna's mom, Lucy, nearly lost of her voice closer to her death. So the bell was so she didn't waste a lot of energy.
Anna knew on the inside that Rachel, nor her own father wasn't coming to her mothers aid. So it meant that Anna's mother was alone.
She wasn't supposed to be alone.
Ever.
So Anna went over to the boat house that Lucy was moved into three months earlier.
Anna opened the door of the boat house. Her mom was in her medical bed, gasping for air. Lucy looked at her little girl. Gasping her name.
Anger and worry filled Anna.
"Ill go get Rachel mom." Anna said, running out of the boat house entryway. Anna went inside and something felt wrong.
She didn't feel safe.
Something was wrong.
Anna walked to her fathers office.
She walked to the closed door of her dads office. The door knob shook as she got closer.
Anna was confused by it. She bent to look threw the key hole. But backed away and gasped as blood dripped out of the whole.
Anna didn't remember how she got outside but she found herself outside looking at the boat house. She could remember seeing a pail fall as the explosion happened.
That was all she could remember of that night.
Anna got in the car, and her dad drove off.
He reached back as they drove. He pulled out a contanter. He smiled handing it to her. She opened it and gasped seeing soft fresh chocolate chip cookies.
"Yum!" She said eating one happily and as she picked the second up her dad spoke after chuckling. "Rachel made them just for you. She's been cooking non stop today." He said.
She froze and put the cookies away.
She forgot that Rachel was now dating her dad.
She asked her dad if they could get some lunch. She missed fast food. He happily pulled into a Burger King. She got a Whopper, onion rings, and a coke.
She happily ate it.
Soon they was on the road and she watched outside.
She smiled as they pulled in.
She was home.
