Sophie's Here

"Sophie is here". "Sophie is here". "Sophie is here"

The dreadful voice got louder and louder, as well as darker and corrupted. Soon, it sounded like the voice of a demon, deep, dark, disturbing. Candace and Clarissa were horrified as they hid in the cupboard, while outside their dog was being brutally tortured by Sophie. The poor dog looked terrified, and could tell that the wicked girl would not stop. This was all consequent to an event that happened a few days ago....

It was a nice and sunny day, and like Candace and Clarissa did on most Saturday`s, they went walking through the forest just off the street that they lived on. The sisters found great fun in doing so.

"What shall we play?" asked Candace innocently.

"Whatever you want." her big sister Clarissa responded.

"Let`s play hide and seek!" decided Candace

And so Clarissa stood behind a tree and counted. It was about 2 minutes until she had counted to 100, and so she began her journey through the forest. She knew that Candace had enough sense to not wonder too far, so she wasn`t worried when she couldn`t initially see her. But not too long after, she could already see her little sister`s outlines in the trees. Clarissa decided to humour Candace by not initially acting like she knew where she was. But as she approached, she realised that the figure she had seen was not Candace. This girl had long dark hair, wore no shoes and had a strange almost peasanty looking garb on. But before Clarissa could back away, the girl spoke.

"Hello Clarissa. I am glad to meet you.  I am Sophie."

"Hi." responded Clarissa reluctantly. She had never seen Sophie around town before.

"Do you know where my sister is?"

Sophie turned around, and a small smirk spread across her unkept face.

"Don`t you think it`s a little early to be asking that?" She responded in a sinister tone.

Clarissa didn`t even bother to hang around for more. After a polite 'goodbye' she began to search the forest once more for Candace.

A hot and unsettling hour later, she finally found her.

"Oh, Candace there you are I was getting worried..."

She was shocked when Candace turned around. She was crying and looked terrified.

"What happened?" asked Clarissa, relatively worried.

But her sister said nothing. Under Clarissa's guidance, the two edged there way out of the forest and back to their house, but on the way up the drive way, Candace uttered three words. "Her name was Sophie..."

Clarissa got a worried look on her face. Who was Sophie? She had known that she was not completely normal, but she was beginning to get really worried about the situation. But after her (and her sister's) favourite dinner of pizza, she began to feel better. The sisters slept in the same room and by the time she had got to bed she decided that Sophie must have kicked a Squirrel or abused another animal in one way or another to upset Candace. Seeing animals get hurt often disturbed her.

But at about 2am, Clarissa was awoken to a loud thud downstairs. Candace had also been disturbed by this noise, and was wide awake. Finally, the two decided to go investigate the noise. They crept slowly down the stairs, and were greeted to the pleas and yelps of their dog, Ben. The girls quickly retreated into a closet, and tried to make out the situation from the keyhole. They saw their poor, beaten dog. Bloody, battered and about to die. Candace began to sob, but before she got to maximum volume, Clarissa covered her mouth. Then suddenly they saw her. It was Sophie. She was beating the dog and ripping bits of its flesh of with her teeth and eating them. Even Clarissa was horrified by the inhumane act. Suddenly, as if telepathically alerted of their presence, Sophie ran up to the door, and opened it. Both Candace and Clarissa gave a horrified yelp that they had been exposed, before Clarissa felt herself weakening, before she blacked out, as if the cause of a mysterious force.

When she came too, all was silent. Clarissa hurried upstairs and into her parents room, but they were all gone. The walls were violently spattered with blood. Clarissa turned around to search the house for them, but came face to face with Sophie. She had blood all around her mouth.

"W-where is my family?" Stammered Clarissa.

Sophie just laughed. "Don`t you think it`s a little late to be asking that?"