Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-27975952-20160502023250

Amelia was a young girl aged 13. She hated things strange and out of the ordinary. She would see these strange things constantly and she loathed it. When she was younger her parents would take her to the doctors after she would have a breakdown. “What’s wrong, what did you see?” asked the parents. Amelia would reply with something along the lines of “That house had a strange roof!” or “That man had weird hair!”



One day her parents had enough. They pleaded her to stop being frightened at stupid little things. “We are leaving home for a couple of hours to do the shopping, hopefully that will teach you to stop acting like a whiney three year old. Amelia was terrified. She had never been home alone before; she petrified at the fact that she would be in an empty house all by herself.



As her parents left the house and locked the door behind them she decided to watch some television. She flicked to her favourite channel, ABC 3, but it had no signal. And because this wasn’t normal… yes, Amelia was scared. She turned off the television and sprinted to her room. Amelia hid under her covers for what seemed like hours. Finally she decided to leave her room to go to the bathroom.



As she was washing her hands Amelia looked out the window and saw a girl similar to her build and age. She decided to go talk to the girl as she looked worried when a loud bang sounded from outside. She turned just in time to see a car speeding away, the girl laying flat on the road.



Amelia rang her parents, and told them what happened. “Where were you, are you alright?” asked the mother. “I was in the bathroom, I looked outside the window and then it happened!”   Amelia responded. There was a long silence. “Honey… we don’t have a bathroom window, we only have mirrors in there.” Amelia threw the phone at the wall and raced out the door to help the girl.



‘I should be calling the ambulance…’. The thought raced through her mind over and over again. Amelia ran out onto the road but stopped dead in her tracks. The girl was gone. She looked in every direction, ‘the girl could not have just stood up and left after what just happened.’ And as Amelia looked up she found it was too late to dodge the speeding car.  