by Asherwy » Mon Apr 20, 2015 1:40 am
▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬georgina and melissa"Take care sweetie! Mommy and daddy will be back soon okay?"
Mommy kissed me on the forehead, but daddy kissed me on my hair and took a deep sniff. He always does that. "Don't give Melissa as hard a time as you give us okay?" He said with a smile, pressing me against his chest.
I nodded, rubbing my eyes.
"That's my good girl." He kissed me on the nose and stood back up. Mommy and daddy were all dressed up for a party they were going to, they looked really different. Mommy was really pretty. I watched them slide into the seats of our family car, waving goodbye as they backed out and drove away. Melissa was standing next to me, her hand stroking my hair as she waved goodbye too. "Alright Georgina, lets go eat your dinner and then you're getting to bed." We went inside the house, her hands on my shoulders.
I looked at the clock above the TV. It read 6:03pm. I knew it was pm because it was getting dark. I learned how to read the clock hands in class on Friday. My teacher told me I was a natural. I'm not sure what that means. Jumping onto the kitchen stool, I put both of my arms onto the counter and rested my chin on my hands, watching Melissa as she heated up some macaroni and cheese. She punched in a few numbers and pressed start, and the microwave began whirring. I could see the plate spinning inside it.
Melissa walked over to me and smiled. I like her smile. Her mouth turns up at the corners and she has a silver tooth next to her front teeth. It's really shiny. I lifted one arm and pointed to her teeth. "How did you get that shiny tooth?"
She touched it. "Oh this? I had a really bad cavity, so the dentist put a titanium coating on it." She sighed, "I got that cavity from eating too much junk food, so don't do that okay? Otherwise you'll end up like me." She laughed.
I frowned. "But I want a shiny tooth."
"But that means getting a cavity, and cavities hurt this much!" She made a large circle with her arms.
"Can I get it without having a cavity?" I asked, unconsciously touching my own teeth.
"I'm not sure about that, but if you do you can show me and we'll take a picture together, okay?" She said, smiling.
"Okay!" I did my big grin at her, squinting my eyes.
She laughed, and the microwave dinged. The microwave makes really funny noises. "Uhp! Dinner's ready!" She said and went back to the microwave, using a cloth to take out the plate. She spooned half of it onto another plate and walked back to me, putting the new plate down. I stared at the cheesy macaroni.
Melissa sat down next to me and placed the other plate in front of her, handing me a fork. "Here you go!"
I took the fork and started eating. It was really, really, really good.
Melissa started eating too. "Your mom is such a nice person. She made an extra helping for me too you know? And she made our dinner so that I wouldn't have to cook even though I said it was fine." She looked really happy, but it was a different kind of happy that I didn't know how to explain. I think it started with a 'g.'
I put the last pieces of macaroni into my mouth and pressed them against the top of my mouth to squeeze all the cheese out. Then I chewed. Melissa was done too. "You look happy." She chuckled, taking my plate and stacking it under hers. "Do you want to go up to your room while I finish washing the dishes?"
I nodded and got up on the stool, jumping down. I had to be really careful because the chair spins, and last time I got a big cut on my head. It was bleeding bad, and I cried a lot. Even though I was careful Melissa still got scared. "Be careful Georgina! You could've hurt yourself." Her eyes were really big, and they were pretty too. They were blue with whitey bits in the middle.
"I am careful." I said and walked to the staircase, getting down on all fours and crawling up the stairs. It made me feel like a cat, or a dog. I barked. Then I meowed. I could hear Melissa laughing and the water running in the kitchen sink. "What are you doing Georgie?" She asked, still laughing. I felt like it wasn't meant to be answered, so I didn't.
It was really dark on the staircase, also upstairs. My chest felt congested. I think that's how you use that word. Walking towards the light switches, I turned all of them on and sighed in relief.
Skipping to my room, I turned on all the lights there too and jumped onto my bed, bouncing up and down. I took the picture book from my bedside table and squinted at the cover. "'Goodnight Noises.'" I read the title aloud and opened the book.
I was on the page where we were supposed to say goodnight to the door noises when someone came in my room. I jumped, that really scared me. My heart was beating faster than normal, but it was only Melissa.
"You scared me!" I exclaimed indignantly. I learned that word in class today, it was really hard to spell it.
"Sorry." Melissa said. She was holding a glass of milk. It looked warm. She walked over to me and sat down on my bed, putting the glass on the end table. "Ready to sleep?"
"I haven't brushed my teeth yet. I don't wanna brush them."
Melissa giggled. "Alright then, how about you don't brush your teeth, just for tonight?"
I nodded my head really hard. "Yes!"
She laughed. "But you have to keep it a secret okay? Just between the two of us."
"Okay."
"Goodnight then." She patted my head and got up. "If you have trouble sleeping then drink some milk okay?" She turned on my bedside lamp.
"Goodnight!" I said. She smiled and walked away, turning off the light switches before closing the door behind her.
Picking up the book again, I finished the rest of the pages and put it back, turning off the lamp. Snuggling into the blanket, I closed my eyes.
There was a soft creaking coming from my bedroom door. I looked up. "...Mommy?" I wasn't sure whether it had been long enough already for them to come home. They said the party would last until 11:00pm, and it was eight when Melissa said goodnight. A black figure stood in the doorway, but it was bright enough to see their face. It was Melissa.
"Melissa?" I squeaked. She didn't reply. I sunk deeper into my bed.
A big, toothy grin began to appear on her face, her silver tooth glinting.
I stared at her, and she stared at me with wide eyes. Her pupils looked like they shrunk. I could hear the television downstairs. Didn't she turn it off when she came up here?
Melissa didn't stop smiling. I closed my eyes and tried to sleep, thinking that she'll go away when she sees that I'm sleeping, but when I opened my eyes again, she was still there. Smiling at me.
Then she moved.
She stumbled towards me. I pulled the covers over my head and shut my eyes. The footsteps came closer and closer. After a few moments, they stopped. I peeked out of the blanket.
She was right next to me. Smiling at me. She took the cup of milk and raised it over her head. I couldn't look away. She poured it all over her, smiling. Then she seemed to collapse to the floor, but stayed on her knees. She was still looking at me, staring at me, smiling at me. She shuffled closer and closer until her face was right next to mine. My heart pounded against my chest. Her silver tooth glinted, her blue eyes shrinking further and further until they were just black dots in a sea of white. And she kept smiling.
I yanked the blanket over my head and tried to control my breathing. I couldn't hear her breaths. Looking out of the blanket again, I checked to see if she was still there. She was. And she was closer. I covered myself again. And I checked again. This time her nose was touching mine, and I looked into her big white eyes. I was shaking.
"L-l-l-leave me alone...." I whimpered. Her eyes grew bigger, and her grin wider, but she didn't say anything. She just smiled and smiled and smiled, all the way until the sun rose.
I told my parents. They called her, and she said she was watching TV the entire time.
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Asherwy on Mon Apr 20, 2015 1:42 am, edited 1 time in total.
