The Painting by Charis Cotter

Author:Charis Cotter
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Tundra
Published: 2017-09-19T04:00:00+00:00

ANNIE

I LAY IN THE dark, waiting. Dad sometimes checked on me before he went to bed. I twitched with impatience. I wanted to get to Crooked Head as fast as I could to help Claire.

My bedside clock showed 11:15 in glowing red numbers before I finally heard his footsteps coming heavily up the stairs. Sure enough, he opened my door and walked over to my bed. I lay motionless, pretending to be asleep. He stood there for a moment.

“Good night, Annie,” he whispered, and then left. I heard him go into his own room and shut the door.

Poor Dad.

I pulled my flashlight out from under my pillow and took the Newfoundland book from my bedside table. I had to find another picture to fall into.

I flipped through to the Maisie King section. She smiled out at me, her hair white and wild, her eyes alive with humor. I quickly turned the pages, past the painting of the lighthouse in the storm, and stopped at the painting of Annie in the blue pajamas. I stared at it for a minute but nothing happened. There was something weird about the dog on the bed. He didn’t look like a friendly stuffed animal. He was kind of scary looking. Something about his eyes. I peered closer. Maisie had painted them as spinning vortexes. I suppressed a shiver and read the caption.

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