Dawn (When They Return Book 1) by Allen M'Renee

Author:Allen, M'Renee [Allen, M'Renee]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Driven Independent Media
Published: 2015-10-31T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Four

~ Revenge ~

After her dad determined that she was okay, her parents left her room, leaving her to rest. Her mom told her to be more careful on the stairs. Neither of them wanted to be near her longer than they had to.

Now she understood why. They feared her. She was the daughter they went into the woods with that day but didn’t return home with. She was dead, or she had been. Until her grandmother saved her. Dawn sat up. No wonder she never cried. No wonder she was never tired or even hungry.

There was only one way to get the dreams to stop. There was only one way to keep the apparition from haunting her. She had to make them pay. Dawn walked over to her vanity table and stared into the mirror.

As always, her ghost stared back at her. This time it wasn’t frowning or calling Dawn’s name, trying to get her to remember. It was smiling. Dawn smiled back. The fear she’d once felt from seeing the apparition was gone.

Now, she felt a sense of sisterhood. The person staring back at her was the only one in this house who loved her. This ghost was the only one she could count on, other than her granny. Dawn didn’t know how long she stood staring at herself in the mirror.

All she knew was that it was daylight when she stepped in front of the mirror and dark when she finally turned away from her reflection. Her time looking into the glass had not been in vain. She and her ghost had shared hundreds of ideas with each other.

They discussed using bleach to do the deed since that was what her mother used to try and kill her when she was still a fetus. However, they both agreed that bleach would be too time-consuming.

Then they discussed using the baseball bat their dad kept in the basement. Unfortunately that wouldn’t be painful enough. Her parents deserved more than a good beating. They needed to suffer immensely until they gasped their last breath.

Now that Dawn remembered what happened to her, she wanted her parents to feel exactly what it was like to be alone and hurting. She wanted them to know what it felt like to sense that death was near and there was no one around to hold your hand.

Though it took her and her ghost a long time to come to a decision, the one they ultimately made was wonderful. This was as close to happy as Dawn had felt in a long time. She left her room and walked into the hallway.

The light was shining from under her parents’ bedroom door. She walked down the hall, tiptoeing. She eased the door open and peeked inside. Her mom was asleep. Where was her dad? Moving away from the door, she made her way over to the staircase and walked down the stairs, moving quietly.

She grimaced each time a step squeaked underneath her feet. Her dad was not in the living room.

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