Spooky Babysitter
Christian Terry
Ashley's fork cut through what was left of her tiramisu. Her client's daughter had been put down for almost an hour. The silence of the house meant that she should be studying but the tiramisu was so delicious. After finishing her dessert Ashley opened her laptop double clicking on her document files.
Now that she had the freedom she was sure she would have the rest of the night to herself to finish her project. As she opened the documents pictures of various newspaper headlines flashed across the monitor. Her assignment that her professor gave would have her follow the trail of supernatural happenings in neighboring towns. Things like "leprechauns in trees" to "ghostly images and sounds " "unexplained disappearances".
The point of the assignment was to find why are people wanting these "tales of make believe" to be real? Ashley wasn't sure what to make of all of this. She believed that if she could see it she would believe it for herself. Her computer monitor flickered for a second before completely darkening. A sharp squawking from up stairs made her blood run cold. It also reminded her that the only person up the stairs was Lauren, the child she was sitting.
The family had no pets, a fact that ran through Ashley's mind as she grabbed the fork she used to eat her tiramisu. She scampered up the stairs tightly gripping her silverware weapon in her fist. Once she reached the door she flung it open to see little Lauren sleep in the same position she had left her in. Perched at the foot of the bed was a blood red cardinal bird with a thumb sized roll of cotton in between its beak.
Ashley flung her arms at the bird predicting that the bird would fly outside of the window across the room in which the bird did flapping its wings through the night air . Lauren gave a yawn before speaking. "I had the weirdest dream miss Ashley.
You saved me from a gigantic female pterodactyl and it was red!" She yelled in excitement rolling over on her pillow which she now found with a gaping hole in the center. "Miss Ashley..." the girl let out. Ashley grabbed Lauren by the hand and stormed out of the house.
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