alley...

She started to get scared. It was half an hour ago when Ben told her to stay here in this dark alley. He went to pick up something. She knows it would be some lovely birthday gift. But there was no sign of him.

“Did something happen to him…” she got anxious.

Then she started to hear voices. Scary ones, behind her. But there was no one. She started walking. The alley seemed too long for her. Her steps picked up speed. As she reaches the end of that wretched alley, from nowhere there was a door there. Confused and anxious she opened it.

There again she was, at the very spot from where she started to walk. The voices become scarier this time and the alley become darker. She ran towards the door. She could feel someone behind her trying to catch her. Her slender legs get tired. She can feel the numbness starting from their end.

“I won’t give up” she decided…

With all her strength she ran. Again there was the door. She swing it open and closed it, shouting

“go away…. Goooo awaaay from me….”

Still there she was at that wretched scary dark alley…..

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“Go away…. Go away….”

“Why is she saying that dad…?”

Claire chimed to her dad. She was visiting the asylum where her dad worked.

“Oh, nothing dear. She is not talking to you. She is just delusional. Come, your mom is waiting for you.”

Warren answered to his curious daughter and picked her up and closed the door to the ward.

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“Go away…. Go away….”

But still the voices continued to reach for her…..