• Moon tide
    Preface
    "Luna!" I cried as I watched my friend being dragged in to the darkness. "Kitty!" I screamed as I gazed after my struggling friend. I was left alone int he darkness to myself. What could I do now, what had just happened. Suddenly two pairs of arms landed apon me. I screamed.


    Chapter one
    Beseached and betrayed

    I'd never liked the way things seemed to come alive durning the night. I'd used to think that you died at night time and restarted when the sun rose. As I lay there shivering under the snug duvet of my bed, I watched my doll.

    I'd wanted to call her Lily, because she had a pretty flower in her hair, my sister had wanted to call it cassie after me, because she said it was ugly. Yet nethier of us got our way because eventually, my mum stepped in between our arguing and named her larai, meaning 'the night one'. I hated this. everytime I went to bed the thought of larai moving around while I slept creeped me out. Even now, when I was thirteen, it still scared me.

    The formentioned larai was lying on her back, eyes closed, hands folded neatly on her chest. I rolled over to stare at the bare wall, trying to get comfy. With no sucsess I turned back to face larai. "W-what? ARGH!" I let out a tiny squeal. Larai was now sitting bolt up right, her eletric blue eyes boring into me.

    Trembling, I rose out of bed and picked larai up. She blinked. I tryed not to scream again and walked over to my open window. I noticed soemthing glowing. I took off larais cotton dress to reveal the sowed on dolly undies. Yet between the felt bra and pants, was a tiny, glowing crystal.

    I shone like a star and carefully, using my longest nail (which wasn't very long as i bit them), I plucked the crystal from its nest. The dool let out a tiny gasp, her eyes dulled and her head lolled backwards. Freaked out, i chucked larai oit my window and she landed in the apple tree. noticing the crystal was like a miniture bead, i undid my homemade necklace, pushed off the plastic beads and threaded the single crystal so it hung in the middle. I dorned it on my neck and scrambled into bed.

    suddenly, My eyes seemed to be burning, burnign int heir sockets, a raging fire comeing from my own soul. I felt tears adorn my flushed cheeks and sweat breaking on my forehead. Then, as suddenly as it had started, the burning stopped and my head slumped into the pillow and my eyes snapped shut.