Monster

Tick.

Tock.

Tick.

Tock.

Jessica sat on her bed and listened to the clock.

Tick.

She was going to do it. She was going to run away from
home, she was going to join the Cirque du Soleil! She had been practicing her
acrobatics for months, and now the Cirque du Soleil  was finally in town!  Plus, they HAD to take in a fourteen year old
girl if she was all alone, right?

Tock.

And then it happened. Glass flew everywhere in the
room, and she could feel a hand aroung her mouth. She tried to claw at it, but
she was to tired for that. To tired to think, let alone to do.

Tick.

~~20
Years After~

Annabeth smiled as
she carried the box into her room. Her own room! It was a miracle that they got
away from their drab life in the countryside, but to live in the city! It was a
dream come true. She sighed as she plopped down on her bed, looking at the
ceiling where the previous owner had pasted glow in the dark stars, in the
shape of constellations. She mouthed the words of the ones she knew. Ursa
Major, Ursa Minor. Orion’s belt and the brightest star of all.

Polaris.

Annabeth always loved
the stars, but Polaris held a special place into her heart. She believed that
Polaris would lead her to her destiny, to be the queen of something.
Wonderland, maybe? Oz? The possibilities were endless.

Annabeth’s mother
knocked on her door, and she sat up with a start. It was lunchtime!

Annabeth bounded
downstairs, giddy from the excitement. Her first dinner! In a NEW house! She
sat at the table, with a smile on her face. The chicken on the table, the pasta
in the bowl. Heaven. She gobbled down the plate in record time, but not before
her father told her to go outside while they finished unpacking, so she went
out to the tree out back, a book in hand.

That’s when she first
saw it.

When she first saw
the monster.

It’s eyes were big
and round, slightly resembling Gollum from The Hobbit. The body was long and
lanky, with arms that dragged on the ground, like an unnaturally bony
orangutan. It’s skin was pale and freckled, it’s hair a greasy shade of black.
The creature crept down from the tree and looked over Annabeth’s shoulder.
Annabeth turned her head, looking into the big, green eyes of the beast. Being
only nine years old, with an overly active imagination, she didn’t find
anything unnatural about this. She wasn’t even surprised when it spoke.

“Me, Jess. You?”

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YUS. okay, this is my first trial story ^^

critique please, and write if i should continue!

thanks