The Devil's Daughter

7

Charlotte

When I open my eyes again I'm in some weird looking barren wasteland. It should be hot by the way the steam is rising from cracks in the ground but I dont feel hot at all.

I see a house off in the distance so I head toward it. Nowhere else to go. I dont like the feel of this place it feels evil.

I don't know where I am but I would like to be anywhere then here. I get the heebie jeebies. I make it to the house. It looks like an old run down 2 story piece of crap. The majority of the windows are broken, the roof is half caved in and there is no front door.

I enter through where the front door should be and all the furniture seems to still be here. It looks like it was just abandoned and forgotten about. I find the kitchen continue through to lounge I find the stairs they look ok so I venture up them. I find a room full of baby items. A cot, a change table, a rocking chair even clothes and nappies. None of it looks like it even got used. What happened to this place. I keep going and find a master bedroom the others I can't get to from the collapsed roof.

Again the door isn't attached to the wall its broken in bits all across the room on the floor.

I make my way in, dust everywhere, all the furniture is broken to bits. The bathroom is untouched which I find odd. The bedroom window is broken like the rest of the windows through the house I have seen. It looks like an explosion of some kind happened in this room. I look around whats left of the room i find the pile of wood that looked like it was a dresser. I find pieces of paper ripped to shreds. Some are stained red with parts of the floor. I so hope that's not blood. It wouldn't surprise me with the state of this room. Shivers run through my body at the thought of someone being hurt here especially if it was the baby that room belonged too. But there is no body just blood. I dont want to be in this room any more so I head back to the door.

As I'm heading out the door past where half the bed was the floor boards move under my feet. Something pulls for me to look so I bend down and wiggle the floor boards till it pops up. I remove 3 pieces of wood to find a little box.

I take the box and move back to the babies room, I need to be somewhere calm to open it I think. Inside is a photo and a ring.

A black and white photo of a beautiful older lady, a baby and a man. I can't see her eyes in the photo as she is looking at man she is smiling but it looks forced and pained. She is holding the little baby. It must be who ever lived here. The man in the photo doesnt look old enough to be the dad. A brother maybe? He looks older maybe 18 or so. He is looking at the baby with so much love in his face.

I turn the photo over and find writing on the back. It has 3 names. Sophia, Drake and Charlotte. It reads

My darling baby girl I'm so sorry I couldn't raise you. It wasn't safe to do so. I hope one day I will find you and see you again. Drake will always be with you, protecting and watching. He is very special to me and you. He will never hurt you and will do anything and everything to protect you.

I didn't realise I was crying until drops of water fell onto the photo. I put the ring on my ring finger. It was a simple gold band with crescent moon engraved on the inside with the name lottie inside.

I'm disturbed from the photo by noises coming from down stairs.