Late Nights
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It was a beautiful day when my grandmother had finally given my mother and I the garden she had boarded up, I was dressed in a deep velvet red dress as I walked beside my mother who was dawned in a black dress. I only smiled as we strolled down the street to the store to get supplies to remove the boards that blocked our way to the garden despite my grandmother saying not to remove those boards. "Mother. Maybe there's a reason she said not to unboard it" I say as my mother shook her head "it's probably filled to the brim with flowers, the worst that could happen is we get poison ivy" my mother replied with the roll of her eyes. "But mother-" I say before she cuts me off "no buts Nove" my mother says with a side glare "yes mother.." I say with a soft sigh.
It took us a total of four hours or more to find what we needed and so we decided to do it tomorrow after we ran some errands. Once we got home, it was almost dark and my mother had made dinner so I happily ate before I got changed for bed and went to lie down. Once my head had hit the pillow I was fast asleep and my dreams were filled with warnings, do not open that garden the voice boomed in my head before I woke up in a cold sweat. When my eyes shot open and I breathed in, it felt like I hadn't been breathing for a long time as I sat in bed for a few minutes to gain some mental courage to go follow my gut feeling.
When I finally got the courage to get up I silently walked barefoot out to the garden that was boarded up. When I had arrived I had seen a soft purple light shining through. My gut told me this was not good so I slowly backed up before I walked back to my room and for the rest of the night that's where I stayed. When I had gotten up in the morning I slipped on a deep forest green dress before putting my curly hair up in a ponytail.
"Ma, I don't think we should open that garden up" I commented. "Nova, we've been over this, We're opening the garden. Maybe we can profit off of the flowers and plants inside and god knows we need the extra money" my mother nags "I saw a purple light emitting from it last night" I argued back as I put butter on my bagel so I could put jam on it as well. "We are opening that garden and that is final." She says and I just rolled my eyes and took an aggressive bite from my jam bagel. "Don't give me attitude Nove" my mother says "it's just, there has to be a reason it's boarded it ma, what if something bad happens?" I say with a sigh "that's why we're unboarding it, to see" my mother replied and I just huffed and nodded, knowing persuading her was pointless. "I know you're worried Nove, just place the worries aside, we'll open up the garden at lunchtime" my mother says and I only nodded in response.
Once breakfast was over I collected all of the dirty dishes and washed them before placing them on the dish drainer to dry. By the time lunch rolled around my mother was already outside with the tools to unboard the garden. Obviously I had second thoughts about this as I watched my mother remove the nails that kept in a few boards. My breath was hitched as I heard the voice from the garden again but louder than before DO NOT OPEN THE GARDEN it rang out over and over as my mother removed a board, getting louder each time until I had to cover my ears due to them ringing. Soon, the last board was off and the voice was so loud it was like nails on a chalkboard as my mother opened the door.
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Everything was silent except for the sound of the wind in our ears "see? Nothing." My mother said right as a horrible feeling in my gut overcame me. Nonononono was all that ran through my head as my mother walked in and all I could do was stare, frozen in place as something pure evil took over my mother. Her once kind face twisting into one of pure evil and her teeth rotting as she threw up black goop. 'H-Help me..' was the last thing I ever heard from my mother before I slammed the door shut and put the boards back. I couldn't let it escape, even if I had to spend late nights watching over that garden.
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