Something+Changed,+Nolie

I tripped and fell onto the large root. I got up and began to run again. I heard the high pitched laughing behind me and saw the bright violet eyes. I screamed and kept running through the woods. I knew this place like the back of my hand. The stars in the night sky are no help when you are running through the woods. I tripped again and began to back up into a tree. I was breathing heavily and tears were on my face. Blood covered my hands. The laughter was louder now and I knew she was close. I saw the little flower dress she had been wearing before. She ran up to me with her small feet.

Her laughter was so sweet and cute it almost made me forget. Her smile widened. Her mouth was covered in blood. I screamed and began to run but she had always been faster than me. Mom always knew something was wrong with her. She would act weird at night and shake and shiver. We thought it was a phase. //It wasn’t.//

“Jenna! Jenna! Come here sweetheart...” I remember Mom’s loving voice calling Jenna that night at the restaurant. Then she turned right in the middle of dinner. She fainted so we took her home. But when I came to check on her she was gone.

Mom called for her in the yard. She had always liked the darkness of the woods.

“Olivia, go find Jenna now,” Mom said, and this was not the first time. As I ran through the woods, I thought about how I would always find Jenna in a little cottage. She would sit in the dark and laugh.

But that night she changed. I went looking for her and this time when I found her she was in the cabin talking. To someone. No something. That night she changed. It took a while sometimes but this was different. She was herself but not. She ran past me with full force and through the woods.

I couldn’t keep up and when I got back to our yard she had Mom.

“ JENNA! NO! “ I yelled across the yard at her as Mom's face contorted with pain.

Jenna gripped Mom's head in her little pale hands. Mom's eyes apologized to me as Jenna sunk her teeth into her neck. Dad went upstairs and came back with a small pistol in his hand. Jenna ran across the yard at him. He threw the pistol to me and let Jenna suck the life out of him. I caught the gun and ran back into the woods. Into the darkness.

“Jenna. Please remember me, remember you. I remember you,” I said to Jenna in a soft voice across the clearing.

She growled and her bright violet eyes shone with rage and hunger. She sprinted towards me but I ducked out of the way and ran to the other side. //I had to stop this.//

Mom and Dad were planning on performing the exorcism but it was too late. She was gone and she had to be stopped.

"Jenna, don’t make me do this! PLEASE JENNA STOP!” I yelled. She blinked and began to walk slowly, growling inside a hunger of unimaginable pain.

She needed blood and flesh to feed on. If I let her come any further she would kill me. I aimed the gun. She had no idea who I was and she would never remember. “Jenna. Please don’t make me do this. I love you sweetheart. I forgive you. Come back to me. I will help you. Fight the demon. Fight to live. My little angel, come back to me. Don’t make me do this to you. Please, Jenna... I beg you.”

I was crying now and her mouth was open. It was crazy to think that my beautiful little sister could be this disastrous monster. She wasn’t the monster. She was still my little Jenna. //She won’t feel a thing,// I told myself. I clutched the gun with sweaty hand and tried not to falter. She was closer now. //It was now or never.//

“I’m sorry, Jenna, I really do love you,” I said, as my finger pulled the trigger and suddenly something changed.

Her eyes cleared and her head tilted like it always did when she was confused. Her lips moved and a single word came from her sugary sweet high pitched voice.

“Olivia?” she said, as she shrunk to the ground. A lifeless little girl.

She had changed before I killed her.