The sun shone down on the clearing. It was beautiful, in an eerie kind of way. There were many grave sites there. She took in a deep breath and proceeded to walk down the grassy path. A bird suddenly began it's dark song. She recognized it as a raven. Her steps began to come faster, as did the thumping of her heart. She turned around and looked back at the gate, it was closed, she had deliberately left it open just in case. Her eyes met with her brother's fearless ones. He stood before her.
"Isn't this cool?" her brother asked, he loved to be deep within the woods, it was like his second home. "Look! This one is like ancient! It's from the 1800s!" She looked into his blue-green excited eyes. Did nothing ever frighten him?
"Can we go now?" she asked in a shaky voice. The aura around this place gave her the chills. He gave her a reassuring smile, he wouldn't let anything get her. Her light brown eyes looked over at the other male and female, her cousins. Only one set of eyes mirrored hers. She walked and stood by the dirty blonde female. "Let's go," she whispered to her.
She watched as the girl nodded in agreement and began to walk back the way they came. Their brothers were behind them in an instant. They wouldn't let anything harm their older sisters.
She took a last look behind her, at the cursed graveyard. Should she have come? Her pace quickened without her knowledge.
"You two are just a bunch of scaredy cats," her brother taunted. Of course, the younger male encouraged him to continue his jest. They were males. Fear was not in their dictionary.
She ignored their voices, the trees were moving in on them. She could hear the voices of the dead. 'You should not have come here.'; 'Will you help me?'; ‘Be quiet my child.’ ; and of course, the wailing of a child. They wouldn't stop; it made her want to run further into the woods to rid of them, but she knew it would be no good. Staying on course was the thing to do. If only she could keep her mind on happy thoughts instead of ones of death.
Something grabbed her arm. She looked over, it was her cousin. The eerie sound of silence hit her at once. Where were their siblings? She made a 360. They were no where to be seen. 'Be calm' she told herself 'they have to be around here somewhere.' Her eyes darted around the area. The wind picked up.
A howling to her left sounded. Was she to be on the menu tonight? “This isn’t funny!” she yelled into the darkening sky. She began her journey back up the path, her cousin by her side.
At last the fence that was on either side of the path they took was visible. These wretched borders. There was this myth about them. One that had stirred her up before they even began their journey down to the cemetery. Supposedly after you entered into their domain, it wasn't safe. This part was theirs. The Haunted Woods is what they called it. She knew after she entered that they, the lonely souls, would always be with her until the day she joined their world.
The darkness that weighed down on her lifted slightly, only a few more feet left to cover. She ran with all her might and placed a smile on her face. Home was on the other side, she would be safe there.
She turned and began giggling at her cousin. The fact that safety was just over this hill made her over excited. She turned back around and let out a scream. Something had jumped out in front of her. It took her a minute to comprehend was it was. It was her brother. She wanted to hurt him, but knew he was better than any other thing that dwelled deeper within.
She listened to them as they made fun of her. She didn’t care. All that mattered to her was that she be safe at home.
She looked up into the sky, the moon was out now. She followed it with her eyes as she
Closed up the gap between her and her house. She entered the small but comfortable cream colored house with green trimmings. “We’re home Mom!” she called into the house. But only silence answered her. She walked into the living room and turned to the sound of the laundry room door opening. “Mo-,” she stopped as she saw nothing let go of the door knob. What had she done?
Author notes
This is half true by the way. And this is probably horrible... I will fix it later. I just felt like writing. *sigh*
OH! and if you know a good title for this, would you care to share it with me? I have no clue what to title it, Thanks bunches in advance! -SORRY for the frequent title changes. I'm trying out a few until I find one that better suits it.
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very good. thanks for entering.
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Requiring all entries in this contest to be 1000 words or more. Thanks
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oopsey... sorry!
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Oh I likes!
I really liked that one. Its well written. Really good! Its kind of hard to tell you what I liked best when I loved the entire thing. I think in reading it and the sorta suspense even made me fidgit once lol good job Krysa! Gonna finish this eh? And how is it half true?
Oh and if you want a title I need you to finish the story so I can give you one lol.
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lol, mk, will try to finish... the rest will prolly just be fiction. And urm. well, the cemetery is a real place, it is out in the middle of woods, it was pretty, it was a little creepy, the fence did somehow manage to close itself on me... o.o and my brother was there.. so, basically, the beginning is all true, except for the cousins, i forget who was actually with us, oh and our dog was with us.. urm, the end was just something i made up, and a few other details. So, therefore, it's half true.
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Wow, you did a really good job with this. What happened next, I hope to read more from you soon. As for a title, it is hard to say, I have enough trouble with coming up with titles for my own stuff. Keep up the good work.
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Wow.. your descriptions are lovely.. and you said this was sort of based on something real? I'm a fan of the paranormal but I'm a chicken
haha! Wait, what happened to the mom? x.x and omg.. omg.. please continue! As for the title.. I think the haunted woods is.. a bit cheesy 
You CAN find a better title
But anyway.. I really did enjoy this a lot Thanks so much for sharing this!!!
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thanks! and yup, it was ^_^
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confused as to where the other cousins went? Not a bad story. I like creepy, supernatural stories. As for a title...I think the one you have fits it. You know what you're getting into when you click on that story.
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The Haunted Woods seems to be the focus of the story - maybe you can come up with a title relating to them - sorry I'm no help - I absolutely abhor titles - I really suck at them.
This is a really good story! It was very interesting, and you managed to weave in a little suspense there when the brothers disappeared, wondering if they were playing a joke or if the closing in of the woods wasn't imaginary after all. Intriguing!
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I suck at coming up with titles as well x.x and thanks ^_^
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