By Rebecca Milne
Lola, like many children loved having her head in the clouds. While growing up she lived with her imagination but even clouds have rainy days. While Lola grew from being a toddler to a child to being a teenager her imagination was deserting her. All the fun aspects of childhood vanished.
One day when Lola was 15, she came home from school to find 3 cases in the living room. She soon found out that her parents were going on a trip and leaving her at her grandparents’ house. Lola loved her grandparents and when she was a child they were the best people on the planet. They done everything together. Cooking, crafting, gardening or just eating ice cream. She loved going there, but when she started high school she was forced to get the bus to and from school. Her responsibility was to look after herself. So she didn’t go to her grandparents’ house much in a week, in a month and eventually in a year. She loved spending time their but her imagination had gone and now she was stuck in a little girl’s room in her grandmother’s house for a week.
The day she arrived her parents left as quickly as possible, leaving Lola and her suitcase. She unpacked in her old room but in her mind she believed it was like Alice falling down the rabbit hole to wonderland when she was a pensioner. She went downstairs and had tea with her grandparents. Her grandad left to go to his sister house, apparently shed fell down the stairs. So Lola and her grandmother decided to make supper for when he returned. They made sausage rolls, cakes and tarts. When they finished Lola’s grandmother started clearing up while Lola made 2 cups of tea.
After a while they both sat down at the kitchen table and talked about their night, Lola’s school and friends. Then her grandmother brought up a strange subject. She talked about when Lola’s was little but had a giant imagination. Lola laughed at some of the stories her grandmother told. Then the phone rang. It was Lola’s grandad saying that his sister was ok but needed him to stay the night. Her grandmother sent her love and hung up the phone. She sat back down and tried to continue her strange stories but started talking about when Lola was little and ended up crying in the night. Her grandmother said that the young Lola told her that there was something scary under her bed. Of course her grandmother checked and found nothing and just kissed Lola’s head and sent her back to sleep. She thought it was nothing but Lola’s imagination but the same scary things seemed to be under her bed every time she stayed.
Lola hadn’t slept over in a year or two so she seemed to have forgotten her last experience. Eventually the clock in the kitchen struck 11 and the pair decided to start heading for bed. They brushed their teeth and kissed each other goodnight before turning to go into their rooms and closing the door.
The night was silent and for Lola it was cold. For hours Lola couldn’t sleep. The story of the scary things under her bed haunted Lola’s mind and unfortunately she couldn’t think of anything else. Eventually her mind was going to haunt her no longer. So she sat up in her bed, swung herself round and pocked her head to peak under her bed. She was upside
down but she pulled up a sheet and looked further under her bed. It seemed to be colder under there so to hurry up the end of her suspicions, Lola whispered
“Hello… is anyone there”. After there was not much response, Lola put her hand on the floor and was just about to push herself back up when suddenly something grabbed her hand.
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