I sat up in the morning glow of the early sun. I heard the birds chirping. I sat up and stretched and smelled the sweet aroma of coffee and syrup. I followed the smell from my room, down the stairs, into the kitchen and to a big plate of pancakes with syrup and bacon. My eyes glowed at the sight of this wonderful meal. "Morning molly, How did you sleep?" "Oh good morning dad, I slept..rough" "Oh im sorry to hear that, tomorrow you will be going to school so get a better rest tonight, you'll need it" I never stopped looking at the steaming plate of food before me. "Go ahead molly, eat up!" dad said. I dove my fork into the spongy cake and practically stuffed my whole face with pancake. "Gosh molly, don't choke!" I mumbled and strained to swallow the over sized mouth full of the spongy goodness. After I got finished eating I took a shower and got dressed. I tried to rationalize what happened last night, what ever it was terrified me. Now im not sure what to think of my mothers death, she's obviously trying to tell me something but I don't know what she's trying to say. I sat in my room and read a book until night fall. Then I would sit in my room still and wait for her, but I fell asleep. I woke up to the sound of a squealing bird of some sort, my breath was fast and my heart was pounding , I raced to the balcony straining to look for a bird or animal to connect that animal with the sound. But no birds or animals to be found....The noise shot a pulsing headache into the sides of my head, screeching, getting closer it seemed, I turned around frantically searching the dimmed room looking around to see if something was there...nothing was in the room, the noise getting more high pitched I couldn't take it anymore. I ran down the stairs, through the living room, and outside with only socks, and pajamas on. The sound seemed to follow my every footstep like it was my shadow screaming at me with the voice of a million tortured children. I went into the forest that surrounded the house, maybe an animal was in a trap very close to my window. It had to be very late at night maybe around 2:00am I walked for at least 20minutes searching for an animal but the sound had drifted closer to home. I gave up and walked home. The trees were tall and black because of the nights shadow, the moon barely lightened the forest through the early morning fog. CRACK I jumped and covered my mouth to retain a scream, I looked down to see that I stepped on a tree branch. I took a small laugh at myself then walked at a faster pace. After a few more minutes of walking back home I finally got into my room again. The noise had disappeared just as quickly as it appeared. I set my alarm for school and drifted off to sleep trying to not be so confused about the sound. BEEP...BEEP....BEEP...BEEP BEEP. The sound of my alarm clock went off at 6:00am. "Ugh..5 more minutes please" I grunted and hit the off button on the alarm. I took a deep breath and strained to open my eyes but the sleep was still fresh in my eyes. I peeled my eyes open and yawned. Once I got ready for school I went downstairs for some breakfast, and saw my dad drinking coffee and reading a newspaper. "Morning molly" "Morning dad" "Sorry that I didn't make breakfast this morning" "Oh its okay" I grabbed a pop tart from the pantry, unwrapped the wrapper and put them in the toaster. "Molly!!" "what?" "that's not breakfast!" "oh, oh well I gotta get to school soon to learn all my classes anyways" "okay molly...have a good day today" "thanks dad...and did you hear anything weird last night?" "No why?" wow I am going insane arnt I? "oh I thought I had heard something but it was nothing" I jumped when the pop tarts sprung up from the toaster. "Are you sure your okay molly?" "Yeah dad im fine juer a little nervous about school.." "oh im sure you will meet a lot of new people" dad said with a grin on his face. "Yeah I hope so.." I grabbed my pop tarts and swung my backpack on my shoulder and headed for the door. "Bye dad see you after school" "bye molly! Have a good day!" the door shut and I was off to school.

Part 3 coming soon.