the dollhouse | h.s.

nine

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Holly

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What lies before us makes us all leave ear piercing screams of shock.

Lying on the bed is Anna, but never how we've seen her before. Anna's skin is entirely covered in dried up blood and Anna's cheeks are pure red and hot as fire. Even her shut eyelids are covered in blood.

None of us speak. We all just stand there in shock.

"What the f..." I say. I can't even finish my words. I'm speechless. How did this happen? What the fuck?

"Please don't be dead, please don't be dead" Macy says, crossing her fingers and pacing back and forth. There's been so many tragic deaths in The Dollhouse. I hope there's not another one, but judging on how Anna looks, you can tell she's... Gone.

"How did this happen?" Lola asks, confused. At that moment, a storming Harry walks into the room.

"Girls! You're supposed to be downstairs!" Harry's loud, raspy voice echoes throughout the silenced room.

"Sorry, Harry, it's Anna, look!" Juliet says, her finger pointing to Anna. Harry walks to Anna's bed.

"Another one gone" Harry says, holding Anna's red, blistered body in his pale hands.

"Juliet, help me bury Anna up outside" Harry instructs Juliet. Juliet follows his orders and walks by Harry's side. It's mental how a person just dies, and Harry doesn't care at all about it. Really shows the rude, psychotic, controlling person he is.

"Um, let's skip breakfast this morning, girls" Harry says, leaving the room with Anna and Juliet, leaving only Macy, Evie, Lola, Liz, Sarah, Dakota and I in the room.

"Something's going on, guys" Macy says, putting her head in her hands.

"Agreed. First Jess, now Anna?" Sarah shakes her head.

Lola leans into my ear and whispers, "Should we just tell Macy and Sarah?" I shrug in response. Can we really trust them?

"Macy, Sarah" Lola starts talking, looking at both of the girls.

"Now, I know this is hard to believe, but Juliet killed Jess and Anna" Lola finishes her sentence. Macy and Sarah just start laughing.

"I'm serious. Harry is getting Juliet to kill all of us" Suddenly, the laughing stops.

"Yeah, Lola is right, if you want to live, stay away from Juliet" Dakota says, nodding her head.

"Why hasn't Harry killed any of the girls, then?" Macy asks, crossing her arms.

"Because, he's making Juliet do all the dirty work" Lola explains.

"So, what are we going to do?" Sarah looks at Dakota, Evie, Liz, Lola and I.

"Stay far away from Juliet, and don't except anything from her. She's a murderer"

"Why isn't Juliet killing us all at once?" Macy asks.

"She's probably gonna kill us one at a time" Dakota answers, looking down.

"Well, we'll just have to make sure that doesn't happen"

| Making Dinner |

Today has been so weird. First, Anna died. Second, all of us, minus Juliet, know about the helping Harry thing. I guess that kind of brings us all closer, though. For instance, before I befriended with Lola, I thought she was a massive bitch. She's not actually that bad; and she's really funny, too. But she has her moments and I accept that.

While I'm setting up the dinner table, I can't help but think: if Juliet murdered Anna, how did she do it? When would she have the time to, anyway? I mean, this doesn't change my mind about who's helping Harry, because it's basically proven it's Juliet, but how did she even murder Anna?

"Whatcha thinking about?" Lola says, setting up the table with me.

"Oh, nothing"

"Is it Juliet?" Lola asks, chuckling. I nod.

"If she... Murdered Anna, how did she do it?" I ask with a confused expression on my face.

"I don't know, probably poisoned" Lola puts down the forks on the table.

"How though?"

"Not sure, probably with water or food or lemonade" Lola answers. Why did she say lemonade? I widen my eyes before looking at Lola, who is smirking.

"What's the matter?" Lola asks, smiling.

"How do you know about the lemonade?"

"Well, it's Anna's favourite drink so she probably asked for some" Oh, so Lola doesn't know about the lemonade Harry poisoned, it's just Anna's favourite drink. If Lola knew about the poisoned lemonade, there would be loads of suspicions forced upon her.

| At Dinner |

I'm sitting next to Lola and Evie. I've actually made really good friends with Evie since being here. She's so nice, smart, too.

My stomach grumbles so I extend my arm to get a piece of garlic bread from the basket, but Lola stops me by slapping me arm.

"Um, ouch!" I say, annoyed.

"Juliet made the garlic bread. I wouldn't have it if I were you" Lola explains. I nod slowly.

"Also, with how you look, I don't think you would need a piece" When Lola says that, my jaw drops.

"Excuse me?" I raise my eyebrows.

"Relax, it's a joke" Lola says, not bothering to look at me. I roll my eyes at her rudeness.

"Look at Juliet; she's sitting next to Harry" Lola whispers, pointing to Juliet. Juliet is engaged in a conversation with Harry. I wonder what they're talking about.

"Obviously"

"Um, Lola, yesterday at the picnic, what drink did Anna get? Lemonade or apple juice?" I ask Lola, breaking the little silence we had.

"Why do you ask?"

"Just wondering" I reply. I'm not 'just wondering'. I actually asked because if Anna had lemonade, then that was obviously the poisoned one.

"Lemonade" Lola says, calmly. Did Lola just say lemonade?

"What kind of lemonade?"

"The lemon kind" Lola says, giving me an 'are you serious' look.

"Right" I say. That's all I can say, really. I'm not going to skip to conclusions, it was probably just a regular lemonade, not the poisoned one.

| After Dinner |

We're all in the kitchen cleaning up. Sarah and Macy are washing the dishes, Liz and I are sweeping the floors and scrubbing the benches, Dakota and Evie are putting the plates and utensils away and Lola and Juliet are packing up the table.

Out of curiosity, I open the fridge to see if the poisonous lemonade is still in there.

It isn't.

Someone must've drank the lemonade, and I have an idea of who drank it.

Anna.

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