Famous Last Words

Home Sweet Home...

"This is it." the massive wooden doors flew open to reveal an extraordinary living room. The kitchen was the size of the entire of her old house in New York. She took a deep breath of the cool but humid air. This was it her new home, her new life. She started at her new school tomorrow, her mother told her to make new friends and be open to everyone. Yeah, right,  she thought. She was seventeen and had friends in New York. Finding new ones in L.A. wasn't part of her plan. Not that she had one. She sighed and nodded to her mom, "I'll try" she promised. 

Her room had staunch white wallpaper, there was a bed in the center of the room, a bathroom in the corner and an attached closet on the other side of the bathroom. That night her mother cooked dinner like usual and life seemed as normal as it could be. But that was about to change. The house made her shiver. She could not get to sleep, tossing and turning fo what seemed like hours. She decided to take her mind off everything and go for a dip in the pool she had seen earlier. The moon cast a glow on the warm pool water. She dove under that surface and saw a figure in the water with her.  She nearly choked on the chlorinated water as she rose to the surface. Nothing was there. Panicking, she dove back under thinking it was just a dream, but the figure was still there, this time closer. A woman was in her pool, not her mom or one of her neighbors. A chill went through her as she realized that the body appeared to just be floating, there was no movement and the women's head was under water. She started wondering who it was, but as she came closer the face resembled a famous actor who had died, committed suicide, about six months before. Frozen, she felt a tug on her hair, which intensified and pulled her under the water. When her hair was released she gasped for air, but another pull dunked her by surprise and kept her under the water for even longer this time. Unable to breathe she struggled upward and broke the surface. She sprinted hard to the pool's edge and scrambled out, breathing hard. Standing up, she thought, What is wrong with this place...