Angel Wings

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it was belle's 10th birthday, everybody at her class sang happy birthday and tom was with her the whole day. the two were having a sleepover that night to celebrate it because they knew her mom would be at the club tonight drinking away her problems and sleeping with another man. it happened every night.

at tom's house, it wasn't the best either. his mom had died giving birth to his younger sister who had been in a coma for several years due to a car running over her. his dad cried every night and even though he knew it was so very selfish of him, he wished that his sister wasn't born but they managed.

in the middle of the sleepover, exactly at twelve o'clock, a shadow creeped in from the open window. tom always loved the cold but belle could go through unbelievable amounts of heat. once she accidentally burned herself and didn't feel it until her mom shouted at her and called her satan's daughter.

the shadow went to the small foldable bed next to tom's actual bed. it put its grey transparent hand on belle's mouth to muffle her screaming. tom was a deep sleeper, the only situation he would wake up was if belle or his mom's soothing voice did. his father always played a recording of his mother singing to him for him to wake up saying "mommy you're back" and it always broke his heart.

back to the present, belle kept screaming and trying to sing for him to wake up, but it was like tom was under a curse. the shadow dragged her out silently and teleported to hell. at least that's what belle thought it was.