Lily

I'm Lily, I'm an orphan. I stay at the church with other orphans and the priest. It's kind of small but it's perfect in my eyes, the priest saved me and many of the other orphans. I live in New Mexico. I have black hair, hazel brown eyes, and tan skin. I'm in my room trying to read a book when I hear a loud bang. I get startled and run to the door, I can hear the priest yell. He never yells, why is he yelling now. Then I hear the most terrifying thing. I hear the priest scream in agony, my eyes start to tear up. "What's wrong lily?" My best friend asks, she's my roommate and she has hearing problems. "Mya, we need to hide" I say and grab her, we go into the closet and hide. Mya is kinda scared, but I'm terrified. I can hear the other orphans crying and screaming in pain, thank the heavens Mya can't hear them. My eyes are flooded with tears, I'm breathing heavily. All the cries and screams stop, my eyes dart toward the door. The knob is shaking. Mya sees and starts crying. I wipe her tears away and whisper "shh, stay quiet". I hold her hand and look at the door. The knob isn't shaking anymore. I stare at it for a couple seconds, but then the door is knocked down. I see a man with a big tummy, his eyes are covered by his hair. He's wearing a t-shirt and jeans, they are stained with blood. He has a knife in his hand. He looks at the closet and grins. He comes closer, I squeeze Mya's hand and scoot us back. The closet door opens and my eyes widen in fear. He picked me up, I let go of Mya's hand before he did. She was behind some clothes so he couldn't see her. I'm up to his face, he had an evil grin on. I could see his eyes, they were black. His eyes had an evil look in them which made me freeze. I couldn't do anything, he held up his knife to my face about to stab me. But Mya came bursting out of the pile of clothes and lunged herself at him. He throws me, my head hits the door. My vision is blurry but I can see Mya's brown hair being grabbed by the man. Her dark brown eyes are full of fear and tears. I cry, she saved me from the pain of a knife. But because of that, she had to have the pain of the knife. I hear her crying and whimper in pain. The man lets go of her and she falls on the ground. Her body is lifeless, more tears are falling. I start seeing flowers.

I have been killed by the Jelly man.

I'm stuck. I'm stuck in between worlds, I'm stuck in between life and heaven. I've been like this for at least 30 years. I'm stuck at the orphanage, I've been alone. I cry from time to time, flashbacks of the day I died come and go. But leave me crying. Mya, oh Mya. I miss her so so much, she could of lived but instead she tried saving me. I miss the happiness in her dark brown eyes, her crooked teeth when she smiles. One day I was sitting in a room that once was my room, when I hear people coming in. Just another family, I thought. I go to see what this family is like, I go into the living room. There are two little girls, a little boy and a women. I can see one of the girls faces, she was pretty. She had tan-ish skin, short brown hair. She just looked around. "May, we're sharing a room. Because there is only two rooms" the women says. The girl that I just described is May. "Fine" May says, the little boy is pretty young. He has short brown hair and brown eyes, he wasn't really good looking. "June, your sharing a room with Lyra" the women says, "but.." June started but was interrupted by the women saying "no buts". I look at the girl who's name is Lyra. She's staring right at me, she starts walking toward the room. She stops at the door and looks back at me, she waves me to come over. I look behind me and no one is there. She's still looking at me and waves me over again, I follow her into the room confused. "I'm Lyra, you can call me Ly. What's your name?" She asks, "are you talking to me" I say still really confused. "Of course silly" she says and chuckles. My face brightens up, she sees me! Someone sees me! I'm finally not going to be alone, I look straight into her eyes and was about to cry. Her eyes sparkled just like Mya's, they had the same dark brown eyes. "Are you okay? You seem sad but happy" Ly says, "I'm great, you just remind me of an old friend of mine that was really important to me" I say and wipe the tears out of my eyes. "Well, we're gonna be best friends", I nod.

——Time Skip——

It's been a couple weeks, me and Ly are really close. I told her how I died, she was about to cry. But I hugged her and she hugged me back. Tonight we are going to watch tv and talk. I like Ly, she's really kind hearted and funny. She reminds me so much of Mya, I still miss Mya. One night I was around the house, I went to Lyra's mothers room. She woke up while I was checking on her. She looked straight at me and says "Lyra, what are you doing up. Come here". I'm sitting on the floor in the dark, she still thinks I'm Lyra. Then I make something move beside her, she looks to her left and I go back into Lyra's room. I lay next to her, Lyra's mom walks in and looks at Lyra with a confused face. I sleep happily next to Lyra. She told her mom my story but her mom didn't believe her. I'm no longer alone and sad but I'm filled with happiness. But one day, Lyra's mother says that they are moving. My heart shatters to a million pieces, I run into Lyra's room and start crying. Lyra walks in and says "what's wrong lily?", "I'm gunna be alone again, your leaving me" I say. "It's Okay lily" Lyra says and hugs me. "I don't want to leave you either, your my first best friend." Lyra says. "I'm going to miss you so much" I say, the day has come where Lyra is leaving me. She's so sad, she looks back at me then they walk out the door. I cry again, "we'll make a deal. You can stay with Lyra" a voice says. "Deal!" I yell immediately not considering any circumstances. I shake hands with a tall figure. I see flowers again.

"But you'll be forgotten" the voice says evilly