Red Eyes

“Now that you are turning 5 years old today, I thought you would like this” her great grandfather said to her and handed her the big red giftbox that was taller than herself. She opened the present and was met with the face of an old-fashioned Victorian porcelain doll that was the exact same height as her, the doll was dressed in a red velvet dress, and it had long blond curls” I got it in antique store and thought you would love it” she looked at the doll with excitement in her eyes “I love it great papa, look James how beautiful she is” her brother took one look at the doll and started to cry. “I do not think he likes her very much sweetie” her mother said.

Soon she started to play with the doll daily and she had even given the doll its own chair in the corner of the room, where it would sit and watch over her every night while she was sleeping. One stormy night she woke up to the feeling of her mother caress her light brown hair “you have such pretty hair” a voice whispered in her ear, her eyes flew open and slowly turned around but when she turned around her mother was not there, no one was there. She looked around and saw the doll sitting at the end of her bed looking at her, she started to scream, and her mother came running in her room “what is it sweetie?” her mother said “the doll mom, it has moved by itself” she looked at the end of her bed, but the doll was gone and sitting in the chair in the corner. “Sweetie I think you had a nightmare, now go back to sleep” but she did not go back to sleep that night, she laid awake the whole night listening for sounds and praying that it was all a dream like her mother said it was.