The Shadow

The Shadow is a short story I wrote this morning in literacy 

 As the leaves rustle in the wind and the floorboards creek every step you take down the long dark rickety hallway.

It all started when I moved houses and I went to my bedroom to unpack my stuff when I saw the shadows inside the house next door. I rushed to the living room to ask mum if anyone lived there and she said no. I was terrified of what the shadows were coming from and who was making the shadows. I was lying in bed sound wake listening to every noise and wondering about every single thing. I get up to get a glass of milk and tiptoe down the silent hall through the living room to the kitchen and open the fridge when I hear a big bang coming from next door I run to my bedroom grab the touch off my desk and climb out my window. It was all so silent outside and I had a feeling that someone was watching me I opened the back door to the house and said “Hello is anyone there?”

No one answered. I turn on my torch to look for a light switch and found one hiding behind an old shredded curtain, the lights flickers and I get a glimpse of a human shaped shadow at end of the hallway. The floorboards creek underneath me as I slowly walk down the hall to a little side room at end of the house. I suddenly hear a shape hud again sounding of the noise coming closer and closer to me I take a deep breath when I turn the corner. A little girl laid there clutching her teddy in fear I told her that it was ok and I would be there for her in the morning that I was coming back and she said that was fine.

In the morning I went over with a bowl of cereal and a clean dress for her and brought her back to my place I showed her to mum and she was shocked that the little girl had been living in there for 5 months alone.

It was later that month when Mum and I came home from town and on the way home mum handed me a letter. I jumped in fright and excitement seeing that mum has adopted her and we called her Ashley.