Bzzt.She smacked the alarm clock, but not from laziness.
She had been awake all night. Her eighteenth birthday promised to be her best.
She gracefully tied up her heavy, knee-high boots with delicate fingers, and floated out of her bedroom, a faint smile lighting her strange, angled face.
Today was the day.
She carefully stepped down the ancient oak stairs, with a bulging black bag draped over bony shoulders. She made her way to the door, wary of little siblings traipsing about in the gray hours of early morning. Smirking with the satisfaction of not be discovered, she walked until she stood at the edge of the dewy yard, and briskly turned around to face the house.
The memories rushed back, and the smug face was distorted with agony. Doctors came daily to observe and document her. Parents hid her from the neighbors for they were ashamed of her ghastly appearance. Siblings whispered while making up stories and playing tricks...
But she shook off the flood of horror to focus on her task.
She continued to loop a thin, black wire around fences and lampposts as she snuck through the neighborhood. At intervals, she opened her bag and dug her hand inside, pulling out a pale, clay-like substance. She molded it onto the wire, before continuing to loop the metal strand around fences and lampposts.
At last, she was finished. A sigh of relief escaped her thin, cracked lips. It was time for the final stage.
She searched the bushes in the park just outside the neighborhood, seeking the lever she had painstakingly positioned two nights earlier.
But to her horror, it wasn't there. She frantically clawed through the neatly trimmed hedges, but to no avail. Suddenly, she heard a rustling noise.
She whipped around, scanning the park for the source of the sound. Her eyes narrowed in disgust at the homeless man rising from a pile of rags. She continued to watch him get up, scratch his enormous rear, and start walking his dirty shopping cart, full of more rags, old food, and--
The girl's heart skipped a beat. Her lever had been stolen by the putrid hobo that resided in this park. Her mind put together potential plans to get it back as she swiftly strided over to the man.
She stood there a moment, and they looked at each other. The homeless man's tired gray eyes widened in fear as he saw the horrible girl standing before him. His jaw dropped, giving him the look of a scared puppy, and that was when the girl made her move.
She grabbed the sharpened silver knife out of her pocket and sent it sailing into the man's open mouth, where it became lodged in his throat. He tried to scream, but only a faint gurgling sound left his lips, along with a waterfall of blood. His grimy hands groped in his mouth, struggling to pull out the knife, but it had gone deep down his esophagus, and he fell to the ground with a thump. Tears mixed into his flow of blood, and his eyes pleaded to the girl,
Why? But she didn't look back at him as she pawed through the shopping cart, careful not to breathe through her nose. At long last, she found her lever and gleefully returned to the end of the wire.
She attached the wire and the lever swiftly and with great gusto. She took a deep breath, then pushed down with all her might.
The entire neighborhood exploded. Fire consumed everyone and everything in a matter of seconds. Her plan had worked well. Her fearsome, red eyes with no white nor pupil surveyed her work as the sun slowly rose into the sky. She nonchalantly went back to the homeless man, now dead, and pulled her knife out, leaving her hand and much of her arm drenched in blood. She wiped it on the still-wet grass. Then, before te authorities could convict her, she lowered herself into the hideout she had been working on since she was only twelve years old. She shut the trapdoor happily, scarcely believing she had just successfully blown up all those people who had made her so miserable. But it wasn't everyone on her list. The green-skinned girl had other scores to settle.
P.S. I got the inspiration for this story from this YouTube video that weirded me out a bit:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZFcH0srTRUThanks for reading! >;D
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