User blog:KanjiTribe/Sweep The Night Away

"I'll love ya forever! Just me and you! Let's get together and~ Sweep the night away!"

The doll sang, followed by a child's laughter.

"Mary!" The girl's mother called out. "Time to go home!"

"But mama! I was having fun..."

"No. Come on dear."

The car ride was silent. Mary didn't want to leave the doll behind. Instead, she stuck with sitting in the backseat, with a worn up doll with a missing eye. "Why can't I have the other doll, ma?"

"Because." Her mother said with her thick german accent. "We don't own it. It belongs to the school."

The came dinner, then bedtime.

Mary hummed to the song the doll would sing, happy and content. "I'll love ya forever, just me and you! Let's get together and sweep the night away!"

Laying in bed, the nine year old closed her hazy blue eyes, trying to sleep.

That's when the nightmare began.

Creaking in the hallway startled her. Never, did the floorboards squeak or groan.

Mary padded her small feet down the hallway, and down the stairs into the kitchen.

The flickering lights of the kitchen, went on and off.

Mary felt something...odd on her feet.

"Huh?" She asked outloud, looking down.

Blood.

Everywhere.

Unable to breathe, Mary let out a scream.

She tried to run outside, only to run into a body. She looked up, to see the dismembered body of her mother; tied onto a rope from the celing. She screamed again.

Only then, did she hear the faint singing to the voice.

"I'll love ya forever! Just me and you! Let's get together and~ Sweep the night away!"

Then the silver knife plunged itself into Mary.

Screaming.

The soft, sweeping noises of a broom quickly followed.

The creaking from the hallway, wasn't from the floodboards.

It was from the burned up, bloody doll who had dragged the murdered mother to the kitchen.

Sweep.

Sweep.