by Thinka

Created on: January 16, 2009

The Shadows

Jennifer looked past her shoulders to see a child standing there alone in the woods. The child was a little girl about eight years old, and was soaking wet from head to toe. The rain was pounding down so hard that the little girl's cheeks were burnt red. Jennifer was carrying a deep black umbrella as she was on her nightly walk, as she did every night. She would think about her day as she strutted along and she loved the fact that there was never a soul to be seen in those dreary dark woods until tonight. She walked closer to the shy little brunette with deep blue eyes., but the girl vanished into thin air. Jennifer thought to herself, "I must be loosing my mind!". She just let it go and continued to walk past the graveyard with the old church that stood on the corner. The rain was starting to die down about now, and she was very relieved that the moon could now be seen.

As she came up to the steps of her old rock house, her husband Chris greeted her with a hug and some coffee. It was just starting to become daylight now, and she was ready to face her day. She was a stay at home mother of four children. At the tender age of twenty-six, she was very worn and tired from delivering four children only one year apart. There were two girls and two boys. Jennifer thought that it was the perfect even number for a well balanced family. The girls would moan every morning when she would wake them for school. She would fight with them to hurry up and get ready, it often annoyed her to the point she had to back off. It wasn't easy to control her temper due to the bipolar issues she was facing everyday. When she was sixteen, she had swallowed a bottle of Tylenol PM trying to commit suicide. Her mother found her lying lifeless on the cold bed barley breathing. After her mother rushed her to the emergency room, they had pumped her stomach and was able to bring her back to life. Jennifer was never the same after that night.

She was then sent to several different psychiatric hospitals for a long period of time, until finally a doctor had diagnosed her as Bipolar. Bipolar is when your moods elevate to high extremes and low extremes. Many people with this disorder have hallucinations and hear voices. Jennifer had seen and heard many things that she would never tell a soul. Things that would scare one to a pale death if she secretly even whispered the amount of knowledge that she knew about the dead.

She had done well not to see or hear anything strange until today. The

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