The Forest

My family and I have just moved into a new house on the outskirts of London when this crazy story started. While I was in the attic of the house looking for something to hangout with, my mother was in the kitchen making us a snack, some delicious chocolate cupcakes and salty caramel, and my father was working in the study on the ground floor, he never had time for us. I spent hours rummaging throughthe attic, until in an old wooden trunk I found what lookedlike an old dusty disguise of a supposed doctor of thebubonic plague from approximately 1665, to the disguisewas attached a piece of old paper with a lullaby from thattime called ´´ring o’ roses´´, I knew it since they sang it to me when I was a Little girl, but of course, I did not knowits true meaning until today.

-Veronica come have a picnic! – my mother would yell every few minutes, surely my little sister had fallen asleep in the garden after playing for a long time.

Days later I was investigating about the bubonic plague in England while my sister took a nap since I did not want a 3-year-old girl to bother me and less that she told our mother about it since Verónica loved to get into trouble and so on. of the bubonic plague is something that I was not seeing in history and my mother knew it for me. Hours later I got ready to go visit the neighbors, I had not seen the great forest behind my house before, I already knew where to go when my little sister became unbearable. Rumors were always heard around town about the disappearance of a girl my age called Karen Jones, apparently she used to live in my house, and of a supposed “vigilante”, I did not believe in the paranormal, the forest seemed to me a perfect place to study.

I met an old lady who was walking around the place, that old woman invited me to have a drink at her house, a tea with ice since we were in July, she told me the whole story of her daughter’s disappearance, you will not believe it! her daughter was Karen Jones! she also told me that ¨the vigilante¨ was a highly awarded doctor who died burned at the stake for carrying the bubonic plague virus.

He also warned me not to go near the forest for anything in the world.

On Halloween eve, which was also my sister Veronioca’s fourth birthday, I was wearing my plague doctor costume and then going to Veronica’s birthday party. Right the next night I decided to tease my friends, I put on the costume and ran to the forest where I had previously met them. When Mark, Zoe and Opal got there I started to sing the lullaby to ¨Ring O’roses¨. They must have seen their faces! I couldn’t stop laughing. The minute they recovered from the shock they kept yelling at me:

-Valeria get out of there now! Valeria run away, quickly! –

I did not know what was happening until…

10 years after the death of Valeria Woods.

Today is 10 years since the tragic death of my older sister Valeria. If she had heeded Mrs. Jones’s warning this would not have happened, I wish my parents would burn that devil’s lullaby. I admit how strange, since her death strange things have happened in the house, that if dark figures in the windows, that if the disguise moving from the attic to my room. Tomorrow we’ll move just to get away from this madness.