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Dawn’s Angel

01 Thursday May 2014

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Dawn awoke to a new day with a groan.  She didn’t want to open her eyes, didn’t want to see what new terrors the day would bring.  At the third call from her mom, she threw the sheets off in one go, quickly rushing past the mirror in her room.  A familiar face peeked around the jacket covering the mirror, red eyes cackling as she hurried away.  But she couldn’t avoid the demon in the bathroom, staring out of the mirror at her puffy red eyes, her limp, frizzy hair, poking fun at the new zits that sprung out on her face.  She tried to ignore the jabs at her weight and ugly nose, but somehow the demon knew just where to stab, and just where to twist.

The words followed her as she walked to school alone.  Loser.  Ugly.  Idiot.  She stared at the ground, willing herself to stop believing the words that echoed in her head.  She’d been trying for weeks to make the demon shut up or go away.  Anything to just stop the relentless insults.  She was so intent on the ground, she almost didn’t hear the small voice behind her.

“I like your hair.”  Dawn stopped in her steps, pivoting quickly to see the source of the sound.  A small feathery winged fairy fluttered in the air behind her.  She stared at the tiny creature for a moment, unsure how to respond.  “You look really good with that hair style,” the fairy continued.

“Uh…  Thanks.”  Dawn sputtered, still in shocked.  The fairy fluttered up to eye level with the girl, then pointed at Dawn’s shoulder.

“Do you mind if I sit down for a moment?  I’ve been looking for a new client all over town and my wings are exhausted!”  Dawn quickly nodded and the fairy settled down on shoulder like she’d been there all along.

“Umm…  Mrs. Fairy…  What do you mean, a new client?”  The fairy laughed.

“Call me Lynda, Gorgeous.  I’m freshly graduated, you see, so I need to find a job.  Preferably an advisory one, since that was really my speciality, but I swear everyone seems to be too busy to listen these days.  I even saw one guy walking around with two demons, and he barely even turned around when I said hi!  I mean, everyone knows you shouldn’t listen to those guys…”

Dawn smiled as the little fairy chattered the whole way to school and through the day.  The demon following Dawn didn’t seem so bad anymore.

Dawn’s Demons

21 Monday Apr 2014

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The clock blinked red in the corner of the room, declaring that it was now 4:01 AM.  A time when most people were in bed, but Dawn was not most people.  She was still staring at her computer monitor in the dimly lit bedroom.  While her family slept soundly, she was deliberating between hair colours with her friend online.

“OMG, have u seen this Tangeine Glo??”
“it’ll be perfect with this Fire Red! lol”

Dawn typed excitedly.

“OMG YES!!”
“U have GOT to show me pics tomorow! my mom is making me sleep now. :(“

Holly typed back.

“Awwwww.  ttyl”

Dawn went back to her internet search, hunting for outrageous hair colours, as the little icon beside Holly’s name went grey.   She hunted through her friend’s list, but no one else seemed to be on so late at night.  Dawn sighed, she had really wanted to show someone this next picture, the girl in the image featured hair in the same shades as a peacock.  She briefly considered sleep, when she heard a scratching sound in the corner. The noise sent her skin crawling down her spine.  She turned slowly turned around to look at the dark corner, but there was nothing to be seen.  A bookshelf, filled with porcelain dolls and old sketchbooks, and a heap of dirty clothes filled the corner, and nothing moved.  Dawn turned back to her monitor.  The shadows felt a little darker in the room now, almost like fingers as they inched across the floor.  The goosebumps continued as Dawn tried to calm herself. “There’s nothing in the corner.”  She muttered, staring at the monitor.  “Nothing at all.” But her mind disagreed, convinced there was something behind her.  Watching her, with bright red eyes.  She turned quickly, fast enough to flutter the pages of her sketchbook, but the corner remained empty.  Reluctantly, she turned back to her computer, not quite willing to tear her eyes from the corner, when something moved in her peripheral vision.  She turned her head quickly, coming face to face with her mirror.  But the reflection she saw was not her own. “Hello Dawn.”  The words of the demon staring at her echoed in her head.  It stared out of her mirror, glowing red eyes with black stripes on it’s face, two horns nestled in a shock of messy hair.  She stared in horror as she realized it looked exactly like the demon she’d drawn last week.  “Now that I’ve escaped, you and I are going to have a some fun.”

DawnDemon

(Art courtesy of my cousin, Eve)