Dear mom...

I pull out a piece of paper and pen. Dear Mom, I didn’t want this to happen, I turned myself into a rock, I killed Grandma, Grandpa, all because of a snake, a snake from Hell. Here’s how it happened.

“Bye Chelsie,” I said waving to my friend as Molly and I walked away.

“See ya tomorrow!” she replied, “Don’t forget your jersey, again!”

We both laughed, “I won’t, I’m pumped for this tournament,” I said as I walked away, tomorrow was our cheerleading tournament, and we were going to win. Molly and I walked down the road to our house, and went in our shortcut through a field like always. We walked and talked about cheerleading, boys, and clothes until we got to the end. That’s when we saw it, a black snake with green spots, and it was big, too big. Molly screamed and ran the other way.

Me on the other hand loved snakes, they were real cool animals. I watched it, from a distance, to be safe. That’s when it speedily slithered straight for me and bit me. It didn’t hurt for some odd reason, so I kicked it off me, ran home, and didn’t tell my Grandparents, who were watching me while my parent’s were in Utah. I was feeling tired when I went home and yelled to my Grandma.

“Grammy, I’m tired and am going to bed, I’m gonna eat dinner now and head on up.”

“Okay Nina,” she replied, I hurried and grabbed a bowl of cereal. While I was eating my head felt like a bomb about to explode. I gobbled up the rest of my food and ran to my room. My head started hurting even more, I layed down and passed out. I awoke to my alarm at 5:30, I was too tired to get up and turned it off and went back to sleep. Then I awoke to Grammy walking into my room.

“Nina darling, you must have really been tired, here's some brea.. AAAHHHHHH” she screamed, I jumped out of bed, and looked at my grandma, that’s when it happened, she turned into solid rock, fell over, and shattered. This time I was the one screaming and crying, I fell to my knees, all at the same time. I was so confused, what had happened?

“Grandpa!!! Heeelllppp” I heard footsteps running up the stairs as I screamed. Grandpa ran into my room and this time he screamed, it was a big screaming party. I looked up with tears and my eyes, I saw him turn to solid rock, fall over, and shatter. I cried, I don’t think I’ve cried so hard. I was sitting down, crying then I heard a faint hisssss… and saw a snake fly in front of my face I screamed, yet again.

Then I saw another one, and another, and another. I felt my hair, my face must have turned pale white, I only felt snakes, I tried pulling them off my head, but they wouldn’t come. I sat down and cried, what was happening? Then I remembered yesterday and the snake bite… Maybe? No, it couldn’t be, could it? In school we were learning about greek mythology, and I remember the tale of medusa.

The more I thought of it the more likely it seemed to me, a snake bit me, I grew snakes out of my hair, and I turn people to stone. I was Medusa, a clever sneaky beast. I ran out of the house, I couldn’t stand seeing my grandparents broken and on the floor, I ran out of the house, no turning back now. I walk down the street and hear children screaming, I look over, and they freeze and fall. I cry, but continue to run. People freezing all around me, I run crying, five minutes later I hear police sirens.

“Freeze beast!” I hear the sirens wail. I turn around and the driver froze, I didn’t mean to but I did. I was close to the forest, I could hear screams, crashes, and sirens, I ran as fast as I could, I didn’t want to hurt anyone. 200 more feet till safety, from me. I ran into the forest hiding, crying, and thinking about what to do. If I ever came out of the forest I would be shot and killed, and if I stayed here I would starve and die. Then I thought of this plan, the only other way out, kill myself.

If I did that it would be less painful. It was the most logical answer, but first I had to write a letter, this letter. All I need to do now is pull out my mirror. Goodbye Mom.

I pull out my hand mirror, look at myself, freeze, fall, shatter. Goodbye beast.