A Glance In The Mirror

DING DONG!  The doorbell rang and Lucy’s heart sank.  The baby- sitter had arrived.  Mum and Dad were going to a Halloween party.  “It’s just for grownups,” Mum had said, but the truth was that Lucy was such a naughty girl that her parents didn’t want to take her.  At the next door neighbour’s birthday party, Lucy had burst all the balloons, blown out the candles on little Johnny’s birthday cake and then put jelly in the pockets of all the coats hung up in the hall.  She was a NIGHTMARE!  And her nightmare was about to begin...

The babysitter entered.  She was an old wizened creature, with long wild grey hair, skin like crumpled brown paper and a huge hooked nose.  Shuffling down the hall on skinny legs, she looked up at Lucy, who was standing on the stairs, and grinned.  Lucy gasped.  Did her eyes really flash red for just a second?  Could a hiss be heard when she smiled and said, “Hello”?  Was that a trickle of blood that she secretly wiped away with the back of her bony hand?  Mum and Dad were smiling.  She wasn’t at all happy.  Lucy didn’t trust the babysitter.

Let me tell you that Lucy was right to be afraid because she was no ordinary babysitter.  She was, in fact, an evil spirit, who had grown tired of her old, wrinkled body-and now she wanted Lucy’s… and she didn’t care what she had to do to get it.  As the front door closed behind her parents, the little girl’s heart pounded in her chest as she felt a cold shiver slithering down her spine like a frosty finger…