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a stranger's garden
Chapter 1 The creatures
Nathan was a very lonely person; he was bullied at school for having autism. He was mainly sad all the time. But the only thing that would calm him down every night was staring out the window and always watching the beautiful flowers in the enchanted gardens across the lane into his neighbor's yard. The way the flowers glowed and sparkled at night from being freshly rained on, it was beautiful, and it filled him with a sense of serene.
Nathan was staying with his aunt, his parents went missing two years ago and ever since he has not seen them come out from his new neighbors house.They just went in one day and never came out. One evening Nathan had a chance to go outside, he was excited but a bit afraid he heard children laughing outside, ran to the window and looked out across the street to see a small park up the block from his house. But no matter which side he looked Nathan couldn’t see anyone in the park. When Nathan finally left the house he wandered around his neighborhood for a while before hitting a sign that said “don't turn around”. When he saw it was a dead end he went back the other direction and tripped over a small rock sitting in the middle of the road. Then a few blocks later he seemed to have landed in a yard that was covered with flowers. It was the neighbors yard. He walked through the flowers brushing his fingers against each flower he passed, then he saw it. The house. The house that gave him nightmares. And the one that his parents never came out of.
Surprisingly up close the house didn’t look ugly. The sun bounced off the colors from the grass and the windows. He hesitates before knocking on the door, no answer Nathan tries to call out from the outside. Then he tries the door knob, it's unlocked. He stumbles his way inside through the doorway filled milk cartons, shattered glass and some unknown black gooey stuff on the floor. The house smelled awful, he wondered “ why didn't these people clean their house?”
I mean they've been here for a while, but he guessed that...
Nathan was a very lonely person; he was bullied at school for having autism. He was mainly sad all the time. But the only thing that would calm him down every night was staring out the window and always watching the beautiful flowers in the enchanted gardens across the lane into his neighbor's yard. The way the flowers glowed and sparkled at night from being freshly rained on, it was beautiful, and it filled him with a sense of serene.
Nathan was staying with his aunt, his parents went missing two years ago and ever since he has not seen them come out from his new neighbors house.They just went in one day and never came out. One evening Nathan had a chance to go outside, he was excited but a bit afraid he heard children laughing outside, ran to the window and looked out across the street to see a small park up the block from his house. But no matter which side he looked Nathan couldn’t see anyone in the park. When Nathan finally left the house he wandered around his neighborhood for a while before hitting a sign that said “don't turn around”. When he saw it was a dead end he went back the other direction and tripped over a small rock sitting in the middle of the road. Then a few blocks later he seemed to have landed in a yard that was covered with flowers. It was the neighbors yard. He walked through the flowers brushing his fingers against each flower he passed, then he saw it. The house. The house that gave him nightmares. And the one that his parents never came out of.
Surprisingly up close the house didn’t look ugly. The sun bounced off the colors from the grass and the windows. He hesitates before knocking on the door, no answer Nathan tries to call out from the outside. Then he tries the door knob, it's unlocked. He stumbles his way inside through the doorway filled milk cartons, shattered glass and some unknown black gooey stuff on the floor. The house smelled awful, he wondered “ why didn't these people clean their house?”
I mean they've been here for a while, but he guessed that...
