The door wasn’t budging, no matter what she did, and it wasn't open enough for her to squeeze through the opening. Using her shoulder and the force of her twelve-year old body, she pushed harder, but still to no avail.
No one would leave their door and window open like this, and the house was far too dilapidated.Ĭurious, Sophie raised her hand to push against the door, but it wouldn’t budge. There was no doubt the house was abandoned. “Is anyone home?” she yelled again, this time louder, but still, no response. “Hello?” Sophie yelled, but the only sound that came back to her was an faint echo. Knowing her mother would tan her backside for entering the house, she nonetheless headed straight for it, walking up the porch steps. It was possible the home had been abandoned longer than she'd suspected. Sophie drew near the house and saw the front door was ajar, a front window was open, and the front screen porch door and several shutters were hanging from their hinges. Perhaps the oaks and pines with their moss had disguised it from the prey of unwelcome eyes. It was peculiar, however, that she’d never stumbled upon this house before now.
Well, there was certainly no woman on the porch of this dilapidated house, so it could have been no other than a strange coincidence she'd dreamt such a dream about a similar house. But try as she might, she could not recall much more about the dream other than a woman had stood on its porch. It was then, and in vivid detail, she recalled a dream the previous night about a house that looked identical to this one other than for the fact the house in the dream had not been abandoned. Her best friend, Abby, had ditched her in favor of shopping with her Mom, but Sophie preferred trekking through the woods any day to picking out a new outfit.Īs she topped a hill, she saw a small house she’d never spotted during her travels in the woods, situated just inside a large copse of trees. Sophie loved exploring, and today, she was making her way through the brush and forest to find places that remained yet undiscovered.
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