The Forever Bride Of The Living Dummy

Chapter 9

I watched as the amazing Jimmy o' James ran off into the crowd. It was strange, very strange. "Maybe he had somewhere to be" I said to Max, he barked as if wanting me to continue the walk. We continued our walk around the street for an hour or so, the we headed back home.

"Where back!" I called out as I opened the front door. No one replied, I quickly crouched down and took of the leash from Max's collar. Immediately, he ran off into the lounge room. I got back up and went into my room to do some homework. It was due next Monday and I hadn't even started. We had to write a story about something that has happened to us. For at least an hour, thinking about hat to write about, But I couldn't think of anything.

"Lucy!" A voice called from the archway of my room, I looked up, Bella was standing, holding Anna in one hand. "Mum wants you." I moaned. "If mum wants me to do another job, I'm gonna freak!" I got up and went downstairs. I found her outside, doing the laundry. "Mum?" I asked her. "You wanted to see me?" She turned around, holding one of dad's wet work shirts, about to put it up to dry.

"Hey sweetie, We're you in my makeup box at any point?" she asked sternly. I looked at her blankly. "No..." I said, finding it strange that she had asked me. "Well someone was, I already asked Bella, she wasn't in it." She turned back around and continued doing the laundry. "Is anything missing?" I asked. She sighed heavily. "One of my lipstick is missing" she said, not looking at me. I shrugged, "Well I have nothing to do with that." I began walking back to the house when mum called out "If you see it, let me know ok?" I stopped and turned around, she still wasn't looking at me. I nodded, not expecting her to see me, then I walked back towards the house.

I went back and tried thinking of a story for my homework, but yet again, I couldn't think of anything. For hours I tried to think of something interesting that I had happened to me for me to write, but nothing came to mind. After some time I gave up and went to the kitchen to grab a snack. No one was in the kitchen when I got there. I could here the TV in the other room on, probably Bella watching one of her shows again. I opened the fridge and got out a juice box. I shut the fridge door shut and went to the lounge room to see what Bella was watching.

Sure enough, she was there, watching TV with her doll Anna. "Hey, what are you watching? I asked as I sat down next to her, beginning to drink my juice box. "Just stuff" she said shrugging. I continued slurping my juice box as Bella flicked through the channels. "Mum told me that one of her lipsticks were missing" I said, breaking the silence. "If your thinking I did it, your wrong" she said defensively. "Well... all I know is that I didn't do it." I sighed heavily. The both of us continued to watch TV until dinner came.

"So Lucy, did you enjoy school today?" dad asked at dinner as we ate pizza. I shrugged. "It was ok." I didn't want to tell mum and dad about that Slappy was in my locker, they would probably thought I brought him to school without realising,. I hoped Bella wouldn't tell them either. "Ok then, how about you Bella, how was your day at school?" he asked Bella who was in the middle of eating her pizza. "Yeah.. it was good" she said briefly and went back to eating her pizza.

After dinner, I decided to go to bed early. I said goodnight to mum and dad and went to bed. That night I had a very weird dream. It was nighttime and me and Bella were running away from something, we ran out to the backyard to escape whatever was chasing us, only to find an old wedding arch on the back end of our backyard, there were 2 figures near the arch, one of them was a skeleton, he wore a sort of priest uniform and carried a bible, his eye sockets were empty, there was nothing but darkness. "Where did that come from?" I asked Bella, she shook her head, she looked petrified.  The other figure was Slappy. "You ready to marry me bride?" He asked grinning. I didn't reply. "Lucy!" Bella cried, pointing down at me. "Your dress!"

I looked down, I was wearing a white old wedding gown, it was really old fashioned and I wore a long veil. "What?" I cried out, not understanding what was happening. Before I could have any time to react, I began walking towards the arch, having no control of my actions. I stood by Slappy, looking down at him, he placed his hand on my arm and looked at the skeleton. "Do you, Slappy take Lucky Radmen to be your lawful wedded bride?" He asked in a slow creaky voice. "Yes.... Yes I do" he said, slowly turning his head to me. "And do you, Lucy Radmen, take Slappy to be your lawfully wedded husband?" He asked me. Slappy looked at me. Bit angrily, as if wanting me to say yes. "Nooooo" I screamed at the top of my lungs.

The I woke up, sweating. "Calm down Lucy" I told myself. I looked over at my alarm clock on my bedside table, it was 2:30am, I quietly got up and went downstairs to get get some milk. I went into the kitchen and grabbed some milk from the fridge, after I finished, I put the empty glass in the sink and quietly went back to bed. As I tried to go back to sleep, I could hear barking from the hallway. It was Max. I tossed and turned, hoping he would shut up. But he didn't, he just kept on barking. "Shut up Max" I said quietly.  Just like that, Max stopped barking and I went back to sleep. When morning came, I didn't want to wake up, I just wanted to stay in bed all day, slowly I pulled away the covers off me and got up. I quickly made my bed and  laid down for a bit. But something felt odd, I don't know why, I stood up and cried out very loudly. Slapping was sitting on my wardrobe near my mirror, my mirror was covered in red writing with looked it was written with lipstick. All in capital letters "I WANT MY BRIDE!"

Author's note: Thanks for reading chapter 9 of the forever bride of the living dummy, I hope you guys enjoyed, please feel free to comment on how you thought of this chapter or the story so far, anyway, thanks for reading 😀