The Crime of Anna Greens(Short story)

I opened the door. The next thing I knew, I was on the floor. Tears fell down my rosy cheeks and splashed onto the white marble floor.

That's it. My fortunate days are over. I spend my days with my grandma and granddad. They try to make me smile again like I used to whenever I would visit them. Nothing they do works.

I hardly eat anything. I just drink water. Grandma tries to make me eat by making my favourite food which is lasagne but I don't eat it. I lost my appetite completely. I stopped reading books, writing and going to school. All I do is sit on the sofa and stare at the wall. As the days go past, questions start to fill my head. Questions I don't have the answer to.

Who killed my parents? My mind refused to find an answer. Will I always not want to read or write or go to school? My mind refused to think about it. These are the 2 main questions. The other questions that came into my head is not something that I would want to talk about. If I tell you, you might call the police on me or worse put me in an asylum for even speaking or thinking the words.

One morning, I was laying down on the sofa whilst I waited for grandma and granddad to wake up so I could ask them something but as I laid down on the sofa, I noticed a paper that looked old and ancient but someone could easily tell that the paper looks like that but it isn't actually old.

As I took the paper from the sofa, my hands shook. I squinted. I normally wear glasses when I read otherwise the words look blurry. If I squint, I can just about read the words. I read the paper slowly. So I can understand what it was saying.

May 11th 2023, Sunday

Parents were reported dead last Sunday. The child of the parents, who is named Elizabeth Stone, had to go live with her grandparents. It was utterly shocking when we reporters discovered who had been the culprit of the poor child’s parents death. As it was someone Elizabeth Mary Stone would not believe to do such a thing. Anna Greens which is Elizabeth Mary Stone’s Grandmother.

How could my grandma do this to me? She is the one who made life nothing but a misery. She is the reason I don't feel like reading or writing. What am I going to do?

My face turned bright red. My body shook with anger and without thinking I stomped up the stairs as I could feel the heat burning off my face. I stopped in front of my grandparents bedroom and at first I thought of knocking but why should I be polite and kind when my grandma murdered my parents and for all I know granddad could be apart of it like an ally or something like that?

I slammed open the bedroom door and I saw granddad lying on the floor. I thought he was sleeping but then I noticed his chest wasn't rising and falling and I couldn't hear slow, quick or even breaths. He lay there completely still blood pouring down both sides of his face.

I forced the emotions other than anger back down inside of me until they were buried so deep I could no longer feel them.

I look around the room for grandma. She stood in the corner of the room. Giving me a death stare. She didn't look away and she didn't blink either.

I'm starting to doubt whether she's human. I heard sirens outside and a burst of relief flooded inside of me. Finally my grandma will face the justice she deserves.

My grandma suddenly cleared her throat and I looked at her directly but I avoided her eyes as they were full of anger and hunger. It made me shiver. "All will be explained in time." She said. Huh? Is she making stuff up?

"What do you mean grandma?"

She stared at me for a few long mins and for a moment I thought she was going to kill me but then she said "It will make sense soon." I didn't even have time to process a single thought because the bedroom door slammed open and a bunch of people came in wearing completely white suits covering them from their heads to their feet with only small slits for them to see.

One of them came up to me. I thought they were going to say sorry for my loss and take away grandma to take her to prison but instead another came behind the one who came up to me and the 2 of them grabbed me and I tried to pull back and fight them off but they were too strong. One of them brought a cloth to my mouth and nose. I slowly felt my self drifting away. My arms and legs felt heavy and my head started to droop backwards and I no longer had any control over my body and then everything went black.