Flashback

As she cried in the bushes, it all came back, her fifth birthday. It was a beautiful night with candle lit decorations and a big cake at the center of all. The living room had all sought of decors, ribbons, balloons, gallons, all in her favorite colors, peach, blue and pink. Everything was perfect the way she had imagined, guessed began to arrive soon after, all her friends including her best friend, Lin. She smiled as she went to welcome them, she wore a rather unique black dress designed especially for her, her hair was knotted beautifully revealing her neck through the off -shouldered dress with a silver tiara on and matching necklace and earrings " Lin, you made it, welcome, welcome guys let me show you around before the party begin" taking Lin by the hand, she took them to see her cake, it was a three layered cake with her face at the top.

" Wow Jenny, your cake is magnific!! It must take great then" comment streaming from her friends and she felt so proud " Mother and Papa are the best" she thought.

"May I have everyone's attention" Papa said raising a glass and a fork, beating them together to produce a sound more like a bell "May I present my beloved daughter, my only child. As you all know the difficulty my wife and I face in order to conceive which has now lead to this event for with we are gathered. We never thought we could have a child of our own so we adopted, Christy and Jeff, our lovely children " saying this now, he raised a toast" Cheers to life, cheers to children and cheers to Jenny, my daughter, who has turned five today".

" Cheers " everyone chorused raising their glass.

Soon after, it was now time for the celebrant to cut the cake, the cake candles were now lit and she was call to the center to blow the cake and make a wish but she wanted to do it together with her best friend. She was so happy as she went to her cake and after the spellings " J-E-N-N-Y" she blew the candle light off, but things weren't right the moment the cake lights went off. Fear gripped all as the looked the face of the birthday girl.

Her eyes turned completely dark like a pool of black water streaming something like cracks on her face, cracks like that of an earthquake, she was gone. The little girl who now stood there looked nothing like Jenny, looked horrifying, a sight no one present would be able to forget. Lin, who was beside her the whole time didn't know what was happening, he watched every crack make its way on her face with fear, utter confusion. Her finger tips turned black and now what was seen as innocent became a replica of a nightmare.

Screams from all angles and crowd pushing to get out, saying she was cursed and others saying she was a witch. Lin stood there staring and now he called out to her hoping to find a reaction " Jenny, can you here me? Jenny, what the matter? I'm right here" closing the gap between them" Jenny ". At one least call of her name, she turned her head to the right facing him, then bent it to the left with her eyes growing even darker. Fear filled Lin's body, shaken by her piercing gaze before he could step back, her hand caught his neck and just like that he began to decay slowly.

"Jenny stop" those who were witnessing everything shouted to stop her but no... " Jenny, listen to your papa our let him go" , but no... His body was decayed in a matter of seconds.

Pain evaded her heart at this moment wishing it never happened.