Chapter 1 -
My name is Dill and this is my story I will tell you about me and the new friends I’ve met in the woods. when I was four years old my mother died because of me... she was fragile and weak after my birth. the village and my father hated me because my mother used to brighten all the lives even my father. I laughed at the thought of my father would ever be happy because all I knew he was a drunk who could never look at me without hate in his eyes, even when he’s sober
Okay, I said to myself this is the day that I am running away and never come back. I heard about the woods from my best friend
Anna, she told me “You have to go to Dill you can’t keep living in fear like this I overheard an argument that you and your father were having Dill it's getting serious you remember what happened the last time he got mad at you” my eye twitches. I was trying to suppress those memories but that didn’t stop me from subconsciously bring my hand up to my face and touch were he had punched me Anna has always been there for me since we were six years old she was the only person I trusted "Dill there have been rumors about the woods people are saying that there dangerous but they're not Dill we know that we've played in them plenty and never gotten hurt never seen anything out of the ordinary her voice came out willful but her eyes were screaming with fear an for her"
I said "Okay I'll go if things get worst but I'm letting you know how he is never going to lay a hand on me again" but that was a lie and out of all the things I had to let go of that day she was the hardest before then I could barely remember life without her in it. I was packing up my belongings and getting ready to leave because my father wasn’t home...NOT HOME!! this isn’t home anymore that man took that away from me I told myself but I know deep down that I was only saying that so I would finally leave the front door opened my father was home early I wonder if he’d found out that I was running away but he didn’t he did what he did the best he walks into the house trying to keep his balance but fails horribly obviously very drunk but for the first time in my life I was glad he was it just made my decision easier to make I left I didn't look back that day I said goodbye to Anna what I remember most about that was her face it was red and blotchy from her crying but I didn't call her out on that I wanted to cry too but I know crying wouldn't help with anything in this situation and then I walked towards the woods and thought to myself “What is wrong with me “.
I made it t the entrance of the woods and I heard a voice saying “Dill, I've been waiting for you my Darling” the voice said in a whisper I was scared and confused, how did they know my name and why did the call darling? I walked in the woods and that’s when I saw it a silhouette of a woman...
