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 Author: Sara Sanders
Title: The Jewelry Box
Summary: The jewelry box that I bought at a yard sale has unexpected
effects.
Keywords: f, teen, nc, bd









   The Jewelry Box



   One day I found a cute pink jewelry box at a yard sale down the street
from my house that I just had to have.  It had a few items of jewelry and
some small dolls in it.  When I bought it the guy selling it gives me a
strange smile but I don't think much of it at the time.  When I got home I
set my new jewelry box on my bed was admiring it.  I then found its hidden
compartment in the bottom of the box.  There was a button which I assumed
made it play music but when I hit it nothing happened.  I then realized
that the batteries were probable dead in it but I couldn't find where they
went in.  After a few minutes I gave up and went to take a shower.



   When I got out of the shower, I could hear a strange noise coming from
my room.  I walked into my room to find a strange pink glowing circle
hovering over my new jewelry box on my bed.  I was wearing only my towel at
the time and holding my dirty clothes in one hand.  I was fascinated with
the pink glowing circle.  I tossed my bra at the glowing circle to see what
would happen.  It disappeared when it hit the circle.  This would have
probably been a good time to call my parents or the police but I wanted to
learn more about it.  After a few minutes of staring at the circle trying
to figure out what it was, my bra came back through the glowing circle and
landed on the floor.  When I picked it up, I realized that it was covered
in slime.  I then noticed a slimy tentacle coming through the pink glowing
circle.  I backed up as it continued to grow longer from the circle.  At
this point I was completely naked since I had been distracted by the
glowing circle and hadn't gotten dressed.  It was feeling around on my bed
like it was looking for something.  Then another tentacle started to grow
from the circle.  They both seemed like they were looking for something and
I was afraid that it was me.  The tentacles soon found the rest of my dirty
clothes and my bath towel on the floor.  Once it did, three more tentacles
grew from the glowing circle.  At that point I was sure that it was looking
for me.  For some reason the creature couldn't see me and I just backed
myself into the corner of my room.  I was hoping that the thing would give
up and I could escape but instead more tentacles grew out of the circle.

   My room was almost completely covered in the slime from the tentacles. I
then decided to make a run for the door since I knew the tentacles would
eventually find me if they keep growing from the circle.  As I started to
run I didn't take into consideration that the floor was covered in slime. I
quickly slipped and fell but the tentacles didn't seem to notice.  They
keep moving around randomly through the room.  I started to crawl back to
my corner when a tentacle covered it in slime so I decided it would be best
to continue towards the door.  All of a sudden a tentacle was coming right
for me.  I quickly rolled out of the way but I was now covered in the
slime. I keep crawling to the door when I heard a pop sound come from the
circle.  When I looked I saw a giant eyeball.  It quickly spotted my naked
slime covered body.  I started crawling as fast as I could but the slime
made everything slippery and I couldn't move very fast.  All of the
tentacles quickly converged on me and wrapped around my naked body.  I was
quickly pulled through the pink glowing circle.

   The next thing I remember is waking up in a completely dark room.  I
quickly noticed that I couldn't move my entire body.  Then all of a sudden
a bright light came from the ceiling.  The ceiling of the room was being
lifted up and that is when I saw the giant girl looking down on me.  I
suddenly realized that the girl wasn't a giant but I was super small and in
the jewelry box that I had bought at the yard sale.  Now I was one of the
dolls in the box and I knew that this girl would soon be joining me.  The
innocent unsuspecting girl closed the lid on the jewelry box and went to
pay for it.



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