Irony: A Short Story

She pushes it, the doors horizontally close and as the elevator rides up, she frantically pushes the button.

Around the other side of the building, Alyssa is met with more neon signage boasting 24-hour access. She gives the frosted door a gentle nudge and enters.

She begins stuffing supplies in her purse, which is half full of cash. As she exits the store alarm rings and Freema started running for the mall exit. She makes it to her car and heads home.

The camera pans to the opposite side of the room, where two guards are shown guarding a door identical to the one AUDREY is in front of. Suddenly the door, outlining three people. The girl hears the door open, halting her attempt to break free. She turns her face so her ears are facing the direction of the noise. As their footsteps get louder, she sits up straighter.

"I'll drop you off around four. I'm going to sleep when I get home." I glance over at her and see she's unzipped her baggy ass hoodie.

“tiptoes to the door and opens it, walks out. Curtains close behind her and spotlight shines on her.

She turns back to the door opens it and slides her body through the opening, she will be missed. The door closes, everything is silent

it. When she gets out of her car she waits, knocking at the door of

Alma starts to slowly regain consciousness but abruptly starts to frantically looks side to side in confusion and realizes her perspective was looking down at the shop from the high shelf, as if she in the place of the replica doll. The surrounding doll’s eyes seemed to be fixated on her with looks of sympathy. Unexpectedly, a clicking sound began to fill the room and a figure begins to slowly come out from the table behind the window of the

to the door and back again. She then looks evilly at the agent and his

She ran to the middle of whatever was still standing in her house and started to cry. She got on her knees and thought that everything that was once hers was gone in an instant. She cried and cried, until she found no more use. Then, once her eyes started to clear up, she spotted something.

Briskly, she comes out from behind the counter and enters the store room that lies further into the shop.

As the group gets farther into the building they are overcome by a horrible, rotten musty smell like a dead animal decomposing. Suddenly, we turn the corner and the lights go out! We all gasp and reach out for each other. Brooke lets a tiny squeak but then gets quiet. The lights suddenly flicker back on and we all look around like owls in the night. Sophia looks back to see if Brooke is okay and screams “ Brooke, where are you?” The girls start freaking out and sprint down the hall faster than a cheetah. Once they make it back to the door Emily pushes on the handle but whispers,” it’s locked, now what do we do?” Overcome by the smell of dead animals and the hallway getting colder makes Sophia start pounding on the door. She sobs, “Help, someone help us! We are locked in and our friend

“Just a bit homesick that’s all. Well it’s getting quiet late I must be off to bed,”

Footsteps approach from behind. She quickly slipped into the shadows cast by the stairs. A figure rushed past. Dressed in a gray robe, a young girl with straw-colored hair stopped and turned to look back the way she came.