Katherine Rochholz
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“I think back often to my life. I
left his room before dawn every day. Always before dawn. I always felt dirty
but I thought I had loved him. I would have done anything for love. Even
destroy my morals. Sometimes I still feel dirty. He was my temptation from the
Morning Star. And the Morning Star won. I was a new nun then, devoted to Jesus
and God. He was a new priest and at first kind. He was handsome and he charmed me.
He was a minion of Lucifer. I often fell to my knees after going back to my
room every dawn. I begged for forgiveness the words still imprinted into my
mind. ‘Lord, forgive me my sins. I could not help myself. I am weak and
unworthy of being your bride.’ Every day for over a year I stated these words.
Yet I never stopped giving into my temptation. I wept every day on my knees in
front of the crucifix. Sometimes I wouldn’t move for days at a time. No food. Nothing
but me praying for forgiveness. The things he made me do for his love, the
things he made me do for him, with him.
I remember crying when I took that little test. To see that little plus
sign that ended my life. It was three in the morning and I had just told him
three days before about the little plus sign. I moved from my knees and opened
the door and looking into his eyes I knew my death was upon me. My hands went
to my stomach where my child was; my child that would never get to know what
life meant. Looking into his eyes I meet
death; with only the mirror on the wall as my witness as it trapped my soul
that cried for vengeance.”
Mia
sighed as she looked out at the little faces.
She was a teacher at the elementary school. The same school that was the
school and church she had been killed in; this was her home town and after a hundred
years she was back. She still loved children. Her own never getting a chance to
live. She smiled at the little four year old that came running up to her with a
picture. “This
is wonderful sweetie!” She stated as she put it up on the board of art. She
knew having a monster in the school system was the right way to go about
things; but she truly loved this job. She just looked at the board. She looked
at the mirror placed in the middle. ‘To Show You True Beauty’ was the theme.
But she didn’t see her outward appearance to humans. No she didn’t see the
chocolate brown hair and honey burgundy eyes. No what she only saw the blood
dripping down her face, her eyes black with her dead blood; as black as the
sins she committed; her skin grey in death and her once lovely hair dripping
with blood. She shook her head at her
reflection. She always appeared a bit different when she killed her victims,
using bees coming out of mouth, worms one time, but in reality it was just more
blood. She only moved when she heard a
commotion outside the door. “Something
wrong out here?” She asked the principal and the contractor who was doing the
addition.
“Oh it is nothing Ms. Banner. The floors we just had done the paint
below has leaked through it and the floors are this blood red again.” Principal Conner stated.
Mia raised an eyebrow. She knew why of course. She did that. She
cursed the school to always be drenched in her and her child’s blood until the
world gave her justice. And they never did. She wasn’t the first victim of that
bastard that took her innocence and the life of her child; she wasn’t the last
either. He lived until he was ninety as a quite respected priest. Of course he
is burning in hell; well I assume he is for his sins. “Oh, well the color isn’t
that bad.”
The contractor laughed. “I shouldn’t have even tried. The rumor is the
main building is cursed to always be drenched in a blood red color.”
“Oh and what is this rumor Mr. Wilde?” Principal Conner asked.
“Well there was a nun here, oh about a century ago, Sister Mary,
anyways rumor is that she had an affair with the young priest that started at
the church.” The contractor stopped and thought. “Father Williams, was the name
I believe, he didn’t stay long he moved on less than a year after starting
here. Anyways, you see Sister Mary got pregnant and she told Father Williams
and then disappeared into her room for three days. After those three days it is
said that Father Williams went to confront her about getting rid of the child
and when she refused he killed her. Beat her to a bloody pulp; killing both her
and the child. The only witness was her mirror which trapped her soul; as she
cursed the school to be stained with the life blood of both herself and her
unborn child. It is said that if you stand in front of a mirror here and say
Bloody Mary three times she will come and if your soul is dark she will drain
you of your life and add your blood to these cursed halls. If the person
calling her is a child she will search the child’s soul and they are hurt she
will hunt down the person that has hurt the child and transfer the curse to
them. If they aren’t hurt… well the reports state she tries to temp them to
join her. To become her child. To join her for eternity in the land of monsters.
All children seem to run so don’t know what would happen if the child actually
touched the glass.” Mr. Wilde stated.
Mia blinked. Well damn, they knew the truth and knew of her curse. She
never has tempted a child, hurt or otherwise, to her side. They run for their
parents or run away from the being drenched in blood. “Wow. Was the priest ever
charged?”
“Nah, he moved on quickly after spreading her blood through the halls.
It is said he went crazy that night after heart stopped and he painted the
floors with her blood as a reminder of what he had done. He is said to have buried
the body in one of the older cemeteries in town, in an unmarked grave that to
this day has not been discovered.”
The principal sighed. “Do you think we can paint or tile over this?”
“We can keep trying but this is the fourth time. I say just go with
the red.”
The principal sighed. “FINE!”
He threw his hands up. “At least when the bloody brats dirty it; it will be
easy to clean. I am out of here.” He stomped off.
Mia raised an eyebrow. Maybe it was time to thrall him into calling
her. “Have a nice day Mr. Wilde.”
“You as well ma’am.” He tipped his hat and left down the hall and Mia
went back to the children.
When it came time for the students to leave and the staff meeting Mia
had flicked her eyes to a golden color to control the principal. She walked in and smiled. “Principal Conner!”
She greeted again.
“Ahh, Mia, I have told you to call me Richard.”
“Of course Richard Conner!” She made him look into her eyes and before
the rest of the staff joined. “Tonight you will go into the classroom on the
second floor, room 234; you will call out Bloody Mary’s name three times. You
will call her to judge you. You want to
be judged. You deserved to be judged.” She stopped the trance just as the first
grade and second grade teachers, Michelle and Dianna came in. She smiled to them and took a seat with them
after getting a cup of coffee.
Mia was at home in front of the mirror that held her damned soul. “Soon.
Soon another true monster will be gone from this world. Soon.” She touched her
hand to the mirror and walked through changing to her true form. Now just to
wait for the call. And soon she heard it… the whispered ‘Bloody Mary, Bloody
Mary, Bloody Mary!’ She smirked and transported to the room that was once her
bedroom before the school was extended. “Richard Conner, did you request me?”
“Yes, Bloody Mary, I need to be judged. Judge me.” The principal was
down on his knees.
Mia smirked; after all his soul would feed hers and allow her to
remain on the mortal plane. She came from the mirror leaving a trail of blood
and darkness. She looked down into his eyes. She saw him hurting the children.
Punishing them unjustly. Being dismissed from his last job for beating a child
to the point of brain death. She growled. To beat an adult was horrible; to
beat a child was unforgivable. She opened her mouth and poisonous asps came
from it; she knew his fear of snakes thanks to his soul. “Pay for your sins
Richard Conner.” She hissed as she coughed the snakes up with a pool of blood
and they zoomed to destroy him.
Richard Conner screamed as the venom burned through his veins. He
screamed as he finally paid for his sins. He screamed until his throat bleed
and his heart and brain finally exploded destroying his eyes into black pools
of clotted blood and his lungs drowning in his own blood.
Mia stood there and looked at the scene. Well, school would be closed
tomorrow, she smirked as he walked back through the mirror leaving a trail a
blood. For all her morals in life, they
were released in death. She gave into temptation and while it damned her to
hell and an eternal existence of death… It also freed her…
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