The Old Shed

Chapter 1
Rose lay in bed staring out of the window into the empty street below, the streetlights flickered on and off. Rose hated darkness, it frightened her, so every night she kept her lamp on. A girl of ten should dream about happy things like being a famous singer or dancer, although it wasn't like that for Rose. Every night she had the same disturbing nightmare, which made her wake up, screaming and shaking. Rose's mum would rush into the room and sing her daughter a lullaby, although as soon as Rose had fallen asleep, the nightmare would haunt her again. Across the street, from Rose's house was a wooden shed, everyone believed it was haunted as they lights would switch on at any moment when no one was there. It was like a ghost lived there, never daring to leave. No human in the neighbourhood had ever entered the shed since eight years ago, not one, though they had plenty of reasons not to. Some people swore they would never enter the shed, even if they were payed a million pounds to. It wasn't worth it. Around eight years ago, when Rose was a baby, a man had dared to go in the shed. This man had never believed in ghosts, he would have now though. The man never came back out of the shed. That is a mystery for everyone, what happened to him? This is what Rose had nightmares about every night, each night something different would happen to the man. It was horrifying. This poor ten year old girl, had to experience this every night, a different way for a man to die.
Rose had never met her father. For an unknown reason, he commit suicide two months before Rose was born, leaving her mother heartbroken. The police said that they had found the body, although only the police had ever seen it. Rose's mother couldn't bare to look, so she just had the body cremated straight away.
Despite her father's death, Rose had quite a happy school life, she had lots of friends and was popular. With long, blonde hair and bright blue eyes, Rose had lots of admirers, although Rose preferred to spend time with her friends. She was a very intelligent girl, who achieved good grades academically and was also a sports star. Everyone was very jealous of this ten year old, although they didn't know about Rose's nightmares.
Rose continued to stare blankly out of the window, she could hear the murmuring of the voices on the television downstairs. The news was on, Rose never watched this, she found it depressing. The amount of murders, disappearances and deaths was shocking, it was awful. Innocent people lost their lives everyday, it was unfair. Rose preferred to sit in silence, relax and think about life and the things it gives us, like family and friends.
Suddenly, Rose leaped out of bed, she heard an unfamiliar noise from across the street. The creek of an old door like in ghost movies, it seemed to be never ending...

nightmares were like, not even her closest friends.