I am stuck in a time loop.
Everyday is the same.
My father, waiting in the dining table, smoking a pipe since dawn. My brother playing gold just outside the field, and the head maid scolding my younger siblings for breaking the plates. Although, something feels off after this very moment...
The moment I opened my mouth, I am reverted back to my chambers by a mysterious force. Repeating the same thing, in that exact order.
It has happened many times, over and over, I never understood why...
I try again, this time, coming down a bit later than previously.
The same thing happens, except father is not smoking a pipe and reading the daily news instead. My brother outside is not playing golf, but was on the porch, playing chess with out butler. And my younger siblings?
They disappeared.
"Nanny, where are Paige and Lester?" I ask, a little worry in my tone.
"Who?" she replied. Panic struck me, "P-please don't joke about this, Nanny... Paige and Lester? My younger siblings?"
"What nonsense are you speaking this early, Liza?" Father spat as he turned a page in his newspaper.
"You don't remember you own children, Father?" desperation took over my entire being. How could this have happened!?
"Are you half-asleep, Liza? Yo never had any younger siblings." he responded, indifference and certainty covered his voice.
No... This can't happen!
How could they have disappeared!?
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And once again, I was reverted back to my chambers. Panicked, I immediately went down to the flight of stairs, and examining the scene.
My brother is playing gold outside in the field, father had been smoking a pipe since dawn, and my younger siblings...
"Nanny! Where's Paige and Lester!?"is
She stared at me confused, "Ms. Paige is still asleep in her bed,"
I heave a sigh of relief, "Oh thank goodness..."
"But Lester? Miss Liza, who is that?"
"Liza you must still be half asleep,"
No..no... No! This was not supposed to happen...!
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Once again, I wake up in my room, completely disheveled and have got no time to waste!
Rushing down the stairs, I quickly take a look at the scenes.
My father smoking a pipe since dawn, and my brother outside playing golf. And finally, both my younger siblings, Lester and Paige, sound asleep in the couch. Oh thank goodness...
Relieved and joyful, "Nanny!" I called her. Yet no reply, shortly after, a tall woman dressed in a maid's uniform walked up to me, her eyes were dilated and wide. She was as tall as an ostrich, and her skin was gray and wrinkly, "Yes, My Lady?"
She was not my Nanny, Bridgette... This was a different woman, a stranger! That I have never met before... But who is she...?
"You're not... her..." I fell down in shock, horror, grief, all of it. This... all of this... has happened before... Way before...!
"My Lady!" the strange woman, posing as my nanny shouted, reaching her hand out to me for assistance.
My father snapped back, glaring at the woman. "Liza, come with me."
I nodded, glancing at the strange woman. She simply gave back a wide, unnerving smile that showed her pearly white teeth, too perfect to point of uncanniness, and tilted her crooked head in humanely. I quickly turn my head away to avoid her from my vision.
I follow my father somewhere far away from the manor, deep into the woods. He took an axe attached to a tree as we continued into the muddy forest of tall trees. "Where are we going?" I finally ask.
"Shhh. She can hear you," he whispered, "Who?"
Father halted, throwing a rock into a bush in a far distance. The bush moved, slowly revealing a long greyish leg, soon followed by a very tall woman with a pearly white smile wearing a maid's outfit.
IT WAS THE WOMAN WHO TOOK NANNY'S PLACE.
She smiled widely, pointing her finger upwards and shushing us. She then giggled silently and ran off.
I was quivering in fear, my stomach pained, and I felt weak. I have never seen something so terrifying in my entire life. My father on the other hand, was unhinged, as if he has seen this before.
Whispering I questioned, "Father, what is she? And why is everything repeating?"
"So its happening to you too, huh? I have guessed as much..." he answered. "You see, Liza, this loop... Has been happening to me many times, its a miracle you are able to find me in this timeline..."
"Timeline?"
"Yes. As you probably have seen, after every loop and you successfully change a few things, you will be sent to an alternate timeline. A timeline where I don't exist, a timeline, where you siblings don't exist, and a timeline where you don't exist. All of it."
"Then, how did I get here?"
"Purely out of luck. Remember, Liza. In every timeline, everyone you know is a stranger. Don't trust anybody, not even me, alright?" Father warned.
"Yes, father. But.. How do you stop the loop?"
"Try your best not do even a single thing you have done previously. Even the way you breath, walk, or even talk. Just don't ever do the same thing every single time."
"I see... But, I still have one more question..."
"Go ahead."
"Has this happened before? This entire timeline, I mean. I remember a vague memory..." I trailed off. My father looked at me with shock and relief at the same time.
"Ha... So you remembered. Yes, this has happened before. When me and your moth—" he never got to finish the words...
My father was bashed open with an axe, blood splashed out of his head in a split second. Behind him was the tall, terrifying woman who was acting as my nanny. She simply giggled, shushed me, then ran off.
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I worked up, panting, and tried my best to catch my breath. My father was killed, and that creepy woman killed him... Although I'm still left with many questions... I'm determined for one thing.
I'll find out everything myself, no matter how tiring it gets.
....
I jump down the stairs with a three step gap from each one, and tried to keep an inconsistent pace. When I got down, I ran outside first and danced with the grass. I tried to do as much crazy things I normally wouldn't have done. Until I finally reach the dining hall, I try to start a conversation with my 'father' there who seemed to have been reading a book about quiting smoking. My 'father' ignored me and told me to mess with someone else.
I go play with my younger siblings and made them cry out, summoning most of the maids. I ran outside to mess with my brother playing poker with himself, throwing all the cards in the air.
And finally the one I've been waiting for.
As I had expected, she is at the same timeline as I am. This time, playing as my late mother. To others, she would probably look and sound exactly like her, but to me... She was terrifying.
Her gray wrinkles covered her entire body, and s till the same unnerving smile everytime.
Previously, I was scared of her.
But now, I feel nothing but anger towards that mysterious being that seems to be keeping me from this time loop.
I'll break this damned cycle today, and end you along with it...!
[lol made this in a rush cuz I need sleep. Anyways, hope yall enjoyed it! Sorry if the writing style is terrible, I am getting sleepy just typing this lol
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