Imagery

"Ready go." Said his 11 year old sister. "One, two, three..." He heard as he rounded the corner to run to his room as fast as he could. They were playing hide and seek one day, Xander, whose 8, went and hid his closet while his other sister, whose 6, went and hid in the living room behind their grandfather's old beat up black recliner. Jaylin, the eleven year old, was counting in their modern day kitchen, brown cabinets, stainless steal appliances, and granite counter tops. Xander ran up the stairs to the second floor into his bedroom went into the closet and shut the door behind him. His room is small but big enough to put a twin size bunk bed, a dresser, nightstand, and some toys scattered every where on the floor. His closet was dark inside and he didn't want to turn on a light because he didn't want Jaylin finding him, so he let it be. Not knowing that she was almost done he sat and sat in the dark, the silence of the space bug him so much he wanted to leave but something kept him from blowing his cover in this game. A light. A very faint yellowish-green light shining from far corner of the closet which was only about 3 feet away from him. He got up slowly and crawled on his hands and knees to this light. Once he got there he had to shove away some shoes and clothes but when he uncovered it it was not there. It is like the light just shut off and disappeared. Confused and dumbfounded by the disappearance of this thing he just looked for it again until his sister came yelling in upstairs, "Xander! Come out come out wherever you are! I found Jocelyn." Jaylin yelled.

Still puzzled by the disappearance of such a light, he paused looked around and finally got up and left the darkness of the closet. When the door opened the light made him squint his eyes at first but after a few blinks he was focused again on his surroundings. As he left his room and descended the staircase he found Jaylin and Jocelyn sitting on the brown love seat with flowery designs watching a movie. At first glance he wasn't sure what it was but at another glance he figured out it was Shrek 2 and decided he better well join them seeing as they seemed to have given up on the game they just had started. "Where were you?" asked Jocelyn.

"I can't tell or you'll know for next time." he replied.

"Oh fine. Wanna watch the movie with us?"

"Sure I guess. When are mom and dad picking us up?"

"Not sure. Gram!" Jaylin yelled not taking her eyes off the TV set, she always was the lazy one but the most skinny out of us three. Jaylin does not do any sports besides soccer which she has done since she was 4. She has an athletic body already starting to show, brown hair, green eyes, and a scar above her right eye where a dog bit her when she was my age eight.

As gram walks in from around the corner she asks, "Yes dear?" Xander just now noticed how frail his grandmother had looked. She is more pale now than she has been, she walks a little bit slower, and has gotten a bit skinner. She has grey hair and glasses, seeing as her visions gone due to old age. He feels sorrow that he doesn't come in and visit more often.

"When's mom suppose to pick us up?" She asks still not having the courtesy to turn around and look at her grandmother.

"Uh, well, I think you are staying until Sunday. Your mom is away on a business trip." She replied in a hoarse voice. It sounds like she has a sore throat but I don't ask her.

"What about dad?" His little sister, Jocelyn, asks in that sweet little innocent girl voice. He swears she is the devil at heart. She may be cute and innocent on the outside but she is a very demented six year old on the inside. She will destroy so much in one day it's not funny well as long as gram isn't around.

"He is out of town. I thought your mother told you?"

"Nope but oh well." she replied and went back to watching Shrek.

With that my gram had left the room to take the little ankle bitters outside. Jade a brown Shih Tzu Poodle mix who never stops barking at anything and a white Maltese that has a light brownish patch on his back named Henry who just likes to play and cuddle. But, he is kind of a fat dog, he can't jump very high unlike Jade. He sat there and lingered on the thought of what that light in the closet was. He still can't get the image out of his head. It's almost like it is engraved there. So what's he do, like all normal little kids, he is curious so he ascends the stairs two steps at a time and makes it to the top within five big leaps. He flies into his bedroom maneuvers himself around all the clutter and into the closet shutting the door behind him. In a few moments he can make out the very few outlines of some books laying on floor due to this little ity bitty light shining again. This time he is much more quicker than before and leaps right towards it on all fours like a cheetah hunting its prey. But, the light is to quick and flies just of reach and he means literately flies. As he stares in astonishment at this little lime green fairy pixie thing which is no bigger than the size of his palm he sees it a girl. She has dirty blonde hair, not quite brown but darker than a blonde, her eyes are brown to match the color of her hair, which is kept short just as she is. She also has a tiny body, he goes to pick her up by her wings but just as he gets close enough to her she flies two inches away from his hand in a split second, 'She's fast.' He thought. "I wonder if she talks?" he says out loud.

The pixie obviously heard him because she replied saying, "Yes I can. My name is Anna." He jumped back startled that she heard him and that she replied in a tiny squeaking voice but it was a least loud enough for him to hear. She spoke so soft and smooth like, he guessed that she was no more than twelve in human years, if it was different in pixie years than human?

"My name is Xander. You sound so young. How old are you?" he asked with his big round beady blue eyes.

"I am 34. I know I sound young like a little toddler kid but I am actually an adult."

"How did you find me? Why are you here?" He asked the question that he pondered about a little bit ago.

"I was sent here by my friend. She had told me that you were quite an imaginary kid. She told me where to find you, she would like me to show you something Xander. It's a wonderful thing filled with anything your little heart desires." She told him as she danced on the floor and in the air making all sorts of different hands movements here and there. She went high up in his closet almost to the ceiling and dove straight down like an eagle going to prey but she release her like bright, green, sparkly, fairy wings and she came down on the ground with out a sound. She explained to him all the imaginary things there and all sorts of kids they had gotten. "And that is why you were chosen to come. You'll love it but you will only come by night. That is why you can see me because we are in the dark."