It was inevitably dusty, and the air always seemed to be thick and humid and hard to breathe in.
But despite this, it was never locked and was always a place for Alex to exist if his bedroom was ever locked.
Many a time in his childhood he would have entered raging, crying or simply in need of time to himself.
Then he would spend countless hours searching for no apparent thing and end up having fun.
But that had been a long time ago.
This time he sneezed, coughed and sobbed in a corner.
He tried to calm his breath and looked around.
There was nothing of interest in here.
He let his hand droop down and he felt it meet something cold.
He looked down; it was a key.
Gold, dusty but nice. Shiny. Eye-catching.
"It must have a lock. Every key has a lock. "
He tested out the door.
The lock was too small.
Then he happened to turn around and look down.
A chest.
A locked chest.
Brown, oak wood and finished with gold, just like the coin.
"Try out the key." his head said to himself.
Alex didn't move an inch.
"What's wrong? Move."
Alex bent down to slip the key into the lock.
He turned it.
He heard a 'click' and opened the lid.
He peered inside and froze.
Inside lay a doll. She lay the on her bed of red velvet cloth, asleep, with her eyes open, her arms crossed as if she had been lying in a coffin.
She had brown locks of hair which shimmered in the light filtering on through an open window and wore a pink frilly princess dress and one eye was wrapped up with a bandage which stretched around her head. The area of the eye was dyed a blood red and splattered in a shockingly realistic way.
There was a tag on her neck. 'ALEXANDRIA', it said in bold handwriting.
"Alexandria... You're... Beautiful..." Alex mumbled, tears still in his eyes, stroking her dusty brown curls.
He stared into the glass eye. He knew he should have been scared, terrified, but he wasn't. He felt. . . comforted. He pulled the doll closer, not realising that her arm was raising slowly, reaching onto his. 342Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡawtdtSIWrZ
Suddenly, he got up, still holding Alexandria, still staring into her glass eye.
He opened the attic door, breathing the fresh, clean air again, and headed to his room.
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