Daily Flash Fiction Challenge

What was in store for her. The clearing in the woods was right where she had been told it would be…

They moved into the old farmhouse three months ago, and Katie wasn’t happy about it! They were now a thousand miles away from Shelbourne Falls where she had lived all her thirteen years. Her friends were there; everything she knew was there, and now they were living in some hick town, in the middle of nowhere.

Lying in bed last night, she heard a strange scratching noise coming from the wall of her bedroom.
She had nervously checked the wall and found a hole. Inside, she saw a small book. Pulling it out, to her amazement, it turned out to be an old diary. It was dusty and worn and it had been in the for a long time.

Katie had read it and was intrigued to find that it had been written by a thirteen year-old girl – in 1879! The strange part was that it had ended abruptly in the middle of the girl describing how she had found an enchanted clearing in the woods - finding a frog sitting on a stump…and then nothing.

Standing in the clearing where she had walked to that morning, she saw a frog sitting on a stump. He was staring right at her. The frog opened his mouth, flicked out his tongue and caught a fly. He spoke. “Don’t despair my little one. You have been blessed with good fortune, and I will always be here to help you if you need me”. He jumped off the stump and disappeared.

Katie ran home, a little shaken. She wondered what her life had in store for her? She knew she could never tell anyone. She would have to buy a diary.

(300 words)