After
This piece requires a little bit of background: My friend, who does screenwriting, wrote a script for a horror movie that we shot by ourselves in our hometown during the fall and winter of 2019, with help from recruited friends and family. The story follows two sisters who moved in with a distant relative after the death of their mother, only to discover that the house is haunted not only by the ghost of a girl named Hazel, but a much darker, ancient force that wants to destroy them. It was never finished due to COVID, but I played the main character, 17 year old Gillian Gerhardt-Woulfe, and in light of never being able to complete the project, I wrote this short story for her taking place in the aftermath of the events of the film.