SNOW WAS FALLING HARSHLY FROM THE SKY OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK. Michelle, now putting the coat on her six-year-old daughter, peaked outside the window to see the icy road of the street they lived on.

"Micheal, I don't think it's safe to go now. I mean, we could wait," Michelle spoke to her husband who was putting on his coat as well. "I just don't want anything to happen." There was an intense feeling in Michelle stomach that told her not to leave that day.

"I don't think we have any other choice honey," Micheal made his way over to her. "I'm really worried." The situation was that Micheal's mother was in the hospital. She had cancer. It was getting so bad that she was on a ventilator and it might even be the last time he would see her. Michelle zipped up Elliana's coat and kissed her forehead as Micheal picked her up. "We'll be fine. I'll just go slow."

"Slow, slow, slow, gotta go slow, slow," Elliana repeated the word into a song. "Here that Mace? We gotta go slow. Slow, slow, slow—" she kept repeating and repeating, looking behind her father at, who appeared to be her friend, Mace.

Micheal gave his wife a weird look as the person who appeared to be Mace was probably just a make believe person. Maybe just someone she imagined.

Here's the thing, Elliana had a hard time making friends. When ever the two parents would try and introduce her to someone or vice versa, they would be scared of her or the parents would think she was weird. Elli would always turn to the side and talk to Mace and have a full blown conversation with him.

This one instance was in her Pre-K class. Elli met a girl named Ollie. They were in arts and crafts when Ollie went up to her and said her drawing was pretty. They started a conversation when all the sudden, Ollie started crying so the teacher came over.

As she asked why Ollie was crying, she told the teacher that Elli was saying bad things to her. Ollie proceeded to tell the teacher that Elli said that Mace told her that there was a large man with scissors for hands behind the young girl. Ollie, hearing the scaring sentence, started to cry in fear of being cut.

After that happened with two other students, the parents found it best that they just took her out of school and homeschooled her.

The next thing that started to happen was that she would just disappear, like, out of nowhere. Meaning that one minute she would be in a spot, the next the spot would be empty. This started to happen on her fifth birthday. As Michelle and Micheal were singing happy birthday to her, she just disappeared—out of the blue.

Michelle shrieked, "What the hell! Where'd she go?" she looked over to her husband who had on a pink party hat with a swirly streamer on the top.

"How am I supposed to know? She just. . . poofed!" he flung his arms around, looking at his wife with eyes wide.

"Surprise!" Elli became visible again, throwing her arms in the air. "I scared them didn't I, Mace?" she asked the invisible being next to her.

"Oh, sweetie," Michelle went up to her and picked her up from the chair, hugging her tightly. "Please don't ever do that again. How'd you even do that?"

"I don't know. One day, I could just do it. Like this," Elli proceeded to turn herself invisible, scaring the wife and husband once more. "And now," she turned back visible. "you can see me again," she giggled as Michelle looked at her husband with an impressed look. "I'm like the Cheshire Cat from the book we're reading," she resembled from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

"Honey," Micheal called to his wife. "May I talk to you for a quick minute?" he gestured over to the living room space of the small house. Michelle nodded as she placed Elli back onto the chair, giving her a slice of the vanilla flavored cake to keep her busy. As she began to dig into the cake, Mace sat down next to her.

"What do you think they're talking about?" Elli took a bite of her cake.

"I don't know," Mace shrugged. "Want me to spy on them for you?" Elli thought for a minute before shaking her head. "Why not? I could see if they're talking about something bad or not." Elli still shook her head.

"It's their business. Now, I will enjoy my cake," she gave a smile and stabbed her fork into her cake piece, holding it up to the black haired boy, "Do you want some?" she presented as he shook his head.

"I can't eat food. I thought we've been over this," he turned to her. "I'm dead. I can't eat."

Elli oh'd as she shrugged and put the fork into her mouth, humming as the sweet taste of vanilla melted on her tongue. As footsteps came close to the room, Elli looked back to Mace who was now gone. As she was used to that, she shrugged and turned to her father who was kneeling in front of her.

"Elli, listen," he placed his hand on her small thigh, "Here's the thing. We have a feeling that this new thing you can do is nothing normal, and we want to help you with it so you don't scare the living day lords out of your mommy and I, okay?" Elli nodded to her father.

The parents went on about how she wasn't allowed to do it around people that weren't either him or Michelle and that they would help her control it.

Over the next months, she was getting better and better. She could even turn other objects that she had in her hands invisible. Now, if Michelle or Micheal were holding her and she would turn invisible, they would turn invisible too.

Over time as her power began to progress and progress, her parents were still curious on who this Mace person once. So, they decided to wait till Elli was alone with Mace to see if she would reveal anything. As Elli was in the living room playing with toys on the carpet, she spoke to Mace.

After a couple of moments of silence, she responded again as if someone was there. She had a full blown conversation with Mace, not even bothering if someone heard. As if was normal. Michelle then walked in and was about to sit in the chair diagonal from her daughter, but Elli told her to move.

"Mace is sitting there. Sorry, mommy, but you have to sit somewhere else."

That scared the living day lights out of Michelle because she entered the room as quietly as possible that Elli didn't even notice and Elli had her back turned towards her.

"Hey, Elli Belly, I've got a question," Michelle got down on the floor next to her daughter. "Who's your friend, Mace? You've been talking an awful lot to him."

"Don't worry, momma, he's not bad I promise. He's the same age as me. He has light skin, curly, black hair, and is very funny but sarcastic at some times," Elli turned her head towards the chair and nodded then turned back to her mother. "He said that you are very beautiful. He said he loves your hair."

Michelle gave a head tilt at the comment then a gentle smile. "Oh, well," she looked towards the chair, "thank you, Mace." Though she felt uncomfortable saying it, she still had to give a thank you.

"He said you're welcome." And with that, Elli went back to playing with her dolls as if nothing happened.

"Do you have everything? Like, essentials and stuff?" Micheal questioned his wife as she nodded. He placed his daughter onto the ground and held her hand, adjusting the strap of the backpack that he had on his shoulder. "Okay, then let's get going," Micheal pulled Ellis coat hood over her head then headed out the front door and towards the drive way.

He held his daughters small hand, making sure she didn't slip or anything and got her safely into the car before doing anything else. As they packed bags into the trunk, Elli looked out the window to watch the snow fall onto the ground. She watched as the small snowflakes stuck onto the window and how the warmth of the car started to fog up the windows and windshields. As the trunk closed with a slam, Michelle and Micheal rushed to the front in a hurry.

They shrugged off their coats and placed them on the back of their seats. Buckling themselves in, Micheal started the car and they made their way to the hospital. Passing many stops lights and entering the highway, the traffic started to get really bad and hectic, so Micheal made a shortcut. 

"Hopefully, this will get us to the hospital a little fast—" A loud noise interrupted his sentence as one of the tires popped and the car spun out of control. After three spins the car came to a halting stop. "Are you both okay?" Micheal worried for his two girls as Michelle nodded and looked towards the backseat to see that Elli turned invisible out of fear. She could hear her whimpering and crying quietly as she held her stuffed animal.

"It's okay, Elli, you can turn visible. We're alright," Michelle assured as Elli turn visible and tears streamed down her face.

Micheal turned back to look at her too, holding hand out towards her. "It's okay, baby, we're fine."

Bright lights seeped from in front of Elliana's view so she couldn't see her parents. As the object came closer and closer, the loud, raging honking of a trunk was heard.

"Mommy!" Elli called out as the lights became brighter and brighter. Michelle turned back around and gasped along with her husband.

Right as the truck came in impact with the car, Elliana sprung up from her bed with a gasp as barrels of sweat dripped from her forehead and her hair stuck to her neck. She was breathing heavily and her eyes were beetroot red as she looked down to her stuffed animal, clutching it close to her heart as she began to cry.

As the dream was re-accruing.

As it was the memory of her losing her parents.