Theresa Through
The Key Hole
One day as I was coming
in from school I was found that my older sister Theresa had locked
herself out of the house and was sitting on the steps.
Janet was just a infant
and was though in the crib locked inside of the apartment.
I as usual had to
go to the bathroom and was hungry began to cry and she told me
that she would show me a magic trick if I didn't cry.
So I agreed she said
that what I had to do was to lean against the front door close
my eyes and count to ten very slowly and she would open the door
from the inside.
When I asked her why
didn't she just do that in the first place she said she needed
me to help in the magic by leaning against the door closing my
eyes and counting to ten it was part of the spell.
She insisted I do
it exactly like she said to do it or the magic would not work,
so I did just as she said and counted to ten when I opened my
eyes she was gone.
I called her but received
no answer and ran to the banisters and called down the stairwell
again no answer, suddenly our front door swung open and Theresa
step out of the apartment and called me inside.
" How did you
do that?! " I gasped.
" I turned into
a puff of smoke," she said " shrank down and went through
the key hole. "
" Show me how
to do it." I begged her.
" Well "
she said " I'll try but you can't tell anyone about this
not even Mother she told me not to do this any more and I don't
want to get in trouble ok? "
" Ok " I
quickly agreed.
" Now then, "
she said " you may be too young now you can only do these
things when you get big like me, but lets try."
" Close your
eyes real tight and think yourself real small that's all. "
she said.
I did as she told
me but after several tries she said,
" Forget it you
may be too young or be like Chuck and don't have the power maybe
when your older we'll try it again."
Of course any skeptic
would say she obviously had a key opened the door and went in
right?
But I was leaning
against the door I would have felt it open would I not?
For years I was at
a lost to figure out what she had done to get into the house.
Then one day as we
were talking I remembered the incident and asked Theresa,
" Tee how the
hell did you get into that house that time we got locked out,
and why the hell did you tell me to close my eyes and count to
ten? "
She laughted and said,
" I didn't want
you to follow me."
" Follow you
where? "
" I went down
to the second floor and climbed out of the window onto the lower
factory roof then climbed up the ladder to the roof across from
our apartment and leaned across the air shaft and climbed into
my bed room window.
I didn't want you
to follow because I thought if I fell I didn't want you to see
me do it for you would think of it for the rest of your life.
The fact of it is
I still think about it....
Part Four