Jenny slowly put the phone down and avoided looking at the bowl that had appeared in her room, she dreaded having to take one of the cookies and the ‘changes’ that it would make, what did that mean?
She slid along the wall and rushed out the door as quickly as she could to avoid going close to the bowl. Once she’d found her remaining clothes Jenny decided it was best to try to ignore the whole thing and go to school as normal.
But as she went to leave the house she found the door handle wouldn’t budge, then she felt dizzy and blacked out, when she woke up she was standing over the bowl with her right hand hovering over the cookies inside.
“No!” she screamed and ran from the cookies, but as she ran she felt the dizziness return and blacked out, awakening once again looking over the bowl.
This happened several times, each time she would run a shorter distance before she blacked out, until she realised that there was no way for her to avoid taking a cookie.
“Please be good…” Jenny said to herself as she reached into the bowl and picked a cookie at random. With trembling fingers she broke the small biscuit in two and pulled out the small slip of paper inside, turning it over she read…