Once upon a time, there were three sisters: Ashley, Eshley, and Ishley . Now, Ashley was the oldest sister, as well as the cleverest, so she made it her business to make sure her younger sisters were staying out of trouble and not eating poisonous mushrooms and things like that. Usually, she did a pretty good job of it.
One day, she and her sisters came upon a little house some distance away from their own. They hadn’t had neighbors for some time, (not since the incident), so they were overtaken with curiosity and knocked on the door. Inside were three little girls about their same age, and their mother. The girls were very nice, and they played games for the rest of the day, until the girls’ father came home, and hinted to them that maybe they should get home before dinner.
Later that night, Ashley found herself lying awake. There was something off about that father, she thought, but she couldn’t figure out exactly what it was.
So the next day she took her sisters and went off to play with the other three girls again. She stalled their games just long enough that she was still there when their father arrived home.
This time, she could see it clearly: he was a bear. Sure, he was walking on two legs, wore thick glasses and a tie, and carried a newspaper under one arm, but it was clear to Ashley now that he was covered in brown fur, had a long nose and rows of sharp teeth, and sort of cute rounded ears.
There was no way, she figured, that it was okay for a bear to live in the neighborhood. But how could she get rid of him? She knew she would need more time.
Luckily, her sisters had grown quite fond of the three girls, who, interestingly enough, didn’t look anything like bears themselves. So they spent a lot more time at the house, and one night, the little girls invited them to sleep over.
Ashley made sure to keep her eyes on the bear the whole night, and just before bed, he called all the girls over and said he had a present to give them. He then took out three necklaces covered in pieces of raw meat, and slipped them over the heads of Ashley and her sisters.
Now this was very suspicious indeed.
Ashley waited until the other girls had fallen asleep, then took off the necklaces (which, frankly, were beginning to smell), and put them over the heads of the other little girls. Sometime during the night, she heard a horrible chewing, smacking, gnashing noise, and when it was over, she allowed herself to peek over the edge of the bed. There was a pile of bones there.
Suddenly, Ashley began to feel very guilty. What had she done?
The next morning, she awoke early, and hurried her sisters past the bones, and through the doors. On her way out, however, she noticed something strange: all three girls were sitting at the table, with the meat necklaces on. Their father was there, reading the newspaper. At one point, he looked up over it at Ashley, and his expression was not friendly at all.
The End. For now…
Source: Molly Whuppie
