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Annabeth curled up as small as she could hiding under the her blanket. The spiders had swarmed the room as soon as everyone else in the house had fallen asleep just like they did ever night. The moment she saw their small forms she dove under the thick comforter on her bed hoping they hadn't seen her. She knew they had they always did, but she couldn't let go of the childish hope that they hadn't.
She could feel they crawling over the top of the blanket looking for a way to get to her. She held her breath. Maybe if she didn't move they would think she was a pillow or something. She held her hands over her mouth and nose begging anyone who would listen that they wouldn't find her tonight. The weight of the hundreds of spiders on her blanket was both impossible light and overwhelmingly heavy.
Like ever night before this one she wondered what she did to deserve this. Her dad and step-mom took her whole family to church twice a week, and the youth preacher always said that God only gave you what you could handle unless you were bad then you had to be punished. She thought the spiders must be her punishment, but she didn't know what sin she committed. Maybe it was the voice in her dreams that called her daughter. Maybe the sin wasn't her own but her mothers. Maybe it was because her mother didn't want her. Or her step-mom was right and Annabeth really was a bad kid.
One of the spiders found a small gap in the blanket and Annabeth knew it was only a matter of time before the others followed. It had taken longer tonight than the night before she thought. Her step-mom had been so mad when she yelled for help last night. Annabeth would try to be good and not yell tonight. Her eyes filled with tears as she felt the spider crawl up her leg. It jumped slightly when it felt the skin of her leg, and to Annabeth the jump felt happy like it had found what it wanted.
She bit her cheek when it bit her trying not the cry at the bite. The lack of cries seemed to upset the spider and it bit her again and again. When she still didn't cry simply pulling her knees closer to her chest the spider crawled down her leg. She thought maybe it would leave, but it only left to lead the other spiders to her. All of them swarmed her each finding a place to bite her. She couldn't take it anymore.
"Daddy! Help me! Daddy!" She cries out as loudly as she could. Tears freely falling from her eyes as she was buried under the spiders. She screamed for help until her voice when horse and she couldn't yell anymore. The door to her bedroom never opened that night.