Envy and Ivy

2019 May 12

In a small town in Illinois, there lived a famous garden known for its beautiful flowers and sprawling red roots among the decayed flooring. Their obsessive caretakers Mr. Doddler and Ms. Gympie dawdled in the garden for days until their thumbs were bloodshot red and oozing of blisters. They occasionally like to invite volunteered children to help with the garden and tend to the care of work-driven duo. While tending to the garden the children would report of hearing little footsteps following them and strange sickly smell of something akin to rotting flesh. The children would also report weird observations they noticed about Mr. Doddler and Ms. Gympie. Including dilated pupils in sunlight, talking to their potted plants, neon green veins emerged when they got angry or slightly annoyed, and going into a frenzy whenever they were near fire. One day all of the volunteered work came to an end when a group of missing kids went reported and Mr. Doddler and Ms. Gympie went missing. The group was last seen with Mr. Doddler heading to a nearby Greenhouse to help take care of the succulents. A few moments later, screams were heard through the house and whirrings of chainsaws and slashes from a blade moments after. Doddler was later seen carrying two heavy sacks into his home and looked like he was having an easy time getting them inside. Ms. Gympie flashed a creepy smile at her husband when they came in and immediately covered all the windows and locked the doors to the house. Heavy breathing was heard shortly afterwards, along with some crying pleas of something that was inside the house. The breathing started to get faster and faster until it was heard no more and only the sounds of knife cutting into raw meat. The next day came around and Mr. Doddler was seen in the garden with the two heavy sacks from yesterday. He looked younger and had a more fit build when he was carrying the sack to the garden. Ms. Gympie also looked younger with an hourglass figure and rosebud scented attire. Mr. Doddler carried the two sacks behind the greenhouse where there were two deep holes resting side by side. He threw one sack into one, and the next sack into the other and covered the remains of what was left inside the sack. People that lived near the garden have reported that sickly smells of the garden were starting to become unbearable. So much so that the police and other authorities had to get involved to find out what was going on this garden. The police barged in their home and noticed that the two couple were nowhere to be seen and all that left was a note and kitchen sink covered in blood and human remains. The letter said “So my children, it looks like our journey has come to an end. We have found the answer to life and the answer to higher living. Mother Nature awaits you in the Greenhouse - Ms Gympie” The police hurried to the greenhouse as fast as they could and what they found out were two human- like flowers with the faces of Mr. Doddler and Ms. Gympie. On the walls were laced with human bodies that stretched from the front to the end of the greenhouse. The leaves were the faces of the missing victims that went missing the other day and some the police did not know about until now. And on the ceiling the red roots sprawled out in contorted fashion “Love is enviable as it is green”. The police were dumbfounded on what to do next and labeled the incident as a cold case hoping one day of getting answers. That is until they heard reports of little green people following children in the town….