Under the Bridge

This is for you mama griffith...

There's a world that no one can see that no one really knows about except a young girls family. This is the story of a young girl finding her way and stumbling into that new world.
Lily Crewe was just about to turn 16. She had been waiting for the day to come to get her drivers license and her freedom. Little did she know she was about to stumble into a world that was in the midst of peril, needing a deliverer.
The day she turned 16 she had a blow out sweet sixteen birthday party. She lived in the small town of Smokentonville, a city high up in the mountains full of houses and great architecture. Everyone knew everyone else. Her parents owned a market so everyone knew Lily and came to her party. Her house was decorated in blue and silver balloons, streamers, bowls, plates, everything imaginable. Her house was a beautiful Victorian. The downstairs opened up to the great room on one side and the stairs were right out in front of you to give you the option of going up. The front looked out on the mountains in front of the house and the river behind that twisted behind the house. It was a picturesque scene right down to the bridge that went over the river to the forest above.
Lily was surrounded with presents an uproar going around her waiting for her to open her presents. Candles, bath salts, CDs, movies , make up everything a girl would want. With two presents left her world was about to change. Both presents were small boxes. She picked up the first box wrapped in red wrapping paper with a big white bow on it. She unwrapped it as fast as she could thinking that it might be a key but suprised and shocked to see that it was a ring. One and a half carat diamond with two rubies on either side. Everyone surrounded her pushing and shoving in order to see the ring as she slipped it onto her finger. "Who is this from mom?" was all she could stammer out. "Your grandmother. It has been wrapped and waiting for you to turn 16." There was a stunned silence for far to long that her mother nudged her saying theres one more box left. The other girls went back to there seats none of their eyes could stay off the ring. Lily picked up the last present thinking that nothing could top the ring unless of course it was a key to her very own car. She opened the box and sure enough it was a key. Her eyes bulged and became huge. She was awestruck that it could happen everything that she ever wished for she had gotten. "That's not what you think dear." "What it's not for a car." Lily said eyes unglueing from her hand to stare at her mother. "No it's to a door." "What?" "It's to a door that is under the bridge in the backyard." "Huh, that doesn't make sense. Why would you give this to me." "Again your grandmother wanted you to have it." Lily looked back at the key and she didn't know what to say. She set the key on the table and turned to look out at everyone that was there. "Thank you so much for all of your gifts. Lets eat some cake."