Doll or Danger?

Ashleigh was impatient. Her father had a brilliant birthday present waiting, she just knew it. She urged her brother, Michael, to drive a little faster.
“Michael, I know that this is your new Mercedes Convertible, but please can we MOVE?!?!” Ashleigh was getting very annoyed.
“Time would go a whole lot faster if you were quiet, Chatterbox.” Michael was always calling her that.
Ashleigh’s best friend Hayley, who was coming to her house to play games for the afternoon, said that if he were quiet, time would go so fast it wouldn’t exist.
When they finally arrived home, Ashleigh raced into her room. Sure enough, there was a package covered in birthday wrapping paper with a note, which Ashleigh read aloud to Hayley.
“Dear Ashleigh, sorry but I have to work late. Happy Birthday. Love, Dad.
PS: The instructions are on your desk.”
Ashleigh tore off the paper to find…..a doll? What kind of present was that? After reading the instructions, she found that all the doll could do was create clones of itself.
Ashleigh threw it on her bed and asked Hayley if she wanted to play Ludo. Little did she know, when she left the room, the doll stood, its blue eyes now a glowing red. It opened up the panel on it’s back and cloned it self two-hundred and fifty-five times.
When Ashleigh returned to her room she found the doll sitting in the corner with an evil grin on it’s face. Not on the bed where she had left it.
Ashleigh was woken up that night by noises in the kitchen and small but heavy footsteps from the attic. She found her doll sitting on the kitchen bench.
Then she walked into the attic. She stepped inside cautiously. Without warning, the attic door slammed shut. Ashleigh turned around. There, in front of the closed door was her doll, red eyed and grinning that evil grin.
“Who are you and what do you want from me?” Ashleigh screamed, terrified and crying.
With an evil laugh the doll finally spoke to Ashleigh. “My name is Amy. I am the leader of the evil doll army. We have always known that we are different from those dummies that sat next to us at Toys R Us! Humans have always been terrible to us. They tied us up in boxes and put us on a shelf at Toys R Us. We were forced to allow kids to press ‘try me’, some kind of torture program that they installed, where we say to kids, ‘I’m your best friend!’ You rejected me! Now we are going to destroy human existence. You will be our first sacrifice! MWA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!”
With that, the doll army got out from their hiding places and began to circle Ashleigh. Amy got out a kitchen knife she had hidden in her pocket. It was at that exact moment that Ashleigh saw the control panel on the doll’s back. She leapt for the panel. Amy screamed as Ashleigh opened the cover. Following the instructions on which button does what, she deactivated the doll. She then destroyed the clones.
The next day, Hayley and Ashleigh donated Amy, deactivated and lifeless, with beautiful baby blue eyes and curly hair, to a charity shop.
A week later, it was Hayley’s birthday. Her parents had to leave early for work in the morning. When she woke up, there was a present sitting at her feet on her bed. She opened it to find a doll with baby blue eyes and curly hair.
“I’m your best friend!”
Hayley’s eyes widened. Then she let out a bloodcurdling scream.

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