Never Sleep Again

1.

Carie always hated family get-togethers. The annoying relatives, the over-affectionate couples, the drunken craziness. Worst of all, it was a reminder that she had no real connection to any of them. She was the outsider. So she decided to sneak away to her room at the front end of the house for a smoke.
Once Carie was in her room, she flicked on the light and locked the door behind her and opened the window. She pulled up a chair beside the window, pulled off the board in the windowsill that covered her hiding space, took out a lighter and a cigarette, and lit it up. As she took a long deep drag and blew it outside, she already felt herself getting calmer. She held the cigarette out the window so the smell wouldn't linger inside.
The sky was turning a dark orange as the sun started to sink beyond the horizon.
As she took another drag, she noticed a guy walking up the sidewalk. He was dressed in a grey t-shirt and jeans. His hair was almost black, but the orange sun brought out the brown in it, and was cut pretty short.
"Hi." Carie exclaimed as he walked by her house.
He blinked, almost in surprise, and said, "Oh, hey there."
"What's going on?" she asked after taking a drag.
He shrugged and said, "Just felt like taking a walk. I just moved a couple blocks away and I guess I felt like taking a look around the neighborhood."
"What's your name?"
"Jacob."
"Well Jacob," Carie said before taking one last drag and putting it out, "welcome to our shit-hole town."
Jacob chuckled under his breath, "Thanks," and said, "See you around." before walking off.
Carie flicked the butt into the street. The sky had turned blackish blue and stars had already pierced through the night sky.
A loud knock came at her door, and Carie quickly pushed the chair back into her desk in the corner and pulled down the window before answering the door.
"Heeeeeyy Car-bear," her foster dad said, slurring and swaying slightly, "What'dya got yer door locked fer?"
Carie's foster dad Ben was very large, though it was mostly fat, and had graying black hair on his round head and face. He was wearing a red button-up shirt with green plaid stripes on it.
"I was just about to change for bed." she answered shrugging, trying to stand back enough so he couldn't smell the tobacco on her breath.
Ben squinted at his gold wrist-watch. "But it's only," he squinted his eyes closer "half past seven."
Carie shrugged. "I just wanted to get ready a little early; I'm feeling kinda tired."
"Okay." Ben slurred, nodding his head like it weighed fifty pounds. He toussled her hair with a meaty hand, "Nighty-night Car-bear. Sleep tight; don't let them bed bugs bite." and stumbled back to the party.
Carie shut her door and straightened her shoulder-length dirty blonde hair back. She decided not to be a total liar and changed into a pink tank-top and black shorts.
Carie then really was feeling kinda tired. She went to turn out the light, but stopped when she felt something weird against her foot. She looked down and saw an orange maggot crawling on top of her foot. She kicked it off her and squished it under her heel. Her heel was covered in wet bug-goo and she wiped it off onto the carpet in disgust. Carie always hated worms. They were slimy and gross and just creeped her out.
She turned off the light and, before crawling into bed, pulled the window open an inch or two; for some reason her room started feeling a little hot.

my first Freddy-fic :D i'm so excited

there's lots of foreshadowing in this story, which is awesome XD!

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