A chilled breeze managed to make its way through my blankets touching my skin, leaving a trial of goosebumps in its wake. The cold air woke me out of my deep sleep, forcing me to borrow myself deeper into the thick comforter trying to chase after the warmth. Even though I basically made myself into a human burrito, the cold still managed to make me shiver.
"Maybe if I ignore her she'll go away," I shut my eyes trying my best to ignore the cold and fall back asleep. As soon as I felt myself getting drowsy she started sobbing, loudly. I let out a frustrated growl as I tore the sheet from my body. I whipped around and glared at her. It's dark in my room but I can see her clearly, she looks about 26 and has long brown hair with bright green eyes that are framed by long eyelashes. Well, really she only has one eye. The other half of her face is bashed in, her skin is peeling off her skull and the concave hole on her face just led to darkness. Tears leaked out of her eye as she continued to sob.
"Stop crying. I'm trying to sleep." I snapped, she let out a small gasp, momentarily stopping her sobbing.
"You can see me?" She responded, sounding very surprised.
"Yeah, your kind of hard to miss."
"B-but I thought I wa-"
"You are, I'm just able to see you." I cut her off and let out a yawn. She pulled herself out of the corner of my bedroom, approaching me.
"Please help me! I need to find him! I can't rest until I know he's okay!" She begged as tears began to well up in her eyes again. Letting out a deep sigh I relunctanly got out of my bed shivering from the cold she brought. The feeling only intesified the closer she got.
"Let me put on some shoes." I grumbled as I carefully opened my closet door doing my best not to create any noise.
Silently shutting the front door to my house I walked down the porch and into the street with the dead lady floating behind me.
"So, do you have any idea where to find this person?" I questioned as I began to walk down the street aimlessly.
"I need to find my son, Rentaro. I just want to see him safe," she spoke so softly that I could barely hear her.
"Okay. Do you have any idea where he might be?"
She shook her head before responding "I was his only parent before the... incident. I don't have any relatives that could take care of him. I don't know where he will go, and I can't go on until I know he's going to be safe."
Okay, so she was barely any help but there is only one foster care unit in this city, so he's mostly there. I began to navigate my way through the city, with her trailing close behind me.
"Do you think you'll be able to find him?" She asked hopefully.
"I'm not wasting my time finding him, I'm just pointing you in the right direction." I said through a yawn.
It was harsh, I know but I have danced this dance too many times to just devote my entire night to helping this spirit pass on. I do feel bad for her but I don't want to deal with her floating above me at all times for the next two weeks. That's even more of a pain.
"He should be somewhere around here," I pointed toward the dull grey building.
She quickly floated to the door but before she could disappear she turned back towards me.
"Thank you," She said before she went through the door.
Another yawn escaped my lips as I turned and start walking back home. The walk back seemed a hell of a lot longer than the walk there. My eyes are barely open and I keep tripping over my own feet. I felt immense joy when my house is finally within my sight, I force my body into a light jog even though it's screaming in protest. Right before I touched the handle to the front door, a faint howl of an animal echoed through the streets. I looked to my right, seeing nothing but the flickering street light. I stare at the empty street for a couple of seconds just to be sure but I still see nothing. Just as I turn back to the door, a disgusting smell hits my nose and overrides my senses. The stench intensifies as my entire back is burned by a hot breath. My body stiffens up, I get this strong urge to throw up whether it's from the horrible smell or from the way my gut is twisting around inside my boy, I don't know.
I force my head to look behind me and all I see is this horrifying monster with multiple legs that sprout through it's long dark green torso. That thing lets out another breath causing me to look at it's white face, the texture is similar to that of bones. The thought of it's skull being outside of it's own body frightens me even more. The monster lets out the same howl I heard early. It's so loud I can feel the vibrations in my body, the noise startles me enou
gh for body to move but before I can even take a step it lunges at me.
Everything happened so fast, it's teeth sunk into my shoulder and took all the flesh with it. I know I screamed but I couldn't hear it. The blood flowed out of the wound, spreading everywhere, covering everything in a deep red. I tried to touch the wound but when the ripped flesh touched my fingertips I just vomited. I fall onto the hard concrete and just laid in my own blood and vomit. My vision was starting to blur just as the monster lunged at me again.
This is it...
This is how I die...
