Fearing me, and wanting me, I can't let you pull me down. Fearing you, Loving you, I won't let you pull me down- Haunted by Evanescence
This is my first Freddy Krueger story that I've been inspired to write for about a week now. Realize now that I plan to kill off people (because Freddy wants me to) and that Freddy's going to be a bit comedic too. But he is still the same irate serial killer deep down when he doesn't get what he wants. And sorry if it seems boring at the beginning, I'm just setting the scene. I hope you like it!
~Adeline Bennett~ Adeline Bennett~ Adeline Bennett~ Adeline Bennett~ Adeline Bennett~ Adeline Bennett~ Adeline Bennett~ Adeline Bennett~
I remember a nightmare me and my twin Adrianna both had as a child. She has it hidden in the depths of her brain, trying to erase it, but it has been playing in my brain for the past 5 years now. They'll all be different, but they still have that same horrible man.
The one nightmare that reoccurs too often to me is that dream where me and my sister are playing in a sand box. There was nothing special about it, just a sand box in a blank white void. We would be playing joyously until we both noticed a shadow.
I can't remember his face, but I knew that it must have been horrible. He crouched down to our level and cocked his head a bit, and rasped "Ah, my little Adeline and Adrianna. How about we play?" and at that point the would bring a bladed glove into our faces, and would smile so wickedly that my sister would scoot behind me, and cower.
Every time I see that dream, I scream and cry, and tell myself to run. But I just sit there, looking into his small blue eyes. I'd stand up, so I would be about level to his crouch. I would look at him, and say matter-of-factly, "I'm not scared of you Uncle Freddy."
Don't get the wrong idea. My mom was an only child, but it still scared me that I knew his name, and he had known ours. He'd tilt my head with a blade from his glove, so I'd look at him straight in the eye, and he'd smile with a whole row of gruesome, decaying teeth looking back at me. "And why aren't you Adeline?"
"Because you're dead to me."
~Adeline Bennett~ Adeline Bennett~ Adeline Bennett~ Adeline Bennett~ Adeline Bennett~ Adeline Bennett~ Adeline Bennett~ Adeline Bennett~
Adeline woke up in a rush, and gasped for breath. She was in a cold sweat. It was that dream again. She reached over to a towel beside her bed, and looked at the clock. 4:12 AM. Great. How would she pass the time now?
Adeline got up and took a quick shower, and put on a clean gothic Hello Kitty tee-shirt with red checkered pants. She put a few lace bows in her hair and began applying her black eyeliner and eye shadow in deep, excessive amounts.
When she finally got up, she headed for the kitchen where she would grab some toast and peanut butter and plop down in front of the entertainment center in their living room, looking for a DVD to watch before school.
She finally chose Nightmare on Elm Street, and sat down in front of the TV. She wasn't even five minutes in to it when her older twin brothers Derrick and Kaden came thumping down the stairs. She sighed, and paused the movie, when she then realized that Kaden had started doing summersaults around her, and that Derrick was looking at the TV.
"AH! A horribly disfigured man doing a penguin walk! So scary!" Derrick laughed, making fun of her movies.
Adeline sighed, she hated living in a house with another set of twins, besides her and Adrianna. Her mother just had a knack for popping out twins every time she gave birth. The doctors say it's hereditary, but Adeline calls it annoying. Even though Derrick and Kaden were three years older, almost graduating, they were still so immature.
But the thing that got Adeline the most had to be her brothers' luck at being popular. They were Goth, listened to screemo all day, and their hair was outrageous! Derrick's hair went down to his back, and had black hair with a red Mohawk on top. And Kaden had short blonde hair with blue streaks. Yet they were athletes, got good grades, and to top it all off, got the girls. Even the preppy ones!
Adeline was sorry she ever followed in their footsteps. She had become a dark child, with black hair too. If she had known she was going to be called emo for doing so, she wouldn't have went to the trouble spending that money. Maybe they inherited some special gene from their father's to make them super awesome.
That's another thing that angered Adeline. Of the two sets of twins, there are three different fathers! And no miscount, turns out Derrick and Kaden don't even share the same birth father. And her mother didn't marry any of the men. She's never had a steady relationship with any man ever since she was born.
Adeline had gotten her DVD from the machine and went up to her room to watch the movie without being disturbed by the two monkeys. Half way through though, Adrianna woke up.
Adrianna was always what Adeline wished to be; liked. She could stand up for herself in an opinionated battle, and still be popular. She went a different route, unlike Adeline, and wore only Aero and Abercrombie. And sometimes that stupid Hollister. Her hair was a platinum blonde, and had light blue eyes, the only thing they shared with each other besides their birthfather. She stared at the TV in their room and huffed at Adeline.
"You know that he scares me. Why do you even like those movies anyway?" She asked, with her mouth pouting like a four year old.
Adeline glanced over at her sister, who shared none of her interests. "It's a staple in American cinematic history and defined horror movies to be what they are today." She droned on. She'd perfected this answer for her mother, especially, when she had threatened to throw away all of her Halloween movies.
"I don't care." She threw across the room. "I may love you, but you know what I told you before-"
"There's something not right about gutting a victim with a homemade torture device, I know, I know."
"Well, that too. It's just… Him. All of them. They just don't seem to feel right."
"You make it sound like you and them are a puzzle or something!" Adeline laughed. She caught her sister's death glare from across the room and added, "I know, but Slasher killers are supposed to be scary. It defines them with their own little touch."
"What you call touch, I call cringe." Adrianna smiled. Even with their arguments, they still got along. "I can't believe you're awake already!"
"Well, I had that dream again." Adeline hissed threw her teeth, puffing out air in the process. "You know, that creepy shadow man who used to play with our conjoined dreams?"
"Oh yeah, I remember vaguely." her twin pouted, thinking to herself, before changing the subject completely. "Why don't we do that again tonight?"
"What, pull into each other's dreams?" Adeline questioned. Being twins, they got a lot of cool perks, like being able to talk at the same time, read each others emotions, and ever since they were born, they would play in their own little dream, where they could have fun all night and not be told to settle down. Their own little Utopia.
"Yeah! We haven't done that since… well, that creepy guy stopped showing up. Somehow, being together felt much safer to me then him coming after me while I was alone." Adrianna smiled.
"Well, I guess so, if you really want to." Adeline mumbled. She always liked being in each others dreams. It gave her and her sister quality time to talk about anything and everything.
"Thank you so much!" Adrianna squealed, squeezing her twin to death, while she made a 'Bleh' noise.
Now all they had to do was wait until school ended…
~Adeline Bennett~ Adeline Bennett~ Adeline Bennett~ Adeline Bennett~ Adeline Bennett~ Adeline Bennett~ Adeline Bennett~ Adeline Bennett~
School had just started, and she already found a way to be pessimistic. She got her head shoved into the water fountain while she was drinking, and was pushed by a couple of guys. But at least it wasn't as bad as walking to the next class through the halls.
Walking through the hallways has always been a terror for Adeline. Everybody always made sure to bump into her ever since-
"Watch it bitch!" A smug faced girl scoffed at her, her white blonde curls bouncing on her shoulders, almost in tune to her actions. "Your poor person smell will get all over my clothes!"
…Lindsey. That girl has tried to make her life a living hell ever since she moved to this school. She lived in the Bronx in New York City. Somehow, her mother got them into a fancy high school. But there was no need to explain how her mother got any of that tainted money…
As she walked away, ignoring Lindsey, she felt a strong force push her against the lockers. She cringed, and looked up to see Robert and Chazz pound her farther into the lockers. She noticed Lindsey and Angela stand behind their men, smiling evilly at their work.
"You think you're better then my Lindsey, Poor girl?" Robert spat in her face. Adeline tried not to think about the spit on her face as it dripped onto her lips. Suddenly, they let her drop to the ground, as the bell began to ring. She wiped the saliva off of her face as she hurried to her first period Science class.
All of the students and the teacher turned to her as she walked in, like the Bubonic plague had just settled down on these ugly, popular, rich children. The teacher scoffed at her, and asked "What's the reason this time Miss. Bennett? Got beat up again?"
"I'm serious this time Mr. Laurence." Adeline huffed. Even at this school, teachers were highly involved in gossip. And guess who started the attention whore rumor?
"Just sit down." Mr. Laurence scoffed, looking down upon her. "And if you're late again, you'll get suspended. I know that you're always late for your other classes too."
Adeline sat at her seat, next to her best friend Kaylie. They had been fast friends starting when Lindsey tripped Adeline in the cafeteria, and fell onto Kaylie, spilling their lunches everywhere. Scared that she was going to get punched in the face until she saw that Kaylie had started laughing her ass off, they had both became friends. Unfortunately for Kaylie, Lindsey had started spreading rumors about her even before they walked out of the cafeteria.
When she sat down, Kaylie gave her a sympathetic look and whispered where they were in their textbooks. As Adeline was flipping through her textbook, she stared at the clock, watching those forty-five agonizing minutes crawl past, until she was free.
~Adeline Bennett~ Adeline Bennett~ Adeline Bennett~ Adeline Bennett~ Adeline Bennett~ Adeline Bennett~ Adeline Bennett~ Adeline Bennett~
"I can't believe not even a single teacher will listen to you!" Kaylie shouted, spitting pieces of salad from her mouth in the process. "I mean, shouldn't teachers be at all worried when your excuse to class all the time is 'I've been beat up!' Honestly, I want to pound that bitch's face in!"
"I know." Adeline said, picking up her pizza, and looking disgusted at the triangle shaped grease stain left on the tray. "Don't you think they should make the food a little bit more healthier?"
"That's why I'm a vegetarian." Kaylie mumbled in between bits of salad. "And don't change the subject here. How are we going to get anybody to listen?"
"I don't know, but if I do anything too drastic, it'll come back to bite my ass." she grunted, eating the slice of pepperoni off of her grease pile.
"I know!" Kaylie grinned, pointing her fork in Adeline's face. "Why don't we go find your beloved Jason, Freddy, or even Michael Jackson, and get them to help you!"
"I think you meant Myers dumbass." She giggled. "And Michael Jackson is sort of dead, so he's no help."
"Sure he is. You just gotta get the Necronomicon or whatever it is and make him Thriller all over her hooker ass!"
"You know the Necronomicon isn't real, right?"
"Aww, only my little horror genius would know that!" Kaylie said and hugged her over the table. Adeline smiled wide, Kaylie was the only girl who shared her interests, and always made her laugh during horror movies. Like that time when she said Jason had to be a hunk under all those clothes and his Hockey mask.
"Well, all I have to do is wait until tonight, and I can hang out with my sister in our dreams." Adeline said, taking a bite of Pizza. "Wanna come with?"
"Hell yes bitch!" Kaylie laughed. "I've been wanting to try to control my dreams like this one person I used to know."
"Like lucid dream?"
"Yeah, exactly. I've been studying up, and following instructions from books and the internet, and I think I should test it out!"
"Well, you could try, but not a lot of people can do it." Adeline stuck her tongue out at her buddy. "I haven't even heard of anybody else pulling each other into dreams until I looked up more about what me and Adrianna share on the internet. It's extremely rare that twins can do it, but other people doing it is even rarer."
"I don't give a shit." Kaylie giggled. "Just pull me in at around ten. It's a weekend, and I'd like to enjoy it for a bit before settling down."
"Alright, alright, I'm sure Adrianna won't mind, she likes you." Adeline said, though she thought to herself, "Who DOESN'T my sister like!"
~Adeline Bennett~ Adeline Bennett~ Adeline Bennett~ Adeline Bennett~ Adeline Bennett~ Adeline Bennett~ Adeline Bennett~ Adline Bennett~
It was 9:45 and Adrianna and Adeline were sharing a tight bathroom, trying to brush their teeth without elbowing each other in the face. After Adeline talked to her twin about Kaylie, she was ecstatic. She loved mixed company with just about anyone.
As they pulled up the covers to their beds, they concentrated harder then during any test in their lives. Suddenly, Adeline was plunged into the dream world, feeling like she just surfaced from cold water. She blamed herself for not practicing more with her sister for ten whole years. Adrianna fell on top of her with a thud, causing Adeline to grunt, but then they laughed, and got up and looked around.
It was a weird place to pop up, but they didn't complain. It was a cozy seeming lounge room, like the kind rich people have, and it even had a real brick fireplace! It was taller then Kaylie, and she was close to 5 foot 8. And speaking of Kaylie, she soon tumbled onto a lounge chair, cushioning her landing.
"Fucking sweet place you two conjured up!" Kaylie beamed, staring in awe at the large fireplace, like something was wrong with it.
"Well, us twins have good taste, seeing as we never get anything close to this in the real world." Adrianna smiled, sitting on an armchair, looking at Adeline.
"Eh, It's nice." Adeline said, slouching into the armchair nearest to the fireplace, enjoying the warmth it brought.
For a while, they talked about normal stuff, and then after about half an hour, the fireplace started to flicker.
"What was that?" Adrianna whispered.
"It's just a fireplace, guys, it flickers." Kaylie laughed nervously, as the fireplace fizzled out completely.
Adeline tried to back away from the fireplace, but found she was stuck in her chair as the fireplace began to inferno behind her. Looking up, she saw Adrianna clung to Kaylie with tears forming in her eyes. Kaylie began to shiver uncontrollably as she pointed to something behind Adeline.
"LOOK FUCKING OUT!"
Adeline shot up with these words, finally able to get up from her chair. But before she knew it, she was sat back down by two hands clamped onto her shoulders. Adeline's eyes widened when she felt blades on her right shoulder, and felt warm breath on her ear as he leaned in closer.
"Who's scared of Uncle Freddy now?" it rasped into her ear, as he began laughing manically. Adeline was too scared to stand, tears welling like pools, when then she realized, that she might never be safe again.
Here's…. Freddy! Sorry there wasn't much of him this chapter, but he'll be showing up much more from now on. Now what did you think? Please review! I'd love to know what you thought about it so far!