this is one of my older stories, but my muse told me to post it anyway.
Chapter 1- The nightmare beings
-Age 5-
The loud sound of thunder and the heavy pouring rain woke me from my peaceful sleep. I sat on my bed for a few minutes, then a loud clap of thunder made me jump from my bed and run to my parents room down the hall. "Mommy, daddy wake up. Please." Daddy woke up and saw me standing at the end of the bed, holding my yellow stuffed rabbit Billy. "Honey what's wrong?" Another loud clash was heard and I jumped onto the bed and hugged daddy tightly. "Oh that's what's wrong. Lets lay down, hun." I let him go and slid under the covers and laid in between mommy and daddy. When I got comfortable I hugged Billy and snuggled into daddy's chest. As I drifted off to sleep I felt daddy pull the covers up to my head.
As I slowly woke up the next morning I remembered what today was; it was Christmas and my birthday. I looked up and saw that I had somehow managed to cover myself completely under the covers sometime during the night. I pulled the covers off of me and saw daddy still asleep. "Daddy wake up it my birthday and Christmas. Wake up." I reached out my left hand and nudged daddy's shoulder. I rolled over to see mommy still sleeping too. So I nudged mommy's shoulder with my right hand. They were both sleeping on their stomach. When I pulled my hand back I noticed that my hand was red. So I looked at both of my hands. 'Tha...that...that's mommy and daddy's blo..blood on my hands.' "Ahahahahaha" I screamed for what seemed like hours but it was only a few minutes. I stumbled out of bed and sat in the corner of their room, with my knees pulled close to my chest, my arms crossed on top of my knees and my head on my arms not touching my hands. I sat there and cried for hours.
"Hello anyone up yet." someone called from downstairs. I heard footsteps coming up towards mommy and daddy's room. The door opened and I lifted my head to see Uncle Shi standing in the doorway. He looked around the room then spotted me in the corner. "Raven are you ok?" He asked coming over to me and crouching down to my level. I showed him my hands. "Raven why is there blood on your hands?" I pointed to the bed. Uncle Shi turned his head and saw mommy and daddy. He turned back to me. "Raven what happened?" I shook my head meaning that I didn't know. "Come on I'm getting you out of here." He went to pick me up but I pointed to the bed again. "What?" He got up and walked over to the bed and saw what I wanted and picked it up. "I'm going to carry Billy for you ok?" I nodded then I was picked up and we left my house.