The house was silent, my parents were out at a conference or something like that and I was all alone. I took a deep breath and walked over to my bedroom door, my hand trembled as I reached for the handle, I didn't want to step outside my cocoon but I knew I'd have to. I opened the door and looked into the hallway nothing had changed, good.
I walked down the stairs and towards the front door then hesitated, did I really want to do this? The answer was clear, no. But I had to it for Toby. I opened the door and shivered as a gust of wind hit me, I should have worn a sweater but I wasn't going back upstairs, I might not come down again. I walked out onto the porch and down the steps then turned toward the woods. A shiver ran down my spine as I stared at the tall spindly tree's, it almost felt as if I was being warned not to go in. I shook off the feeling, I needed to do this, I needed to.
I stood at the edge of the woods and let out a shaky breath. 'I can and I will do this.' I whispered to myself. 'I must, for Toby.' Even with my slightly childish bravado I remained scared. Something was off, I didn't want to toy with the balance of things, but my curiosity outweighed the outstanding amount of fear I was feeling. Hesitantly, I nodded and stepped into the woods with my heart threatening to beat out of my chest.
As I walked deeper into the woods I realised that the birds seemed to have stopped singing I heard no sounds whatsoever, it was just eerie silence. I stepped on a twig and it snapped, I flinched. The deeper I went the heavier and darker the silence grew, there came a point when the trees became a canopy of darkness, and all I wanted to turn around and run home but I didn't, I needed to find out what was wrong here. The darkness was of a strange sort, the sort of darkness that makes you think twice before you switch off a light, the sort that you only witnessed in your nightmares.
I thought I could feel eyes burning into the back of my head, protruding into my skin daring my to look back. I hesitantly turned around but I was only greeted by that horrible darkness. I fearfully kept on walking but at a more cautious pace. A twig snapped behind me and I froze up with fear. I began to hear footsteps, fucking footsteps, rushing towards me, it almost seemed to that I was being mocked. I wanted to scream, to cry out for help, but I knew it'd be worthless, nobody was going to come. I shut my eyes, listening to the fast approaching footsteps waiting for whomever they belonged to to pounce, but just as I prepared for the worst, they stopped. They vanished just like that, I spun around expecting to be greeted by a face, but yet again there was nothing, nothing at all. I wasted no time in turning around and running for my life, and just as I broke out of the woods I could've sworn that I heard a laugh.
I locked the front door and made sure that I locked all entryways to the house, and when i felt safe enough, went up to my room. God, I wish I hadn't, standing in my room was a masked figure, casually swing two hatchets back and forth comfortably leaning against my wall. He looked up when I entered, casually cocking his head to the side. "Hello again, Lillian."