Chapter 2
I was running from something. Something dark, something evil. I pumped my legs harder and sprinted away. I could hear screaming, it came from everywhere.
My left cheek had blood falling from it. My arm hurt. My lungs hurt, my legs hurt, my head hurt. I hurt all over, but I ran on.
I got to a cliff. It had churning black water below. Blackness came from behind, now there was only a cliff and me standing on it. The blackness was everywhere.
Then someone came out of the blackness. It was Summer. She was bleeding all over.
"Winteeerrrrr…." She sang. "Winterrr…" Her voice soft and calm. She came closer. I backed away. She wasn't summer. Her eyes... Her eyes were black. "Winter. What's wrong?" She asked.
I could feel tears falling down my face.
Summer started ageing, fast. In seconds she became an old woman. Then she was melting. Moments later she was a puddle of black. The puddle spoke. "Winter… help…" I backed up again. This time I ran out of cliff.
I fell.
I kept falling and falling. I was waiting to hit the black churning water. But it never came. I just fell into the endless black. Forever.
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I woke screaming.
I shivered and tried slowing my heart and my breathing. Sweat drenched my clothes.
Once I was calm I got up and opened the wardrobe door, light shone through and chased away the dark. I knew it was morning. I went to the bathroom and washed my face.
Then I walked down legs were still weak and I trip half way down. I pick my self up and go to the kitchen.
I grabbed an apple and sit on the counter eating I finished I went back upstairs to changes and have a shower.
Today dad was going to get a job. He was also enrolling me in school and getting a car so we can return the rental.
I had nothing to do so I grabbed my sketch book and a bit of charcoal. I went out back and sat on the porch steps.I saw the stream I had heard the day before. I watched it for awhile and decides to draw the forest.
I started with basic sketches, and then I saw all the detail, the moss and the ants. The grooves in the wood and the shapes of the leaves.
When I finished I examined my work and then I went back upstairs to get my chalk. I added green to the leaves and brown to the trunks and branches. When I finished I set it aside and watched the river again.
I sat there watching the world around me for some time because I stopped when I heard a car in the drive. I got up and took my book upstairs again.
I realized I was starving. I grabbed 2 apples and began eating them. Dad walked into the room just as I finished the second apple.
I put the scraps into a bin and went to see him. He was placing some bags onto the kitchen counter as I walked in.
"The stuff comes tomorrow" He said. I nodded and started putting the groceries away.
"I got a new car today" I nodded again. I never talk much.
"I got a job today" he said. "At a small restaurant. I'm going to be the new chef." He said.
"That's cool" I say quietly. "I'll come visit" I say and force a smile, he smiles back.
We ate some sandwiches for dinner again and then we head to bed. Tomorrow the moving truck comes and all my stuff. I fall asleep waiting for the nightmares to suffocate me again.
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I wake up again from another nightmare.
It was late in the morning this time, and there was about half an hour to wait before the removal truck came so I had my shower and did what I usually did.
When they came it was raining hard but we had to get all our stuff in.
I was going out to get another box, this being my 6th trip out. My shoes were coated in mud and were the lower half of my legs. I was half way to the truck and I lost my footing. I fell on my back into the mud.
As I hit the ground I burst out laughing. I couldn't believe it, it was hilarious. I was coated in mud, standing in the pouring rain and it was cold.
It was funny.
When I stopped laughing I picked myself up and walked toward the was coming out of the house when I was nearly there.
He looked me up and down and shook his head. I went to step around him but he grabbed my arm and looked me in the eyes.
"Around back." He said and I walked away angry that I can't go inside.
Out back I found a towel. I just stood there staring at the towel. "What am I spose to do with this?" I Yell. Dad walks out smiling. "What are you up to?" I ask cautiously.
He walks away and when he returns he is holding a hose.
"No, no, no…" I say backing away.
He turns it on and blasts me. I scream as the icy cold water hits me. I stop running as stand there like a statue as he washes me down. When he's done he walks away.
"Dry yourself off before you come inside." He says before he goes inside.
I find a hoodie and some more jeans under the towel.
I pull my shirt over my head and dumo it besides me so I'm standing there in my bra and start drying dry off. I felt someone ot something watching me so I quickened the pace.
Then I pull my dry hoodie on. I wrap the towel around my waist and pull off my wet jeans. I put the dry pair on and take the towel off.
I walk inside up to my room to have a nice warm shower.
After my shower I redressed and realized that all the stuff was out of the trucks and they were gone. I jog down the stairs and head to the kitchen were dad was unpacking the glasses and plate.
I help him out and when were done we move on to the next room. It took us most of the day and half the night to finish unpacking, but at least we got it done in one day.
I was taking the empty boxes up to the attic for storage. It was full of cobwebs and dust. i dumped them quickly and hurried away.
When I returned I looked at the clock on the wall and realized the time was 12:27am.
Time flew by.
I was hungry so I went down stairs to cook. I made some ravioli and ate it quickly. I left a bowl in the fridge for dad, assuming he went to bed already.
Then I headed off to bed myself.
Knowing that I had a week to go before school, I got my art stuff ready for the rest of this boring week.
I got into bed, pulling the covers over me. I was so happy that I get to sleep in my bed, instead of on the bed was so soft I fell asleep instantly not even thinking about the oncoming nightmare.
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