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I couldn't sleep so I was like "Let's write!"
Disclaimer: If I owned these characters there would be like a TV show for them. And a TON of games. Instead of just 3.
Chapter 4
"So how was your day?" Cloud asks me.
We're sitting around the kitchen table eating pizza. Cloud came home pretty late and didn't have time to cook so we ordered pizza. I've been picking at my slice of pizza mildly disgusted by it. The sauce reminds me of blood.
I open my mouth to answer and Sora shoots me a warning look, "I just got my room organized. Nothing big."
Sora must have seen her too. Why else would he be acting so weird? I know the girl was there. I didn't imagine her.
"Oh well, stuff will get more exciting when school starts next week," Cloud says trying to be upbeat. Cloud isn't very convincing. I just have this feeling that somthing bad is going to happen. Like it's inevitible and I can't stop it no matter how hard I try. I kept getting chills and the feeling I was being watched the whole time in my room.
"Oh man don't remind me. I met some cool people today though. So maybe school won't suck so much with them," Sora says happily.
"Well that's great, Sora," Cloud says cracking a small smile. It's his first smile in two weeks. It's like Cloud has only so many smiles to give and he saves them up for special occasions. I think he wasted this one. Sora making freak friends isn't a smile worthy event.
"Yeah, I had to unpack all the living room stuff because Roxas decided to go sleep in his room." Of course Sora is going to try to get me in trouble.
"You were gone most of the day!" I shoot back.
"You were asleep the whole time I was gone. You could've done somthing."
"Come on guys don't fight now," Cloud says looking tired.
"But he-," I start, but I see somthing out of the corner of my eye. It looks like someone just walked past the kitchen in the hallway. I look over quickly, but they aren't there anymore. I stand up from the table and walk out into the hallway chills running up my spine. I swear someone just walked through the hallway.
"Where are you going?" Sora says angrily.
I ignore him and look down the hall waiting for....somthing.
"Roxas?" Cloud says wearily.
I hold up my hand telling them to be quiet. Maybe it was the girl from earlier. I want to know what she meant. What was she trying to warn me about?
I think I see a white mist in the hallway but it disappears when Sora decides to break the silence, "What is it?"
"Oh great job Sora! She's gone now!" I yell throwing my hands up in frustration.
"She? Whose she?" asks Cloud looking confused.
"Just- nevermind!" I can't really tell Cloud I thought I saw a ghost girl, he most likely won't believe me. I'm not even sure if I believe what I saw.
"Someone is loooooosing it," sings Sora.
Suddenly I don't feel like being around my brothers. "I'm going to bed. I'm really tired," I say before walking out of the kitchen down the hallway.
"Good night!" I hear Cloud call from the kitchen.
I walk up the creaky steps to my room. My room is freezing as always. I quickly change into my pajamas exposing as little skin as I can to the cold. For some reason I want to be in my room even though it creeps me out. I feel comfortable here.
I get under my blankets and wait for sleep to overtake me.
But I can't sleep. I keep thinking about everything. Me and Sora are just burdens on Cloud. He shouldn't have to take care of us when he's only in his twenties. He should be out having fun. I wish our mom would come back and be a real mom. I wish I would just grow up and be able to get a job. I wish me and Sora we're friends again. We always end up fighting. I wish stuff would just be better. I keep waiting for my life to suddenly get better and now I'm losing my patience. Maybe it's never going to get better.
I close my eyes drifting off to sleep after hours of laying awake.
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I feel a tug on my blanket and I pull it back drowsily.
The blanket jerks out of my grasp.
I open my eyes confused. The edges of my comforter are being pulled down to the side of my bed pressing me down into the mattress. I try to push the comforter down away from my chest but it snaps right up to my neck and continues to tighten.
Panic starts to break through my sleep fog mind. The comforter is painfully tight. It's getting harder to breathe.
I can't see anything in the darkness of my room. It's darker than just usual night time dark. The moon usually shines in through my window but it's like no light exists at all anymore.
I fight against the comforter but it just tightens more. I can hear a faint whispering at the edges of my bed. I strain my ears to hear better.
I'll tie your eyes with lines, your ears with moans;
Your marble heart I'll pierce with hideous groans
My blood turns icy at the whispers floating up from the sides of my bed.
That neither eyes, ears, heart shall be at rest
Till you forsake your sire to love us best.
The whispering stops and I feel the room go cold. Even with the blankets on top of me I get goosebumps.
I hear a floorboard creak near my bed. I try to break free from my blankets but they won't loosen. My heart starts to beat erratically in my chest.
I feel a weight on the bed, and someone slowly crawling up my body. I can't see in the darkness. My brain is going crazy conjuring up gruesome images of what is on me. I smell somthing rotten.
Somthing grabs onto my arms with an iron grip through the blankets. It's like my arm just got encased in a block of ice. I feel breath on my face. My heart is practically beating out of my chest in fear. Adrenaline is pumping through my body. I want to get away. I need to get away.
I can't breathe.
I'm afraid to open my mouth to gasp for air.
I look up where I presume where the face of this thing is. Two glowing orange eyes seem to hover above me. The eyes look back at me, and I can tell that the person is smiling. But it's not a happy smile, it's evil. It's evil, waiting to come out. Evil that wants to hurt me.
I open my mouth and scream. It's a deep scream from my chest and hurts my throat, but I keep screaming in blind panic.
My bathroom door opens and light filters into my room. The weight on top of me disappears suddenly and the blankets loosen. I gasp for breath throwing the blankets off me.
Sora sits on my bed looking at me worried, "Are you okay?"
I gasp for more breath desperatly. I can't breathe! I can't breathe! I can't breathe!
"Roxas, just calm down! Breathe normally! It's was just a nightmare!" Sora says gently rubbing my back.
I focus on taking measured breaths.
In.
Out.
In.
Out.
"It wasn't a dream!" I gasp out.
"What happened?" Sora asks looking concerned. His hair is more messed than usual but he doesn't seem asleep at all.
"Th-there was somthing on me! There w-was whispering next to the b-b-bed and then comforter tr-trapped me a-a-and I couldn't move!" I stutter.
"Shhh, just lay back down. I won't leave okay? Just go back to sleep," Sora says pushing me down onto the bed. He lies down next to me and closes his eyes.
"But-"
Sora shushes me, "Just go to sleep."
I feel tired. I don't know what that was. But I feel safer with Sora. I don't it will come back when he's here.
I close my eyes and drift off to sleep.
There's orbs glowing red all around me.
Everything else is black except for the glowing orbs.
I am completly alone.
I walk up to one of the orbs and realize it's a glowing heart. I reach out a hand to touch it but it floats out of my grasp.
Everywhere around me are glowing hearts.
I try to touch them but they float out of my grasp.
I sit on the black ground defeated. I can't touch the hearts.
Black rises up from the ground and grabs onto me. It sticks to me and won't let go. It feels cold.
I reach out for the hearts to save me, but they float away, taking warmth with them.
Odd happenings!
I wonder who the evil ghost is!
I seem to neglect Cloud a little in this story.
He's hard to write.
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