(very short update for you guys. Enjoy! :D)

Unsettled

My fingers wrapped themselves around the door handle. I couldn't remember anything up to this point, why was I at the door to my room? I twisted the handle pulling the door open just a crack. The corridor stood in dead dark silence the air seeming to be saturated with the darkness itself. My eyes began to pick out the small parts of the world, the curves on the wooden doorframes, the patterns of the wallpaper. Some shifted in the middle of the corridor the fray of something catching the smallest part of the light squeezing through the curtains. My heart leapt, I eased the door shut in a hurry. My thoughts raced. Was someone break in? Did they see me? What do I do? But strangely one thought stood out more than the rest. Am I still dreaming? As the thought passed I found myself with enough courage to stand and look outside again. Again the eclipsed thing in the corridor moved. Curious now I opened the door wide this time it stayed still, the sense of eyes falling on me.

"Hello?" I swear I felt my voice flutter on the air. "Hello?" I stepped out from the safety of my room.

I held a hand out in front of me approaching however or whatever was in the corridor. My eyes finally pierced the dark the world becoming clear in a blue hue. My brow arched in confusion at what I had uncovered, a young girl, a young girl dressed in a old fashioned blue dress with a matching bonnet.

"Hello!" The girl greeted me warmly, a tint of warmth coming to her porcelain white skin. "My names Catherine!" She smiled light blue eyes seeming to pierce right through me.

Something told me to keep my distance but my nature overwrite the nagging feeling. "What are you doing here?" I found myself coming down to the girls level. She mearly smiled at my question.

"Waiting for you!" Like a child she wrapped her arms around my neck. "I've never met a dreamer before! I just wanted to meet you!" I found myself standing now with the girl hanging around my neck. I felt confused as my arms went to support her, a dreamer did she say? "Could you turn the light on?" I felt the girl bury her face into my right shoulder her grip on my shirt increasing "…I don't like the dark."

My fingers flipped the switch in the corridor…a deep feeling of dread washing over me as I felt the child's grip hold steady.

"A-are you ok?" I felt a cold chill run up my spine. "The lights on now. You're safe."

Catherine lifted her head her grip on my shirt holding steady. "It's not me you should be worried about…" She was smiling a different smile now. "And I'm ever so hungry mister dreamer…"

Her legs pulled tight her head pulled back jaw opening inhumanly. Her jaw cracked as her normal teeth became jagged an uneven around the massive circular mouth. My right hand jolted up just in time to catch her by the hair as she lunged at my throat. She thrashed around growling like some wild monster, I managed to grabbed her under the chin with my left hand. A snap echoed from her neck, I backed up shocked I hadn't pulled her neck back hard enough. I stumped into something…before I could turn round I was pinned to the floor, a strong grip pulled me round. A woman in a black nighty with brown hair sported the same monstrous mouth, eyes ablaze with fury. The bathroom door opened slowly as a man in a blue suit and short brown hair staggered out. His mouth was the same. I struggled under the iron grip as the new figure shuffled awkwardly toward were I was. The woman pinned my head down on the carpet, something in me scared.

It was then, from the corner of my eye, that I saw a black puddle move on the ceiling. It darted down the wall then toward the man, he stopped looking down at it simply. My heart leapt as two pale slim arms shot up from it grabbing him by the head then tore him down into the depths. I stared in amazement my heart beating a dangerously high rhythm. Pressure lifted from the side of my face, I sat up to see the woman backing off a look of fear in her deformed features. The light flickered. The air started to feel unsettling a heavy sense of something dark and deep began to overwhelm me. If I had of blinked I would have missed it, as if from the very air itself a pale face appeared. It eyes were masked under a heavy shadow concealed even more so by long black hair that ran down almost to the chin. Fear gripped me as I looked apon this thing, as if a fear deeper than the ocean was crushing me…I screwed my eyes shut as the woman turned.

A tense moment passed as I waited for some terrifying sound to break the silence…waited…though it never came. I pulled my hands up over my eyes begging for at least something to tell me that the event had passed. I got my wise…though I chilled me to the bone. The slightest bit of cold wind tickled the tips of my fingers as someone let out a soft breath. It came again as I felt two hand rest themselves on my knees, the pressure saying that the person was leaning in closer. I felt my fingers spread not of my own accord…reluctantly I squeezed my eye open a crack. I meet the dark black brow of the face I had seen from before, beneath the mess of unkempt hair was a girls face…she smiled very thinly at me. I felt her hand nudge at my fingers as she made me slowly pull my hand away from my eyes, I opened my eyes fully. Though before I can say a word she leans in closer, her eyes still obscured by that dark fringe. She pulls right in till our noses are almost touching…she sniffs. A feeling nudges at me, don't trust her. The girl pulls away then points up to the light switch.

"They see you…" Her voice is slightly rough as if she had just recovered from a throat infection. Still her eyes are obscured.

The words made sense, those things could see the light though the blinds, that's how they knew I was there! I reached up toward the switch the scenes of the later event still fresh…the weight of a hand crushing down on me. A feeling stabbed me in the side like a dagger through the heart, something in me riled agitated protesting against turning the switch. Where had this girl come from? From the dark? Out of the very air? My hand stopped short of the switch…the girl smiled unnaturally.

"…Clever boy…" The sides of her wicked smiled almost arched to the bottom of her ears, razor sharp teeth neatly in a row. "I almost had you there…" She came close, leaving no room between us her voice twisting to become dark, cunning and sinister. She put her arms around my neck her wicked toothed smile mere inches from my nose, I felt fear deeper and darker than the ocean. She was something dark and forgotten. "Keep you're light on dreamer…or I'll get you next time." Her wicked smiled seemed to widen "Time to wake up…"

I shot up mind ablaze with fear forehead covered in a cold sweat.

"Woah hey!" A familiar pair of arms held around my neck. "It's ok! You were just having a nightmare. Don't worry…you're safe now, its all over."

It took a few seconds to recognise the voice, Hitomi held me ignoring the thick sweat rubbing onto her white T-shirt. I felt dizzy and confused, the world seemed hazy as if I was still in a dream. My head started to settle my mind able to tell me that this was defiantly the real world and not another dreamer. I found myself clutching the right side of Hitomi's top arm shaking uncontrollably…my body was shaking as well. Hitomi pulled away hands staying on my shoulder. She looked me over eye swelling with concern, I couldn't do anything else but sit there and quake with fear, she smiled thinly before pulling close. I swear I could hear myself crying…