Freddy and Loretta are sitting downstairs on their green and white plaid couch in their humble abode of a living room. Their daughter, Katherine, is upstairs making a loud thumping noise.

"Loretta, can you make her stop that noise?" Freddy Krueger asked his wife.

"Of course," she replied, smiling.

She started up the stairs, her dress thumping against the tan stairs lightly. She was at the top of the stairs and walking toward her daughter's room.

Freddy could steal hear the thumping noise downstairs. He then heard one last, deafening thump and the house fell silent. Loretta came back down; examining her left hand and Freddy went up. He walked in and saw her room:

Katherine's room was painted midnight blue; a dark wooden floor and a black carpet were around. Her bed had a black comforter and black headboard. She had mahogany dressers that had unique carvings, done by her at age five.

He saw a hump under her covers and went to sit down on her bed.

"Go away," she said, "I'm sleeping,"

He complied, believing her about her excuse. He asked his wife what she was doing when he went back downstairs:

"Just cleaning her room, I'm going to bed," she replied, tousling his thick, curly dirty blonde hair.

He soon went up after, it being around ten and him having to get up and go to work at the power plant. His wife also had to go to work at the Crave Inn diner, while his daughter went to school. Freddy was working a pretty good job, making plenty of money for his family, Loretta was still a waitress, working minimum wage.

Katherine sat in her room, thinking about how the next day was going to be. She hadn't studied for her test and knew what would happen if she failed another one. She had been grounded for so long and her parents promised she would be able to get out if she passed her next test. She had been grounded for two and half weeks, no TV nor stereo.

Freddy went to bed, having another disturbed dream. He had been having them since Katherine was about seven and didn't know what they meant. He knew his wife slept peacefully because he would always wake up and see her sleepy smiling face.

Loretta actually had been having the same dreams as her husband but every time she heard him wake up, she shut her eyes and smiled, making the impression she was having a great dream. She knew she couldn't keep the charade up for much longer because, although he hadn't been getting suspicious that anything was wrong, her daughter had. She had noticed the differences in personality.

Katherine woke up the next morning and took a shower in the dark, as a way of an extra ten minutes of sleep. She then dressed and went downstairs for breakfast. She sat next to her father and made herself some toast.

"Eat more Katherine, your too thin," Freddy joked.

"Yeah right, if anything, I need to lose weight," she replied.

"Nah, your already stick thin,"

Katherine laughed at his joke, knowing, unfortunately that it was true. There wasn't anything medically wrong with her that made her thin, she just looked like it and her peers made fun of her for it. She didn't really care though, as she had her own little circle of friends. She ran outside to meet them as one of them honked a car horn, the one of her sister.

Loretta left for work shortly after Katherine went outside. Freddy didn't go to work for a couple more hours and he decided to go down to his cellar and work…