(A/N) You're lucky you have me as an author, I paid a kid three bucks to get off the computer so I could post this for you.>>>
Sam shuddered violently. The way the bird seemed to stare at her made her skin crawl.
She hurried her pace out of the graveyard.
She soon found herself walking by the empty school.
Everything seemed different since Danny's death. She'd always thought of most of the other students as sheep. People who just mindlessly followed the crowd. Now she realized that everyone had problems. Everybody had friends or family who had died. Those she detested had suddenly become human. It was an unsettling feeling.
She continued walking down the sidewalk to the park. It had become a safe haven from the problems of her life.
She laid down behind the small bush that was forever marked to her. The place she'd first kissed Danny. Even if it had only been a fake out make out.
She closed her eyes and began to doze.
The shadow of a bird swept over her sleeping body. It flew swiftly toward the cemetery.
The dusk was swiftly approaching as it landed on a tombstone.
It began to peck at the stone. It hopped off and fluttered to the ground.
It opened it's beak and let out it's distinctive call. "CAAAAWW!"
It hopped back onto the stone memorial as the ground beneath it started to shift.
A hand reached out of the dirt. It was quickly followed by another. His hands scrabbled for any kind of purchase to drag himself from the ground.
The hands turned blue and a figure rose through the dirt.
Danny remained perfectly silent as he walked into the deepening darkness.
TCCOG
Sam's eyes shot open. "DANNY!" She lifted herself from the ground and started looking around. For a minute she didn't recognize where she was. It slowly dawned on her that she'd fallen asleep in the middle of the park, and that darkness now surrounded her.
She started to walk to the closest exit of the park. She halted as she saw the figures hanging around the exit. There were five of them, and none looked like your typical law abiding citizen.
One happened to look up as she started backing away. For just a second, the cigarette that hung from his mouth flared. She saw a wicked grin on his face and started to run.
Sam heard the heavy feet snapping sticks and tumbling through the low brush that was everywhere in the park. She continued to run as she heard their footfalls fade.
She stopped when she heard them start to talk.
"Hey! Who are y..." The voice ended suddenly.
"What the? WASTE HIM!"
Sam listened to the shots that were being fired.
As the guns fell silent her curiosity got the best of her. She moved silently toward where the shooting had taken place.
She stared as her mind took in the scene around her. Five figures lay on the ground in various positions. Near one of them a young man stood. It was easy for her to see that he was too small to be any of the five who'd chased her.
She ventured into the clearing. "T-thank you. I don't know what they'd have done if they caught me."
Sam saw him jerk toward her. His face was hidden in the shadows of the night.
An eerie green glow came from his eyes. It was something she'd become familiar with.
Then the eyes faded, and she was left alone in the darkness.