Chapter 6: The Past is Real.

Sunlight shone brightly in Katherine's bedroom. But she did not wake. She was already awake. She was sitting at her desk eating coffee mix. Katherine was singing softly. Not really singing…it was gibberish.

Clomp…clomp. Katherine froze. She heard her mother's footsteps coming down the hall. She quickly hid the coffee and the coffee mix and flopped down on her bed. She closed her eyes, pretending to sleep, which was hard to keep them closed, because they stung so badly and watered from being open all night. Katherine almost did fall asleep, but, thankfully, her mom's call snapped her to full attention.

"Kasey! Get up! Time for school!"

Katherine groaned to make her mother believe she was sleeping. She sat up and turned her head toward her mother. She hoped that her mother wouldn't see the glaze in her eyes or the dark bags under them.

"Did you have a nightmare last night?"

Katherine shook her head roughly and regretted it instantly, because she immediately felt woozy. It was like her brain was banging on the inside of her skull. "No." She moaned.

"Why do you look so sick then?"

"I just didn't sleep well." Katherine lied.

"I'm sorry, honey, but you really have to get up and go to school."

"I know." Katherine said, quickly (too quickly) swinging her legs off her bed. Her mother approved and left the room. Katherine stood up, and swaggered over to her dresser to change.

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School. People. What if they hate me? What if they don't welcome new people? Katherine thought nervously.

She stumbled anxiously downstairs and into the kitchen. She opened up a wooden cabinet and pulled down a box of Cocoa Puffs. She grabbed a large bowl and filled it with the chocolate cereal. She opened the refrigerator and poured milk onto the cereal. She left everything out and went to the living room with her cereal. When she finished drinking the chocolate milk out of her bowl, she put the empty bowl and spoon into the dishwasher and went back into the living room to wait for her mother.

"What is wrong with people?" Katherine wondered aloud as she walked down the hall. Everyone around her seemed to be starting, as though they never seen a new person before. Katherine was getting annoyed. She has been dealing with this treatment for the past 4 hours of school. All she wanted to do was eat lunch. Was that too much to ask?

Katherine walked into the cafeteria and stood in line to get her lunch. When she finally retrieved it, she went over to a far away booth to sit by herself. She began to eat her food, when she was interrupted.

"Hi! My name is Natalie."

Katherine sighed and looked up slowly. She looked into the face of a happy looking girl. She had bright blue eyes and long flowing blonde hair put up in a single ponytail.

"Hi." Katherine replied, trying to sound happy herself.

"These are all my friends," Natalie gestured to the girls standing by her. "This is Carmen, (black hair, green eyes, tough looking) Stephanie, (short blonde hair, green eyes) Bethany and Margaret (they were twins with long red hair, and brown eyes. They were also really tall) and Jasmine" (meeky looking, tall and thin, black hair, brown eyes).

"Do you mind if we sit by you?" Natalie asked hopefully. Katherine was surprised by their kindness. She smiled.

"Sure!" She exclaimed happily.

The six girls squeezed in with Katherine. They all started jabbering happily amongst themselves. They asked Katherine questions and she asked back.

"So, Katherine, are you gonna tell us where you live so we can come over someday?"

"1428 Elm Street."

Everyone gasped and the color of their faces drained, leaving them chalk white, as if they were about to be sick.

"What?" yelped Katherine, surprised by their reaction.

"Did you say 1428 Elm?" Margaret whispered.

"Yes…"

Their faces when paler.

"What is wrong with you guys?"

"We need to tell her." Carmen demanded.

"NO! I don't want to talk about it!" Stephanie whispered.

"We have to," Natalie said. "I will tell."

The table was hushed as Natalie began a story.

"Years ago, there was a nun by the name of Amanda…Krueger." Everyone besides Katherine shuddered. "She worked at this insane home and she got stuck in a room with hundreds of crazy people. She was raped hundreds of times,"

Katherine gasped in sympathy.

"Yeah. Well when the other workers found her she was almost dead, and she was pregnant. She had a son named Frederick Charles Krueger. He prefers to be called Freddy. Throughout his childhood he was called 'son of a hundred maniacs.'"

"Poor boy." Katherine pitied.

Natalie shook her head violently. "No. He was downright evil from the start. He started out killing and torturing poor defenseless animals. When he was a teenager, he mutilated himself, because he was obsessed with pain. When he got older, he settled down, so it seemed to other people. He got married to a woman named Loretta. They were a great couple people always said. They thought he changed. However, they remain cautious. Then the Krueger's had a daughter…she was named…Katherine."

Katherine stared.

"She was the cutest little girl. Freddy loved her so much. People started trusting Freddy. They even became friends with him. Then one day, Loretta disappeared when Katherine was six years old. Everyone distrusted Freddy and everyone knew he killed his wife and buried her somewhere. There was no actual proof. Her body was never found. For two months he lived free with Katherine. Then occasionally a child would go missing and they would hardly ever find a body. If they did, it wouldn't be much. They were so…messy. Again, Freddy was suspected. Police came and they searched his house and they took little Katherine away from him. He was furious. The police found pictures of the missing children in this 'secret room' he had. They also found a weapon. The police made but one mistake."

"What was it?" Katherine asked, dreading the answer.

"They forgot to get a search warrant. Krueger was set free. More children kept disappearing and turning up in pieces. It was a though Freddy was rubbing his pleasure in killing children in their faces. The children less parents and parents who still had children were getting sick of his heinous acts and they were scared. They found him in a shack and they burned him alive. For years everything was peaceful until this family moved in 1428 Elm. Kids were murdered in their sleep. Nobody believed them when they said it was Freddy Krueger. The parents would say…he was dead…or there was no such thing…until it was too late. It's believed now. Everyone knows he exists. There is just no way to get rid of him. Sure, he's been defeated, but he always comes back. Nobody likes to talk about it. But everyone knows what he looks like. He—"

"is a burned faced man, with a brown fedora. He wears a red and green striped sweater and on his right hand he wears a bladed glove. Yeah, I know."

The six girls stared.

"You had a nightmare?" They all said together.

"Yes. I'm going to die, huh?"

"We hope not."

RING!

The girls got up in silence. Lunch was over. They walked to the end of the hall.

"Don't worry Katherine." Natalie said. Then they separated to got to class.

Don't worry? A nightmare bastard was after her and her friends' advice to her was don't worry? Whatever!

The rest of the school day was specially dedicated to Freddy.

A/N: I'm really sorry it's taking me so long to update all the time. Im not even getting that much reviews…that's okay tho…ive just been in school…been lazy…and im working on another story too. So stick with me! Love you all. Please R&R! 

Oh…and Freddy is in the next chapter! 