Daughter of Ipswich

Falling Down the Rabbit Hole

Bad Dream

"Pogue!" I screeched, as I snapped up in bed.

Spiders. Spiders. Lots of spiders.

I threw the sheets off of my legs, and threw myself off the bed for fear of seeing a mass of spiders.

"Celeste!" Pogue shouted for me, as I heard his running feet coming towards my rescue.

I kept backing myself away from the bed, while I saw someone standing in the corner of my room. A darkling. It was the dead kid from the Dells.

This had to be a bad dream. It had to be.

"Leave me alone," I weakly commanded to darkling, hoping it heeded my words. But it didn't and instead seemed to be taunting me, as it stayed in the corner of my room starring directly at me.

Suddenly Pogue threw open my bedroom door, quickly coming to my aid on the floor.

"Are you all-"he stopped himself, as he looked up and saw the darkling too.

Pogue didn't move and only starred, making myself take a deep breath, commanding again, in the same manor William taught me," Leave us, and go back to your master."

Instantly the darkling screamed and disappeared into the shadows.

"Oh my god!" Pogue gasped, sitting down next to me on the floor.

"Pogue," I quickly turned to him and continued," I had a dream. Spiders! There were lots of spiders! They seemed to come out of nowhere and went up Kate's noise and came out like a zit, which multiplied spiders."

"What are you talking about?" Pogue gawked at me, still unable to understand anything.

"Someone is doing this, and it's too powerful for Reid to be doing." I reasoned. "It isn't Reid!"

Pogue took a breath and questioned," Who could be doing it then?"

"I don't know," I sighed sadly," I don't know."

Pogue sighed, and stood up, helping me up, while the thunder lit up the room. "Let's go call Caleb. You can hang out in my room, just to keep an eye on you."

"Thanks, Pogue," I whispered in thanks, while I nervously followed my brother out of my room, and into his across the hall.

I sat down upon one side of his big queen sized bed, while he sat down upon the foot of his bed and called Caleb.

I turned on a lamp, and pulled the blanket over my cold legs, anxiously waiting to see what Caleb was going to say.

"Caleb," Pogue spoke into the phone," I just saw the same darkling you saw last night. That dead kid at the Dells. It was in Celeste's room, and Celeste had another dream this time it had spiders in it. What the hell is going on?"

Pogue pressed speaker phone, and let me hear Caleb say," I don't know. It's starting to freak me out. And if it's going after Celeste, it's obviously not Reid or Tyler. But I'm telling you, someone's using powers, and I mean big time. And I intend to find out who!"

With that Caleb hung up, making me nervously look up at Pogue.

Pogue angrily threw his cell phone at the lounge chair in the corner of his room, as he buried his face into his hands.

"Pogue," I cooed," Is it possible that there could possibly be someone else outside of the coven. Like a foreign coven?"

"There aren't any near by, and none of them would come into our territory and threaten to expose us." Pogue answered in defeat, but I knew this too. I just wished he would come up with a miracle answer. But he didn't.

I quietly lay down upon my side, and whispered," Wake me up, when we have to get ready for school."

"Yeah, I will sis," he sighed again, still sitting at the end of the bed, while I turned off the light leaving us in darkness.

I loved my brother. He was so protective of me and wasn't going to leave me alone, when I was just attacked by a darkling and saw a nightmare of spiders. But then again, being twins, we had been use to being all we had and only each other. And I guess in the end that is all I would have. I would only have my brother.