Chapter 4: Was This real Life?

It was a quiet evening and Dan and I were in our bedrooms for the night. Something seemed strange and not normal. I was a bit scared and creped out, all alone in my room, so I decided to put on my headphones and watch some YouTube. I knew I was the oldest out of Dan and I, and I shouldn't really be scared for no reason but I couldn't help but feel something wasn't right.

I was starting to get tired So I finished the video I was on and shut down my laptop. As I was walking to put it away I thought I herd something in the living room, but I thought it was all just in my head because I didn't hear anything else. That made me even more scared and it was hard for me to fall asleep, but eventually I did.

It was 2AM and I woke up to a loud thud coming from the living room. I jumped, sitting up in bed, scared and holding my blanket to my face. I was hesitant to get out of bed because I was so frightened. I slowly crept to my bed room door and opened it a bit to peek out with Lion in my hand. I herd another loud bang and something crash on the floor. It sounded like it broke. It was chilly in our flat so I grabbed my blanket and wrapped it around Lion and I, and went back to peek out the door.

My heart stopped and my whole body froze in fear. I herd a loud deathly scream coming from Dan's room. I dropped my blanket and Lion and ran to Dan's room.

"DAN!" I screamed as I ran to his room.

"DAN!?" I yelled. To my surprise, Dan wasn't in the room. No one was. The room was completely normal, just no one was in it. No one was in it… where's Dan? I looked all around, Dan wasn't here. I was scared and had no clue what had just happened.

I herd loud banging, a crash and Dan scream, what was going on? At this point I was terrified. I just stood at the entrance to Dan's room and cried. I was so confused. Where was Dan? What if something horrible happened to him? I went into the lounge to find out what the crash and loud thudding was. Someone had broken a vase and moved the furniture. Now I was terrified.

Dan was gone, I was scared and I was confused. Thanksgiving was in a few days and I didn't want to spend it terrified and worried about Dan. I needed him back, who would do such a thing?

It was about 10AM now and I was still absolutely scared and confused out of my mind. But I had to get ready For the radio show. I had to keep it together, if Dan was here, he would still want me to do the radio show. I had a bowl of cereal but couldn't finish it because what had happened. I decided maybe a hot shower would make me calm down a bit, but it just made things worse.

As I turned on the shower, the handle was hard to turn and it made an awful screeching noise. It turned on so I guessed it was ok, but something was different about the water, it was sort of a different colour. After letting it run for a bit the water went back to normal, so I took off my towel and got in. It was too cold so I turned the handle to the hot side and just stood in the shower thinking.

It took me a little to notice that the water was thicker and a different colour again. Then it sunk in. The water wasn't water at all, it was thick… and it was red. It was blood! I quickly turned off the shower and jumped out screaming. I wrapped the towel around me and called the police and filed a missing person report. I gave them all the info they needed and hung up the phone in tears, then I went back to the bath and slowly turned on the water yet again. When it turned on the water seemed to be back to normal, so I finished my shower and got dressed.

What was happening? What was going on? After that incident I went to the kitchen and turned on the sink to see if blood ran out. As I turned the handle I could hear the water start to come up, but it sounded strange. When the water started to flow it wasn't water at all. It was a mixture of cockroaches and a bit of blood. I screamed and slammed off the faucet and jumped back.

Has the whole house gone mad? Am I going insane? By this time I had decided to call in sick for Dan and I. the people at the BBC radio weren't very happy with us, but if they knew what had happened they would understand.

I was really frightened and worried and I missed Dan. I just wanted him back. I went into his room and laid on his bed and covered with his blanket. I got all his stuffed animals and laid them all around the bed and snuggled with his favorite ones. I also got his shirt that he was wearing the day before and hugged it in bed. It still had the smell of his body spray. I lay there in his bed, tired and falling asleep. The smell of his shirt, his bed, his pillow that still smelled of his hair, and his stuffed animals comforted me enough to fall asleep.

Everything was quiet when all of a sudden a huge explosion goes off back in the lounge. I jump out of bed and peek around the wall, looking in at the explosion. Blood, guts and body parts were everywhere, then silence and a distant evil murmuring laugh. I see a ghostly pale little girl with a white short skirt and a white top that looked all scratched up. She had a scar on her face and she was crying, crying blood red tears with her pitch black eyes. She looked at me, as she stood in the middle of the bloody lounge with her hands behind her back. She held out her right arm and was grasping something by its hair. It was dripping blood and it was the shape of a head, and the hair was the same colour as Dan's. It was Dan's. "Oops." She whispered in a faint, crying voice and dropped Dan's head. She turned to her side and slowly walked away and vanished.

I screamed at the top of my lungs and fell to the floor in horror. Grabbing my face and clawing at the side of it, I scream even louder and even more in fear and pain.

"PHIL, Phil!" I hear in a voice that sounded like Dan's voice. Thinking it was all in my head I scram even louder.

"PHIL! PHIL! It's alright!" I hear in the same voice, and I feel two hands shaking me.

I open my eyes to see Dan standing over me. I was in my bed and my pillow was soaked.

"It's ok, it was just a bad dream, you're fine." Dan says to me as I sit up in bed.

"You've been screaming for like 3 minutes, Phil are you ok?" Dan asked with his hands on my shoulders. "It was just a horrible vivid dream, I'm glad it's over." I said to Dan hugging him tight and stuffing my face in between his neck and shoulder, crying.

"Are you sure you're ok now? I mean you were crying and screaming in your sleep for a little while." Dan asked me, concerned.

"Yes, I'm ok now. Thanks for waking me up, though, Dan."

"Well I couldn't just let you sleep, you seemed to be having a horrible nightmare. Anyway, wanna go get some breakfast and Starbucks?" Dan asked.

"Ooh yeah! Let me get dressed." I said, excitedly.

As we walked for breakfast and Starbucks he held my hand and I told him about my terrible dream. He hugged me and said "It's ok."