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Chapter 5 - Black 2 - Shadows

"The shadows, they follow me and haunt me! All night and all day they chase me, on the walls, on the floor, and even on the ceiling! Every time I turn to look, one looks back at me, one watches with a horrendously grotesque smile. Try to smile back, try to make friends, try, try, try! Try? Mother tells me to pay no attention to them, that they can't possibly hurt. But how can I ignore them!? Sometimes I try to sleep, only to be met with the figure of demons and spiders running up the walls, and tearing each other apart in a waltz of death with me in the middle. My faces of pain etched onto the nearly destroyed walls along with the splattered remains. Another demon slowly carving into my stomach as it stares directly at me, unwavering in its game. Every slash, every scream lay dormant where I once was. Originally, in the beginning I mean, it was nice, getting so many friends that would never let me be lonely, getting to play with them, with our laughter that filled the room with joy. But lately, lately centipedes have begun crawling in from the holes of light onto my body, squirming and biting until my body forms empty holes with the other centipedes ripping their way through them. The nice people I made friends with had their spines ripped out and bones broken as they cried and laughed while facing me. Their eyes piercing my brain as my wails filled the desolate area and room. The feeling of their needle like hands digging into my head as I'd shut my eyes to rid myself of their sight. Even with this torment, I mustn't wake Mother, no matter how loud my screams are and how much pain I suffer I mustn't, because when I do wake her they vanish as she yells words filled of vile and hatred towards me. Sometimes she does so right in front of me unknowingly. But why!? Why can't they just leave me alone? Right behind me, right next to me. Watching and stalking as a hand reaches out in my peripheral vision. For ever and ever. I'll be trapped in this cursed room with snakes that wrap around my neck, sinking their venomous fangs into my eyes, wolves that bite into my flesh, ripping it apart as the bees fly their way into my screaming mouth. More! More! they laugh seeing my pained display. More... They stare into my eyes once again, yet they are not there are they? Are they... Laughing again at my confusion, filling my ears with a ringing. Is the ringing there? is it... Reaching for my spine with their hands. It's really there isn't it!? They're standing right behind me whispering, More! More! They isolate me from everything else as they continue, lights off, storms rolling in, all alone. Knives dismembering, vultures feasting, all the while I tremble in fear. But as light fills the room completely, I vanish as the venomous words from her fill the air as she grabs her head, shaking it with crazed eyes. Being pulled back to the darkness I speak my oh so familiar words to everyone with a smile. Farewell and I hope to see you all again... My favorite friends from hell!"