I shut my eyes even tighter as the sun shone into the room stinging my eyes... i turned over and made myself even more comfortable as I snuggled the pillow next to me.... then it hit me as I sprung up from the bed... I was in Kennedy's room, no this doesn't feel right... wasn't I in the woods bleeding to death just a while ago?.... No no no no no!. That felt too real to be a dream... I could swear on my life that i Wasn't dreaming... at the time I didn't even know if I should be grateful or freaked out... but I felt something... It felt like something awful was going to happen... I couldn't place my finger on it but I felt it..
Lucky enough for me, Kennedy and Parker were still fast asleep so I tiptoed into the bathroom and started checking myself in her full length mirror... I checked my pyjamas and it was okay... I rolled up the pants of the p-jays and I almost choked... there was a bright purple bruise on my knee... then I quickly took of my shirt and on the right side of my stomach was a huge scar that was still fresh... that was the first time I was seeing that scar.
Wait! so my dream was actually real??... it wasn't a dream?...i was actually in the woods??... and I got attacked by that THING?.
I was scared out of my mind and started crying hysterically. I ran into the room and started shaking both Kennedy and Parker trying to wake them up.
"Guys, guys? Guys I don't, I just, I had a dream, you probably won't believe this, but it wasn't a dream... but it was... I saw some Thing and it hurt me... and now I've got a huge scar on my stomach"
I tried to explain but my crying and sniffling and fear and anxiety made it difficult for me to form any comprehensible words. Both girls just stared at me like I was crazy and Kennedy stood up and tried calming me down. After some few minutes had passed, I finally calmed down and explained everything that had happened to them and even showed them the scar....both girls were shocked and just stared at me like I was an alien..
"hey I know what you're thinking but no one has to know about this okay?...at least not yet... we have to find out what really happened to you".
Parker said rubbing my back with her palm. I only nodded as a lot of thoughts ran through my head.
It was an hour before school started so we just put on our perfectly ironed uniforms, brushed our hair and put on some light make up ... I needed it more cause I looked like a mess... with my snort filled face and teary eyes.
When we got to school the day just seemed to go by slowly... we had different classes so we agreed to meet at the library during self study period ... to find out more about this whole thing.
Self study period came by after our fourth class.... I gripped my bag tighter to myself as I walked quickly to the library..... they were already there sitted at our favourite spot as they both waited for me....
The library was kind of empty today, a few tables away from us a petite girl with red curly hair and freckles sat across from the window holding a really big book... she had her glasses fixed at her nose and really didn't care about what was happening around her as she sat engrossed in her book.
"Must be a really good book" i heard Parker say as I turned and faced both of my best friends... I was staring at the other girl without even realizing it.
"Found anything yet?" I asked Parker since she gets a free period before self study and she shook her head as she set down the worn out book she was reading. There was this peculiar atmosphere about our school library. It was overflowing with old torn books, the smell of old paper lingered the air and the old framed pictures of our town's founding father gave the place a little aesthetic vibe. It felt cozy sort of. After about an hour of fruitless book browsing, I turned my attention towards the red haired girl and noticed she had fallen asleep on her book.... she seemed to enjoy her sleep and I just watched her smiling to myself wondering when next I'll be able to actually sleep peacefully...
My thoughts took me back to earlier that day when I had gone to the bathroom to check my scar and noticed the scar had become fresher and it was releasing some whitish liquid that I had no clue on what to call it.... I snuck into the nurse's office and took a really huge bandage... and covered up the scar with it... and beneath the scar some weird triangular shape had formed and it was on the same spot of where had been hurting me in class all day... it felt like someone was taking sewing lessons on my skin. I decided to keep this new information from my two best friends believing i could deal with it myself.
I had gone back to reading the book on the history of our town when I heard a loud noise... like someone had fallen down and as I turned, the red haired girl was on the floor convulsing.
Since it was just the four of us in the library, Kennedy, Parker and I rushed towards the girl and tried to see if there was anything we could do... then Kennedy stood up and raced towards the nurse's office as Parker and I attended to the girl... we heard a ripping Noise and to our shock, the girl's uniform was being ripped. It had this long line like she was being cut open and blood started pouring out and Parker started freaking out as she retreated from the red girl's convulsing body to the far end of the library as I stood there, frozen at the spot as she bled out.... some thing was cutting this girl wide open and I had no idea how to stop it... I started whimpering as Parker was crying hysterically... we were horrified and just as the nurse came in, the girl's body went numb and she just lay there in a pool of her own blood. My knees, hands and legs were covered in her blood as I had knelt on the floor beside her when she first started convulsing.. Kennedy rushed in and the shock in her eyes couldn't be explained.... this was a whole new era of weird and scary.
"There was a weird triangular shape beneath the cut on her stomach" I heard the nurse say to Mr Wellsworth.
"Don't you think it's high time these kids know what's really going on?.. or are you just going to deny that this is really happening?" I heard the nurse say slightly irritated.
"I'll figure something out. Just do your job as a nurse." Mr Wellsworth replied coldly .
"I really can't believe this!!!." The nurse said as she stomped out of the principal's office and into the hallway.
We went in to see the principal and told him exactly what had happened .
"Okay now girls I want the three of you to do something for me. No matter what happens or who asks, you're not to disclose what happened today to anyone okay?"
The principal asked looking at my friends and I.
We just nodded and left the office..... it was then at our school hallway that I opened up and told my friends about the mark beneath my scar.
"Wait so you're saying the same thing that killed you in your dream is what also killed Allyson?" Allyson Wellsworth was the red haired girl's name. She was Mr Wellsworth's granddaughter and also our principal's niece and that was probably why he was stern about us keeping what had happened to ourselves .
The rest of the school day was a blur. School wasn't dismissed or anything and classes carried on as usual... my mind was a maze now... and I was far from found in it.