Screech screech screech!!!
"Aaaaahhhhh"
"Tora? Tora dear? Tora wake up!"
"Ugh", groaned Tora. "Wha-?", she asks disoriented.
"Darling you were having a nightmare. Its okay though. Its fine now"
"What? I don't-father?!", she asks perturbed.
"No dear"
"What the... What the heck? Who the hell are you? Why am I here?! How did you get here?! Where am I?!!"
"Tora sweetheart what are you talking about? I am your mother and your at our house. You were just having a nightmare. But its okay now, everything is alright okay? Everything's fine", assured her assumed mother.
"My mother?", asked Tora confused.
"Why, yes dear. Who else would I be if not your mother?"
"I-i'm...I don't..."
"You don't what?", she asked.
"Why do I remember you? Yet I don't? I don't understand, I'm confused", said Tora perturbed.
"Don't worry its fine. Its just the memories of your nightmare still fresh. It'll go away soon enough", her mother reassured her with a smile. "Now go back to bed. You've got school tomorrow"
"Yes okay", Tora replied.
Her mother left the room for her to fall back asleep.
In the morning, she went about her daily routines like they were the most natural thing to do in the world. Everything felt normal; felt right. Even her friends at school were wonderful. And she went about the day as if nothing's wrong. In which case, nothing was. And so this continued for weeks, months. The memory of her horrible nightmare drifting away into the crevices of her mind. Long forgotten.
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" Mom! Mom are you here!", yelled Tora.
"Yes sweetheart? What's the matter?", asked her mother. She was dressed in a beautiful floral dress. Her bleached blond hair flowing down the middle of her back. Her slender frame poised in all its grace and beauty.
"I'm going to a sleep over with Janette later, don't wait up!"
"Ok~ay dear. Have fun", her mother singsong.
"Oh we most definitely will", she said with her cocky tone, and rushed out the door and into her friends waiting car.
*later that night*
"TORA! WAKE THE FUCK UP!!"
"What?! The fuck! Janette dammit, can't you read? Are you telling me you don't see the 'Do Not Disturb' sign? I warned you about this wake-Tora-up-in-the-middle-of-the-night crap"
"Yeah yeah whatever", said Janette dismissively. "Anywho, I heard something"
"Cmon Janette seriously? This again? How many times are we gonna go through this? I am not, and let me repeat, NOT, getting outta my bed at...3'o clock in the morning to see your parents make out sessions again. Now there's a nightmare you won't ever wake up from", exclaimed Tora.
"Yeah that's true", Janette drawled. Both girls shivered from the flashback. "But the thing is, I don't think its my parents this time"
"Oh yeah? Then who would it be? A burglar?", Tora drawled sarcastically.
Janette's face visibly paled from the thought.
"We have to check it out", she whisper shouted.
"No"
"Yes"
"No!"
"Tora!"
"What the hell are we supposed to do against a burglar hmm? Hit him with our panties?"
"Tora stopped being a pussy and cmon!" Janette demanded.
"Hellooo?", Tora drawled. "If you've forgotten, I am a girl. Therefore I have a pussy"
Jannete rolled her eyes and both girls got up to go downstairs to check on the sound Janette thought she heard. Janette opened the door slowly and the creaking sound it made gave both girls a scare.
"Tsk, you're the one who claimed to have " heard" something and calling me a private part, and here you are acting like said private part. I bet your wet all over", Tora stated with a cocky smirk on her face.
"Yeah? Well...well...well if you're so tough why don't you take the lead miss attitude", Janette pouted.
"Gladly"
Tora went to the front and both girls went off. Janette clinging to Tora's shirt so tight it looked like she was gonna have an aneurysm. They set off down the hall taking slow steady steps at a time. They went down the stairs carefully to ensure it doesn't creak. Once down the final steps, the girls took a deep breathe and continued. On their way towards the living room, Tora grabbed a baseball bat she saw near the coat rack and Janette grabbed an umbrella.
"An umbrella? Really?! Out of everything you could grab, you choose a fucking umbrella??!!", Tora whisper yelled.
"It was the only big thing I saw. Be grateful I didn't take the fucking pen!!" Janette exclaimed.
The girls continued on their way slowly with tora grumbling under her breath about idiots, umbrella and whopping ass with a pogo stick.
Both girls reached the living room entranced and tentatively peaked in. Once they saw nothing, they fully went to the entrance and looked around the room from the entranceway.
"What the Christmas? Tora I swear I heard something", Janette rushed.
"See, this is the shit I'm talking about", Tora grumbled loudly. "We came down here for no frigging reason"
"At least we didn't see my parents making out again"
"Yeah yeah yeah", Tora waved dismissively. "And I swear next time that heifer wakes me up imma cut a bitch", she mumbled.
"Where you going?", Janette asked.
"To get something to drink seeing that I'm already up"
Tora said halfway to the kitchen. Once she disappeared inside Janette shook her head at her best friend and went after her.
"Hey T, I was wondering-"
CRASH!
"T? T?! TORA?! You okay? What's wron-"
Janette was asking as she went into the kitchen where Tora was after hearing that loud crash. When she went inside she saw Tora frozen in place, a glass of water shattered on the ground and the pieces scattered all over the floor.
But that wasn't what made her loose her train of thought. It wasn't what made her join her friend, frozen in place, eyes wide and mouth hang open, voice gone with the wind.
No.
It also wasn't what made Janette loose all feelings in her legs, which gave out and left her sprawled out on the floor.
But it was what made her friend say the words she said next.
"Janette?"
"Yy-yes Tora?", Janette answered. Her voice so far below a whisper that if the room wasn't so dead quite Tora wouldn't have heard.
"Next time you hear a noise; don't wake me up", she heard Tora say. Her voice steadfast and strong with a hint of sass and arrogance like always. But her body had slight tremors to it that gave away her badass and unafraid attitude.
But Janette didn't judge her.
I mean, how could she?
Her friend was way more braver than her to even still be standing and conscious right now. Even Janette's respect for the girl skyrocketed to unknown levels.
Because right before them, stood the most disgusting, hideous and foul creature she has ever laid eyes on. It stood over ten feet tall, boney and thin. A creature told in nightmares and should only be in legends. A creature that would make kids wish to never be born, and adults shit themselves.
And whilst Janette was their on the ground, her life flashing before her eyes and mentally creating her will, all Tora thought was this:
Awh hell nawh!! Not this motherfucker again? I'm to young to be going through all this shit!!
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Nuttyweird says: everything isn't always what it seems. The perfectly normal picture, could be the most crocked and twisted; and the mental and abnormal one, could be perfect. Its all about what lies beneath the surface that's important, and not what you see above.