Enter the Dark World

CHAPTER 1

Dark. It's all I see. There could be an endless cliff 5 feet in front of me and I'd never know until I fell and kept falling for miles and miles downward. Complete nothingness. It was that time of the month. The time where darkness consumes the world for 24 hours. It happens on the 21st of each month. Every time screams & chaos fill the world like The End has come. For all we know, it could be The End.

I didn't get home before curfew which is 12:00 which means I got caught in the middle of the darkness on my way home. Walking home was like walking through my own living nightmare. I ran into 3 light posts, (which also go out), tripped over what I suppose was a dog, and fell in a huge mud puddle from the night before. It's 1:30 before I finally get home. It was also dark. Here's the thing, when the 21st comes, all electric sources go out, then a satellite from space powers out all the batteries, then the sun basically disappears. So yeah, Dark.

Walking up the stairs to my room was a whole living nightmare. I tripped at least 6 times. I get upstairs and take my muddy clothes off then put my bed clothes on. After I found my bed, I closed my eyes and fell asleep right away.

I dreamed that night. I dreamed really good that night. My girlfriend, Grace, who is thinking about breaking up with me, kissed me on the cheek in the girls lockers room, which is huge for us since she doesn't like PDA. It was a little distracting and all being in the girls locker room if you know what I mean. So I guess you can call it a multipurpose dream. With every dream, must come a nightmare. Here is mine: My friend Jaxon and I were walking through the forest when all of a sudden he fell to the ground with two arrows in his chest. He yelled something before I woke up and he slumped over. He said, "You can do it, Damon. You can stop the darkness."

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     "Hey Damon!" my best friend, Jaxon calls from the school doors. It's supposed to be spring break, but with all the snow days, we are stuck here, making up days when I could be at home watching American Horror Story.

     I run up to Jaxon who is for some reason putting a bottle of vinegar in his locker.
     "Should I ask?"
     "No, you'll find out soon enough." he answers with a sly smile on his face. With that answer I walk over to my girlfriend, Grace and put my hands over her eyes.
     "Guess who?" I say with a weird amount of playfulness in my face.
     "Hmm... My 2nd boyfriend?" she shoots back with the same amount of playfulness.
     "Ha. Ha. Ha. Very funny." The bell goes off for first period.
     "Hey, Damon! Before you go, there's something I should say. We've been dating for 7 months and I think that we are growing farther and farther apart. We need to start seeing other people." She lowers her head and waits for me to say something.
     "I think if that's what you want, then it is better off that way." She shyly smiles at me then walks away. I've been left feeling heartbroken, yet relieved.

     "Damon, you're late!" my social studies teacher, Mr. Rossel shouts.
      "I'm sorry, it won't happen again."
      "That's what you said the last 4 times, and look where we are now."
      "A social studies classroom?" snickers break out across the room.
      "Okay, enough smart mouth. You are going to have after school detention for an hour, got me?"
      "Yeah, yeah." I trudge back to my seat.  I put my head on the desk and look out the window thinking about Grace and why she went with the sudden breakup. I look out the window for the whole class period when I see this beautiful angel of a girl walk up the school steps. Her hair is flowing in the wind and she walks with the gracefulness of a ghost. My eyes are attracted by her and I can't look away. The bell rings and I leave the classroom with one thought, and one thought only: Who is that girl?