A broken smile (Being Rewritten)

A Nightmare?

America's POV

I woke up and looked around at the dark room, it was strange for me to wake up this late, or early, I roll onto my right side and see the TV is on, but nothing is playing, it's just static.

I sit up and stand up off the couch, I look around to see if Canada is around, but I don't see him, he must have gone to his room.

I walk into the kitchen, but it looks different than normal, it seems...twisted, kind of like it had been taken apart then put back together again.

I ignore it and walk back into the living room, and sat down on the couch again, and looked at the TV that is just static.

That's when I notice a picture starting to form in the static, it looked a bit like me, but also nothing like me at the same time.

I got a little closer to the TV to see it better, and it started to look more like me as I continued to look at it, then I felt someone touch my shoulder, I turned around to see who it was, expecting it to be Canada, since he's the only other person in the house.

I look up at the person to see a faceless creature standing there, I quickly stand up and move away from it, "what the fuck?!" I yell as I slowly back away.

It turn its head towards me as if it were looking at me, "america" was all it said, I continued to back away until my back was against the wall.

"What do you want from me?" I ask, it starts to walk closer to me, "america" is all it said again, I looked to both sides of me then ran for the stairs.

The creature followed me, but it was more like gliding over the floor rather than running like I was, I got upstairs and into my room, I closed my door and locked it.

I backed away from the door and into the corner near my closet, I sat down and stared at the door, hoping it wouldn't open.

I sat there for only a moment, until there was a knock on the door, I stayed quiet, "america?" It sounded like Canada, but I wasn't willing to open the door, and I didn't respond.

"America?" It still sounded like Canada, but I don't want to take the chance, maybe I can wait until morning, but what if Canada needs me? Shit.

"America" it sounded less like Canada now, it sounded distorted, it was staticy, strange, was that why the TV was on? I don't know.

"America" it sounded a lot more staticy now, as if it was trying to get my attention or something, as if it thought I wasn't hearing it, I did hear it, I just wasn't responding to it.

"America!" It started to yell, trying to get my attention, at least I'm assuming its trying to get my attention, I'm still not going to respond to whatever is outside my door.

"America!!" It started to get louder, and more static like, I continued to stay quiet, not wanting it to get in, or do anything, I don't know what it wants from me.

The door nob started to move, I assume it's trying to get in, once it didn't twist all the way whatever the thing is tried to make it move by force, which didn't work, soon just giving up and beating on the door.

I stare at the door as the beating on the door gets louder and louder, I look away from the door for a second then look back, then the beating on the door completely stopped.

I wait for it to start again, but it doesn't, I look around at the room, not seeing anything, I then look up, nothing, I look to under the bed, there it is, staring at me without even having a face.

I quickly get to my feet and run to the door and unlock it then run out, I then run to Canada's room and lock myself in there, I go over to Canada's bed where it looks like he's sleeping, I gently shake him trying to wake him up, he doesn't, he doesn't even make a sound.

I shake him again, nothing, I try again, still nothing, I start to worry now, I roll him over onto his back, he's in a dead like sleeping state, there's no waking him up now.

I sit on the floor next to his bed, waiting for either him to wake up, or for it to be morning, either seems to be good at this point, I don't know what's going on, but whatever it is, it's not fun to deal with.

I soon feel tired and close my eyes for a second, I open them again and see the faceless figure in the corner of the room, I'm too tired to do anything about it now, im ready to just sleep.

It starts to slowly make its way over to me, I don't really care, as long as they leave Canada alone I'm okay with it.

It gets right next to me, and just stands there looking down at me, I look up at it, "what are you going to do now?" I ask, receiving no answer.

"No answer, what was I expecting?" I say as I look away from it and at the ground for a moment, I then feel a sharp pain in my shoulder and look up at it again.

I then realized I had been stabbed in the shoulder by this thing, damn, what the hell? What did I do to get this to happen to me? Shit.

I feel dizzy all of a sudden, it doesn't help that I'm already ready to fall asleep, I start to look around, expecting to see something that will help me in this situation, but there's nothing.

I look to the ground again, thinking about what I'm going to do in this situation, then one of the faceless creatures jumps up out of the ground with a terrifying opened mouth full of sharp teeth.

I sit up very fast, I look around to see that I'm in my room, wasn't I just in Canada's room? I look at my shoulder, it seems to have a scratch on it, but it doesn't seem like it was stabbed like I thought it was.

I stand up and walk over to my door, I slowly open it and look out, I don't see anything, I step out of my room and peak into the living room, the TV is off, and everything seems to be where it was before.

I slowly walk down the stairs and look into the kitchen, it looks the same as it always has looked, I then walk back upstairs and look into Canada's room, he's on his left side facing away from the door, everything seems normal.

I slowly walk in and close the door behind me, i then gently shake him, "mmm" was how he responded to it, im glad he's okay, "canada?" I say, pretty quietly, "mm?" He responded, "can...can I stay with you for the rest of the night? I had a nightmare" I say, "mhm" he responded.

I lay in bed next to him, and pull the covers up over me, it's ridiculous that I'm in highschool and have to go to my brother when I have a nightmare, I stare at the empty void that is the dark room, I stare for a while, eventually falling asleep.

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1281 words, and another chapter is done and published, this one took me a while to do, but at least I had motivation to write today, anyways, I hope you have a good day/night/whatever.
Don't forget to drink water and take care of yourself<3

Also, the art at the top is mine, they are the faceless creatures america saw in his nightmare.

-A nameless face