These are Our Inner Demons

Jessica's Story

Hi my name is Jessica I'm 18 years old and for a while now my friend has been acting really weird. She's been wanting me to call her "Rain", she's being a little bit mean and moody, and she's being way more suspicious than ever. I try not to let it get to me but when she gets mad with me for the stupidest things it makes me real angry and I tend to yell at her for it, but every time I yell at her or get mad at her I for some reason get really tired and exhausted. I've noticed that when ever someone around us gets injured or hurt she tends to start laughing. Recently I've been having these recurring nightmares that I can't really describe, its almost like I see myself but its like an evil version of me. It doesn't seem to do anything but stand there and watch me, but it never fails to creep me out. When ever I wake up the only thing going through my head is the name "Winter". I never know why it's the only thing in my head when I wake up but every time I have that dream the name seems to stay in my head longer.

I was at Rain's house one day and when I went to go see where she had disappeared off to I could hear her talking to someone. When I crept up to the closed door I could hear two different voices. One was Rain's voice but it sounded more darker than her normal voice and then I heard it, the voice I hadn't heard for over 2 years. The voice I heard was Sarah's voice but it sounded like it was scared or in distress, and as much as I wanted to bust in the room to find out I knew that if I did she would get mad so I just stood there listening and what I heard sent some chills down my spine.

"Please Rain let me go." "I don't think you understand what taking over your body means do you?!" "I do it's just that I'm starting to get cold and I miss all my friends." "Good I was hoping that would happen soon." "W..what do mean you were hoping that, that would happen?!" "Well you see when I took your body from you that meant that my soul was now the host which meant that your soul would start to die from lack of energy and well..life." "So if you don't mind I have a guess to go hang out with and between you and me I mean I'm going to take her soul." "No please not Jess!" "Oh don't worry once I have her soul and "Winter" is free you two will be together forever." "Who's Winter?" "It's Jess' Inner Demon, you know how I'm your inner demon." "Rain what are you going to do with all these Inner Demons?" "That's for me to know and for you to find out."

After that I quickly headed back to Rain's room confused and scared. I wasn't sure if I should stay here and longer but before I had time to think about it Rain entered the room with two cups of juice and told me that one of them was for me. I was very hesitant at first until I saw her drink some of her juice. It calmed me down a lot but when I took a sip I started to get dizzy and that's when everything went completely dark. I awoke (or so I thought) in a place that looked like my old grade school, I started to call for someone but there was no reply each time so I began to walk around until I saw "her". The first word to come out of my mouth were "Winter" and at that moment she started to make her way closer to me at a somewhat speedy pace. I hesitantly began to run away from her but it was no use because when I turned around there was only a brick wall blocking the path that I took. When I turned around Winter wasn't anywhere to be spotted so I took that opportunity to make a run for it hoping to find some kind of escape. I found a window and quickly made my way towards it, I remembered that in order to wake up from a dream that you had to experience a hard enough shock. So in an attempt to wake up I threw myself out the window but was immediately interrupted when I felt something grab leg and begin to drag me back up. I looked up to see Winter pulling me and telling me.

"Now that would have been ugly if you had hit the ground, glad I caught you when I did huh?" No! Your not taking my body Winter! "But if I don't have control of your body then you'll be trapped in this world forever." W..what?! "Yep that drink that Rain gave you was a combination of sleeping drugs that will keep you asleep unless she gives you the antidote." Well how would she know to give me the antidote. "Because I'm here as well." But how this is my dream?! "No it's a shared dream between us all." "Now just make this easy and give Winter control of your body." No! "Well I didn't want to have to do this the hard way but if I have to then.." And with that she let go of my leg, but now knowing how I ended up in this dream I knew that if I hit the ground that I would end up in Limbo evidently letting Winter have control of my body. I hit the ground and then it was dark, and now for as long I can remember I've wondered Limbo endlessly looking for an escape to one day return back to my body.

Now for the last one.