Trapped

ONE

My mother lays me down on my bed, soft and warm, tucking me under the duvet as I feel at home with a smile across my face. She leans into me giving a peck of love on my forehead and I place my hand there to feel the warmth - a feeling I don't want to disappear.

"Can you tell me a story?" I ask before she starts walking away. Her eyes narrowed looking at me like she wants to leave but she stays here staring at me deeply.

"I think it's time for you to go to sleep Celine, okay? I'm going to turn the lights off."

"Can you check under my bed, please? I don't want to have another nightmare tonight."

She walks back to my bed, with her eyes glowing in the light and faintly smiles. It takes her a minute to see under and whispers to me, "there's no monster under there tonight. Sleep well, princess."

Then she opens the door before clicking the light switch off plunging my room to darkness. I hide myself under my duvet as if I'm protecting myself from the harm the night can do to me and I jump when I hear the door creaking good night to me. I lay there with my eyes open ready for the monster to come out scaring me to death but my eyes slowly droop to my cheeks leaving me to fall asleep. I close my eyes with no strength nor power but with easiness like I needed to dream.

I feel my hands gripping onto something soft and I open my eyes to see a field of golden grass. But the sky holds a pale colour covered with clouds which helps me to imagine a sense of humidity and lost. I am the only one here making this place feel so deserted so left alone like it's been abandoned. I share the feeling.

I reach my hand out to the sky to touch the feel of it but the distance between us separates the atmosphere and me. The horizon. I stare with a sense of heart, but the clouds seem to be ripping me apart just like a broken heart. Though it is only shadowing me.

A light crackle of giggle roams around the air above me and somehow sparks up heat in the middle of this field. The dark comes creeping in for night time but it feels like moon on a winters day. The cold brings me shivers and I tremble with the bitterness of the wind, and the soft moans of the howling.

I open my eyes to a pitch black room, empty and alone. I look up to see faint lines of bars covering up the sky light. I twist with turns and butterflies start fluttering as if to tell me there's no way of escaping.

I blink as if I'm dreaming, then I pinch myself but it hurts badly like this is real. I just want to know where my parents are. I hear footsteps and I rush myself into a ball of fury thinking if I have enough anger I can get out of here.

Then there's a key turning around in the lock which feels like bells rocking against my mind. And finally the door opens to reveal, a man standing there looking at me with a serious smile. He kneels on the ground and I watch him, staying silent.

"Now who do we have here?" He says as a grin starts to form and in a voice that is sinister to remember.