..Then I Forgot

Missing House

We began to walk towards Wreckage Road. The rain had stopped. It was still dark. I looked at my watch. All 3 hands were still and all pointing to the 12; time had frozen; I was frozen. I had no clue where I was.  I'd been running for so long. But from what? I couldn't remember. It felt like so long ago. But whatever it was, it kept finding me, and I kept running from it. I had little rest, but I wasn't all that tired. I'd been running from it for weeks; or atleast that how it had felt. I was so far from my home in London. Which direction had I been running in? Where was I now? One thing was for certain; I was lost. I'd proberbly need a miracle to get back home again. What's my mum thinking? Does she remember who I am. She hardly paid attention to me. But I suppose that's because of how private I'd kept my life. Had my friends really forgotton me? Was it a dream? It felt so real. Is this a dream? Where are we going now? What happens when it's all over? Would I keep on running? What are we looking for? Is it what I was running from? Why was I running? It was so long ago. I kept thinking in my head. It was like half my memory had just, disappeared.

We kept walking. I was still trying to remember what it was i'd been running from. As we got about half way. I saw a shadow up ahead; a silouette of a man, almost. My head began to hurt. I saw a vision of a pair of black lips, laughing. An evil laugh. I stopped.

"You alright kid?" The man said.

"Yeah; No not really. Look"

"What am I looking at?"

"Errrrr, Oh. I forgot. What was I saying?"

He said nothing

I was still thinking. Suddenly, something hit me. Like a gust of wind. But it felt sharp; yet invisible. It knocked me over. I must've been unconscious. I looked at my watch. Then I remembered. Time had frozen.

I looked up. The man was staring at me.

"You sure you're okay? You don't seem it" he said.

"No i'm fine... I think". I'd suddenly remembered. I was running; because I was scared. I was scared that I was going to get caught. I was playing tag with Jonny and Gary. Jonny chased me. As we were running, his face changed; asif his flesh had come off; his blood was black, but didn't bleed. His eyes were huge. And they were black instead of hazel. Then I thought about the bar tender. How he suddenly turned into that thing. That ghost. Jonny had looked a lot like that. But he wasn't fading. Suddenly i'd thought of how I reacted; what thought ran through my head. Then I thought of one other thing. My Dad. He'd died, about 6 years ago. I was eight. I'd had a dream about him. The night after we lost him. Then suddenly again, one night a few weeks ago. But it was more like a nightmare. He was like, death, coming to get me. It was all black. I ran. Then I remembered. Running from Jonny. He looked like my dad had done in the dream. It terrified me, I ran as far as I could but he kept chasing me. It got dark. It felt like I'd been running for weeks, although, it never got light again.

We were getting close. We turned onto Wreckage Road. I kept looking at the house numbers; 7, 9, 11, 13. We kept walking and walking. We got to 195, 197, 199, 203.

"Wait, where's 201?" I asked

"...hang on a second..." he replied

I looked at the other side of the road; I could see 200, and 202.

"There must be a mistake" I said. The man was silent.

I went up and knocked on 199. No one answered. I pushed open the door and slowly walked inside. I flicked a light switch and the light came on for about a second, and then went out. But for the second it was on, I saw the clock. Also frozen, all hands stuck on 12. I grabbed an axe that I saw on the floor. I smashed the wall leading to 203. Then I came out the house. I went into 203, still holding my axe. I turned on a light and it styed on. The room was quite small, with cream walls, a blue carpet and one sofa. But, there was no hole from next door, so I smashed the wall about where I had before. I could see through a room, and I could see that it was the same room I had been in inside 199. I went back into 199. There was no hole. I started to get confused.

I came back outside and looked at the man.

"You never did tell me who you are. Who are you, what's your name?" I asked

"My name is... just call me Smith. And I told, who I am is not important" He replied.

"Ok, 'Smith' I smashed a hole in the wall of 199, then when I went into 203, it was gone. And the same thing happened when I smashed a hole in the wall of 203. Do you think, you could have a go?"

"Pass me that axe" said Smith. I gave it to him. He smashed the axe exactly on the line that divided the two houses. Then the ground shook. The line that divided the houses started to split. The terst-detatched houses began to move outwards and another house appeared in the middle; the door labeled 201. Smith pushed open the door. We slowly walked inside and closed the door behind us. We could hear a quiet buzzing noise coming from upstairs. I quietly creeped up, Smith behind me. We got to the top, and saw 4 doors on the landing. We opened the door that had bright purple glow behind it.

We walked inside. The room was very small, but it had a large glowing sphere in the middle. I touched it, and my hand went through it. I walked towards it and ended up walking through. Smith, who was standing the other side, wasn't there when I walked through; infact he wasn't in the room. But someone was.