If I Disappeared

Indoor Kiddie Playground

             I assume I woke up here yesterday as I cannot tell how much time has passed. I have no memory of how I got here except for a small snippet of me leaving my mother a note on the dining table telling her I will be gone for a while and not to worry. The place I have woken up in is the ball pit of a weird indoor kiddie playground and what's weird about it is that I feel like I belong here. I felt worried knowing I left my family behind and desperately wanted to get back to them, but the more I stared at the mess of tunnels, slides, and mesh walls, none of it mattered to me anymore. Despite all my conflicting feelings, I got up from the ball pit and went towards what looked like the place where parents would sit and watch their kids and looked round for an exit. When walking through the tables and chairs, the place seemed to get darker and darker until I spotted the familiar red letters on top of a door reading "EXIT." I tried the knob, but it wouldn't budge so I decided to go back to the ball pit and explore the tunnels hoping to find some kind of answer. As I crawled through the dark tunnels, I started to hear noises as if someone else were in the tunnels with me but I didn't want to panic so I tried to ignore it but the noises started to sound closer to me the farther i got and I started to crawl faster hoping to find one of those small window rooms so I could face whatever was following me the tunnels started to seem endless. Finally, when whatever was following me sounded like it was closing in on me, I spotted a cushiony platform and stairs with the same brightly colored material. When I reached the platform, I quickly hoisted myself up the tall steps and ran along the cushiony path and stopped when found a window room. When I went inside, I turned around preparing myself expecting to see what was following me when the noise suddenly stopped. As I stared into the dark path, I had just come from I started to hear my name being called. I could something saying "Everly! Oh Everly!" In a quiet sing-songy voice and then i heard something crawling towards me again. I quickly got out of the window room and ran along another cushiony path before reaching more tunnels. I went through expecting it to be long but to my surprise the path of tunnels was short this time and I spotted another cushiony path but with a fork in the road. When i reached the fork, I quickly chose the left and kept running along the cushiony path when i reached a green tube slide and went down it and after a fast sequence of twists and turns, I fell into a ball pit. I got up from under the brightly colored balls only to find that I was in a different ball pit room, one that was completely closed off with a small dark well made out of yellow cushion. I was looking around for a way out other than the dark gaping hole to nowhere when i heard whatever it was that was chasing me going down the green slide so i had no other choice but to go down the dark cushiony well. I jumped in and started falling in pitch black, when after a few minutes I fell into a ball pit so big it spread out for miles like a brightly colored ocean. As I was looking around, I heard a plop sound as if someone had joined me for a swim. Quickly, I started swimming as fast and as far as I can trying to get away, but my efforts were futile as there was no cushiony land to rest on and whatever was pursuing me was now catching up to me. I was about to let whatever it was chasing me, have me, when I spotted a small corner to hide in. Carefully, I strategically planned a route to lose whatever was chasing me and hide and swam to the corner. Once I was hiding, I quickly realized that I couldn't stay in one place for long because I would start to sink but I didn't want to swim and be chased again so instead of swimming above the balls I would dive under and sneak around to find a way out. As I was swimming quietly under the balls, I could still hear whatever it was trying to find me when all of a sudden everything went completely quiet. I stopped swimming and took slower strides carefully without making noise, carefully I made a small peep hole and looked for any signs of movement among the sea of balls. When I saw no signs of movement, I started slowly swimming again when all of a sudden, my hand hit something dense. I froze in my tracks and stood very still, them reached my hand out again once more, whatever had been there before was now gone so I started swimming slowly again. I peeked my head out to see if anything was above the balls and when i went back under, I was met with a dark pair of eyes. I let out a scream of terror then started swimming as fast I could. My limbs were getting tired, and I could not swim any more but i desperately tried to, flapping my arms and legs with every move kicking and swimming fighting for my life when suddenly I hit my head on what felt like a cushion. I looked above the balls and finally after what felt like hours of swimming, I found a green cushiony platform. Quickly, I hoisted myself as the thing was getting closer then suddenly, I felt something grab my leg and I was dragged under! I started punching and kicking at some unknown force trying to break free as I grabbed on to the cushion again then tried to pull myself up while whatever it was yanking at me until I finally broke free and got on the green cushion. Once I made it on the cushion i started running through an artificial cushion forest turning around every few seconds making sure nothing was following me when I hit a cushion wall so hard, I fell back and started to black out but i knew I couldn't stop running so I crawled as fast as I could with my head throbbing more than heart beat when in the distance I saw another exit door. As I inched closer and closer, I begged for this door to real and when I finally reached, I Turned the knob, opened it, and went, inside. standing on my knees once I was inside, I closed the door as fast as I could and right before it shut and I locked it, I saw the same chilling dark eyes. When was finally safe I fell on my back onto a soft playground foam and heard a light splash before everything went completely black.