A Dark Destiny

Chapter 32

"You must accept everything."

"You think everyone is on your side? Well, they are not." 

I woke up in a cold sweat as I sat up on my bed. My heart beat so fast, and my head was spinning. I look around, and the dorm room is quiet and dark. Could it be almost time to wake up? I don't think so. Everyone's fast asleep. I noticed Christine's leg poking out of her bedcovers on the top bunk and she was snoring loudly.
 
I set aside my bed covers and planted my feet on the cold floor. It's when I realized why I woke up so suddenly. I had a weird dream.

I dreamt I was back at the place facing the half-dead and half-alive tree. Standing in front of the tree was the other me in the white and black dress. She repeated the words she spoke to me before: "You must accept everything."

Then the scene changed suddenly, and I was in a cold, wintry place. I recognized it immediately. When I turned around, I saw the two long lines of trees and the ground covered in snow. I was freezing to death when I heard someone breathing heavily. Turning to the side, I saw the woman I met last time, her eyes glowing red and giving me a murderous look. As she approached me, she said, "You think everyone is on your side? Well, they are not."

I woke up just when she was about to stretch out her hand to grab my neck. That part was frightening because she emitted a terrifying, dark aura I had never felt before. What was more terrifying was that, unlike those words the other version of me had said before, the words the woman in the snow said to me were new. She had never said those words to me before.

"You think everyone is on your side? Well, they are not."

The words continued ringing in my ears like a broken record. I wonder what she meant. Could trouble be coming my way? I can't be sure.

"I need to use the loo," I whispered to myself. I looked around on the floor for my slippers and quickly wore them. I took my chitenge wrapper and wrapped it around myself before heading for the door.

I walked to the door with caution. With the dorm room so quiet, you could easily wake anyone up if you walked too carelessly. Luckily, the lights lighting the corridor outside brought in little light into the dorm room through the windows so I wouldn't make the mistake of bumping into a bunk bed.

I got out of the dorm, and the night air greeted me with a chill. If it wasn't for the wrapper, I would've run back into the dorm and thought of going to the ablution another time. I couldn't hold my pee a second longer, so going back wasn't an option. 

In a few seconds, I reached the ablution and entered one of the toilet stalls. After doing my business, I felt so relieved. I was just about to flush the toilet when I thought I heard something moving above the metal roofing sheets of the ablution. My first thought was that it was probably bats or whatever nocturnal animals loved roaming around at night. I heard it move about, but soon I realized that whatever it was, it jumped off the roof and landed with a loud thud on the ground outside. The hairs on the back of my neck stood up, and my instincts told me I shouldn't flush the toilet just yet.

Whatever had landed on the ground moved a little, and I could tell it stayed in position. As soon as it started moving, I heard footsteps. It's a person! But who? Is it male or female? 

I stayed put in the stall, telling myself not to move. At that instant, I forgot how cold I felt since the ablution was a cold place and the main door always remained open. I had to be on high alert now. My instincts told me that if I moved, I'm dead.

The person outside walked back and forth. I couldn't help but feel that the person was impatient. Were they waiting for someone?

Soon, a new set of footsteps came around. I could tell the other person was coming from the dorm area. A terrible thought soon came to mind. Could it be a student? Whoever it was didn't know what they were running into. What if the intruder was dangerous?