The Darkness Engagement

A New Me? Or Is Something Lurking?

*There was fluorescent red and orange flames enclosing me into a dark forest, and I was doing everything I could to escape it's deadly burning damage, but every open pathway of escape just quickly became a pathway of danger. It felt as if the flames were following my every move and movement, but I was not the only one it was torturing. There were two others, but they weren't human.. They looked more like... wolves? The flames were chasing them too though, and none of us knew where to go. The only thing we could think of is the sound of the crackling trees and flames as they grew and destroyed everything in their pathway. It all seemed so real, like, it was really happening, and I was starting to believe that this was the end of my life, then, out of nowhere, I feel one of the wolves jump above me and make me fall to the ground directly onto my bony shoulder blades as I shrieked in pain... then it ended* "Saley, get up, sissy. Get up!" I groaned as my little sister continued to jump on my legs. I looked at the clock on my crimson red wood bed stand, and noticed it was almost 2 o' clock in the afternoon. I looked back at my sister, Chassy. "I don't ever remember being woken up at 2 in the afternoon by my little sister before. I must've stayed up pretty late last night." I said with a slight chuckle. Chas smiled and giggled. then made an unusual comment. "But, Salem, you didn't stay up late; you went to bed at 7:30 last night." I looked at her and lost the slight smirk of a smile and questioned myself. "7..7:30? But I usually stay up till midnight?" Chas continued to laugh "And, I came into your room last night and it looked like you were hugging a wolf last night! I saw the big, fluffy black wolf tail." My eyes widened slightly, and I quickly picked myself up from the warm mattress I slept on. "Chas, you know I don't own any wolf furs or pelts, and for sure tails. How could you see such a thing?" Chassy immediately hugged me and I hugged back with a big smile as I embraced her sisterly love. "I love you, but I think you were seeing things last night, little sis. Staying up late playing Minecraft can really screw up your brain, ya know." I rubbed her head messing up her hair on the top. "Now, have you eaten lunch yet? Or do I need to take the responsibility to make that for you?" She looked at me with an unamused face then set her feet off my bed walking to the threshold of my room and stopped before running downstairs. "I'm just going to make some Mac N' Cheese, Salem!" She then quickly made her way downstairs to the kitchen making a bunch of noise with opening the pantry and getting the pan out. I got up and closed my door. I stood there for a second, immediately thinking about what Chas said about a wolf tail in my room. I turned to where my back was sliding down the door, setting me down on the rough carpet to peacefully think... Well, I guess this thought wasn't very peaceful. "Where in the hell would a random wolf tail just appear in here? Nobody I know, or at least that I'm friends with own any pieces of a wolf, and I sure as hell know that they won't break in the house to just give me one." I continued to think, scenario over scenerio, thought over thought, but none of it made sense to me. What in the world happened to me last night? It was unusual for MY sister to tell me I went to bed hours early, and then see that I slept until a late hour in the afternoon, but what really gets me is the wolf tail. This part really has me thrown for a loop, but what if Chas was really just seeing things? "Ah, it was just her seeing things." I got up and went to sit on my bed. I turned on the TV and laid down. I heard beating footsteps start running up the stairs, and I knew Chas was coming to tell me something. She barged into my room and brought me some Mac N' Cheese, but before she came to me, she stopped and had a face a fear looking behind me. "U..Uh, what happened to your bed frame, Saley?" I looked behind me to reveal a scary scene; a big set of scratch marks that looked like something a canine would've made. In that moment, all I could do is freeze and cringe on the inside. "I don't think you're seeing things anymore, little sis.."