Demons - Imagine Dragons Horror

Aja.

I couldn't sleep that night. Dan still hadn't woken up and he definitely wasn't coming home anytime soon. I didn't know what to do. What if he did die? I promised Aja that he wouldn't, meanwhile I'm still confused to as what actually happened at the park with his nose bleed. It was as if he couldn't move. Like he was trying to break free but something wouldn't let him. I feel as if this was all my fault, I was the one who suggested the camping trip and ever since that night everything has been going wrong. I shouldn't have agreed with Dan to have that 'meeting' at nine explaining everything. I just shouldn't have. I'm such an idiot, Dan's in hospital probably dying and it's all my fault. I don't want to think he's dying but honestly, what else is he doing? Sleeping? No. He's slowly losing grip from life, slowly shutting down, dying. Dying as i'm thinking all this. The worst part was, there was nothing I could do to prevent it from happening. I was stuck, and there was nothing I could do.

As these thoughts rushed through my head, I heard a knock at my door. Before thinking if it was an actual knock or my mind playing tricks on me, I stood up and unlocked the door. I opened it and to my surprise it was Aja. It was like 2 am, why was she here?

"Aja? Can I help you?"

"Dan's not here and I'm scared, can I sleep with you?"

I felt if I said yes I would be betraying Dan, sleeping with his wife...But it's not like I suggested it and loved her in that way. Ofcourse I loved her as a friend, she was like a sister to me. Besides I would feel bad if I said no since she was scared.

"Um sure." I opened the door and let her in. I decided to not lock it afterwards incase she wanted to go to the bathroom or something. She got in on the right side of the bed and I got in the left. We slept back to back, it felt awkward. I closed my eyes and tried to not picture anything to do with Dan, he was preventing me from sleeping without actually being there. I pictured something a lot happier, like unicorns? It had been a while. Well it seemed to work because after 5 minutes I found myself falling asleep.

I awoke to something tickling my hand. I opened my eyes to find that it was Aja's hair. I moved my hand away since I felt like I was violating her personal space. But as soon as I did so, she grabbed my hand and place it back on her hair. It felt weird, it felt matted and had pieces of dirt inside. I found this weird. Aja's hair is usually nice and I highly doubt it would feel like that...I got up off the bed and yanked the blanket off not thinking twice. Nothing was there. Nothing.

"Daniel are you okay?" I turned around in shock. It was Aja...

"Wait, you weren't in the bed?"

"No...I've been in my bed all night, what are you talking about? Are you feeling okay?" She looked confused, just as confused as I was. Many thoughts rushed through my mind, especially the one question repeated which was: what the hell was in my bed last night?

I took around five steps back and fell onto the bed. Aja came over to me and felt my forehead.

"Daniel, you have a temperature. Daniel? Daniel?" Her words slowly fading away as my vision did. All until I saw nothing but black.