Stay Strong

Chapter 1

I woke up sitting straight up in my bed, another nightmare. Gosh, I wish just for once these despicable things would just leave me alone. I wish that I could go to sleep whenever I want without being afraid I am going to have the same terrifying dream over and over and over again. I have been having these dreams since the first of July, and now it is August 20th, second week at school for my senior year...........yay.......

I show up to school in my usual 2010 chevy camaro that everyone wonders how I got it. Scary part is I don't either. One day I was just sitting in my bedroom alone in my house when all of a sudden the sound of a honk came from right outside, I went to go check it out and found the car just sitting there when I found a sheet of paper saying,

Here is a special gift for a special girl,

Here you go Aislin Lucas

I am still trying to figure out who in the world would randomly leave a car for me, and know where I live. Creepy. Anyway, I am not your typical popular girl. I'm what they call an outsider, a nobody. I am actually pretty smart, straight A's. My all time favorite class is english. I have loved writing ever since I could write. My journal you can say, is my best friend. It is the only thing that I can tell everything to, because it can't judge me because it is an inanimate object of course. School seems to go better when I have it with me.

When I got home, my Aunt had already started making supper.
"Hi Aislin."
"Hi."
We don't talk much, well mainly because I don't talk to people. You will hardly ever hear me talk. One of the reasons why is because I do not have any friends.

My bedroom is my favorite place in the world. It is full of authors, posters, and my favorite titles of books and songs. I dont have a favorite person at all. My walls are pretty diverse. I sit on my bed turn on my music, then start writing.

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Apparently I fell asleep while writing because I woke up to the sound of my alarm. Odd, I never go to bed unless I’ve eaten first.
     When I get to school, something I feel is really off putting. Shivers and goosebumps ran up and down my arm. I looked behind me and I was not prepared to see what I saw…….My nightmare monsters are real!! They were right there, 50 feet away from me. Looking exactly as they do in my dreams. Tall monsters with long hooded black cloaks that only allow half of their fingers and their mouths are shown. The cloak also shows that they aren’t even touching the ground! The tips of their fingers were the color of a frost blue with blood red, long finger nails. Their mouths were long and wide open with no teeth showing a bottomless pit of darkness inside. A shrill came from one of them and I was off. The building was just a quarter a mile away.Yeah I know it's
a long way from the school but I can never seem to get up early enough to get a close parking spot. Besides, apparently the popular kids already have spots “claimed, so im really not in the mood to fight with any of them.
I run and run, until I hear the monsters right behind me. I scream and run faster than I ever thought I could. When I get to the doors, I open them and close them right behind me. I am doing my best to catch my breath. I look outside. They are gone. All that is out there is the coldness of a nice day in Oregon. When I turn around everyone was looking at me like I was crazy, a lunatic. Then everyone started whispering, laughing, taking pictures, calling me names. This is exactly what I never wanted to happen, me being the center of attention. I took a deep breath in, let it out, stood up straighter, then walked to my locker to start my “fabulous” day at school. I do my best to not show weakness. If you show signs of weakness, things will only get worse and worse.
     I get to my first class and when I walk in everyone looks up at me then starts insulting me. They all call me freak and laughing. It is terrible too. They are just yelling it out. Worst part is that my teachers always show up late so they wouldn’t stop,  It just really disturbs me how people could be so cruel without any guilt or sorrow.
      When the bell rang for school to be done, I hurried to go outside to my car with everyone else then I know for sure the monsters that I knew were there wont get me again. ……..So far so good…………...I was almost to the car when I looked back and no one was there. WHAT! That makes absolutely no sense what-so-ever. Everyone was just walking to their cars just a second ago. All of the cars were still in the parking lot and I didn’t hear anyone leave. So how in the world did everyone disappear in just a second flat? The answer to my question was answered by a blood-curdling shrill, THEY ARE BACK!