There I was, about to make one of the biggest decisions of my life with... wait, lets back up a bit before you get lost.
I walk up the steps, slowly. I'm afraid of what I'll find when I reach the top, but I have no idea why. I want to look up, to look around and see where I am but I can't, so I look at my shoes. I have everyline, every smudge, every speck of dirt on my black stiletto heels memorized. I'm wearing a short black dress as well, with intricate beading at the bottom. The steps are cracked and crumbling from years of dealing whatever the weather throws at them. It's funny, I know these stairs better than I know my own room, and yet I have no idea where they are, why I'm walking up them, or what is waiting for me at the top of them that could be so terrifying. I reach the top of the stairs and look up to see-
Nothing. Again. Ive been having the same dream for months, with the same stairs, and the same shoes, and the same awful feel, but it always ends before I can see what's waiting for me at the top of those stairs. The last thing I see before I wake up is a tree. One stupid tree that tells me nothing about where I am or why I'm there. I know it didn't do anything to me, but I hate that tree more than anything else in the world.
"Hey! Angel! Wake up, mom wants to talk to you!" My younger brother Charlie yells at me through my door. That's right, my name is Angel, because apparently my mother didn't think I was weird enough when I was born. She couldn't have given me a normal name. Noooo. She had to save that for the pain she calls my brother...
"What does she want?" I reply grumpily after throwing a pillow at the door. "It's 5:30 in the morning, cant she wait?"
"I don't know, she just told me to get you up. Do i look like a mindreader to you? Now stop being lazy and go talk to the woman!"
I roll my eyes and get out of bed. After picking up the pillow I threw and tossing it back on the bed, I take a quick look in the mirror, cringe at how awful my hair looks, and head downstairs to see what my mother wants.
