I felt like I was being swallowed whole. I started breathing heavily when the air got thicker and the dark seemed to get darker. I always had a fear of the dark. Not like night time dark, but when it's black, and you can see nothing. To me, it's paralyzing.
The air kept getting thicker and thicker and my breathing was shallow and slow. I was beginning to smother and suffocate from the air that felt like breathing cotton. Just as I was giving myself up to death so that this horrible feeling and place would be over, the lights turned on, the air was easier to breathe and laughing began. I watched the devil walk down a staircase to me while he cackled and smiled.
"You really thought you were going to die, didn't you?" he taunted. "You thought it was going to be over and I'd leave you alone? Well, not today, friend."
He laughed and walked around me. I was tied to a pole in the middle of the large room with nothing in it but me and Satan.
"Nothing to say?" he asked.
I then tried to speak, but I couldn't.
He laughed even harder. "See, that's the thing Jason," he began. "I can gve you anything, and I can take anything away whenever I feel like it. I can do whatever I want. Like, now. I took away your voice."
I began to panic.
"Calm down, daisy, you'll get it back in a minute. Damn, I love fucking with the newbies."
He looked down on me, and I think my heart skipped a beat. His stare froze me in my place.
"Have you ever seen a show about prison, buddy?"
I tried to speak, but couldn't. I remembered he took my voice away then I pitifully shook my head no.
"See, this week is like when you first get to prison, you're everybodys bitch! If you want any sorta respect, you gotta take shit and get on people's good side. Let me give you a tip. I'm everyone in prison, and you're the newbie. So, you be a good little boy, and things might not be so bad for you."
He began to walk out of the room.
"You need some sleep," he told me. The darkness came back on. "Nighty night! Sleep tight, don't let the monsters fuck you up tonight!"
The door slammed and I was alone in the dakrness. Until the monsters came. I felth them crawling all over me. I tried to fight back, but I was paralyzed. My voice came back and I let out a scream. From outside the door, I heard the devil laught at me.
