Into the Darkness

Chapter 1- The Beginning of My Nightmare

It's so cold out, "what am I doing" keeps replaying in my mind. It's probably below zero right now, but that doesn't matter there is a force that my body can't resist. Whatever this invisible attraction was, it was pulling me further and further into the darkness....

I continued to run until before I knew it I was....lost. Although I was unaware of where I was and was beginning to feel the pain in my legs from the cold winter night, I couldn't find the will to stop and turn around. Suddenly I came to a stop in front of a foggy swamp. The weird thing was it was the middle of December in Milan Minnesota and below freezing, yet the swamp wasn't frozen how is this possible? As I'm looking around, trying to figure out where the hell I am, I spot glowing eyes through the corner of my eye. I begin to panic, fear starts to sink in...I decide to sprint in the opposite direction as I'm running I attempt to look back to see if I can see anything, but then I hear something that catches me of guard...a voice.."Stop", it says, but I continue running. "Stop now, before it is to late", it spoke again, I didn't listen and now it was to late...

I was now falling into an abyss of pure darkness, Electricity running through my body as I'm falling, starting to numb my body from my toes and traveling up until it has almost fully taken over my body. I begin to suffocate, I try to gasp for air but am unable to obtain it. Could this really be the end of me?

Before I took my last gasp for air I heard that voice again, "open your eyes Sky",...it knew my name! h-how could it possibly know my name!! I was scared beyond belief, but this time I had to listen.....or die which was not an option, because not knowing how I died would be torture. I slowly opened my eyes, all I could see was pure darkness, I was beginning to think I was blind, but then light began to drift in and then I realized...I was in my bed..I was so confused, could that really have only been a dream? It felt so real...I lay in my bed for a while just thinking about last nights "dream", No matter how hard I tried I couldn't figure it out.

How did I get in my bed last night?...

I was convinced it was a dream till I got up and my legs ached so bad that I had to sit back down on my bed. It couldn't possibly have been a dream...I was now determined to figure out what this could all mean.

Thankfully, it was winter break and I had no where to be and nothing that needed to be done, yet anyway.It was just a bit before 10 in the morning way to early to be awake, but after last night, sleep is no longer possible. I slowly get off my bed, flinching from the pain in my legs. I have never been so sore in my life, not even after cross country practice, which consists of running 3 miles, an hour of agility, and weight training! Then again I hadn't done that since October. I head towards my bathroom, maybe a nice warm shower will help my sore muscles.

The hot water was exceedingly helpful on my sore muscles. It was hugely relaxing. Standing under the hot shower brought flashbacks from last night to my

mind, none if this made any sense...all sorts of questions were floating in my head, "why this would happen to me?" Maybe aliens are trying to communicate with me! Or maybe me from the future is trying to communicate with me from the past, which is me from..well right now! Future me is probably trying to warn me about something terrible that is going to happen in the future and. and. and...I'm losing my mind.

"Okay Skylene Elizabeth Torgerhagen, get a grip! You are over thinking this!",

I scolded myself.

I was thinking so hard to myself I hadn't even realized my mom was calling my name outside my bathroom door.

"Sky, sweetheart are you alright?", she said after knocking on door.

"Yeah, mom I'm fine", I said back.

"Okay honey breakfast is on the table for you and your brother, I have to go do some errands, do you need anything?", she called out.

"No, thanks mom!" I replied.

"Also could you tidy up the house a bit? Our new neighbors are coming over for dinner tonight! Okay thank you! Love you! Bye!", My mom yelled out. Before I could even reply I heard my bedroom door close, signaling she had already left.

"Sureee...mom, no problem..." I said to myself.

With that said, I shut the water off and stepped out of the shower, wrapped myself in towel and walked over to my bathroom sink I grabbed my tooth brush, put a squirt if tooth paste on it and begin to brush my teeth.

As I brush my teeth I begin to wonder who our new neighbors could be and what in the world would make them wanna move here! I tuck the thought away and finish brushing my teeth as I exit the bathroom I feel a sudden gust of cool air, causing bumps all over my body. Looking over I see that my window is open. I walk over to close it, I'm sure when I woke up this morning it was not open or was it? I shake the thought away hoping it will calm me down there must be a rational explanation, like maybe my mom opened it..yeah my mom opened it.

I quickly get dressed and head downstairs for some breakfast. When I get into the kitchen, all of the food was in the table which was strange considering I live with a 16 year old brother! I take this to my advantage and stuff my face like there's no tomorrow, I haven't eaten like this in a while I could get use to this!

I start by cleaning the kitchen which is pretty much already clean, my mother is OCD so there really isn't much to clean that isn't already spotless..she still has plastic on our couches for goodness sakes! You have no idea how horrible my childhood was. Without my dad around I really has no one to turn to when I wanted to have "fun". Which made making friends far more difficult. I mean being a loner isn't what I imagined my teenage years to be like, but it can be nice not having to worry about trends and boyfriends and drama. Seriously who wants that in there life...not me..nope I have better things to do like read and play video games. Now that is what I call a good time.

After I finish cleaning I decide to watch some Teen Wolf. Dylan O'Brian is the main reason I watch it, I mean how is it possible that a human can be that gorgeous!? Sometimes I think that if I were to ever meet him he'd be the kind of guy that would see my personality and not looks and fall in love with who I am inside. That of course only exist in movies..I'll probably be the lady with the cats who never leaves her home or something. Only problem with that idea is that I'm allergic to cats..

"Help..someone help..please I'm falling.." I scream as I'm falling into a black hole, everything is pitch black. There is a like at the the top or is it the bottom? I can't tell which way I'm falling, but the light is getting closer. I can soon reach it. There is someone at the end, but I can't make out who it could be as I'm about to reach the light ...someone jerks me and I open my eyes to see Beau's face.

"Why did you wake me?" I asked him.

"Well you were screaming 'help me' what else was I suppose to do" he replied.

"I was actually screaming that?" I asked surprised.

"No..Sky I just ran down here because I had the urge to wake you up" he replied sarcastically.

"Beau your sarcasm isn't needed thanks." I said with irritation in my voice.

"Well please forgive me Sky for saving you from your nightmare" he said as he walked into the kitchen.