Once Upon A Dream... [DISCONTINUED]

Chapter 10

I turned around and saw... Nothing. I let out a sigh of relief. Maybe it was just my imagination.

"You appear to be lost", said a female voice. I turned around quickly in the direction of the voice but saw no one there.

"I'm over here", the voice said, with a small chuckle at the end. I turned behind me and yet again, there was no one there.

"A-a-are you a g-ghost?", I asked, spooked. I heard laughter echo throughout the forest after I spoke.

"I've been called many things, but this is the first time I've been called a ghost". A girl appeared out of the forest and stood next to me. It was as though she had literally walked out from the shadows itself.

I took a good look at her, and realised that I couldn't call her a girl. She wasn't that young, but she didn't look old enough to be called a woman either. Not a girl, not yet a woman. You could say she looked ageless.

She was wearing a long, flowing dress, the colour of blood. To be more specific ( and scientific ), the colour of deoxygenated blood. Dark enough for her to be able to stay in the shadows and not be noticed.

I suddenly realised that the forest had gone quiet around us. No wolf howling. No owls hooting. No crickets chirping. Just silence. An eerie silence, at that.

"Tsk, tsk, tsk. It appears that you, my dear little lamb, appear to be very lost", she said, her red lips curling into a wry smile. " It's dangerous for little lambs to be out here in this forest."

She strode over and sat on top of a fallen log not far from where I was standing. She stared at me with her big, dark brown eyes, as she curled a strand of her raven black hair around her finger.

"W-why not?", I asked, still a little spooked. A small part of me wondered how I'd ended in this nightmare. I'd always ended up in my sweet dream with my prince.

"Why?", she repeated. She threw her head back and let out a peal of laughter.

I started to feel creeped out by her. "Yes. Why?" I asked again.

She stopped laughing and looked straight at me. "Because, the big, bad wolf might come and eat you up!" She flashed me a smile, showing her perfectly white teeth; jumped over the log and ran into the forest, cackling.

Ohkaaaaay.... so THAT was a very strange encounter. I'm still not sure whether I'm scared or creeped out by her.