November Nightmares (2013)

The beginning of the end?

1st November 2025 was just a normal day for Stacey Logan, well as normal as things could be. Stacey lived in a bright yellow, Victorian styled house, which had thick windows and a straw roof. However, the inside was extremely modern; due to the fact that Stacey's parents redecorated the house after the last person who lived there died an excruciating, painful death. Stacey hated thinking about it. Her parents, Michael and Julia, were always so creative, they would change the world for Stacey, paint a better picture just for her. Until 12th September 2022, that was when everything changed.

Her mother, Julia, died of a heart-attack at the age of 43. She was only 12 at the time. Her father, Michael, changed for the worse after this. A world that she never wished would occur. Stacey's dad started blaming her for her mother's death, despite her mother dying of a heart-attack. Her dad started hitting her and beating her, every night this happened. Stacey would never wear anything that would show her skin, for the bruises would be there for anyone to see. Stacey was scared of being at home now; she would delay going home as long as possible. After a day at school, she would always return to the library, four blocks away from her home and stay there as late as she could before she would go home. She would give anything for the library not to have a closing time.Stacey loved books; they were her main escape from life, from everything, from pain. When she was reading, the world around her no longer existed. It made her feel perfect, like nothing else mattered but her imagination and the characters in the books that she read. It was like a whole different world for Stacey, she preferred it so much more than her real life.

The first of her nightmares occurred on 1st November 2025. It was a normal day;nothing different happened, apart from one thing. A girl came up to Stacey; she approached Stacey and actually spoke to her. Stacey was sitting in the corner of the science lab; this also was not any normal Chemistry lesson that she was used to. Her teacher, Mr Daniels, had suddenly disappeared. No-one knew where he was, not even his assistant, who never really left his side. Okay, so maybe two things were different. But the girl, she was a complete mystery. Why she'd chosen to speak to Stacey of all people, who knows.
"Hi. I'm Jenifer," the girl wore her long, dark brown, curly hair to the right of her head, "Stacey, aren't you? The silent girl."
Stacey started at her in awe, this girl, this Jenifer person, she was the first person who had ever spoken to her. But Jenifer was astonishingly beautiful, she weighed about 8 stone 7 pounds, and had amazing legs, a lot better than Stacey's. Jenifer's legs were thin and gorgeous; they looked perfect, like the legs of a mannequin. She wore a short skirt that landed just above her knees,making her pale white, perfect legs stand out. She wore the short sleeved school polo, sky blue with the signature Fountain High logo on in black just in the top left corner of the shirt. Fountain High was a middle-school, originally only for boys but made into a school for both boys and girls in 1994. Stacey was examining this Jenifer with extreme cautiousness, every now and then Jenifer would stare into Stacey's eyes, Jenifer had a little glisten in her eye every time her eyes met Stacey's eyes. Something happened to Stacey's breathing whenever Jenifer looked into her eyes; Stacey was extremely confused by this.

Jenifer pulled up a chair and sat next to Stacey. After about ten minutes ofsitting in silence, Stacey finally plucked up the courage to talk to Jenifer."H-H-Hi," Stacey stuttered quietly to Jenifer, "H-How do you know m-my name?"
Jenifer looked astonished that Stacey had actually spoken to her, and not just one word!
"Stacey Logan finally speaks to someone. Wow. Who would of thought that that someone would of been me?!" Stacey giggled at this, was this the start of a friendship?