The Nightmare

Jeffs Christmas Carol

I got out of bed and took off my black mask that I wear when I sleep. I threw on my white hoodie and brushed my neck length black hair. As I walked to the front door someone stopped me.

"Hey Jeff you're not planning to go out,in the middle of winter, with just your hoody are you?" It was masky being nosy as ever, hes always in everyone else's business.

"No I'm going out bare naked," I said sarcastically, "what does it look like I'm doing?" I asked raising my voice, it was obvious that's what I was doing.

"Well no need to yell about it." Hoodie butts in. Great now Hoodies against me too.

"I was just implying that you should put on a coat, it's cold out there." Added Masky. I raise my arms in surrender and almost hit Masky in the process.

"Fine I'll put on your stupid coat." I say as I snatch my winter coat from the closet and step outside, slamming the door behind me. I trudged through the snow to my targets house all the while, I cursed at the snow under my breath.

I had left my targets house and was almost back at the mansion when a snowstorm started. I lifted my hand to protect my face from the snow that was flying in every direction. "Stupid snow." I mumbled to myself, "I hate it." I saw the mansion in the distance and quickened my pace until I slipped and fell on some ice in front of the door, I poured some water on Ben the other day and it must have froze. "Bah humbug!" I yelled as I crawled back to my feet and stomped inside. I threw off my soaking coat, the snow must have melted, and flopped on the couch next to Ben, who's always playing video games.

"Sup Jeff?" He asked not looking away from the screen.

"Nothing," I start, "I hate the cold weather, don't you?" I asked wiping my knife on my sweater. Ben looked at me, confused, then back at the screen.

"No I love the snowy season, there's Christmas." He said. I didn't like the holidays, the itchy sweaters, the stupid mistletoe, and worst of all everyone wore goofy smiles the whole time.

"Christmas is dumb." I said before I realised what I said, Bens jaw dropped and Toby hung over the side of the couch and almost hit me with his hatchet.

"What!" Toby yelled, in surprise. Not like i was hiding it, i hated christmas, I just didn't talk about it that much.
   "Yeah, I don't like Christmas, so what?" I said not caring. At this point almost everyone in the house was shocked bye what I had said and started to ask questions, I stopped paying attention. I had pushed through the crowd and climbed the stairs to my room, took off my hoodie and put on my black PJ'S with, put on my mask, and went to sleep.
     "Jeffrey, wake up," someone whispered in my ear, "Jeffrey," I ignored them, "Jeffry, get out of bed!" They yelled in my ear and made me jump out of bed.
     "What the hell?" I said in a hushed yell. I looked around my room and saw someone floating at the end of my bed, Not the weirdest thing I've ever seen I thought. I laid back down on my bed and sighed, "Go away I'm sleeping." I said in a tired voice.
     "Nope." They said and grabbed my foot and drug me to the floor. I wailed out in pain as my head hit the floor,
     "What do you want?" I asked angrily. It floats closer and I can see that it's a man with a long light gray, almost white beard. He was fairly plump and had a faint green glow surrounding him, he wore a faded red coat and black pants.
      "I want to take you somewhere." He said with a big smile spreading across his face, that sound like he's kidnapping me. I frown,
      "Who are you anyway?" I ask.
      "I am the ghost of Christmas past, now take my hand and we can be off." He st reaches out his hand for me to take. I glared at the hand for a while and he got impatient, he took my hand bye force and we were off. The was a swirl of wind around us, it was cold and soon all I could see was white wherever I looked. I yelled and the wind started to die down and more colors appeared. Once the wind was gone and the world wasn't white I looked around and we weren't in my room anymore, we were in the town where I grew up.