I opened my eyes and groaned when I realized I was no longer in Kate's Livingroom, the place I had fallen asleep in. It had happened again, I had been moved while I slept peacefully. I was now under a dark sky speckled with stars and a bright almost full moon that provided me just enough light to almost clearly see the rural wilderness around me. I sat up in my sleeping bag and looked around groggily. I had been placed by the side of a dirt road. On the side closest to me was a cornfield, probably the same cornfield that bordered Kate's backyard. Kate lived in the middle of the country with nothing but farmland on all sides of her. On the other side of me, there was nothing but thick woods. The road that had become my bed looked like it hadn't be used in ha while, as evidenced by the thick clumps of weeds that sprouted up here and there and the complete lack of marks made by vehicles on its smooth surface.
I was really getting sick of this little game my friends liked to call the body dump. It was a game that capitalized on the fact that I'm pretty much dead the second my eyes are closed. It was played at sleepovers where my so called friends would wait until I was asleep, then pick me up and leave me somewhere entirely different and wait until I woke up naturally or unnaturally. They would then have a good laugh at my bewildered face when I opened my eyes and realized I was somewhere different.
Still, despite this annoying trick that was played on me constantly at sleepovers, I still liked them. You didn't really get to know your friends until you stayed up till four in the morning daring each other to look up weird things on YouTube. Or sneaking around the kitchen like ninjas and grabbing as much food as possible before making a break for it.
So anyways, I've woken up in some pretty strange places over the last three years, including on a float in the middle of a pool and butt first inside a cooler in a garage, so this road that wasn't the most creative place I've woken up in, but it was by far the creepiest.
Goose bumps began to prickle my skin despite the hot August air. It felt like I was being watched from both sides of this road, although that feeling was probably coming from the fact my friends were hiding out there somewhere, just waiting to scare the hell out of me. Or maybe it was one of the many nocturnal animals that prowled places like corn fields and forests at night. Animals like mountain lions and bears that would love to sink their teeth into defenseless pray like me.
I decided at that moment to not think about what might be lurking out there in dark beside my stupid friends, and instead got out of my sleeping bag and looked around to what might've been thrown at me to wake me up. That's how my friends would usually rouse me from my deep slumber; by chucking small items of me from a hiding place, until I was startled awake like a hibernating grizzly bear. You see, I've never woke up naturally in the middle of the night by myself in all my fifteen years, but I didn't see anything on or around me. So something else must've woken me up, but what?
And then I thought I saw something. A person-sized shape standing in the cornfield directly beside me, but it was too far into the stalks of corns to make out any features, not even its exact height. I felt my heart began to pound like a drum inside my chest.
"Hello?" I called out nervously to whichever one of my friends it was, but there was no response. The shadow dissolved back into the corn and it was followed by the sounds of cornstalks rustling like something was moving away from me and further back into the field. I told myself it was one of my friends trying to lure me into the tall stalks for some kind of scare. The fear that was slowly building up inside me, though, wasn't buying. I decided the faster I got out of there the better!
I turned away from the tall leafy plants, even though I knew if I walked straight through the field it would lead directly back to Kate's house but.... there was someone or something in the cornfield...and surely it was one of my friends being a jerk and trying to creep me out. But I was barefoot because my friends hadn't thought to give me shoes, and it would be hazardous to walk through a corn field in the dark like that. Yeah, that's why I wasn't going in there! Yeah...
