Swing set

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I woke up with a startle because as I watched a little girl was on my swing set and I didn't have any siblings! She was small and frail with a long white gown and jet black hair. She was about 4 or 5 but I couldn't understand what a

4 year old would do in my back yard. I called her to ask her what she was doing there and she looked at me with very dark eyes she looked scared but intent not for anybody to see it. She made a "Shhh" motion at me and gave me a forced smile and like a smokey mist she disappeared. I was to alert to go back to sleep so I stayed awake an fiddled around in my room. There wasn't much to do except read and I didn't want to do that it was to much work. So I sat down did my undone homework and that put me to bed instantly. If I where hoping for a peace full rest I'd be disappointed. I dreamt of the little girl but this time we where switched she was in my bed calling me and I was telling her to "Shhh" then I saw why she was originally telling me to be quite or at least I think so, this was a dream after all. In the corner by the jungle gym was a dark shadow I could almost make out what it is... Trrrrrriiiiinnnnnnggggg!!!!!!!!! My alarm went off with the worst surprise of them all MONDAY! I didn't get much rest thanks to the events of the night before and I can't slip today we have have a math test and if I fail this one I'm going to summer school. I met up with my friends when I finally arrived at school (which took a while because I didn't bath last night plus I had to wash my hair so it took longer). The first one to greet me was Simon as always and I liked it that way .Simon was fun and he always puts me in a better mood. "Hey you" said Simon when I walked through the gate "Did you study for The Test?" he said it like it was some sort of 'right of passage' "Yes" I answered "okay mabey,but it's hard to study when I'm on the the phone with you guys the whole weekend!"I answered truthfully."Hey Kim ,hey Simon" said Lydia, one of my few friends. Now that's just sad because I barely know half the kids in my class and I'm to damn shy to even try to talk to them. I wondered what they thought of me 'the weirdo at the back of the class' is what I heard one of the girls in my class say about me. I couldn't concentrate on my school work plus we where in math so it makes it worse I kept wondering if the girl I saw last night was just my imagination fooling me or if it was the result of sleep loss. I don't know but tonight I'm going to find out.

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It felt like forever before my parents said it's time to hit the sack. I got up from the couch so fast that I felt dizzy for a moment or two and practically ran to my room, right before I closed the door behind me my dad stopped the door from closing with one of his big warm hands "You shouldn't stay up to late, okay? It's school tomorrow and you of all people need your sleep, so go straight to bed now okay sweety. Night Kim and I mean it go straight to bed!' he said "Okay dad night love you" I answered. I didn't listen to my dad ,as usual, I just needed to know that's all ten I'll go to sleep. I stayed up and waited and waited and waited till the clock on my wall struck twelve but now I didn't see the girl this time...no I was staring back at myself. The me on the swing set was mouthing to me to shut the hell up. Fear danced across her(?) face she looked at me and pointed to the jungle gym right in front of her but she pointed to the far left corner of the jungle gym near the plants. And right there was the shadow thing, it wasn't quite a shadow like in my dream the night before. It was still a dark figure but not like shadow no this thing was more there more definite . and it wasn't staring at her no it was looking at me with it's yellow cat eyes but this wasn't a cat it was way to big and it looked more like, like...I wanted to get a better look so I opened my window and more silently than I had expected climbed out into the cold night. The girl on my swing set was screaming at me to get back into my room and hide. I suddenly wondered why my parents didn't hear any of this maybe I was dreaming, but if I was dreaming the thornbush I just jumped into wasn't supposed to hurt me. So am I the only one noticing the thing in the shadow and...the shadow by the jungle gym was gone and I saw the me in my room she was disapering like a bird that's to far to see and I heard a faint whisper in the back of my mind it was telling me to RUN! I didn't hesitate because in that same second I heard a schreeck so loud it felt like some one was poking me in the ear with a hot knife so I ran my room was to hard to get into with that thing right behind me. I ran straight for Simon's house because my house was locked up tight and Simon's window is always open and easy to get into. Simon's house wasn't far but it felt like forever when I finally saw the big white house just up ahead. I was to scared to look back to see if that thing was still behind me but I could almost make out the sound of foot falls but not like a normal humans foot falls, no this sounded like the thing was on all fours. I got to Simon's house and into his room in five minutes flat. the thing was in Simon's drive way but not coming close to his window. Simon woke up with a startle he must have seen right away there was something wrong because he was barely awake when he jumped up wordlessly and hugged me. I haven't noticed but I was shivering like mad and freezing and I burst into tears and melted into Simon, scared out of my mind. Simon held me and soothed me for more than twenty minutes, telling me it's okay when I was done he led me to the bed and asked me what happened so, I told him the whole story up till now where the beast is in his driveway. "Wow. that's bad, you haven't actually seen this thing, have you?" Simon asked. "No not really," I said "just the shadow. It doesn't seem to move out of the shadows. All I've seen of it was a peace of it's foot."

"And what does than look like " Simon asked "like the foot of a dog" I answered...

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I woke up the next morning in Simon's arms ,with the memories of the night before still clear in my mind. I laid still for a moment listening to simon breath when I heard something, it sounded like something were knocked of a table and caught right before it smashed on the ground. I got up as fast as I could and ran into the hall, there right next to the half moon table where Mrs. Black's (Simon's mom) favorite face was on the floor right next to their snow white cat. And the supposed to be fresh new roses where rotten and black, and the smell it gave of was something I've smelled before it smelled like something had died... I left it there because if I would have dug any deeper I'll scare myself shitless. bI went back to Simon's room and he was sitting up straight in his bed "Were where you?" Simon asked "I was in the hall, I thought I heard something" I answered "Did you see what it was?" he asked "No but you're mother's favorite face was on the floor right next to your cat, but I don't think it was the cat who knocked it down because the flowers where rotten". Simon got up with that last part and went to check it out "Kim..." he called me. I went to stand next to him and the face were on the half moon table with bright new fresh flowers in it. Simon stared at me with blank disbelieve on his face."I don't understand" I said "it was there on the ground right next to the cat! WITH dead flowers in it!" "Well I don't see anything out of the ordinary" Simon replied. I gave up the telling Simon anyway because he's as stupid as any boy when it comes to the small details like the small scrape mark where the pot had stood a moment ago and the faint ash around it. Back in Simon's room he was already getting dressed witch I must say was an impressive site he was nicely built aspessialy his back he already had his pant on so it didn't feel weird standing there and, and when he turned around it was even prettyer. Who knew that nerds actually had six packs? "What are you looking at?" Simon asked with a deep blush in his cheeks "Oh nothing"I replied with a smile. At school everything seemed normal but the again normal as high school can go. It felt like somebody was watching her, she tried to shake the feeling but she couldn't.