The cursed house.

No Way Out!

"I can escape a haunted mansion, I can escape the bars of a prison, I can run away from criminals but how can I run away from my dreams, from those nightmares!" 

John reached his college. It was a bright sunny day and John was busy watching the sky outside his classroom. His teacher noticed him. "John, are you listening?" John screamed, "No Please! Not again!" "Hey John what happened?" Asked the amazed Duke. "Nothing!"

John took a half day and went to a garden. The place where he went to find peace. "What should I do? How to get rid of this solution? I can't discuss my problem with anyone! Why am I the only one suffering from this? Oh God!" He wanted peace but the best place he had couldn't do it.

John reached home and went straight up to his room. Things were not right. He recalled the dream that he had the last night. He recalled the masked man saying, "I will haunt you every night until the task is done. Remember the day you share our meetings with anyone you'll face the wrath of the Demon King."

John murmured to himself, "What task was he talking about, who is the Demon King now? Wrath! What wrath? All that I am suffering isn't that enough?"

Now it is clear that John had a conversation with the masked man last night.

"Dreams are like short stories, you have it once and then it's over in a night, but mine it has become like a novel! Every night a new chapter begins which is linked to the last dream."

"Now what? What should I do? Should I sleep and meet that terrifying creature again?" John pondered a lot and then motivated himself by saying, "I am not a coward, I will face him, I will stand up to him like a man. For that I need to sleep."

John had his supper and went to sleep early. He just prayed to not to lose his courage and closed his eyes. He tried, he tried hard but couldn't sleep. After a long wait he fell asleep.

"Hey John, wake up."
"I am here to face you, I am not scared of you!" John screamed.

"What are you saying son? What is wrong with you?" It was John's mother waking him up.

"Just a bad dream." Replied John.

John went to his college and was again pondering at the same thing. "Why didn't he come the last night? Why are they playing with me? Was it a matter of just two nights? Maybe I had 2 different dreams and I am interconnecting them. I am stressing myself a lot. Those were just dreams."

John and his friends went for a movie. John was not at all interested for the movie but for refreshing his mood he went up with his friends. The movie was very boring, at least fir John it was!

During the break he went to the washroom. After a while The lights started flickering and then they became dim. "Hey John, can you hear me!" Someone murmured this which was followed by a devilish laughter. Soon the mirrors of the washroom broke! The water from the taps started emerging out. The hand drier started operating on its own. A swift wind started blowing which became intense after every second. Soon the windows broke and the door closed. The lights went off.

"What's happening? Is anyone out there? Help me!" Screamed a frightened John.
"This place seems to be a bit familiar to me! Have I been here before? It's the same place, it's the cursed house!"

It was not just a matter of two nights, things were contiguous. John was terrified as the masked man moved slowly towards him. He held John by his collar and whispered in his ears, "We will meet only when I want to meet you!" This was again followed by a devilish laughter.

John saw something coming towards him. This time it was a group of children running towards him. "They are not normal kids, there is something wrong!" Some young kids ran towards him. They were dressed like clowns. (Clowns they're always scary and when children are dressed up as clowns, it becomes worse !)

Some with stitched lips, others with devastated eyes and wrecked body parts and all this made it all too terrible to handle. They all ran towards John like hungry dogs. They started pulling John's hair. They were playing with John like a toy. Their laughter was making John dead scared. "Stay away from me!" Shouted John. The kids got angry and tied John's hands and blindfolded him.

"Hide and seek, hide and seek!" All the young clowns shouted at once. John was helpless. The laughter of those young clowns was terrifying. "Hey John catch us!" The kids screamed in an authoritative tone. John was terrified. Whenever John got his head banged with the walls the kids enjoyed that. This was inhuman.

"We will meet only when I want to meet you!" Someone again whispered in John's ears. After a while John heard someone, "Hey John, wake up, was the movie so boring that you fell asleep." It was his friends. John went straight back home after this. He wanted to ponder deeply about the dreams.

"It was again a dream, hash! But for how long am I going to suffer all this? Today it was intolerable! The kids, they were terrifying, I can't face them, the game they wanted me to play was terrifying."

"How to get out of this?"