The Infinite Hallway

Chapter Two - The Girl

She glanced down at the knife in the middle of the hallway and looked back at me, as if pretending not to see it.

She swung the door open and lunged for the knife, causing me to lunge for it as well. I reached it first and backed up while pointing the knife towards her threateningly.

She threw her hands up and backed away from the sharp edged weapon that was pointed at her.

She wrapped her fingers through the red strings sewn into her mouth and gripped them tightly. She closed her eyes like she was preparing. Before I knew it she yanked the strings out of her lips. Blood poured out and a desperate scream escaped her mouth. Tears swelled in her eyes and the strings were ripped through her pale skin.

She looked up at me but I couldn't do anything, I was frozen in fear. "The only way out of here might be by killing you! So let me out of here!" She said desperately.

I shook my head and stepped carefully on the stool, still pointing the knife at her. Before holding up the knife and stabbing it into the wall next to the door knob.

I pulled the knife down, left, up, right, then down through the wall. Cutting creases in the shape of a door. I stepped off the stool and pointed to the door, hoping she would go.

The girl cautiously stepped on the stool and twisted the door knob. She pushed it open revealing another hallway, but it was completely different.

She walked in and I ran after her. She spun around to face me. "I-I... Sorry. Let's just try to get out of here." She said wincing with every word.

Blood ran down her chapped lips as she said it. I hesitated then nodded. I put the knife in-between the strings sewn into my mouth and cut them.

The strings tore and fell limp on my mouth but still in my skin. "I-I wish I could promise that we'll get out of here but I have no idea." I stuttered. I had a British accent which startled me.

I stepped past her and looked at the new hallway, and clenched the knife in my hand.

The hallway was brighter than the other one. No picture frames, nothing but a vase sitting on the floor and a door at the end.

Me and the girl both ran to the vase. I dumped out the dirt and she looked through it. There was a key!

We both sprinted hopefully to the door at the end. She stuck the key in and twisted it open.

Reaveling pure darkness. Nothing but darkness, nothing. "How are we supposed to find anything out there!?" I yelled angrily, it echoed as if there were walls to bounce off of. But there isn't! Just pure black.

The girl winced and covered her mouth that was bleeding profusely. "We need to find something to help you." I said as the strings on my mouth were limp on my lips. I was too afraid to pull them out all the way.

My only choice was to walk inside the void. I did and I felt like everything I once had, just dissapeared. It was consumed by the darkness. Eaten.

I didn't like the feeling, I couldn't feel my body, I couldn't see anything. It's like I floated outside of my body.

I heard the girls faint yells. It was like she was a mile away. I turned around to where the doorway was. It was lit up but it couldn't light up the void. I could see the light but I couldn't be with it.

I was stuck. The girl stood in the doorway. It looked like she was searching for me. She couldn't see me.

Two wrinkly arms that were pure black seeped through the floor of the hallway, and grabbed her ankles. She screamed and kicked at the arms, and fell on the ground. It slowly started pulling her into the ground with it.

I tried to yell for her but nothing happened. I tried to run to her, but nothing moved. I was trapped in a void. I was so sad but it seemed impossible to cry without a body.

The black arms pulled her fully into the ground. Her cries for help became muffled. Now she was completely gone.

The door shut and it trapped me fully in the darkness, there is no way out. I wanted to collapse but I couldn't. I can't tell if i'm looking around, because everything looks the same and I can't feel anything.

This place is... Nothing.