Alone (Bluford High) (Watty Awards 2013)

Chapter 13

  "Karen, where is-"

"Shhhh!!"

   It was Elle, but she was almost unrecognizable. Her head was shaved completely, literally, no strands of hair on top of it. Her eyes were blood red, looking like she popped a blood vessel in both of her eyes. She still had on the clothes the night she was attacked and kidnapped and they were torn with burned holes in them.

"Elle, how did you get here?!" Karen screeched in a whisper.

"I don't really remember, those things dragged us here that night. Or nights ago. How long have we been here?"

"Who knows?"

"Did you see our parents anywhere?"

"Last time I saw my mom and your parents, they were in another room, and that was hours and hours ago."

  Karen didn't know how long she had been in where she was. For all she knows, her parents could be.dead. Probably in one of the worst ways to die was murder, Karen thought. They knew that they had to get out one way or another but they had to find their parents, dead or alive.

"Are there any more in here?" asked Karen.

"No, one of them left earlier but I don't know how they long they'll be gone."

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

  Sounds of doors crashing down and heavy falling made the girls jump and hide in the closet.

"What the fuck?!" Elle exclaimed

"Shhh!!" Karen warned.

  The steps were louder by the time they gotten inside the closet. Much closer and more heavy. Karen's heart was pounding out of her chest. This unfortunate situation for her was so frightening, that she was that she was in a dream. But she knew that this was reality and reality was scary no matter what. It was completely inevitable to simply avoid it. She had to think fast to find some kind of way out of the room.

"Girl, come here, a door's right here," said Elle.

   A large doorway was right next to Elle as she opened it, it looked fashionably dark with a hint of light.on the other side. They crawled their way inside, with Karen closing the door behind her. Elle was in front trying to hurry up and find her way towards the light. Karen was right behind with the pair of scissors in her right hand and the gun in her pocket. Before she could even begin to utter a word, a loud gunshot was heard around the world.

"SHIT!" Elle screeched in a whispering voice.

"Hurry up, Elle!" Karen said quietly.

  The dim light was right in front of them and Elle pushed against another door, then the two hurried inside the room and shut the door, locking it.

  

   The room was semi-large but not quite. It looked like a miniature basement with pipes and steam all around it.

"Oh my God! What the hell they got these damn creepy ass basements in here?" Elle joked.

"Exactly," Karen agreed. Then, she realized something.

  Someone had to already be inside the room if the door was slightly open. It almost seemed deliberate, as if someone had done this just to toy with Karen and Elle.

"Somebody's already in here."

"What you mean?" asked Elle

"The door was already opened."

"Damn, you right."

BANG!! CLASH!!

Something was knocking against the door in a vicious manner, like a wild animal. The girls ran, dodging large pipes and getting distracted by the thick steam. All of a sudden, the light blew out, but not like it just died. But as if something broke it. They gasped and were terrified that it was pitch black and they couldn't see a thing. Through the noises behind the door, the sounds of low growling and bones popping found their way through the girls' ears.