The Barn

White Walled Ending

By February I became a nervous wreck thinking someone would be taken at any time. I fell into depression, paranoia, and then it all came to a peak when my depression lead to suicide attempts. My friend's mom placed me in a mental hospital and then after months of living in there my friend's mom came to me. The day was just as it usually was cold white walls, plain white bed and sheets, but my friend's mom came to see me by herself. Normally it was her and my best friend who came to visit never just her. When she told me the news I understood, my bestfriend had been taken and they couldn't find her but they believe she was murdered like everyone else. I kept my cool until she left then I lost it, I started screaming at the wall then being silent for hours on end. When the funeral came at the end of September I was released to visit then I was going to be sent back. After the funeral I was silent to everyone. My friend's mother came just two more times then she quit. On the day before Halloween when it struck midnight I got out of bed and I don't know what made me do it but I broke out through a window in the door. Then I made my way to where the clothes were kept for patients. I changed into my old clothes then ran out before they noticed. It was a slow mental hospital so I got out really easy. I ran to my old house which now sat empty and broke into the shed. I grabbed a flashlight then my dad's hunting knife. I stole my dad's truck and drove into the woods. I drove until I met my guy friend's pick up. I got out and heard footsteps so I took out my knife keeping it at the ready when out of the dark came my best guy friend covered in bites, scrapes, and just bloody marks. He was exhausted and dripping with blood and sweat like he had ran a marathon. Then when I had calmed him down I asked him what he had saw he looked at me and said, "There are so many bodies, so, so many bodies." After saying that he acted like a scare cat with quick reflexes. I convinced him to go in with me it was time to end this. As we walked to the barn I remember how I really liked my crazy guy friend before he was crazy and I still even in that deadly encounter last year saw that sweet young boy I once called my friend and to this day I wish we had never found that creature. When we reached the barn we could hear him moving inside. I slowly opened the door and when I did my best guy friend ran in. I tried to stop him but he ran at my crazy friend holding up an axe. I stayed silent and my crazy friend just jumped on my best guy friend's back then snapped his neck. I sat there staying silent and listening to the terrible sounds of him eating and I sat there for around ten minutes then I slowly started toward my friend. On my way I guess he heard me because when I was halfway to the middle of the barn he stood and said, "Hiding is for snakes and spiders not for you. Please stand up and give me a hug just one after all these years?" I slowly stood and he came over to me and I embraced him. As I embraced him for the first and final time I stabbed him beginning to cry while doing so. I felt him jerk and then his body fell silent and motionless. I laid his body down and took off my jacket then covered him. As I walked out of the barn I cried remembering the past and how things had fallen apart. When I reached the door of the barn about to shut it I instead grabbed my best guy friend's gas can and poured it on the entrance to the barn then lit a match and through it into the dark of the old building. As I got into the truck and drove away all the old dark memories burned to ash and I remembered the young childhood spirit that was taken in the midsts of that old dead barn so long ago. As I drove through the woods and the early morning twilight lit my path I realized what I must do to finally set things right. I knew if I left the woods I would return to the hospital and the dark memories would live in me so I decided to let them die. I drove as fast as I could into a tree with a smile on my face and a light and airy heart. Knowing my friends and I could finally rest in peace.