Is it Real?

What's Going On?

I woke up to the bright sun shining through my window. Usually a person would feel refreshed and ready to start a new day. Why do I feel so bitter? I feel fear that abnormal things would happen throughout the day and feeling extremely worthless that I can't do anything about it. My mind was rushing. I can't concentrate. First I'm having horrible dreams and now I'm hallucinating? Luckily today was Friday so after a long day at school I relaxed on my bed watching tv shows and eating chips. Caleb rushed to my house and was pounding on the door. I jumped and almost spilled my chips. I opened the door for him. "Dude what do you want?" I asked annoyed. "You have got to see this." He holds up a article of the missing 2 kids. It was the same children and couple I heard on the news.  "Yeah I saw them on the news too. I can't believe it was them." I responded. Caleb nods in response, "Also check out this article. A neighbor said in the article that one of the parents Sylvia Martin called her one night. She told her how her kids were scared of a singing woman at night. I look and said,"Do you think she might be responsible for children getting abducted? He nods and says,"Yes and this needs to stop. We need to end this." I agreed but we have a problem.  We do not have a plan. He looked at me and read my eyes. He said, " We'll figure it out. The cops won't believe us but we know some things." I asked , "What? what could we possibly have that would be useful in keeping her from abducting children?" 

He said, "First thing we know is that she can easily access people in their dreams." I agreed and chuckled as this reminded me of Freddy Krueger. I added on, "And it seems she kills the parents and takes the children." He nodded, "Alright so we have some things. There may be a way we can learn more about her. There may be something in the library . Something that can maybe help us with this paranormal issue." As ridiculous as it sounds we do not have many options. We'll do what comes to mind. I said, " Let's meet tomorrow in the library to figure this out." He agreed to meet me on that day. Before leaving, he looks at the bag of chips in my hand and asked for one. I said, "only one." He grinned and reached his hand into the bag and takes a large handful of the chips. I looked in the bag and there was only a few chips in there. "I said one not almost all." I told him, annoyed. He laughed and said, "Yeah I took one.... one largest handful. " I pointed out the door to indicate him to get out. He smiled and said in a jesting way , "You don't need to look like you had a chip on your shoulder." "Get out." I told him, trying to look angry but I can't because of the pun. I was trying to hide a smile and he knew about it. Gosh what would I do without him haha. 

It was the evening and my parents and my sister  arrived from grocery shopping. But they look slightly hurt. I asked them," What's wrong?" My parents responded,"I think its been a long day. We started having back pain." I was surprised. Usually they were very healthy people but I assumed they had a long day at work. 

My mom was tired and went to lie down. She told us to order dinner for ourselves and said she was going to lie down. I nodded. I called and ordered a pepperoni pizza.  When the pizza came me and my sister ate it while watching some tv. I wanted to ask her whether she noticed mom and dad's peculiar behavior. So I asked,"Do you notice anything strange about mom and dad?" I asked her. Pearl responds,"No not that I noticed. They just look more tired than usual." Yeah of all the days today is the first time I ever saw them exhausted and mom's mood and health deteriorating.  She looked at me and tried to console me. She said, "Don't worry. This may be one of the bad days they have. It'll all get better. " I responded, "I guess you're right." Feeling full from a food coma, I my eyes slowly closed on the comfy couch and everything is dark.