Hush

3: No, Mother

I get up to leave the room, infuriated, but my mother grabs my arm.

"Enough! I'm tired of you...." Mother went on, but I couldn't make out much since she wasn't using sign language.

I just stared at her red, angry face as she screamed at me. And to think that after she done screaming, which will probably be in 20 minutes, I won't know of anything she said. It's kind of pointless, really. I just want to go talk to Zach.

I take notice that she has let go of my arm. Slowly, I back away from her until I think it's a good time to just turn around and leave. Might as well. I quickly run away into my room, but as I'm running I can feel her screaming at me. Probably telling me to come back, or asking me where I'm going.

When I fling myself onto my bed, my body slowly sinks into the mattress. Ah, finally I can be relaxed. On my computer, I have this setting to where whenever I get a notification my screen flashes a very bright red for a moment. That way, I can see if someone is trying to talk to me. Nobody, Zach, has tried to talk to me. Damn, I really messed up when I asked for his age, didn't I?

Curious of what day it is, I sat up to look at my calendar. I have school tomorrow? Ugh, can't I just stay home? I don't want to go there. I don't want to go anywhere, besides my house. And I'm already there, so....perfect! I just hide out and wait till my mom has to go to work and then I can do whatever! "I'm kind of tired maybe I should go to sleep for now, yeah that sounds good." I say out loud. I sink my head into my soft pillow and pull my even softer blanket over my short body. My eyelids get heavy and I slowly drift to sleep.

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I wake up with my mind fuzzy, and struggle to move. What's going on? Why can't I move? I try to force my limbs up, but they won't move an inch. I must be dreaming, but my heart.....it's beating too fast. It hurts. Why is this happening? A force is on my chest, making it hard to breathe. Almost as if someone was pushing on me. No, I must breathe. Breathing calms me and if I can't breathe, I don't know what will happen. Across the room, eyes stared at me, piercing into my body. The eyes were green, but only green. No pupil, no nothing. The eyes belong to a face, one I've never seen before. "Who are you?" I wanted to ask, but no words escaped my lips. The face began 'floating' towards my bed. Causing panic to consume my body. Who is that? What the hell is going on? Why am I seeing this?

The head reached my bed, and leaned over my face. Where is its mouth? "Come to me Azalea, find me. Be with me. I want you." I heard it say in my head.

How did I hear it speak, but it was in my head. I continue to try to move anything in my body. Finally my toes and fingers begin to wiggle. Yes! Please let this be over! Slowly, I regained use of my body. I sat up abruptly, and the face was gone. Have I gone insane?