Death's Apprentice

Time

Tick...
Tick...
Tick...
Tick...
Was all that filled the dark silence.

I lay in my bed, it was 4:23 am. I started counting the ticks as soon as it was midnight. Sleep evaded me, no... I evaded sleep. My eyes had circles under them by now. This was my third day without sleep. I did not want to sleep. The dreams are far too strange.

My eyes studied my black ceiling. My whole room was black and crimson red. The walls were black with red splatter to look like blood. My bed sheets were also black and red. The carpet in my room was black, and the curtains were black out drapes. So what I meant by 'studied my ceiling' is I stared into the deep pitch black darkness of my room.

Tick...
Tick...
Tick...
Tick...

Another 1,192 ticks later it was 5:23. Time to get up. I rose slowly from my dark bed making my way to my private bathroom. Its walls were also black the counter top was a black marble, and the tub was black and so was the shower curtain. I turned on the light and squinted a bit as my eyes were not used to anything lighter then a dark gray hue yet. I turned the light down on a low power and was able to see again. The circles under my eyes were very clear but not dark yet. Usually I enjoy my dreams. Blood, death, guts, and gore. I enjoy all that, but these recent dreams have not been enjoyable. They, in truth, scare me. And nothing can scare me, so why do I fear these dreams?

I turned the water on, leaving it cold. Warm or hot showers are okay but I prefer the cold to warmth. I stepped in and shivered slightly. Ignoring the cold I grabbed my soap and washed my body thinking of the dark corridor I walked down as the rose scented soap washed my body. I then grabbed my rose scented shampoo and my thoughts swam to the dark figures I saw in my normal life. "Stop staring at the wall, Julia, you are wasting water." I heard her say and a smile found my lips.
"I'm not paying the bills, so I don't care."
"You should."
"Whisper why do you even care? You usually are the one saying we should sit down and wait until mom yells at us." I said rolling my eyes at the voice inside of my head.
"Yeah... well... Oh just get out. I want us all to walk to school today." Her voice was more irritated and I smiled.
"Alright fine." I said turning off the freezing water and dried myself with a black towel. Okay let's just leave it at almost everything in my room is black, or vermilion. Anyways, I got out and got dressed. I put on a Sleeping With Sirens tee shirt and some black cargo pants and put my chain through a loop and then attached the other end to another belt loop. I was just a 'ordinary emo kid' or so people though. If only they knew what type of thoughts passed through my mind.

Once I was dressed I walked to the kitchen and grabbed my black backpack with graffiti from my silver and gold sharpies. Mostly skulls and the BVB star and things like that but I will say it looked fucking amazing. I also grabbed a granola bar then I was out the door. Sure it was only like 6 but my school starts at fucking 6:45. Don't ask why all I know is that the head masters is a dip-shit so he has us start school before 7 then we get out at 2. I seriously hate this place.

To my slight surprise when I walked in there were a lot of people already there. I just ignored everyone's hatefully words like "Emo bitch." and things like that. Once my locker came into view I saw a bunch of people standing against the wall looking at me grinning. My locker was covered with papers, once I got close enough to read them I realized they all said things like "Emo slut!", "Go suck Slendermans cock!" , "Dyke!" "Worthless Cunt!" and many other things. Tears threatened my eyes once I saw dyke and worthless cunt. So what if I'm gay?... Why do they have to be so damn mean?! Suddenly all the sadness turned to a deep anger and I saw the dark figures, I've come to call Shadows, sitting by my locker and I walked to them, usually they scare me but today they fueled my anger. "Rip it off!" Whisper yelled in my mind and I did just that, I ripped them down and turned to one of the jocks who was laughing uncontrollably and threw it at him. I heard everyone gasp but I just grabbed my geometry book and slammed my locker shut.

I stormed off to geometry class, once I arrived I sat abruptly. 'It is only a matter of time... just a matter of time before we take revenge.' I though as class began.