The dome

Diary entry #5

Diary, it just took her! I was with my sister Kori walking down the chili aisles of the store trying to find food. The sun was blocked out and therefore we were basically in a giant fridge. Huddled together, we shuffled down every aisle until we got to the last one. Just as we got half way down it, we heard a big crash. I looked behind me and saw her being pulled up into the air vents. I screamed as I saw this horrifying... thing. It was like a giant monkey covered in scars with giant ruby red eyes that glared into your soul.

She wailed a blood curdling scream as it dragged her into the sempiternal darkness.

I shot the vent with my gun but missed. It had gone. I cried ‘help’ but nobody heard me.

How could I have been so stupid to bring her along? What will dad say, what will mum say? I feel like somebody is ripping me apart. My heart was coming through my chest. Millions of thoughts went through my head of what could happen to her. She could be hurt or killed; my worst thought was she could have been eaten alive by that... thing.

I knew I couldn’t waste any more time. I ran outside and ran to the back of the shop. I then shut the power off and cut the wires with a shard of glass on the floor, so someone or something couldn’t turn the power and the vent on. I then saw where the vent ended so I pushed the bin to it and climbed on top of it, then I pulled off the mesh off the outlet and climbed in. i felt suffocated as i crouched down and slowly shuffled my way through the vent. There was one more path to go down so I loaded my gun and slowly looked round the corner.

There was Kori, ‘it’ had escaped. She lay unconscious; she looked like the life had been sucked out from her. She felt so cold and the colour was drained from her face. Thankfully it had not hurt her; it must have shocked her so much. I carefully dragged her out the vent. I lay her in the can and drove back to the house as fast as the car would take me. My dad was furious when I told him what happened.

She is still unconscious now and my auntie Paula, who was a nurse, said she will be like that for an hour or two if she got a good scare. My dad went out and found some food for us so I don’t feel as cranky as before. Anyway I should go to sleep now my free time is over and my dad has given me 3 hours of guarding.

Goodnight Diary

//i know this story is really bad and it makes me cringe. I had writers block when i started it//