My Ghost

Chapter 8 ~ Nightmare (edited)

I wake up but keep my eyes closed. My brain slowly processes everything that happened yesterday. Remembering every word from Brandon, his description of what happened to my parents stuck in my head and I start silently crying with my eyes shut.

I feel something lightly hitting my hand then I hear a meow. I open my eyes to see Stella. Slowly I lift my hand to pet her, my hand slightly shaking. I decide I should at least attempt to do something. 

I sit up and put my legs over the edge of the bed. Moving is difficult. The sadness is overwhelming. I stand up and feel a pain in my thigh. I sit again and pull down my sweats a bit to see where it hurts. The side of my thigh is painted black a blue with a large bruise. It must have happened when I passed out at the station.

I slowly get up and limp to my dresser, grabbing a change of clothes, underwear, and a bra and heading to the bathroom. I look at myself in the mirror and my face looks so empty of emotion. Everything hurts but I feel so empty at the same time. I never thought that was possible. I turn on the shower and adjust the water until it is perfect. I take off my clothes and carefully step in, trying not to hurt my leg.

I wash my hair and my body, and after that I just stand there. My mind overthinking and not thinking at the same time. Wanting to cry and wanting to sit there emotionless. My thoughts are bipolar and I don't know what to do. 

After about 45 minutes I finally step out of the shower and dress in pajama pants and a over sized t-shirt. I leave the bathroom and head downstairs. The only noise heard is my footsteps. There's no laughing from the kitchen or a smell of food as my mom cooks. My eyes start to water as I walk over to Stella's bowls and fill them with food and water. 

I watch as Stella wobbles over to her bowls and starts to eat. I smile a little, looking at her and I head over to the couch sitting down. I look over to the empty spots on the couch where my parents would sit. 

I see Stella finish eating and she hops up onto the couch next to me and cuddles up to my side. I just stare at her and wonder where Tyler is. He hasn't shown up for awhile and I'd like to see him. 

I laid down on the couch and hugged my legs, I feel Stella come lay on my legs as I doze off too sleep. 

~The Dream World~

I open my eyes and I am standing in the middle of a road. I look around, it is hard to see due to it being night. The only light is coming from a few street lights. No one is around so I start walking around a bit. It is a weird forest area with no houses around.

I turn and look down the road and see headlights heading towards me. The car seems strangely familiar as it heads towards me. I try to stop it by waving my arms but it keeps going as if they didn't see me. 

I watch the car continue to drive and suddenly something jumps out of the woods and smacks into the side of the car making it fly across into a tree. I scream and quickly cover my mouth and duck down trying to not be noticed. 

The thing rips the car door off and drags the people out of the car and into the woods. 

I slowly follow, creeping up to the car and looking around seeing if I can find out who the people are that got attacked. Without luck of finding identification, I try to find my way through the woods to find where they went. 

I hear a crunching noise and I hide behind a tree and cover my mouth. I look around the tree trying to not make noise and I see the thing ripping out their stomachs and I start to gag. The smell of blood fully hitting my nose. I creep closer to try and see who it is but staying quiet. The thing turns around and looks at me but seems like its looking through me. 

I looked around the thing and what I see horrifies me. There, laying on the ground with their stomachs ripped open are my parents. No longer acknowledging the thing in front of me I start sobbing. I never fully got to see them at the morgue and seeing them here is much worse. 

I suddenly noticed the breathing on my face as I look up at the thing, which now that I'm closer looks like a wolf...but a man? A wolf standing on its back legs like a human. 

Realizing the position I'm in I started running and I can hear its foot steps behind me, getting closer with every step. My shoulder bashes into a tree and my body falls to the ground. I try backing away but it walks up to me. 

The wolf-man thing make a weird laughing noise and swipes at me. 

~Dream ended~

I sit up quickly, breathing heavily. I look around and notice I fell asleep on my couch. Stella asleep next to me. I move to a better sitting position and start sobbing. I don't understand why I had to dream about that. 

I look up and see Tyler sitting on the other couch looking at me sadly. 

"You're here", I quietly say to him.

"Yeah, and I'm so sorry", he says and his voice cracks from crying.

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Yay I did it <3