The Darkness Inside

Chapter 1

   The room is dark, cold and silent, almost peaceful until a loud Irish man with green hair opens the door. He takes a seat at his desk and prepares his computer for recording his let's play. The camera turns on and he says "TOP OF THE MORNIN' TO YA LADDIES! MY NAME IS JACKSEPTICEYE AND TODAY WERE GONNA PLAY BALDI'S BASICS IN EDUCATION AND LEARNING!". Jack explains what he knows about the game as he starts, he gets a horrible headache but keeps on with the video. The pain becomes almost unbearable the more Jack plays, until he sees a dark figure out of the corner of his eye. He turns his head quick to find the figure and mumbles to himself: "what the fuck....?". He ends his video shorter than normal and does his outro, "That does it for this video. My head is fooking killing meeeee. anyway, that does it for this video, if you liked it, PUNCH that like button in the face LIKE A BOSS, AND (whispers) high fives all 'round *ptsh ptsh* and i will see you dudes... IN THE NEXT VIDEOOOO!"

After ending his video he goes downstairs to his kitchen. Jack opens the fridge and pulls out a beer. *TSP* He twists the bottle cap off and tosses it on the counter. With his headache still in full gear, he finishes his beer and heads to the bathroom. As he is about to urinate he hears a heavy thud coming form his bedroom. He jumps and yells "what the fuck was that??" Jack looks down the hall into his bedroom, the door cracked just enough to see inside. A chill runs down his spine and the hairs on his neck stand on end. Then a deep, raspy voice says "Seeaaaaaannnnnn". Jacks eyes widen and his heart is pounding, with the adrenaline rushing through him, he runs.

Jack quickly grabs a jacket and runs outside until he gets a safe distance away from his house and calls Signe, his girlfriend. "Hey. Are you home right now? Okay im heading over. I'll explain when i get there. Okay bye." Jack gets to Signe's house and she had already made some tea to help Sean relax. Noticing Jacks paranoia she says "Sean, what happened. You're shaking." "I can't even begin to explain, Signe." Jacks says as he avoids eye contact with her. Signe feeling worried for him says "Please tell me....". Jack takes a deep breath and says "Fine...." The second he started to explain, it was as if a weight was lifted from his shoulders. ".....Then i came here." Jack says, defeated. "Maybe someone was trying to break in, did you call the police?" Signe says trying to rationalize the story. Jack sighs "No, I was in a blind panic, i didn't think about it."

Signe sips her tea, trying to wrap her head around what Jack just told her. She then checks the time and says to jack: "Come on, you need to rest." Signe leads him to her bedroom and tells him to take a hot shower and head to bed. Jack finishes his shower and steps out. He reaches out for the towel and dries off, then puts some shorts on that he left there before. Jack glances at the mirror before leaving, but notices something off about his reflection and gets closer to inspect. His face looked lifeless, and deformed; he stares at his reflection, confused. *SMASH* The mirror cracks violently, startling Jack, causing him to stumble to the floor. "wh- what?" he says, panicked and eyes widened. With his heart pounding in his ears, he stands to look at the mirror to find it untouched, not a scratch.

Signe heard Jack falling to the floor and knocks on the door. "Sean? Are you alright?" Her knocking made him jump, he sighed and said, "I'm fine, ill be out in a second." Jack holds his face in his hands and tries to catch his breath, then exits the bathroom to join Signe in bed. Signe leans over to him and kisses his cheek. "Try to get some sleep, okay?" Jack nods then lays down comfortably and says goodnight. "we'll sort all of this out in the morning." Signe says as she turns out the light, and is fast asleep as Jack tosses and turns in his sleep. Flashing scenes kept flooding Jacks mind, sounding like static from a radio with bad signal. Flashes of the figure haunt his dreams. In reaction to this Jacks body starts sweating, and twitching with Jack mumbling.

Signe slowley wakes to see Jack walking akwardly out of the bedroom. "Sean?" She calls out to him with a raspy voice. After rubbing her eyes she gets out of bed and follows him out of the house and into the front yard, where she watches Jack collapse to his knees. Cautiously, she calls to him again. "Sean? Are you okay, love?" Jack tries to muster out words but manages to give a faint exhale. She crouches to his side, just out of his reach. Jack tries desperately to talk to her but isnt successful, and instead a tear slowly falls down his cold cheek still expressionless.

Signe slowly reaches out to touch his shoulder to comfort him, but he jerks violently away from her touch, screaming bloody murder. Jack, still on his knees, falls forward onto his hands as if he'd been punched in the gut. Signe, having been startled by his actions, fell backwards on the grass, and stared at him in horror and curiousity. His breaths get heavier and he started laughing. Signe knew that this wasn't Sean, the man she had loved for so long. That man was gone, his laugh, distorted and deep like an animal, his skin turned lifeless like the dead and his hair as black as night.

Signe felt panicked and started to slowly crawl backwards, not breaking sight of him. When he stands up with his head still down, he calls to her "Signe, must you be leaving so soon?" As she felt her heart drop, her head screamed at her to run, yet she couldn't. He whipped his head back and tilted his head left and right, cracking his neck. "The fun has just started..." he said as he looked straight into her soul. She couldn't break the eye contact, all she could do was is stare back into his eyes, his dialated iris' had become a dark grey, with one pupil red and, the other blue.