For Silent Types.

Don't Close Your Eyes.

Tell me. Tell me, please.

I couldn't hear what they were saying. All they did was sit in their little corner and stare at me. 

Please. Please, just tell me what you're saying.

They were all just looking at me. Smiling ruefully, one point their crooked little finger at me. No matter how hard I tried to focus, their words fell to deaf ears, leaving a thick palpable evil in the air.

Cold, heavy chains weighed my body down. The weight on my chest left me gasping through pathetic sobs. I wanted to scream, but nothing short of whimpering cries for help left my mouth. 

Please. What are you saying? I can't hear anything. Please, let me go. 

The dark, shadowy figures started to move. Others stood straight and seemed to tower over the room. The atmosphere was slowly changing to something cold, something sinister. Slowly, every creature in the room straightened out their crooked bodies and fixed their beady red eyes on me. An electric hum began to dance above the cold, concrete room. Only flashes of light illuminated the room every few seconds, drawing the silhouettes of the shadowy figures slowly closing in on me. 

Every fiber within me wanted to scream or cry out for anyone familiar. 

I am alone. You deserve nothing but to suffer this alone.

Every time I closed my eyes, the beady eyes of every one of my demons seemed to slowly smile their dangerously sharp teeth at me. 

This is how you lose it. Scream. Just scream and maybe someone will hear you. 

Demonic laughter rang through my ears. Tears collected in my eyes as I laid paralyzed by the heavy chains holding my motionless body down. I couldn't hear them. I couldn't hear nothing but the small taunting voice in my head telling me to wake up. There was no-one that registered any of the cries and pleas of help I desperately longed for. 

"You stupid girl. You stupid, stupid, stupid girl. Haven't you learned your lesson yet?"

The hooded figure seemed to hiss his response and suddenly I wished I couldn't hear them whispering any longer. His deep, scratchy voice resonated and bounced in my head. 

"You couldn't stay away, could you? You always come back, don't you?" , the demon asked. 

The metallic chains started to dig into my wrists as I struggled to free myself. The shooting pain ricocheted within me, glad for the welcome distraction. My cries for anyone to come save me were futile. 

No one is coming for you. You're in your head. All of this is in your head. 

Slowly, the black figures drowned out any attempt for help. All my demons gathered around me and couldn't contain their joy once they realized I was giving up. Cold, sharp hands grabbed every end of me slowly. Pulling and tugging at every limb to the point of pain. My chest was rapidly rising and falling, struggling to contain the screams of pain. The world around me was closing in and growing darker by every second. My demons were eating me alive. I couldn't move as I was being pulled apart from every inch. My mind swirling with the thoughts of the people I love. 

Maybe this is where you should say goodbye. This might be your last breath. Make it count. 

Agony and heart clenching pain filled all my senses into hyperdrive. Suddenly, everything started to crash and burn around me. My demons smiled sinisterly at me as they devoured every part of me they could grab onto. Mechanical laughter filled the room as the sound of my flesh being torn to bits from the inside out clashed with my incessant cries for death to take over.

It's no use. You already let yourself go too far into your head to get out of this. You stupid girl. 

I slowly let my eyes drift. My body felt too weak to fight as my demons feasted on my insecurities and soul. 

Perhaps, I was just a stupid girl. I never learn, yet I always expect the outcome to change. 

The lights were blinking and slowly dimming themselves to complete and utter darkness. The cold air felt welcoming over me. 

Maybe, they are right. Maybe, I never learn. The rules were simple. The only rule, in fact.

I couldn't wake myself up. The nightmare always ended in complete darkness. Everything was all in my head and still, I couldn't get myself out. I couldn't wake myself up. 

The only rule I told myself . The only rule I laid out in any case I felt them coming back. It was so simple, yet here I am. 

The only rule to follow and the last words I heard those shadowy figures say was, "Don't close your eyes."