Vent Stories/Things

The Bell

The pitch black sky was dark, an eerie silence sound going around. Nothing was around in sight, well for me at least..where exactly was I?

I rubbed my head a little and groaned, getting up off of a white quartz floor tile. I staggered for a second once I got back onto my feet, the thoughts of where I could possibly be weighing on me.

No one was around, and the sky looked out of place. There were no stars, no dark blue color to it that shows around, clouds, and especially the moon with it's white glow.

It was just pitch black darkness. All that was around was just this little area that I seemed to be in, it looked similar to a garden. Sort of like how I imagined Tulip's garden whenever I wrote stories about her being there, but it was different.

"Where am I?.."

I mumbled softly to myself as I slowly walked around the place, scanning through what was in my sight. There were blue roses growing around with other flowers, a few Morpho butterflies flying around the place.

Soon, I started hearing something running, like water? I speed walked towards where the sound was coming from which was at the center of my location.

Right there was a fountain that had water flowing, a woman standing still and right by it.

"Excuse me mi–"

Before I could continue my sentence I choked back on my words, my heart beat going up quickly for a moment. The woman had her hands clenched together and was standing perfectly still,

Though, I couldn't even see her face. Better yet, she didn't even have a face to begin with. There was nothing there, no eyes, lips, nose, or anything. Just a blank face with her standing there so perfectly still. It was..

Really creepy and disturbing. A few inches to the other side of the fountain had a silver bell with a note by it, I quietly walked over towards it since I wasn't so sure if the lady was just a statue that looked realistically like an actual person without a face. Or if she was actually a person and would hurt me,

My eyes moved towards the note after reassurance that the lady wasn't going to come near me, I picked it up and read through it carefully,

"Make a wish."

Huh, seemed simple enough. I thought for a moment with a smile coming across my face. There was something that I had always wished for and wanted to do, and doing this would help me get there if what the note was saying is true,

"I wish for Spencer to be here with me at this place right now."

Still smiling, the bell rung once, the sound echoing throughout both the garden and into the nothingness that surrounded it. It caused me to shiver a bit since that was really creepy..

I turned a bit, my eyes widening slowly as a smile formed across my face from the amazing sight that stood right before me. Spencer stood there, even if his back was turned to me he still stood there! Right here, with me! I quickly ran over towards him and wrapped my arms around him tightly,

"Spencer! You're finally here with me!"

I happily shouted, this was it. I could finally do the things that I want us both to do together so we could spend time with each other and make memories. I will no longer have to keep on wishing that we could meet now since he's right here next to me,

"Snap"

A gasp escaped from my lips as I saw Spencer's fingers twitch and twist in a loose way, causing me to panic and quickly look up to his eyes to ask if he was okay,

Spencer had the same face as the lady though which was nothing and I heard snapping sounds coming from behind too. Both the lady and Spencer were snapping their necks and twisting it like as if they were owls but with cracking and twisting sounds due to their bones.

Disturbed and freaked out, the ground started to shake. I panicked and breathed quickly, what was going on?! I looked down and saw that I was still holding the bell, Spencer and the lady reaching their hands out towards me and causing me to let out a scream and start running,

As I ran farther away, the tile floor became more dusty and dirty, the flowers and blue roses slowly dying, the morpho butterflies twitching their wings while laying helplessly on the ground with their wings slightly broken.

My eyes slowly watered as the ground rumbled, the tile floor beginning to fall apart and crack. The bell rung and echoed throughout the garden once more, everything turning a dark crimson red. I shivered as I felt my own shadow creep up on me, and even more began to appear.

I dropped the bell and quickly ducked down, my hands over my head and ears as I shook out of pure terror,

"CRACK"

The floor tile finally broke apart, causing me to yell. Dirt, dust, and petals of the blue roses that were breaking apart were now falling with me, the bell still near me in sight as I quickly grabbed it, shouting at the top of my lungs with my grip tightened around it,

"I– I WISH I COULD WAKE UP!!!"

I cried out loud, a sudden jump of small energy being released. Attempting to say what I had said again, I could only see darkness in my vision. A video playing and a fan running filling up my hearing,

As I slowly opened up my eyes, I looked around. My mother asleep right next to me and still having her video playing. I felt weak and slowly curled up with my phone next to me, and I decided to fall asleep again this time.

"It was just a nightmare..that's all..."

I thought out loud to myself.