Insomnia

Chapter 1

"Mom? Mom? Where are you mom?" I asked as I walked inside my house, I noticed that all the cabinets were opened and some chairs were fallen over. I raised my eyebrow as I called out for my mother again.

Then I noticed it, when I walked into the hallway leading to the stairs, I saw a big bloodstain on the wall. I felt a lump in my throat, slowly making my way up the stairs, my heart beating fast and my hands shaking in fear. There was a trail of blood on the stairs leading to my mother's room. I slowly approached the door and opened it.

I felt like my heart was going to stop when I saw the sight in front of me. The sight of my mother's lifeless body, her throat and wrists slit open. There was blood anywhere.

"Mom?" I asked weakly, as the tears started streaming down my cheeks, I took a hold of her hand. "Who did this to you?"

My mom's eyes opened and she shot up, looking straight at me with wide eyes. "You did this to me."

I opened my eyes, I was paralyzed in fear, I couldn't move. The idea of hurting my mother, it was too much. I was shaking and sweating, tears streaming down, not being able to breathe.

I kept gasping for air as I was in my paralyzed state, I did not know what was happening at the moment. Once I calmed down a little, I realised it was all just a bad nightmare and that I was having a panic attack.

I stayed in bed, staring up at the ceiling for the rest of the night, to shaken up to go back to sleep. My sleep had gotten pretty bad lately, with all the family fights, it gave me so much stress and kept me awake a lot. But it kept getting worse every day.

I had to go to school that morning and needless to say, I was too tired to pay attention to any of my classes. During class I had to think back to the nightmare, it was strange, I've had nightmares before, but never like that. I shook my head and just brushed it off. I came to the conclusion that it was just stress. Aside from my family life, I was struggling with myself. I had trouble coming to terms with liking girls, which resulted into the feeling of self-hatred. Justin was the only one who knew, despite him telling me that there is nothing wrong with being gay, I couldn't help feeling that way.

I was on my way to my locker to retrieve my books for my next class. "Skylar." A silent voice behind me sounded. I looked behind me, to see who it was, but saw no one. I looked around the hallway in confusion, but it was just me.

"Hello?" I called out, as I scanned my surroundings.

"Hey Skye, who are you talking to?" My friend and classmate, Kimberly, asked as she placed her hands on my shoulders. I jumped in fear, as I was not expecting her to be there. She frowned at my reaction. "What's gotten you so shaken up lately?"

I shook my head. "Nothing, I'm just a little tired, haven't been sleeping well."

"Alright then, come on, we're going to be late for class." She made her way down the hallway, I followed as I scanned my surroundings once again. I knew the voice wasn't Kimberly's, the voice was too deep to be hers. I shook it off and went to class with Kimberly.

I was so happy when I got home, I went straight up to my room. I changed into my pyjamas, I didn't plan on going out anways. I jumped on my bed and got cozy as I turned netflix on, I decided to go with the 100. I thought it was a really good show, I loved the storyline. It was different from other shows, that's what I liked about it.

Aside from the 100, I watched the walking dead, teen wolf, the vampire diaries, the originals, IZombie, glee, degrassi, H2O (yes I'm aware it's a kids show, but I love it) once upon a time and pretty little liars. I watched a lot of movies too, mostly horror movies, they're my favorites. I love watching scary top 10 videos on YouTube as well. And I love gaming and music too. I myself have 3 guitars and a keyboard.

My favorite movies will always be the jurassic park movies, they will always have a special place in my heart. Them being the first non-kids movie I ever watched at the age of 5 or 6. That's when my interest in dinosaurs started, with jurassic park. My parents bought me a lot of dinosaur books and my dad read them with me, over and over. They were informative books. I didn't care for any other books, I only liked informative books about dinosaurs. My love for dinosaurs is one thing that never changed.

I have trouble reading, due to my ADHD. It's because I have trouble concentrating, which is indeed a part of ADHD. But it also includes anger issues, impulsiveness.

One time I got so angry at this guy in class at my old high school, that I nearly stabbed him with my scissors, it took 5 teachers to drag me out of the room. In my defense, he was making fun of my mom having diabetes.

My mom, she's awesome and strong. Having been through a lot due to my grandma, but also surviving breast cancer, she was someone I look up to.

And when it comes to impulsiveness, I once ran in front of a driving car and I could've died. And from that moment on, I had to take ADHD medication.

I have autism too, it's not that bad. I only have trouble understanding jokes and sarcasm sometimes. And I sometimes have trouble with feeling emotions.

My mom told me that when my grandmother died and we went to visit her at the morgue, everyone was crying and I asked my mom if I had to cry as well.

I watched the 100 till it was late and I had to go to sleep.

When I was about to fall asleep, I heard that voice again, calling out my name. I turned around and saw an older man, he was pale, bald and had a deformed head. The way he looked at me, I couldn't describe it, it scared me. I wanted to scream, but when I opened my mouth, nothing came out. I started crying silently, I was paralyzed from fear. The man came closer and I closed my eyes as I cried, but when I opened them, the man was gone.... It was like he was never there. I scanned my room, even checked under my bed, nothing.. I shooked it off and went to sleep.

Hope you enjoyed the first actual chapter, getting right into it. Already had a night terror there, voice and hallucination. Believe me, these will get worse as the story progresses. I won't make the story too long though, I just want to share this story. I'm not going to rush it, but I won't make it too slow either.