Chapter NINE: Nightmare

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The air is heavy and there is nothing but darkness. The ground Lilly sits up from doesn't feel real. The ground is fuzzy. Lilly places her hands on the ground, trying to figure out what the ground could be made of. Suddenly, the ground moves and Lilly's hand falls into something soft and grimy. Lilly moves her hand to another spot around her and once more, feels something fuzzy. Lilly's face wrinkles and she bites part of her lip, as she thinks about what she's feeling. 

Suddenly, a light flickers on, illuminating Lilly's surroundings. Lilly immediately looks down at where her hands are placed, and underneath her hands are giant spiders. Lilly jumps back, banging her head into a dirt wall. Lilly's eyes open wide as she sees the whole floor covered in giant spiders, each one looking scarier than the other. A spider falls onto Lilly's head, it's prickly legs scrape against Lilly's head. She brings her hands up to her head, and feels the fuzzy creature standing on her head. A scream escapes Lilly's mouth, and she flings the spider across the room. When the spider hits the other side of the room, all of the spiders turn their attention to Lilly. Their beady eyes stare deep into her soul as they slowly creep closer. Lilly looks desperately for a way out but there is nothing but dirt walls, closing her in for the spider's easy pray. The spiders start clicking fiercely, each second makes the sound louder, as they make their way over to Lilly. 

Suddenly, one of the spiders flings themselves onto Lilly, knocking her onto the ground. As soon as Lilly's shoulders hit the ground all the spider's race towards her like the first one to touch her would win a big prize. Lilly holds her mouth shut and the spider that knocked her over crawls onto her face. Tears fall out of Lilly's eyes as she holds in her screams. The other spiders cover her body like a blanket, creating a terrible itch that can't be scratched. All at once the spider's bite into her flesh, burning Lilly with pain. She screams as the spiders dig deeper. Poison infiltrates her blood stream, causing Lilly an extreme numbness. She's paralyzed. Lilly's eyes are the only thing that can move. Suddenly, a loud roar is heard, and all the spiders run off of her and up the walls. Lilly's eyes fly back and forth in her head, anticipating what's coming next. The ground quakes and shivers, something big is coming. Just then a spider, bigger than a double Decker bus, peaks it's ugly head into the hole, Lilly lies in. Lilly's eyes freeze as she stares into the black, soulless eyes of the spider. It's huge head dives into the hole, It's mouth latches on to Lilly's body, before pulling her out of the hole. The spider flings Lilly up into the air, her body useless and unable to save her as she falls back down into the throat of the spider.  

Darkness follows. 

Suddenly, a bright light breaks into Lilly's eyes. She's no longer in the stomach of a spider, and she is no longer paralyzed. However, she still isn't safe. The smell of bleach burns her nostrils, and Ethan appears out thin air. There is a tub next to where he stands, and the only source of light seems to becoming from somewhere above them, creating a small circle, where the edges and beyond are nothing but darkness. 

"I searched and searched through that ugly little head of yours and spiders was the only thing that I could find that was actually scary, your second scariest thing was me, which makes me upset that I wasn't your first, but whatever, why are your fears so lame? I mean come on! One of your fears is missing the bus!" Ethan says, with a drink of blood red wine in his hand.  

"What are you going to do to me now?" Lilly asks, her voice broke as she spoke. 

Ethan laughs before answering her with another question. "Are you still scared of me?" 

Lilly gulps hard, and doesn't answer his question. 

Suddenly, Ethan face flashes away his smile and replaces it with gritted teeth, before running straight for Lilly, like a bull looking at a red target. Lilly tries to run away, but she can't move her feet. Lilly looks at her feet in horror, they are melted to the ground. Ethan hits her with the force of a moving truck, causing Lilly's breath to escape her lungs, there is also a loud crack as her melted feet snap off her legs. Lilly screams. 

Ethan laughs crazily, as he realizes what he's done to Lilly's feet.  

"Don't worry it's just a scratch!" Ethan says, laughing harder. 

 Despite the pain at Lilly's ankles, she throws her fist up into Ethan's jaw, but Ethan catches it before her fist collides. 

"No." Ethan says, as his grip on Lilly's hand grows stronger

The pain in her ankles and in her arms causes Lilly to grit her teeth together and sweat pours down her face.  

"Why do you hate me so much!" Lilly screams at Ethan. 

"Because kids are brats that need to be taken care of! And It seems that I am the only one to do that! My dad taught me, and now I need to teach you!" Ethan replies. 

"Your dad?" Lilly says, with wide eyes

"He was a man that knew how to clean kids, and he knew how horrible and repulsive they were. I am clean because of him. In fact, without him I would never be a man!" Ethan says. 

"I'm sorry." Lilly says, before falling into a deeper level of sleep.  




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