Cold

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I'm with my dad and uncle.
We're at an unnamed store.
It's very bright,
with pure white walls that seem to stretch on forever.
There's nothing there,
yet the two of them seem to be debating whether to buy the product or not.
I feel bored for some reason and
tell my dad I would be waiting in the car.
He hands me the keys and I walk out the obvious, but
only door.
I walk out and
my eyes are met with a runway.
I've never been on an airplane before,
but what I see are multiple planes,
all lined up,
I don't see the store behind me,
but I see something across from me,
like a tunnel.
I walk down the line of planes.
I never felt so small.
The sky above me was a grey shade of blue,
was it going to rain?
I suddenly appear in a tunnel and
I'm no longer going forward,
I'm going up.
I'm walking up what I assume are stairs.
I can't see a lot,
it's very dark and
I'm cold.
I go up and
I find myself in an attic.
There's household items and
such up here.
I look around to find:
a bed spring, cabinets, nightstands, and
a particular antique lamp.
The lamp just stood out to me.
It had a fabric shade and
was a curvy lamp.
I was, 
for some reason,
captured by this lamp.
I didn't even realize,
it was so cold that I could see my own breath.
I was shivering.
Then I heard something.
Or rather someone.
They were also cold,
I could tell by their shivering.
It was ahead of me.
I couldn't see what it was.
Even though it was dark,
my eyes had adjusted and
acted as highlighters in the dark and
lit up what I was looking at.
I inched forward.
There was an eerie creak,
I froze, 
to my horror there was a woman there.
She was wearing a stained white dress, and
had what seemed like black hair.
I tried to scream,
I wanted to run away,
I wanted to
wake up.
Her head was moving,
it was shaking and
twitching all ways that made it seem like an optical illusion.
She sounded like she was shivering before,
now she sounds like she's crying.
She then started to laugh.
That's when she stopped shaking.
Her face.
This is what made me want to scream, 
but only had me writhing in my sleep.
Her eyes, nose, and mouth were just
sunken holes. 
She looked like a corpse.
Her skin was decayed,
and her hair,
a few strands here and there.
This wasn't truly bone chilling.
Suddenly,
she began twitching again and 
raised her arms in front of herself,
then moved forward towards me at an inhuman speed.
I couldn't speak as my voice hitched in my throat.
I didn't want to look back,
it was like turning the lights off behind you,
only to rush out the room into the lit area.
I did just that and ran to the light at the end of the tunnel.
When I finally reached it,
I was in the airplane lineup.
Right?
It had the same grey shade of blue and
the ground was marked for where they were supposed to be.
But, this time,
the planes were gone.
It was raining and all I heard was my breathing that was muffled by the sound of rain and thunder.
I kept running until I found myself in the store where my uncle and dad were.
I ran over and hid behind my dad.
They didn't even notice me.
They didn't even acknowledge me.
What is this place?


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