Pesadilla maravillosa

Chapter 1

"Another day, yay" I mumbled sarcastically as I drew myself off the bed to turn off my alarm clock. It was my special day today but it appeared as if everyone had forgotten. I made my bed and drew the curtains to embrace the warmth of the sun. It illuminated my dull room with passionate rays of beaming light to feed the starving shades it contained. I could tell it was gonna be a great day.

I went downstairs and it looked as if no one was awake. I went into the living room to check if anybody was there, when a loud choir of voices startled me.

"SURPRISE!"

My mother and my father stood there with gifts in their hands and below them lay my lazy dog, Koshii.

"Happy birthday, honey!" My parents cheered happily

"Thanks guys, what's my surprise?" I chuckled as I tore open the silver wrapping paper from a box almost the size of a shoe box, my dad handed to me. I opened it to see the last book of my favorite book series, Beyonders; atop it a gorgeous silver chain that read  'Jesus loves you' in a fancy cursive font.

"Oh my gosh Dad! It's the last book! thank you so much!" I shouted gleefully as I squeezed my dad tightly. 

"Wait shhh!" Mother shouted, concentrating on a news article.

"There seems to be some strange things going on since the last eclipse," the news reporter read,  "according to meteorologist Jerome Cunningham there seems to be a blizzard about twelve hours away, so prepare yourselves for the worst."

"A blizzard in June?" Mother questioned miserably 

"I'm sure it's no big deal Mom, besides, more Netflix for me" I giggled

"I don't know," my dad commented "Alison, do you think it's him?"

"Claiborne?, oh yes it's him, crazy bastard must've finally found me, guys pack your stuff now"

"Where are we going?, mom you're pregnant you have to stay home and get enough rest" I asked in confusion

" I know, just do it " She instructed, and I knew better than to argue with her so I headed upstairs to pack my bags. I packed everything I could possibly fit into my suitcase. I went into the kitchen and grabbed nonperishable foods, I found a box of lunchables and a bottle of soda also two cans of chili beans. I fixed my kinky hair into a messy bun and put on my favorite outfit, a black T-shirt, a pair of my favorite vans, black leggings and a yellow hoodie jacket.

Mother and father had already packed their things and were waiting for me downstairs.

"So what now?," I asked them dryly

"Well," Mom began hesitantly " we are gonna have to hit the road"

"What, why!, we survived countless numbers of inconveniences," I told her "this is madness."

"Okay honey there is something I need to tell you," She mumbled hesitantly "but let's go in the car we have ten hours left."

"Fine" I snapped irritably

"I'll drive and take us to the nearest hotel about an hour from here" Dad told us

We hopped into our blue 2013 Audi A3 and started our journey.

"Okay mom, what did you want to tell me- oh wait!" I screamed "we forgot Koshii!" I ran back in the house and grabbed Koshii and sprinted back to the car, "that was close" I chuckled.

"So yeah what did you want to tell me?" I asked again

"Well you see," she began "when I was working as a chemist back in the day, long story short, I fell in love with Claiborne but then I had also fell in love with your father" she paused

"What happened?" I inquired

"I had to choose one to start my life with after I'd left my job to study culinary arts and-"

"You chose dad" I interrupted

"Indeed I did, " she replied exchanging passionate glances with father through his front mirror, "but Claiborne wouldn't settle for that, he went crazy, he even tried using Voodoo to break our love apart until all that dark magic consumed him. I didn't hear much about him after that, they say he joined forces with some demons and entered another world or something, nothing but rumors though."

"So how do you know it's him?"

"He gave me this necklace when we first met, I guess he used it to track me"

"Can I see it?"

She handed me the locket which appeared to be handcrafted from pure copper with a snowflake carved within it. On the back it read

You are what melts my cold heart and my blizzard soul,
Never change, for the ice in my soul changes like seasons

"Oh gosh, this is real messed up" I said concernedly 

"Yeah," Mother sighed "I wonder what became of him, I can still see him with his pale skin and disheartened blue-grey eyes and he was always just so tall, makes me almost feel bad for him."

I then felt my head slumped back on the car seat.

"We're here, let's go quickly" Father demanded

We all held hands and walked in a line towards the hotel to check in. We checked into the room closest to the emergency exit. It was small but it could hold all of us for the night.

"So what do we do now?" I questioned with great sums of tiredness now welling up in me

"We have nine hours left, I say we rest now" Dad suggested. I could tell he knew we had a long journey ahead of us. I dragged myself into the coziest bed and cuddled with Koshii. My eyes closed instantly as I was being washed with tiredness, I even forgot to say my prayers. I couldn't help dreaming of what Claiborne would look like if I ever confronted him.

I saw a tall figure towering over me with a long, black , straight head of hair which lightly brushed his shoulders with a dark complexion similar to myself. I pictured  myself being fastened into his eyes of strange hue, with the most welcoming smile and being relatively good looking.

"Wake up, wake up!," I heard my mother's voice pleading for my to end my encapsulating dream. I got up instantly, "What is going on?, psssh, so much for trying to have a good birthday." I was awoken to dark night and screams from every corner. Mother grabbed me and rushed me into the hotel's panic room. Several people had already been there, some were fainting, some were shaking and some were calm but I could tell everyone was scared.

A man who seemed to have been the hotel manager opened the door to let in father who was holding Koshii. I took pictures with my phone so if I didn't make it through this, mother would show it to the new baby so he will never forget me. We waited in there for about forty-five minutes before the walls started to give way to Claiborne's riot above.

"Ok this is foolishness, if we are going to get anywhere I suggest we make a run for it!" A stranger protested. I totally agreed with him, sitting and waiting would do us no good. I got up to leave but mother grabbed my hand, "Where are you going?" She asked me sternly.

"Mother we have to do something, look, I love you guys and I want to end whatever you guys or this idiot started."

"Listen here young lady, you are staying right here!" Dad shouted

"You can't make me!" I snapped back and ran out

I stood shaking realizing my actions. I could see my mother begging for me to come back but I was deafened by my realization. My consciousness tried to convince my body to go back but it was no use until I felt a cold, wet hand clench my shoulder, was it him? was it Claiborne?