The Backrooms

Chapter One

      I had no idea where I was or how I had gotten there. I was wearing military camo pants and a black cami. This didn't even feel like something I would wear. And it was really cold. The floor was moist with a stench of urine reeking through it. The black combat boots that I was wearing made the floor even squeakier but the squeaks were being drowned out by the buzzing from the ceiling lights.

It was dark, but you had enough light to see. Across the room were double doors like in a hospital surgical room. They were wide open and led into a hallway that faded into black. The voice in my head kept yelling at me not to go there, to stay in one place.

This never ends well in movies. This is the part where the main character dies because he or she decided to go through the door. But I couldn't hear the people screaming at me through the TV.

I needed to go through there. Once I stepped outside of the room the doors shut and the endless black hallway faced me. Crap. I tuned back toward the door but it wasn't there. The room that I had entered to had been turned into a wall. I couldn't go forward, I couldn't go through the shadowed hallway. Luckily, there was another hallway to my right that I entered.

With every step I took another fluorescent light turned on ahead of me. It wouldn't seem to end. So many questions flew through my mind. Where was I? How did I get here? Where was my mom and Val? But I knew something for sure. I wasn't alone in whatever building this was. I know it sounds crazy but I could just feel someone else's presence. The sandwich to the left of the hallway proved my thought right. I crouched over to examine it.

It was in a ziplock bag and half eaten. It smelled like a fresh tuna sandwich. Fresh. Whoever ate it was running from something to leave it behind, and they weren't far. I thought that maybe I could catch up them so I started running. I ran faster until I can across another double door.

Don't open it. Don't do it. I pushed the thoughts in my head back. What if the person went through here. I opened it and came across a large room filled with the yellow florecent lights. It looked like a public high school cafeteria that was empty. At the end of the room were two of the same double doors, one pair on the left and another on the right. I ran towards the right one. As soon as I opened the door I heard something. Like footsteps, but large footsteps.

It was getting closer. And it didn't sound human, it sounded like an animal. A large animal, like a bear. My heart raced. My fear wouldn't let me move. I was frozen. Then I heard one of the lights shatter on the floor behind me. Run.

I ran as fast as I could and didn't look back. I heard the thing behind me started running in my direction. I made the mistake of looking back and crashed into something. No, not something, someone.