frozen in fear

the unexpected

(Sorry for uploading a bit later than usual I started to procrastinate oops)

The sun was shining through the linen curtains, birds could be heard chirping away and a warm breeze was coming through the slightly opened windows. Blair opened her eyes in terror of what she experienced. There was nothing. No blood, no psychotic old man, no skinned brother. Where had it all gone? She acknowledged the fact that it was her frequent sleep paralysis, but it seemed too detailed, too real, it couldn't have just been a nightmare.

It was around 5:45 am, and it was a school day, Tuesday to be in fact. She got out of her bed, and proceeded with her school morning routine. Even though they were in broad daylight, there are blackout curtains in most of the rooms, and that included the whole of the bottom floor. She went downstairs to go and brush her teeth, but when she was at the bottom of the stairs, Blair could see the silhouette of a man from one of the other rooms. Gein, to be exact.

Her heart flipped, what was he still doing? This man isn't alive, he died years ago, 12 years ago, actually. She didn't want to turn the light on, what if it was really him? No it couldn't have, it was probably her father finishing a cigarette. Running upstairs to her parents room, her father was still in bed, sound asleep. Loud footsteps could be heard coming up to the room she was in. Blair started to panic, she could feel her stomach churning at the thought of what would happen if it actually was Edward. Her breathing started to shorten, to the point where she didn't even know whether to breathe or not.

There was a knock at that bedroom door, and Blair's racing thoughts came to a halt. The only thing she could do was turn around to see who it was, and, surprise surprise, it was her "lovely friend". Her eyes were glued to the very large wound on the side of his stomach. It looked as if he had just survived a gunshot. "What are you looking at?" she closed her eyes in embarrassment and terror- who wouldn't look at that wound?

Yet the real question was, why was he still there? He shouldn't be there, he should be in his grave. Or was she daydreaming? Maybe that nightmare spooked her so much that she's started to see things, maybe if she tried to walk though it, it'll disappear. She tried to walk through him, as disgusted as she was after looking at that dripping womb. Much to her relief, the man had disappeared, perhaps she really was just seeing things.

Most of school went pretty alright, until about lunchtime, it went downhill. She opened her locker to see the light peeking through from the vents hitting an object she wasn't familiar with. It took up the whole side and it had a really strong smell, like blood. "What's wrong-" Blair's friend, Mabel, looked at the floor in disgust and horror, "-did you murder someone?" Blair looked down at the floor, there was blood everywhere. Her hands were sticky from the blood on the locker dial, and there was blood constantly being splattered on the two girls from the locker. Mabel quickly brought out her phone and turned on the flashlight.

What the two of them uncovered that day was horrendous. The cannibal continued to chew at the flesh of what looked like a good chunk of someone's torso, with the blood still flying everywhere. It struggled to get through the veins so they were kicked all around the floor. The girls backed away from the locker in a disturbed silence as the monster stopped. Suddenly there was a huge crowd trying to catch a glimpse of what was going on without getting the blood on their shoes.

The creature turned it's head away from the raw meat, snapping every bone in its neck as it did so. Its eyelids flipped over, as blood proceeded to trickle down its dehydrated face onto the floor of the locker. The students watched whilst this monster pick up the veins from the floor and tie them together. They were all confused by what it was trying to do, but what they had seen after would scar them for life.

The gender less being walked onto the school hallways, with its back hunched, so that all the students could now get a full view of it. Using the long thread of veins, it started to wrap the "human cords" (if that's what you want to call it) around its bare neck. Once there wasn't much left to wrap around its neck, the monster started to hold on then a little tighter, and yanked it. The veins were being pulled so much that the cannibal was actually gagging up blood, but sooner or later, the body was gone. After that scene of this supposed human struggling to catch air, the whole body burned in front of those poor eyes. It was so sudden, as well, maybe it was from the excruciating pain it was bearing? But what was really confusing was that the skull of the being had remained on the bloody floor.

Some minutes passed where the whole crowd was silent so that they could register what was going on, until there was a voice behind Blair which whispered, "Did you like my special entrance?"