Night Tales

Tale 7: The Nightmare

"Help! Someone help me! Help me get out of here! Please someone...help me--", I shouted for help as loud as I could. But no one could hear me. I was hopeless and weak that I fall on my knees cried for help until I heard a voice.

"I can help you, dear child--", I looked around me but found no one as the voice continue talking to me.

"I can let you out from here but in return, you give me your soul--", the voice was sound closer behind me.

" Do you want to be free, dear child?", I turned around as she, the voice asked me.

"Ahhhh---", I jolted up from the dream when I saw the face of the voice. Creepy. Thank goodness it is just a dream. A bad dream.

I gasped for air and drink a glass of water. I tried to sleep back again but as I was about to drown myself in sleepy island, I heard the voice again. The voice inside the dream!

I sat up and light up the side table lamp. I turned and turned around to find the voice but found none. Must be halucination. I was about to sleep when I heard a water tap was running in the bathroom next to my bedroom. I went out of my room to the bathroom. Weird. I walked over to the sink and close the running tap after I switched on the light.

As I looked up, I heard the voice again and there she is, inside the mirror. Smiling creepily to me. I was beyong scared that I bolted out of the bathroom after I shouted that I does not need her help.

I ran to my bedroom and hide myself under the soft blanket of mine hoping that all of this was just a dream. Even though the voice still haunting me.

"I said I could help you dear child. Don't you want to get out of this high wall around you? You just have to give me your soul in exchange!", she said as I looked around me that I was surrounded by the same high wall back in the dream.

" No! Go away from me! I don't need help from your kinds! Even if I have to climb through this wall till I'm out of my breath!", I frantically thrashed around and shouted towards the voice and hoping that this just another dream. I cried so hard while trying to escape this wall. It suffocated me. All I want just to be free.

I gasped for air and swallow a lump of breathe. I knew it was a dream but why do I still felt that I'm still trapped and this creepy vibes from that old ugly hag.

I was out of entrance when I heard ringing downstairs. Who's calling this late at night? I went downstairs and walked towards the living room. I was about to pick up the phone but it has already stop ringing. I don't like this feeling.

I jolted from someone knocking at the front door. I tried to brave myself and take a glance at the window to see the person but I see none. Be brave! It's probably just a prank!

I heard the knocking stop and when I was about to relieve from that, it starts knocking again. Seriously! Who the hell f*cking knock someone's door in the middle of the night?! I opened the door and still there was no one outside.

"Prangg!", I cussed at the sound and closed the door. I walked slowly toward the kitchen where the sound come from.

I saw some steel bowl cluttering on the kitchen floor. It looks like the things was being thrown. Maybe it's wind. But how can wind blow the steel down the floor and I certainly sure the windows is locked! Oh gosh! Not this feeling again!

I picked up the bowl and placed it where it is before. As I was about to go upstairs, the lights is blinking and it somehow send the vibes from the old hag back in the dream again. Once it stop for awhile, I heard the old hag again.

" You're such ungrateful dear child. Now you should be punished and I'll take your soul forcefully from you!!", said the old hag and laughing at my distress.

All sounds start making noises. The ringings from the phone, the knocking at the door and the kitchen tools clattering on the floor with the lights blinking. I closed both of my ears with the palm of my hands.

"No! No! Go away! This is just a nightmare! I don't believe in you! You're just an illusions in my mind! Go! Go away!", I yelled at her and braven myself as I hold my cries.

" You're such a bad and naughty little girl! I can't wait to eat you alive!!", she said and come towards me with her mouth open wide.

"AAHHH!--", I screamed as loud as I can until I was smacked with a pillow. What the heck?!

"Goddammit!! What's wrong with you?! It's 3:30 a.m and here you are shouting, thrashing and yelling!! I think I'm going to be deaf thanks to you sissy!!", my elder sis scolded me as I wide awake.

I sat up and wipes the sweat off my face. I tried to comprehend things. Hope this is not another dream or might I say a nightmare! Urgh! I hate it! And I better get changed and probably take a shower to get rid of this sweat.

The End