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Run Alice, Run.

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Something told me to run but where? Whatever I had seen by the window had disappeared. I walked over to the sofa and was about to sit down. Why was I taking this so lightly. My brain was screaming run but instead I chose to think it was just another crazy hallucination. I was going mad cause of my nightmares, anyway. I was probably seeing things? I thought to myself.

I sat down rubbing my temples with both my hands as I thought. Why was this happening to me? Why did my dreams have to haunt me like this? I was losing my mind slowly and all because I lacked sleep. All because of a nightmare, a nightmare that would never end. Still lost in my thoughts I heard a loud banging on the door.

I didn't bother to answer the loud knocking, mom still wasn't home yet and I was still stuck in my thoughts. I thought the knocking on the front door would seize but whoever it was refused to stop and only continued. Each knock getting louder and louder than the one before. It was either something really of utmost importance that was the cause of such urgency and excessive knocking or it was to harass me.

The knocks didn't stop though, getting louder and louder to the point that I could no longer think. It sounded like whoever it was wanted to break the door down. The knocks sounding more violent, angered and brutal with each passing second. Why was I so calm? Why was I not running? I would die of doubting myself. Thinking I was crazy. Was all this really happening? Or was it all in my head?

It didn't sound like it was all in my head and yet, I assumed I was going mad. I got up from the sofa. The only way to see if I wasn't going mad would be to see who is on the other side of the door. If no one was there it was my mind playing tricks on me. The banging I was hearing was in my head then. I looked through the peephole expecting to see nothing as I quietly stood by the door. My footsteps were silent so that if there was someone there they wouldn't be able to hear me.

I slowly began to move my head towards the peephole and once my eye was near to it, I expected to see nothing and I did see nothing until a bunny costume head that was stained with blood came into view. I got a fright and nearly screamed but covered my mouth. There was silence, like the person knew I was there and then suddenly, they began knocking violently on the door once again.

By the way this person was going on they would surely break the door down. I ran for the house phone, ducking behind the couch and dialed the number of the card the police officer had given me. How'd it get in my pocket? I thought to myself as I dialed the digits on the card. I remembered his words as I put the phone to my ear. "So just be wary or on the look out. If you see anything strange just give me a call."

"Hello?" I heard the police officer's gruff voice on the other side of the phone.

"Officer-" I whisper taking a gulped.

"Alice..." He asked in a questioning tone as if remembering my voice, "is that you?"

"Yes!" I exclaimed in a whisper and not giving him time to speak on. "I need help, there's a man and he is-" I was going to describe him but chose not to out of the fear that I'd sound insane if I had to say what I had seen.

"Can you describe him for me?" The officer questioned but I stayed silent. No, if I told him, he'd think I was crazy. "I..." I murmured thinking, "you have to see for yourself." I blurt out. "My address is 7 elder road. Please get here as fast as possible." He'd think I was prank calling if I told him for sure. Even I began doubting myself. Putting myself down and not trusting myself like this. Thinking I was going mad.

The door burst down before I could process anything. I dropped the phone in an instant and the phone continuously beeped to say the line was still running but had fallen upon deaf ears. *Beep, beep* "Alice!" The phone going silent on the other end. Either it died or the officer hung up. I peeked out from behind the couch to see my door no longer on its hingers.

The bunny man wasn't in the doorway as I expected but I wasn't relieved. My heart was still pounding in my chest like a thousand drums being hit at the same time. This couldn't be real. I thought in horror and just as I got myself off the ground there he was, standing over me. A kitchen knife in his hand as he looked down upon me with that emotionless costume head's eyes. Who was this man? Why was he here? Was I going to die?

Slowly the knife came down towards me as I was stuck on the ground, motionless. The sound of sirens in the background as red and blue lights flashed in the room from the broken down doorway. The police officer was too late. The knife was already too close to me to be stopped. He had no remorse. My eyes went wide as the knife moved down towards me. I couldn't escape him. He was going to kill me.

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"Alice, wake up." I heard my mother's voice. "Wake up hunny, you fell asleep on the sofa, again."

My eyes cracked open. My eyelashes slowly fluttering to see my mother locking the front door as she spoke, walking towards the couch I was laying on.

It was just a dream?

But it felt so real?

"Mom?" I furrowed my eyebrows looking around the room.

"Yes hunny?" She asked.

"What happened?" I looked towards the door. It sounded like I couldn't come to terms with my surroundings and honestly, I couldn't. The dream it felt so real. It felt like I, like I did call that cop and like I did die at the hands of some creep wearing a bunny costume head. The door I stared at blankly. It was still on its hingers.

It wasn't broken down but I could've sworn it was a few minutes ago. "Well I went grocery shopping, I'm sure you saw my note?" She questioned. "And I got caught in the rain. When I got back you were lights out on the couch. What happened while I was gone?" She now asked me.

"Alice are you, okay?" My mother questioned me now as I didn't bother to answer back. "You look so pale, you should get some rest." She gestured me to go to my room.

I couldn't make out what was happening.

What happened before?

It was all in my head?

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