Help Me!

“I went to sleep in my bed …. and….and woke up in a strange house.” stuttered Rachel as she narrated the incidents to the police, she had been missing for almost a month now, only to be found in a horrific state by a ranger taking one last round through the campus. “I had to run from ... from… it ’’ 

            

It had been quite clear to the police that she had been running, for a long time, her foot was bleeding and they had to send men to hold her down, she just was not budging, she kept screaming, howling and running. The person interrogating Jane was a kind woman called Rachel. She asked, “Who is it?”

Jane whispered in a hoarse voice “IT IS BEHIND YOU!’’

Rachel’s heart skipped a beat; the lights started flickering and suddenly switched off. Rachel heard someone calling her from behind.

When the lights back and the entire deputy office ran towards the startled Jane and Rachel were nowhere to be found. 

The deputy general decided to take the strange case and matter into her own hands. She took Jane home with the permission of the parents for interrogation. “Jane, this is my home, you can make yourself comfortable, choose any chair and sit down. Do you need anything to eat or drink? 

“I would like a glass of water, please?’’ She poured her a glass of water.

“Okay tell me everything from the beginning? ’’

Jane started, “about a month ago. I had gone to my friends and twin sisters: Carole and Sydney’s house for a sleepover. We were having lots of fun and after hours of boredom decided to play a game Ouija. Giggling we lit a candle, switched off all the lights and sincerely called out few spirits they had searched on the Internet. We all thought it was a joke since no spirits came, and feeling sleepy, decided to go to sleep. Little did we know that the spirits were there, and not ending the game properly had consequences. 

All of us had the weirdest dream; we all dreamt that we were standing in front of a large mirror. Unable to move, from the corner of our eye we saw IT. He had long claws that were on our shoulders and then suddenly, we all woke up. The weirdest part about all of this was that we all saw the same image in the mirror in the dream. The creature. The monster. 

When we took stock of her surroundings, everything looked the same but nothing felt the same, it felt weird, it felt supernatural, it felt like … “THE DREAM!” I shouted, “WE ARE STUCK IN THE DREAM!” 

“How are we supposed to get out!’’ screeched Carole 

“I’m scared,” whispered Sydney “Maybe we shouldn’t have played that horrid game after all.”

“Wait … let me think.” said I “Ok, we have to play the game like this, we have to find a way out of this house without letting the… the ‘creature’ find us. Carole, Sydney, you guys know this house best.” 

“Ok... Ummm… This looks like our room and the door is supposed to be in front of us, that means north, but the door is on the … right side, on the east? Something is wrong … horribly wrong.” said Carole.

“So… we have to go front because right is probably a trap!” said Sydney.

“Wait …. But the door is supposed to be in front of the bed, right, but the bed is faced behind us, we are on the floor… the bed’s back is facing us .so that means that the door is on the other side so do we have to either we go north, south or east??” I said.

“We have to take the chance, I’ll go east, and you go south. I’ll go first,” said Carole 

As soon as the door of east opened, the west door opened, the side, which has been neglected all this time. 

“Wait, Carole! It’s a trap!” But it was too late, the creature grabbed Carole. 

Jane sobbing “Half-dazed me and Sydney made their way through the dream and into reality, unfortunately, Carole was … gone …..“And that’s what happened. Now you know we should be careful that creature could be anywhere.” just as Jane said that her skin started becoming black, rotting and her nails extended to become claws. The Deputy General could not move!