Beautiful Nightmare by Chrystie Q. Stotz

Author:Chrystie Q. Stotz [Stotz, Chrystie Q.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Unknown
Published: 2011-01-23T06:00:00+00:00

Long after our homework was over and Halo had gone, I found myself lying in bed, trying to sleep. But I couldn’t. My room was completely dark with only a hint of moonlight splashing through the closed curtains. I stared at the ceiling for what felt like hours, trying to think of something other than Halo. I wasn’t sure why I couldn’t get him out of my mind. It really made no sense. He was so pushy and cocky, but his mysteriousness drew me in. And there was just something, I didn’t know what, that drew me to him. Something I couldn’t push away, no matter how hard I tried. Every train of thought I followed in hopes of pushing away Halo’s existence, always seemed to lead back to him somehow, even when the thought made no sense to begin with.

Slowly, I began to close my eyes and even though my thoughts couldn’t escape the mysteriously dark, I finally drifted off to sleep.

It was still very dark out when I awoke to a sound in my room. I opened my eyes and looked around in the near blackness. Nothing seemed out of place, that I could tell, so I plopped my head back down on my pillow and closed my eyes. Now that I was awake I could feel that something wasn’t right. I kept my eyes tightly closed in hopes that it was my overactive imagination, but I couldn’t escape the feeling. Within seconds there was a slight scrapping noise that made me bolt upright observing everything around me. I felt so foolish -like a little girl afraid of the dark- when I got up, looking in my closet and under my bed. But nothing was there. To escape the freezing air I jumped back in bed, snuggling under the covers, when I realized that my curtains were blowing in a breeze. A breeze created by an open window.

I sat frozen in place. A sudden jolt of fear ran through me. I didn’t open that window! As cold as I was -knowing that someone else had been here, had opened my window to get in- I couldn’t bring myself to get up and close it.

I lay there, bundled up under all my blankets, pulled up high over my head to keep me warm, when something moved in my room. Somewhere near my bathroom the door creaked slowly as it was opened. I didn’t make out any footsteps or any other noise anywhere in the room. I strained to hear but was too afraid to look. I couldn’t look.

My heart was pounding so hard in my chest I could taste it. I curled up into a ball and squeezed my eyes tight hoping my imagination had taken over until… my mind started telling me to relax, to breathe and calm down. I didn’t move, but I tired to do what it told me. My parent’s faces flashed through my mind and I mentally slapped myself. I was stronger than this. I was being childish.

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