My Daylight Monsters by Dalton Sarah

Author:Dalton, Sarah [Dalton, Sarah]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2013-10-03T21:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

The door drags against the floorboards. Over the years it has sagged on its hinges. There are no windows. It’s simply a square room with the remains of padding on the walls.

“It used to be a white room,” I say.

“Yeah, probably,” Lacey says. “Get comfy. You’ve got fifteen minutes.” Lacey turns to leave with the others. “Watch out for the bodies in the walls.”

Marcus makes ghost noises and dances in front of my face. I push him out the way and move towards Lacey. “Wait, don’t I get a torch?”

She laughs. “It wouldn’t be much of a dare with a torch!”

The others leave the room, each making scary noises, the kind you get on really old horror movies: a slow laugh, the woo-ooo-ooo of a ghost, the screeching of a cat. The door slams shut. I’m in complete darkness.

Mo didn’t come with the others. He’s definitely mad at me. I shouldn’t have snapped at him like that, not when he’s trying to look out for me. It’s just that he’s such a fixer. He wants to make you better. He’s like the male equivalent of a girl who loves bad boys. It’s pretty cute, when you think about it.

I make myself comfortable by sitting on the floor and leaning against the wall. It’s not so bad. It’s a bit cold; the floor is dusty and I can’t see a thing, but I’m okay, I can keep it together, if I keep reminding myself that there’s nothing in the dark that isn’t in the daylight. I see monsters everywhere, anyway. What could possibly scare me? I’ve seen skull-men and zombie things. They help me. I don’t know why, but they do.

I lean my head back against the wall. Why did Johnny say I was afraid of the darkness? It was the way he said it: afraid of the darkness. Like it wasn’t the dark, it was something else. Where had he gone?

When I rest my head against the wall and close my eyes, I hear a scratching sound coming from the walls. It’s like fingernails running against a door.

“Ha, ha, very funny,” I call out. “You’ll have to do better than that if you want to freak me out.”

I expect sniggers on the other side of the door but there’s nothing. The scratching stops, though. Maybe they got bored. It’s probably Lacey.

I settle back and shut my eyes again. If I can make myself relax, the fifteen minutes will fly by.

The scratching comes back.

Then a shuffling noise.

My heartbeat quickens. “I said, very funny. You can stop now.”

More shuffling, like someone is dragging their body along the floor. Every arm-hair lifts as the noise gets louder, almost like it’s coming from inside the room. It can’t be. But what if it is? What if I’m not alone?

“Who’s making that noise?” I stand up and bang on the door. “Stop it now, it’s not funny anymore.”

My eyes have adjusted to the dark but I still can’t see anything at all. I have to be alone.

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