Possess Me by K. R. Alexander

Author:K. R. Alexander
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.

I dream I’m walking. Walking through my hometown. It is late. Deep night. My town feels abandoned.

It’s sticky and hot in the dream, but the sensation is far removed. As is the feeling of the cracked concrete underneath my bare feet. I stalk down the empty street, my fists clenched and resolve burning in my chest.

It’s time to begin. It’s time to begin.

In the dream, I am walking through a nearby neighborhood. I pass a fence with a dog sleeping out front. In the real world, the Doberman would have leaped and growled at me. But in the dream, it cowers as I pass, whimpering and running away.

Blink.

And I am in front of a house. Single story. Ranch rambler. White siding, picket fence, flickering porch light.

I’ve seen it before—I know every part of Marshall Junction—but I don’t know who lives here.

I know who lives here.

I stay to the shadows. I walk around the back.

I pause outside the window.

I look inside. And smile.

Blink.

I shuffle away. Back through the shadows.

It is harder now, with this weight atop me. Harder, but not impossible.

In the dream, I am strong. Much stronger than when I’m awake.

Much faster, too.

Trees scratch up around me, the slivered moon casting bare light on the tangled ground. It shouldn’t be enough to see, but I see everything in the sharpest of details. The bats sweeping between branches. Crickets scurrying beneath leaves.

My prize, fluttering his eyelids.

“Hush, now,” I whisper. “Sleep. We are nearly there.”

He groans, but my influence is strong. He slumbers.

Blink.

We are there.

The Manor rises before me. The blackened remains scratching at the sky.

I bring him inside.

Down the blackened hallway.

Toward the cellar door.

He stirs.

“What … what are you … ?” he grumbles.

I drop him from my shoulders.

On the concrete floor.

In the blackened cellar.

“Wait here,” I tell him. “Be a good boy and wait.”

“Who … ?” he asks. Sleep overtakes him once more.

I lean him against the wall.

When I leave and lock the door behind me, I begin to whistle.

This will be easier than I thought.

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