The dream

A short story of a girl named Alex and her horrifying dreams. First story! ^o^

Alex walked through the darkness of the forest. “Anyone here?” Even thought was late, Alex had the sinking feeling someone was with her, but she could barely see a few feet in front of her and even that seemed to be slowly be dimming. “Hello, I don’t mean any harm I’m just…” Alex paused, she couldn’t remember what she was doing here, she couldn’t remember. A crack in the forest set her off running, her nerves were on edge and that small crack, like a spark setting off a flame, made her take off running. Tearing through the trees it reminder her of the snow white sense running through the forest, the trees came alive and seemed to be reaching out to her, wanting to trap her and keep her in this dark forest forever. Tearing her sleeves off a branch she stumbled on a root and fell, but instead of hitting ground, she hit nothing, she was floating “why won’t people listen?” A voice chord in the nothingness “ Why do you ignore me?” Alex eyes widened from a mix of fear and realization “I..Ida?” Suddenly the blackness was gone replaced with the sudden sound of blaring pop music and bright light streaming the the curtains. Alex let out a breath that she didn’t know she was keeping. “It happened again.” Alex said to no one in particular. Sighing she got out of her small bed, and lazily walked to her dresser. Pulling out a simple shirt and sweat pants she shimmed into her outfit and clambered out if her room to the kitchen. No one was up yet, it was saturday and her parents were probably drunk at someones house, they never were home. Alex’s brothers were upstairs  and probably weren’t getting up till 2, so she decided to make herself breakfast. Shifting through the leftovers, she fond some cabbage and tomatoes and rotten potatoes. “Well, I can make cabbage soup!” Alex set to work making some boring tasteless cabbage soup for breakfast. After eating she sat in her chair. “I wonder where Ida is right now?” Alex thought out loud. Glancing at the newspaper clipping hung on the fridge
 
GIRL MISSING
have you seen this girl?
Name: Ida Carpenter
is about 5’6’ and has blonde hair with blue eyes, often wears necklace with rectangular locket
please contact…

Alex had read it about 2,000 times and still it made her sad, she missed her classmate and wish she didn’t have to worry about another person. A meowing from outside interrupted her thoughts. Alex alkyd over the door to find a raven black cat, those cliche cats that everyone thinks is bad luck. “What are you doing here you…” The cat darted between her legs and ran to her room, the cat picked up one of Alex’s necklace with her mouth and ran back outside. “Hey! Devil-cat, come back with that!!!” And Alex took off after the cat. After running forever Alex cornered the cat in an alley, “ No where to run, Lucifer” After 5 minutes of running, she took the name Lucifer to call the cat, since he seemed to be a never tiring devil spawn. The cat didn’t seemed to realized it was cornered and took off to the alley wall. Then, the cat disappeared. “Okay… this day just got weird “ Alex walked slowly to the wall and stuck her hand out,instead off hitting something solid, her hand disappeared. without thinking Alex stepped through the wall only to find herself in her most dreaded place, the dark forest. Panic set in and Alex took off in a frenzy. She wasn’t thinking she just knew she had to get out. “Find me…please.” The voice resenting with the trees. Alex stumbled and fell into a deep dark hole of nothingness “Hello? Can you here me?” a voice echoed. Light broke and gateway to a darken room. Alex found herself bound and tied up, stuck in a small truck. the top was lifted “Oh, so you’ve waken up, that means more fun!” A man loomed in front of her and grabbed her small wrists that had many scratches. Weather it was from her or the trees or the man, she didn’t know. she was thrown on a table, her bound hands were separated, but she had very little energy so the man was ableto easily bind each limb to the table. “Now, Ida, will you like some venom, or surgery today?"

Author's Note

Constructive criticism is always welcomed!

Reviews

[chellasan]

Your experience or your fantasy???' Reads good either way.