My breath is getting heavier, the familiar screeching sound from behind is coming closer, louder than ever almost as if they have become more. No matter how long I have heard this sound it scares me, and hearing it closer makes me frightened, faster, I have to go faster. I can't let them get to me, not after what I have been through, I can't let them win. For the past years I have been chased by these creatures, or are they creatures? Maybe it is just something my brain painted just to cover up the empty darkness surrounding me. Whatever it is I'm too afraid to meet it, I don't want to meet it, yet slowly my body is willing to give in, but I'm not ready yet.
In the darkness alone I have been running, I can't tell what's in front of me, behind me, or beside me. The darkness is so thick it almost feels as if I'm swimming through it while wearing heavy armor, almost impossible 'Just keep running you will make it'
I collided into something and i fell, it felt cool on my burning hot skin, the touch felt almost like glass, it instantly lit up and I could see myself, it's a mirror. It was odd to see, it felt almost as if i have been blind and introduced to the light once again. It felt good to see light, light in all this darkness yet I could only see my reflection, everything behind me was dark. I tried to see the end of the mirror but it seemed that it never ended, the top just continued on and the sides seemed to be endless, they just continue on casting a bit of light. Staring back at my reflection I could see that my hair was a mess, my face had bruises and scratches everywhere and I'm not sure how I got them. My shirt hung loosely on my scrawny body, all of sudden the word 'disgusting' appeared on the mirror written in large bold letters, with the same color as blood. What is the meaning of this? More words appeared, 'fat', 'useless', 'not enough'
'Maybe i am just not enough'
Why? What is this all for?Why is this so important to me?
Behind me I heard the screeching sound nearing closer, I look around in distress trying to find a way out but there was none. None that I could see, the only thing I could see was the mirror, words kept appearing as a tear trickle down my face. Wiping the tear away I took a step forward and examined the mirror, there were no hidden buttons or something that would open it and clear my way. The sound drew nearer I could hear it as if it was right behind me. I could not breath, I felt as if something heavy was sitting on my chest, my heart was racing, all I wanted to do was just fall, curl up and wait for someone to come and help me. I knew no one would come no one ever came I'm all alone as always.
'No one cares about you'
Inhaling a deep breath I stood up, I faced the mirror again and with all power I had I punched the mirror and it shattered into tiny million pieces. My hand hurt, I had tiny glass pieces stuck in it, blood flowed from my hand, not having much time to care I ran away feeling more powerful than ever.
The sound slowly died away, feeling more hopeful I continued running. Oddly I felt that the blood stopped, the wound had healed leaving a scar behind, I'm not sure to how it healed this quickly. I ignored it and kept running, I'm still not sure to where I am running or how far I'm running, it seems that this hallway never ends. It's just a long, wide, never ending dark hallway.
There was a faint light I could see from the corner of my eye to my left. I stopped. I had two choices, I either could continue straight forward into the darkness or I could turn left and run to the light.
'Turn left maybe it's a window you can jump from there you either live or die'
With my mind made up, I turned left and started running, behind me I heard the screeching noise once again growing closer, the sound sent chills up my spine, I started running faster.
Suddenly I felt the scene around me change, it got cold and what seemed to be a long wide hallway began to get narrow, not allowing me much space. It seems like my freedom of running was taken away from me. I stopped my heart racing and sweat trickling down on my neck, I look around trying to figure out what happened, the cold dark hallway gave me chills as coldness crept onto my spine, for once I could peer all the way to the end of the hallway. At the end I could see the faint dim light that I saw from the corner of my eye clearly in front of me, it casted light to the sides of the hallway and I could see it was very narrow, only one person could walk through. Focusing on the light I started running.
It felt strange, it felt no matter how fast I ran I'm not getting any closer to the light. Suddenly I felt somebody push me roughly from behind and I fell with my hands outstretched to catch my fall, laughter grew around me as my face hit the ground, I looked around but I couldn't see anyone, it was still too dark. Slowly I got up but I did not make it halfway before pain spread across my chest as if somebody had hit me with a metal pipe, all air knocked out of me, I fell backwards on my back gasping for breath. I felt a tear trickle down on my face, the laughter grew louder 'Give in to it'.
The pain was bearable at first but then it got worse, it started to throb and burn. I wanted to scream but no sound came out, as tears were pouring down my face,i got hit repeatedly by something hard and cold, my body was aching, screaming with pain. I had no power to fight back. I screamed loudly begging them to stop but my screams were silenced by the darkness. The screeching sound grew louder, they have arrived. As if knowing that, the laughter grew, they were roaring, i felt as if everything was coming to its end. But they can't win, so I chose to reach for the light.
