(Republished) The Darkness (Completed)

The darkness

Hi the name's Liz and years ago I experienced something horrifying. I thought it stopped then after that one night but... it came back.

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Saturday ?/?/2015

It was family night where everyone would gather around and watch a movie. My dad ordered pizza since Mum wasn't bothered to cook. I was waiting patiently while my family grew irritant by hunger. We waited for almost an hour till. The doorbell rang. Ding-Dong. First ring. We all sat patiently unable to hear the first bell. Though I heard it through and through. I had thought it was our neighbours and did nothing.

Ding-Dong. The second ring of our doorbell rang. They heard it this time. I was lost, confused at their instructions so I sat and did nothing. While my furious father got up and checked the window. He looked at me, wanting to raise his hand at me and then the whole family and said "no not yet" knowing that staring a fight won't be that helpful at the moment. Mother became weary and relentless. She wanted to sleep but she wanted to eat. She was hungry. The only mind the only thought that lingered was food. Sweet succulent food.

Ding-Dong. The third doorbell rang. We all heard it. Again I was told this time to check the window. Listening carefully I heard the words. "Liz check the window. I think the pizza is here now". Those words came out my dad, then my mothers distorted voice. She was tired and I knew that.

After all she had a long day of work at a warehouse. Cold and bitter. A frozen fortress. Four hours of no heating. Four hours of no lunch. Four hours of unboxing. For four days. My father disliked it as my mother suffered but it couldn't be helped. After all we're in a family that works day and night for survival.

I checked the window. Something was there. It wasn't the pizza. It wasn't our neighbours. It wasn't a friend to visit. I blinked once making sure I wasn't paranoid or even hallucinating. It was still there. A silhouette. No silhouettes. Three in fact. Though surely I should've seen a face or a body. No an object of some sort. That it was the shape of a man or that it was a person.

As a bright lamp near our home where spiders seem to be fond of shine through the green yard where the electricity box sits. Though these three silhouettes were nothing of a man nor woman of any sort. As the light shone on them I could visibly see they were made out of pure darkness: one that you cannot touch but is around you all the time. The shadows of these silhouettes were an empty less void. A back hole that engulfed my senses. I could no longer hear, feel, touch things. However I could still see , I could clearly see their images. The first of a man , the second of a monster and the third of an infant. They all stood there. The monster was tall. It was like a deformed shape, a deformed thing. Indescribable thing but nevertheless it was still a thing made of darkness. I blinked again to reassure myself I was hallucinating but I could still see them.

I could feel them looking at me. I could see through their intentions. Adrenalin put me into shock. I backed of the window gently only to let my parents know that I hadn't seen something horrifying. I answered to the living "no not there yet". It felt like an hour seeing those creatures. Though a a minute had gone by.
The after affects had kicked in I felt like those silhouettes were engulfing me bit by bit. They were hung gently above me tearing pieces of my calm nature.

11pm. Hours had gone by. My thoughts looming over what I witnessed. I thought I was tired so after the sixth movie I went to bed. My sister had just turned of the light. She climbed onto the bed. Seconds, then minutes had gone by my sister then became a beast. I didn't mind at fist then sounds exploded out her nose. I couldn't fall asleep not anymore. I stayed awake.

1a.m. Still awake.

1.30. I'm becoming to get weary.

1:31. Then all of a sudden my eyes became alerted. There was danger. Danger where though? I laid my head on another pillow. Which allowed me to see the rest of the room. I looked at the mirror on my far right. Nothing. I looked at the desktop where the laptop laid. Nothing. Then I looked beyond my bedroom door. Pitch black darkness. I realised I was inside the darkness. It covered everything it saw. The danger was drawing near. Then it came the silhouettes one by one. First the man, then the infant. It was screaming, screeching and mourning at my bedroom door. Petrified I hid under my covers hoping the nightmare would stop. I wasn't waiting for the last one, the monster to appear. So deeper into the darkness of my covers I stayed using my sisters lifeless arm to wrap my body to safety. I forced my eyes shut. Then a repeat happened in my eyes.

Silhouettes. First of a man then of an infant. Screaming, screeching and mourning. I wanted it to go away. To stop. So I thought about them and how it would be easier to let them slowly kill me. In all the possible ways I can imagine. I felt comfort for a bit. As I clutched my hand in my sisters arm and drifted of to sleep.

The next day...
I felt the need to tell my sister. Though I didn't want to scare her. So I kept it to myself only allowing myself to be with another human being.

That following day it made me wonder if any of it was real. Was I dreaming, was it the future or was it a past that might have happened. An unknown mystery.

Wednesday 1/10/2018

Ding-dong. The doorbell. Mum told me to check the door. I walked down to check the door. Nobody was there.