The Other Side

At The Foot Of The Bed

The footsteps grew louder with each second. It was by the bathroom. Now It was outside the door. "Daniel.... I hope you wont keep me waiting." The voice was calm and soft. The footsteps grew distant. It was standing outside Daniels Fathers room. Daniel could hear It struggling with the door handle. He got up out of bed. His grey hair curled above his eyebrows. Daniel looked over at the window and saw nothing.Good. The closet was clear.Good. Daniel looked up. He then looked under his bed, there was nothing. He then heard the door open. His eyes looked straight at his door. It was closed. "Dad!" He thought as he ran to the door. He opened the door and stopped to peek around the corner. He caught a glimpse of a foot. Daniel crept forward and peeked into his dads room. There It was. At the foot of the bed. The top hat, black in colour and curled in parts, touched the roof. The tails of Its tailcoat curled also. It turned Its head and looked at Daniel, Its eyes were green and lifeless. " We are all waiting, Daniel. Waiting for you to find us. Find where we live." It then scratched its right cheek with its purple gloves. As the finger tips of the Thing pulled down its face, Its face pulled down. Its eyes stretched with Its face. The hand pulled away, the face returned to its normal position." Liam is waiting for you. He's in the chest in the corner of the room. He is waiting to tear your intestines from your body, your eyes from your head. Your head from your shoulders." It said without emotion. Daniel looked at the Thing standing in-front of him. " Why is he there?" Asked Daniel. It looked at him and sighed. "Well, if you come and find us then we will tell you. But until then, goodbye." The Thing then pushed Daniel to the side. He hit the wall. He looked over at his Dad. He was still asleep. He followed the Thing downstairs and into the kitchen. It opened a cupboard door. " Find us, Daniel. Then we will tell you what you want to know." It then raised one leg into the cupboard. Its body twisted and folded until it fitted inside the cupboard. Daniel stood there frozen. The cupboard door closed. Daniel still stood there in the dark. " Daniel.....Daniel........"

"Daniel!"

Daniel stopped staring at the wall. His therapist tried to get his attention again. "Y-yeah?" He asked now looking at his therapist. " Is that all you saw last night?" Mrs. Rawfield was a forty-six year old women who visited Daniel three times a week. Monday, Wednesday and Saturday. "No. I slept on the couch that's why." Daniel replied and then brushed his hair out of his face. Mrs. Rawfield looked at her notepad and scribbled down some words. " And why did you sleep on the couch, Daniel?"

" So Liam couldn't get me. They all can get me when I sleep in my bed. I already fuckin-.... I already told you that." Daniel took a deep breath. Mrs. Rawfield again wrote something down. "Do you know why they can only get you in bed ?" Asked Mrs. Rawfield. There was only a few minutes left of the session. " Well, if I knew I'd tell you. Why the fuck wouldn't I?" Daniel stood up and walked out of the living room. "Fucking asshole." Daniel muttered under his breath. Mrs. Rawfield yapped at him. " Huh?! What did you say, Daniel?"

"Nothing. Bitch."

"Pardon?"

" I didn't say anything."

" Yes. You said something else. Derek I'll E-mail you this sessions information later." Derek was Daniels father. Daniel walked upstairs to his room. He closed the door behind him and looked at the chest. The lid was slightly open. Daniel then thought up a plan. He would jump on top of the chest and close it. Daniel took a deep breath and leaped onto the chest. His feet made contact with the lid. Then with a loud grunt, the lid was punched open and Daniel fell onto the floor. Liam stared at him with a toothy grin. His teeth were yellow and crooked. " H-hey pal... W-why did you nuh-not sleep in your b-bed, huh, l-last night?" Liam licked his teeth and sliced the top and side of his long tongue. Purple blood pushed through the space between his lips and it slid down his pale chin. It dripped onto the floor. " G-gonna tear your i-i-intestines from your body. Gonna t-tear your eyes from your huh-head. G-gonna tear your head f-from you shoulders. Then I am gonna eat your heart." Liam reached for Daniel. Daniel crawled quickly to the door but didn't, couldn't, open it. " Wuh-whats the m-matter? It looks like you're a-about to huh-have a heart-attack!" Liam grinned more. 

The blood that had leaked from his tongue started to pour from his mouth, like an over-flowing bathtub. " Well, yeah. Have you seen yourself!?" Daniel tried to reach for the door handle. But he stopped as Liam started to shake. He dropped to the floor screaming. "I-I'LL TEAR YUH-YOUR FLESH FROM YOUR BONES!" He then started to melt. He seeped through the floorboards. Daniel looked on the floor. He saw the small circles of blood seem to move towards the cracks in the floorboards. The pools of blood did this as well. " It's not real....It is not real!" Daniel sat there for five minutes to catch his breath and another two to process what had just happened.

That night, at ten o'clock, Daniel woke up. He couldn't see much. He rubbed his eyes and saw It standing at the foot of the bed. Its top hat touched the ceiling. " Wha... what's your name? The other three monsters all have names. Do you?" Daniel wasn't frightened by this monster. "Excuse me, but what makes you think I'm a monster. Anyway, My name is Noah." Noah then walked over to the wall besides the chest and tapped the wall four times. The wall paper seemed to open. It finished opening into a circle. The wall then turned into leaves. They all spun in a tornado like swirl. They then fell to the floor. " Follow me and you can be happy and find answers." Noah whispered this. He then walked over to the "door-way". He stepped inside and after a second or two he appeared to be standing in a forest. Behind him was a campfire, still burning. Daniel stepped out of his bed and walked over slowly. " T-this is a drea-. No, a nightmare right?" Daniel looked into the forest.

" Only if you want it to be. After all it is your dream, if you want this to be apart of your imagination.Which it isn't."Noah walked to the fire. The last thing Noah said Daniel didn't hear.

"Deep in the dark , evil awaits. Nothing can stop it. Only push it deeper into the darkness." The old man walked to the edge of the cliff. "Jump." It said. The old man plunged into the darkness of death.