Glitch into a Nightmare

The Beginning

I startle awake as a loud ringing sound interrupts my slumber. My head shoots up and I realize that class had ended and I was going to be late for video editing.
I stand up and gather my stuff up and swing my backpack onto my shoulder. I dart out of the classroom and rush down the hall to my next class, bumping into people going the opposite way.
I barely make it through the door after the tardy bell rings. My eyes darted around the classroom, looking for the teacher, as I sneak to the back corner of the classroom where my best friend Amber was sitting.
She was waving her arms frantically at me and pointing behind me, I realized too late what she was trying to say.
"Hello Ms. Marchant, looking for someone?" Mr. Nestor asks from behind me.
I wince and spin around, looking into his grey eyes " Hello Mr. Nestor, d-didn't see you there. You look different, did you cut your hair?"
    He looks annoyed as he pulls light blue paper from his suit pocket. "I'll give you a warning this time Lily, but you need to be better at getting here on time."
He hands me the slip and spins on his heel, walking back to the front of the class.
I shuffle to the back of the class where my best friend in the whole wide world was sitting. She had blonde hair that reached to the middle of her back, and beautiful ocean blue eyes. She was wearing white glasses, a dark purple cloak and a galaxy shirt, with blue jeans.
"I tried to warn you" She teased as I sat down at my computer.
"Yeah, yeah" I roll my eyes playfully at her as Mr. Nestor droned on about the software.
"Have you heard of the new game, Bendy and the Dark Revival?" Amber whispers in my ear.
"Who hasn't?" I whisper back, as I turn on my computer. "I heard that you get to play as the good Alice Angel."
"Ooo!" She gasps. "That'll be fun."
Mr. Nestor clears his throat at us and continues on with the lesson.
I stick my tongue out at his back and Amber giggles.

Class droned on and on until finally the bell rang to go to lunch. I jump up and start to gather my stuff up into my bag. Me and Amber rushed to the cafeteria, grabbing our trays of food quickly.
We rush up the stairs in the hallway and jump up onto the window sill.
We viewed outside as we discussed our favorite horror game, Bendy and the Ink machine.
    We talk about this topic almost all the time, the only other topic we talk about is Markiplier, our favorite Youtuber.
    "Did you finish Markiplier's latest video of today?" Amber asked before taking a bite of her apple.
    "I haven't had the chance yet." I say pulling out my phone to check my notifications.
    "I have, it's 3 scary games number 38" Amber mentions. "Why don't we watch it now?"
"Sure" I say as I click onto Markiplier's channel. The thumbnail is a picture of Darkiplier, my personal favorite one of Mark's alter egos, staring at the camera. But the title wasn't 3 scary games, it said "Game"
"Did he post another one?" Amber said confused.
I click on the video and it starts with a black screen. About a minute in, Dark's voice cuts in.
    "I can see you sitting there." He fades into the frame, he's wearing eyeliner and a dark grey suit with a red tie. It looks like he's staring at...me?
     A moment passed before he spoke again, "I know every little thing about you, your name, where you live, your strengths... your weaknesses"
    I start to feel a tingling in my spine, and goosebumps rise on my skin.This time I'm sure he's staring at me, into my brown eyes.
"I would like to play a little game." Red and blue hues start to lift off his form.
"Lily...Amber," We gasp as he says our names, "if you happen to survive my activity, you will be rewarded, do you understand?"
We glance at each other then back at the screen, the room starts to feel colder.
"DO YOU UNDERSTAND ME!" His voice was so loud and echoey I nearly dropped my phone down the stairs. It had sounded like he had been in the stairwell with us
"Yes!" We both say in inusion.
"Good, I'll see you soon." He states, as the screen starts to glitch out. My phone turns off and I can't seem to be able to turn it back on.
"L-Lily?" Amber asks, " Do you think that was that real?"
"No way, T-that couldn't have been real." I try to reassure, but failing.
"But...we had to answer him and then he replied back"
"You know what, he probably did that in the video on purpose, it would scare you into saying yes or nodding your head and then he would 'respond'" I do air quotes with my fingers after I put my phone away.
"Y-you're probably right," She nervously laughs, "He's getting better at creeping his fans out."
I nod and we clean up our garbage, the bell rings and we head downstairs, discussing Batim (Bendy and the Ink Machine) again.

As we hurry down the hall, a guy bumps into my shoulder, with a lot of force. I look behind me to see him walking away, "Hey, watch where you're going"
The man is wearing a gray suit and jet black hair. He starts to turn around and red and blue hues outline his body. All around me turns darker and darker, then I see the man's face. It's Markiplier, but he's wearing eyeliner and his eyes are all black with dark red pupils, He smiles at me menacingly.
Darkiplier! My brain screams at me to run, but my body is frozen.
I blink and Dark's gone, everything is back to normal. In Dark's place is Mr. Nestor, eyeing me annoyingly.
"Oh, I'm sorry sir." I shrug apologetically.
I rush back down the hall to see Amber waving me goodbye. I wave back walking into my class next to me.
I sit down, my head in my hands running the events in my head over and over. Did I hallucinate? Am I going crazy? Is he really and why is he trying to get us?

The rest of my classes pass by quickly and I still haven't snapped out of it.
I'm standing at the doorway of my 6th hour class, staring into space when I'm startled by someone snapping in my face. I blink and Amber is standing in front of me.
"Oh! Hi..." I smiled awkwardly. "Didn't see you there."
"Duh, We need to go, my sister is waiting in the car." She puts her hand on her hips.
"Okay, okay I'm coming."

We make it out of the car and we finally start driving on the road. The quiet radio is the only thing that that can be heard. I didn't want to tell Amber about my weird encounter with Darkiplier, or maybe it was just a weird hallucinations from my nerves.
They drop me off at my house, and I feel the cool breeze of spring ruffle my hair. I walk down my driveway to the garage door. I get inside and breathe a sigh of relief, I made it through the day.
The video just scared and then I hallucinated because of lack of sleep. I think as I shrug off my backpack and head downstairs.

    I stretch as I finish washing dinner dishes. I was going to get some extra sleep tonight, it would be good for me. I turn my direction to the stairs and stop dead in my tracks.
Dark is standing at the doorway of our laundry room, staring at me.  My mouth opens and closes, trying to find words. The room begins to darken and glitch. Red and blue colors cloud my vision before everything blacks out.