Chapter 4

*I followed her to the front of an old house without another word. I figured the house was her old one she used to talk about all the time. She entered before me because I was too busy looking around to notice. I couldn’t help it; the air around this place was just heavy and depressing. It made my skin crawl and it didn’t help that I was already nervous. She was nowhere in sight when I came in through the broken front door.

It was dark inside. When I turned to look around but my eyes failed me because as I said before it was dark, so dark it was beginning to seem unnatural. “Liz, you here?” I called but there was no response.  I took a deep breath, ready to call again “wher-“the sounds of footsteps on wooden stairs that creaked above cut my words short.  

So I walked straight ahead, assuming that there would be stairs there while using my hands to blindly check my surroundings and sure enough there was a stair case ahead, so I set to work on climbing it to the top.

At the top, there were various doors but only one was open, so my guess is that’s where she is. So I approached with caution. What I saw when I pulled open the door was what I least expected. There were three Lizzys; three freaking Lizzys.

“Liz, what’s going on”, I asked softly “why are there three of you” that part came out barely above a whisper and I had no clue which of them was the real one. I released a startled screech when I felt cold breath on the back of my ear. It was then I noticed that lizzy number 3 was missing. She wasn’t In front of me anymore so I can only assume that it was her behind me. ‘but what the hell, how’d she that fast? I didn’t even notice’.

At this point my brain hurt, I could feel a headache coming on. “You killed me Benjamin Craton” that voice and those words made my breath hitch and I stopped breathing for a moment. Then my heart beat picked up speed; I think I was having another panic attack ‘wait why another?’ Then it all dawned on me that this was all a dream and all the earlier events hit me with so much pressure that I sure my brain would explode. It was too much; these painful memories and emotions; the fear and guilt.

Griping my hair with one hand and squeezing tightly over the cloths above my heart ‘it hurts, it hurts so much’. “I’m sorry” I screamed into the darkness as I shut my eyes tightly. “I didn’t mean it”.

“You know you don’t mean that”, came a voice I didn’t recognize. It chilled me to the bones; it was dark just so dark.” admit that you enjoyed it”.

“N-no, that’s n-not true”, I countered.

“You relished the look in her eyes as she fell to her death”, the voice said in my head.

“NO!!” I screamed, I couldn’t take it anymore and fell to my knees. “Am I gonna die here? Is this how my life comes to an end?” I mumbled brokenly to myself.

“No”, the voice whispered. “it’s not, all you have to do is accept the fact that you killed her and that you felt a sense of joy as you watched the light fade from her eyes”.

I dropped to the ground gasping for breath “N-no”, I croaked feeling close to tears. “It’s n-not tru…..”

He was cut off by a burning and stinging sensation on both his cheeks. That was all it took for benji to wake up from his freaky nightmare*.

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