The Beginning

It was a rainy night, Daniel twists and twirls in his bed. It is midnight and he can't fall asleep. To most that is a bad thing but to Daniel it is great. Every few nights Daniel experiences nightmares, terrifying nightmares that cause him a lack of sleep. But to him, the sleep wasn't the problem, the terrifying things he experienced were worse.

As he lay in his bed, silent but awake, he heard a deafening crash outside his window. He jolted out of bed and peeked outside his window. The large tree in his backyard had been stuck by lightning and a large branch fell. He sighed in relief. Daniel thought to himself, silently comprehending what had happened, it took his sleepy brain a minute to understand and another for him to get back into bed. Daniel endured a few more restless hours. Fortunately, morning came soon, and he was forced to endure another type of torture, high school.

After Daniel set foot on his school grounds the bell rang and Daniel was late once again. He walked swiftly to his class and slipped in as silently as possible while his homeroom teacher wasn't looking. This was a rare occasion, Daniel knew this as he tip-toed in as the rest of his class were chatting to each other, etc. But his quickly faded just like it began and his teacher turned around and he was caught. She stared at him for a brief moment before turning away, Daniel took this as a sign he was being let off, but he was wrong. She had turned to the chalkboard in the corner and ran her fingernails down it, the deafening sound caused everyone to shut up.

Everyone’s head snapped toward their teacher whilst silently giving a glare to Daniel. Daniel’s teacher looked at Daniel too, with an evil smile before saying that she had done this because Daniel was late, once again. With this everyone sent another look, more like a glare actually, a menacing glare. Daniel hung his head down in embarrassment as he quickly slid into his seat as his teacher called attendance.

The school day went by pretty quickly and smoothly in Daniel’s opinion, apart from the morning attendance and a few more menacing glares throughout the day because of it. Daniel was walking home, down by the alleyway he saw an old man curled up in a ball, coughing every now and again. Daniel took a glance at the man and… continued walking along the street but after a few more steps, before pity and sympathy sunk into his mind. He turned around and walked back before heading down into the alleyway and asked the old man if he needed anything or if he could help.

The old man asked if Daniel could help him up. Daniel grabbed the old man’s hand but just as he did that he felt a strange shock and pricked feeling. Daniel instinctively pulled his hand away from the old man. The old man then began laughing hysterically and jumped with joy. Daniel didn't understand what was happening so he asked the old man what was going on. The old man in a gleeful voice said he was free, Daniel passed it off as he the old man being crazy walked out of the alley and back onto the street.

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