CHAPTER 1 : 2006

I remember like it was yesterday. I was only 5 years old. It was the year my grandmother on my father's side had passed away. This nightmare would repeat itself almost frequently. In it I would wake up on the ground, it was dark. I was barefoot and wearing a white nightgown. I started running as if something was chasing me. I looked back it was getting darker and darker behind me, as if the darkness was following me. I suddenly stepped on something wet and fluffy, was a rat and it was still alive, and for some reason I felt sick to my stomach as I removed my naked foot to see. It's insides were and it look angry. I felt to the darkness behind me coming closer, I ran. And this time again I stepped on something wet and with feathers, it was a chicken. It was dead, I felt even more sick. But I felt fear I never felt before. The chicken stood as it's guts fell to the ground and the rat too. I heard a growl behind me and started to run. I ran calling for help but to no avail. I ran into some house which seems quite familiar, the gate was open. I ran in and saw a white kitten which meowed at me, and it suddenly turned dark the cat was now a jaguar. I screamed turning run and it bit me on the back. I woke up, my back was aching and as for my feet they were numb for a while. I didn't feel the fear anymore. Whenever I had this dream, it became even more gory every time. I thought they would stop, but it was just the beginning.

The same year there came a man in our house when me and I where sleeping. We stayed in a one room and the door could not be locked, so we put a chair behind it. That night we didn't hear the invader snoop in. So when I felt a man behind me I shocked by that. I squirmed, trying to free myself. He then whispered that he was my father, that made me push him and he fell to the ground. The thud! woke my mother up, she shouted and he ran out the door. Everyone woke up. That night I couldn't sleep and I was so tired at school. From then on I became even more fearful of the dark even to this day. You will never know what or who is watching in the dark.