The Sleep Demon

We stay up for the remainder of the night, talking about random things that happened to us at school. We start to hear footsteps on the stairs but we chalk it up to my parents leaving for work. We look at the time, it's 6:45 in the morning.

"Lucky today is Saturday huh" we look at each other and get out of bed opening the door to go downstairs. We make it to the end of the stairs and see my mom in the kitchen making coffee.

"Good morning mom," I walk up to her and kiss her on the cheek.

"Oh Brittany, I didn't know you were here, would you two like some breakfast?" We both exchange looks and quickly nod our heads and say yes.

"Why are you two up so early anyways?" She walks over to the pantry and grabs a box of the complete mix of pancakes. She grabs her mixing bowl from the bottom cabinets and her mixing spoon.

"We went to bed early last night and I guess our bodies woke us up," I tried to come up with a decent excuse.

She makes us breakfast and gives us both a kiss on the forehead before she leaves the house. "Be good you two, I'll see you both later."

She walks out the door and closes it, we hear her start her car and drive away. Second, later we see my dad emerge from the stairs.

"Morning Jason," he looks over and see's Brittany sitting next to me. "Oh, good morning Brittany, I didn't know you were here." He walks next to me and nudges my arm and winks at me.

I brush him off and Brittany chuckles leading it on. My dad looks at me shocked and smiles.

"It's not even like that, you know she stays over here." My dad shrugs it off and grabs a cup from the cabinet. He pours his cup and walks back up the stairs.

"I have to get ready for work, any plans today?" My dad says.

"I don't know yet, we may go to the movies or something."

He walks upstairs and we finish our breakfast. We walk upstairs and go into my room. I sit on the bed as Brittany grabs her bag.

"I'm going to take a shower, I'll be right back."

I lay back down in bed, grabbing my remote and turning the tv on. I grab the game remote and turn my system on. I decided I would play a game until she was done so I can brush my teeth and shower myself. I lay there as I hear the shower turn on and the curtain draws back. I play the game for about 20 minutes as she enters the room in her towel.

"Brittany, why are you still in your towel?" She looks at me confused

"What do you mean? I'm going to get dressed."

My face turned red as I quickly turn my face. She starts to chuckle as she drops her towel. I can hear her stomping her feet toward me, she wraps her hands around my eyes. She leans in and whispers in my ears, "wanna see?"

She starts laughing and nudges me. She throws herself on the bed, grabbing the remote from my hands.

"I was dressed the whole time, your face was priceless," she laughs hysterically. She sits up on the bed.

"I hate you" I take the remote from her and pause the game.

"So what do you want to do today?"

Brittany looks at me and holds her hand to her chin stroking it. She looks at me and up to the ceiling periodically. I look at her and push her forehead with my finger as she tumbles and leans backward.

"Do you want to practice meditating and astral projection?"

I look at her and think about it. "Do you have the book and everything still?"

She reaches into her bag set on the side of the bed and pulls out the stuff she bought from the metaphysical shop, she lays it on the bed in front of me. I grab the book and thumb through it.

"Okay, only if you're serious about it, we can do it."

She looks at me giddy and jumps off the bed in excitement. She cleans all the stuff from the floor and grabs my shoebox full of protection. She takes out the candles and sets them around in the circle. I look at her and grin as I get off the bed and help her.

I look at the time, it's 8 am and she starts to lay on the floor. I can hear my dad walking past the door, "I'm heading out, you two be good okay?"

"Okay dad, see you later."

He walks downstairs and walks out the front door. I open the book and start to light the candles. I sit with my legs crossed next to Brittany who's laying down. She starts to sit up following what I was doing.

"Okay, let's do this." I look at her and tell her to close her eyes and try to clear her mind

"Any thought that goes into your head, acknowledge the thought and then let it go, don't dwell on it for too long." She nods her head to me in agreement. She sits there breathing in through her nose out through her mouth.

We sit there for about 20 minutes. She opens her eyes and lets out a sigh of relief, I look at her and smile,

"So, how was it?"

She looks at me and shakes her head "It was okay, I didn't get much of anything but random thoughts," I look at her and acknowledge what she said.

"It's your first time so I didn't expect you to see anything or feel anything for that matter."

She looks disappointed as she starts to stand up. She walks over to the bed and jumps on it.

"I'm going to take a nap," She lays under the blanket and digs her face into the pillow, "I know you're tired, let's take a nap."

I look at her and walk to the bed, "you're right, we can try again in a bit."

I lay down next to her and close my eyes, I instantly fall asleep. I feel my body tossing and turning. I wake up suddenly in my school hallway. I look around confused wondering how I got there. I start to walk through the hallways and down the hall I see Brittany walking down the hall towards me.

"Jason!" She runs towards me waving her hand. "You're here too!?" She looked at me with a smile as if she was happy to see me. "I don't know how I got here and I thought I was alone here, It looks creepy here when it's empty and the lights off."

I look at her with a confused look, "what is going on here? How did we get here?"

I look around and look at Brittany. We start to walk towards the exit door, we reach out to open it and the door's locked. I shake it hoping it would open but it doesn't budge. Brittany looks at me worried as we hear a sound coming from down the hall. It sounds like scraping against the locker. We look at each other as we try to kick the door open.

"Why won't this shit open?" I start to push the door as hard as I can but the door won't move.

We turn and start to run down the hallway trying to get away from the sound. We turn down one of the hallways and we see someone standing at the end of the hallways with the lights on. We stop in our tracks frozen as the lights turn off and the figure disappears. We run away in the opposite direction finding a door that was unlocked and hiding inside. We can hear the sound of footsteps walking down the hall getting louder as they come closer.

We hear the footsteps stop right in front of the door, we look at each other and I put my fingers to her lips to tell her to be quiet. The footsteps walk away from the door and we start to relax. I put my back to the door and look at Brittany who was visibly scared. I grab her and hug her as someone starts banging on the door behind us. Brittany screams as I hold the door close, the knob on the door starts to turn and I can feel the door start to open. I push back on the door to try to keep it closed, Brittany frantically starts yelling for them to leave us alone as she helps me push the door close.

"We have to get out of here." Brittany gets up and runs to the window in the room we were in and tries to open it.

"The window won't open," she runs and grabs a chair and places it under the doorknob to stop it from turning. We move back from the door as the door continues to move as if someone is kicking it from the other side. After what felt like an eternity the banging on the door stop as the footsteps walk away down the hall. I can hear the footsteps disappear and after about 5 minutes we open the door.

"Is it safe to go out?" Brittany grabs onto my arm as I stick my head out looking around. "I think so."

We walk into the hallway and go in the opposite direction from the footsteps. We start to run down the hallway trying every door we can in hopes one is open. We find a door that opens leading into a stairwell going upstairs. We look at each other and in a silent agreement, we both run upstairs. We open the door at the top of the stair and turn to the right. All the lights are on and the school suddenly looks normal. We start to walk down the hall, all the doors are open; we can see inside each class we walk by.

"Where the hell are we" I grow increasingly stressed trying to figure out what is going on. Brittany grabs my hand and holds it tight as we walk down the hallway. She screams as we pass a classroom to the left. I look at her as she has wide eyes, her face looks shocked and horrified. I look into the room and see the smiling entity standing there, waving at us, with our bodies laying in a pool of blood next to him.