Hide and Seek

"I don't want to play a game."

I stare at the little girl in front of me, my eyes fixated on her. I have an awful feeling, if I run I will die. I'm too afraid to even move let alone run. My body is tense, and I feel as if I'm being stabbed behind my eyes.

"Why don't you want to play with me? Is it because I'm ugly?"

Baffled by what she said, the only thing I can do is just look at her. I don't have words to even say to that.

"Play with me! Now!"

I start to quiver in place. It's bad enough that if we play and she finds me I die but if I run I also die. My choices are limited and I don't see a way out of this unless I play her game.

"Fine, I'll play with you, explain the rules."

"The rules?" She puts a finger to her mouth as if she thinking about the rules "there aren't any real rules, it's like a simple game of hide and seek silly."

She giggles and looks over to me "only thing is, you have to hide from me for 5 minutes," she extends her hands showing 5 fingers, "if you hide for 5 minutes you win!"

"O... okay, I can do that."

"Yayyy! I can't wait, go hide hurry, hurry, hurry!" I'll count to 10."

I quickly scurry off away from the girl. I run around frantically trying to find somewhere to hide. I try to open doors but most of them are locked. I run and turn down random hallways and open random doors. Some doors only led to an empty room, others led to more hallways. I keep taking hallways hoping to get as far as I can away from her.

"Ready or not here I come!"

Her soft voice echoed through the empty hallways. I continue running until I find a slightly open door. For some reason, I stop and stare into the ajar door. Eyes quickly appear through the crack in the door.

"Hurry, get in here!"

Spooked I attempt to run away but whoever is in the room quickly opens the door and pulls me in. They close the door shut, I start to scream but they quickly put their hand over my mouth. Just then I started hearing footsteps coming from the other side. They grow louder and louder with every second. I start to panic, I don't want to get caught.

"Where are you?"

I can hear the little girl's voice asking playfully. She walks past the room continually asking the same question. Her footsteps get faint and her voice starts to fade. They moved their hands from my mouth and when I turned to look who it was there was nobody there.

"What the hell?"

I start to stand up and I quietly and slowly open the door. I peek my head out looking down both ways of the hall. I step out into the hallway and turn left, I see someone standing down the hall. It wasn't the little girl, it was someone different. They had a grey robe on with a hood covering their face. I start to turn away until I heard the little girl's voice, "where are you?"

I quickly sprint down the hall to where this person was. I figured if this person wanted to harm or sabotage me they would've already. The person turns down the hall fading into the darkness by the time I reach them. I look around and continue to sprint into the darkness.

"Where are you?"

Her voice repeats over and over. Her voice grows louder from behind me as I start to run faster. I quickly turn down a hallway and see the robed person standing there. I run towards them as they walk into a door at the end of the hallway. I turn into the door and close it.

"Where are you?"

Her voice starts to change a little. It got deeper as if something else was trying to talk. I look around the room and see a pile of rubble on the floor. I start to dig some of it out and lay behind it trying to cover myself with the dirt and rocks I pulled off. I lay there as her steps get louder. She stops in front of the door and I can hear the doorknob starting to turn. I can see the door from little cracks in the rubble as a faint light appears from nowhere behind the girl. All I can see is her shadowy silhouette standing in the doorway.

"Where are you?"

Her voice grows deeper, sounding as if a man is trying to speak. She walks into the room and looks around. She walks over to the rubble and looks around, she turns back to the door and walks out of the door, slowly closing it. I don't move until the door fully closes and I start to hear her footsteps fade in the distance.

I throw all of the rubble off of me and I start to stand up and dust myself off. I look around the room, for the figure I followed in here. Again, there is no one here except myself. Confused, I decided to stay put for a minute or two.

"No way she will check the same place twice."

I start to relax a little. I sit in the corner of the room with my head in my hands. I start to think of ways to get out of here but I have to figure out where here is first. I sit there trying to regain my composure until I start to hear something in the room. I look around the dark empty room and find no one.

"Run!" I jump up looking around the room.

Just then I can hear the little girl's voice coming back faintly,

"Where are you?"

I start to panic, I reach for the doorknob but I can hear her footsteps approaching fast as if she's running now.

"Look up."

The voice appears again as I quickly look up. Above me, I notice I can go through the ceiling through a hole above the door. I quickly try to find something I can stand on to get up into the ceiling. I find a box on the floor that's sturdy enough for me to stand on. I quickly jump on the box and into the ceiling as the door bursts open. I look down from above and see the little girl's form change. She took on the form of a zombie-like creature. Half her face was covered in blisters and rotted skin, her other half was the face of the little girl. I can see what looks like to be bugs crawling inside her skin.

"Where are you?"

Her voice is now raspy and deep. It sounds as if a demonic male is speaking through her now. I quickly start to crawl away trying to find a way to escape. The ceiling is like a maze as I try to find my way out.

"Where are you?"

I can still hear her voice, it's as if she is following me while I'm crawling through the ceiling. I start to crawl faster when I find another hole in the ceiling. I crawl to the edge of it and look down. The room seemed empty but I still hesitated on going in. I finally jump down from the ceiling falling on my back and missing my footing.

"Hide."

The voice appears again. I look around and see some drapes on the floor, I quickly grab one and roll myself in one, and lay on the floor trying my best to blend in. The door slams open seconds after I fully wrap myself.

"Where are you, you little shit!"

She slowly walks over me in the drapes, I fill up with fear as she takes another step and bends down over the drapes. I can see her reach over the drapes, grabbing the corner of one. My body freezes, and I start to go numb all over my body, sweat starts to drip down my face, and tears start to fill my eyes, I don't want to die. Just as she's about to rip the drapes apart a loud bang comes from down the hallway.

"Foolish boy, finally showing me where you are."

She quickly runs out of the room slamming the door shut behind her. I wait a few seconds and let out a sigh of relief. I unwrap myself and sit up. I wipe the tears from my face and the sweat from my nose. I look over my shoulder and see the robed person standing behind me. I get up and turn to him and we stare at each other for a couple of seconds. The robed person walks over to me and stands in front of me. He appears to be about 6ft or taller towering over me.

"Who are you?"