Nightmare

 " Ok, Just imagine my shoulder being beside you. Rest on it and cry, you will feel better " Rebecca replied. Emmanuel just busted out into laughter again, but of course in a low tone. After a little bit of thought, he started typing " How come I didn't know your shoulder was gold " He replied. " How can someone like you know something precious when you see it " Rebecca replied. " Be playing " Emmanuel just gave a short reply this time. And then without giving Rebecca time to reply, he typed again " But you know I would really miss you right ". After typing it, he clicked on the send icon, and the message went. 

 Rebecca didn't answer for a while which made Emmanuel a bit anxious. ' Did she see it in another way ', he thought. He was anxious that she may have felt the message had an underlying meaning. Actually Rebecca was seven good years older than Emmanuel, yeah shocking right. Emmanuel always felt it was weird how they connected so well. At some point, he even started developing ulterior thought which he immediately killed for two good reasons. One was not to destroy the only friendship he had right now, even though it was a weird one. Another reason was because he wasn't ready for affairs like that, he had promised his mom to avoid women for now, and so even though he did have fantasies and desires about not only Rebecca, but also many other girls, he killed the feelings for the greater good. 

 " I would to, your like a LITTLE BROTHER I never had " She replied, putting the little brother in capital letter as if specifying it. " But then we would still keep in touch right, I can't bear to lose my LITTLE BROTHER " She wrote again. " Hey, why specify the little brother two times, do you think I have any improper thought about you " Emmanuel replied after seeing her actions with the words * Little brother *. 

 " I don't think you have, I know you do. But I cant blame you though, who could possibly be around a beauty like me and not develop improper thought, it's impossible " She replied. Emmanuel couldn't help but imagine her saying this with her mouth, and the overconfident aura she would be liberating at that moment. 

 " Sigh " Emmanuel typed, then he again wrote, " Seems like I have being deceiving you for so long ". " Are you okay, what do you mean by that, that I am not pretty " She typed within very few seconds after Emmanuel's message went. " No I didn't mean it like that, am sorry " Emmanuel also replied very quickly. He was anxious. ' Has she really gotten angry ' He thought. But then the next message confirmed his thought. " Good night ", She wanted to end the chat. " Aunty Rebecca, pls am sorry … " He was still typing when her message came in again. " I said Good Night ". Emmanuel having no other choice cleared all the message he had typed before and then typed " Good night " before sending it and dropping his phone. " Uhhhnnnn, Girls and their tempers " He muttered, " Time to pray then ". With that, he closed his eyes and started rendering to God his bed time prayer. Once he was done, he dropped his head on the bed and used a wrapper to cover his body from above. With his head on top of a pillow, he soon slept off. 

 Suddenly, the sleeping Emmanuel appeared downstairs, to be more precise, the exact front of his staircase. At first when he appeared, he felt something was wrong, but then he suddenly felt it all made sense, he was going home from work. He ran through the dark staircase as he usually does. Though the staircases were currently giving him a feeling that there was something within preying on him. Ignoring the feelings, he soon got to the top, he was greeted with the site of an open door. But this wasn't his door, It was his neighbour's door. There seem to be a feeling that was pushing him to go in. As soon as he got in, he was greeted with the sight of quite a few familiar faces. They were seated on a chair and were currently watching something on the Tv. He went in and sat on a chair perpendicular to theirs.

 Just as he was about to start watching, a feeling in his heart suddenly started screaming to him that he didn't belong here. Hearing this, he immediately stood up and ran straight out of the door towards his. On getting to his, he found out it was locked. He immediately started searching his bag and soon he found it. He unlocked the door as quickly as he could and ran inside. He ran inside the house and banged the door into being locked with his legs, as if afraid something would come in with him. 

 With that he turned around. Just as he turned around again, something weird happened. He was no longer there, instead he was currently on his bed sleeping. He woke up, and yawned, the entire place was reeking of darkness. He was quite familiar with the house, and so he was able to get to the parlour. He looked around, and he could already tell that nobody was home. He thought his parent went downstairs, and so he wore his cloths, and proceeded to go down. He unlocked the door with the key, and just as the door slid open, he was greeted with the sight of a figure. He couldn't see any part of this person as his entire body seemed to be immersed in darkness. He or she seemed like darkness incarnate.