The Shed (2 of 6) ------------- Guy

I was a child tough, I didn’t know any better. When my parents went out, the temptation, the curiosity, the sheer rush of doing what I was told not to, became almost overpowering.

It started off as a simple game between me and my friends. See who was brave enough to put their back on the shed, knock on the door or even climb the ledge and stare into the dark. Eventually all my friends stopped coming over. Some said their parents wouldn’t let them, a couple said they were hurt but most were just too scared to come back.

So life got boring, I didn’t have any friends and I never really understood why. Hadn’t I done all the things they had? That alone was all that bothered me. For nearly an entire summer all I did was sit in my room and look out the window down onto the shed. Every once in a while a shadow would play across the window filling my imagination with the darkest of thoughts. I left it alone though, for that summer anyways. My mother knew it was on my mind, she rarely spoke to me. I slowly felt like she was beginning to hate me. My fears were not put to rest when summer ended and I was sent away to boarding school.

I knew I would get to come on at the end of the semester, but I was never able to look at my mother the same way. She didn’t even see me off to my new school, my new life. I tried to forget everything after I was sent away, tried to block it out. And for a while I did. I forgot about my mother, my father and my home. I just studied and laughed with my new friends. It was an act, but at least life was good again… until the nightmares started.

It stated later on in the school year, I would wake up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat, breathing so hard that it felt like I was running. At first I had no idea what had me so worked up but as the dreams continued, I started seeing brief glimpses of a door. The paint peeling so much that you could hardly call it painted. The light would buzz and flicker on and the door would start to open. Then I would awake, not completely sure where I was.

more to come.... it will all be posted by sunday night.

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